0313 Alan Branscombe [The Day I Met The Blues] FLAC 6(33.10)

Contributed by rebf942

Tony Coe - soprano (02 04 05), alto (05?), tenor (02 03)
Alan Branscombe - piano (01 05 06), electric piano (02-04)
Dick Abel - guitar (02-05)
Daryl Runswick - bass (02 03 05)
Tony Kinsey - drums (02 03 05)

01 The Day I Met The Blues (Branscombe) (3:19)
02 Whip It There! (Branscombe) (5:50)
03 Blues For '69 (Branscombe) (8:28)
04 Black Pussy (Branscombe) (6:22)
05 You Came When I Went (Branscombe) (4:51)
06 Fancy Yancey (Branscombe) (4:19)

Label: EMI EMC3197
Recorded: probably 1977 Lansdowne Studios London under the personal supervision of Denis Preston
Lineage: CD>FLAC with replaygain

Note: Tom Lord's discography lists Tony Coe as playing all three instruments but I could not hear an alto saxophone anywhere except maybe near the middle of 05. Even then it still sounded more like a soprano saxophone to me.
01 and 06 are unaccompanied acoustic piano solos. Rodney

0312 Tony Coe [Swingin' Till The Girls Come Home] FLAC 9(41.26)

Contributed by azule serape, who writes:-
This was Tony's working Quintet in 1962 and it was his first full lp as leader (he had made some earlier sides issued on ep).
Whilst there may many admirers of Tony's work out there, he has a personal sound that really doesn't appeal to me (Paul Gonsalves too) but one has to admire the musicianship and the swinging sounds on this fine mainstream lp. The much under-rated pianist, Colin Purbrook, gets some solo space too.
It has been re-issued on a Japanese cd (very elusive) but this is from the original vinyl. 

John Picard - trombone
Tony Coe - alto, tenor, clarinet
Colin Purbrook - piano
Spike Heatley - bass
Derek Hogg - drums

01 Sunday Morning (Burrell) (3:59)
02 Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams (Barris, Koehler, Moll) (5:58)
03 Not So Blue (Coe) (2:51)
04 I Can't Get Started With You (Duke, Gershwin) (5:01)
05 Sack O' Woe (Adderley) (6:11)
06 Stompin' At The Savoy (Goodman, Razaf, Sampson, Webb) (5:25)
07 Swingin' Till The Girls Come Home (Pettiford) (3:37)
08 Blue Lou (Mills) (3:30)
09 St Thomas (Rollins) (4:54)

Label: Philips lp  B 10784 L
Recorded: July 10 1962
Lineage: LP>FLAC

0311 Jack Emblow [Housewives' Playtime] FLAC 14(31.59)

Contributed by bluebird, who writes:-
I found this lp in a Charity shop during one of my endless trawls in the hope of finding something worthwhile, which is not very often, and I must admit that I was attracted by the cover. Well, who wouldn't be?
I paid £1 and never even looked at the vinyl which I was intending to dump and just keep the sleeve. When I did look, it was an absolute train wreck, full of scratches, scuffs and it sounded terrible when played. But there was something about the music which interested me. Well played, lightly swinging and reminiscent of music I remember hearing on the radio during my youth. So, I decided to attempt some kind of restoration.
I made at least three different rips from the lp before I got the best 'original sound' and then spent hours on restoration trying to get a decent end product. It was probably far longer than it warranted but having started I just couldn't give it up.
The end product is far from perfect but I was quite pleased with it and so here it is. A labour of love.
For those who love trivia, the model on the cover is Mavis Ascot. No, I didn't make it up and I've never heard of her either.
Apart from the very well known Jack Emblow on accordion, the musicians are unknown and the music was recorded in 1962 (issued in 1963) for Embassy which was a Woolworth's record label.
I since discovered that the lp is quite a sought after cult item and sells for quite high sums. BJ spares no expense in bringing this music to you.

Unknown - alto (09), clarinet
Unknown - piano
Jack Emblow - accordion
Unknown - guitar
Unknown - bass
Unknown - drums

01 The Gypsy In My Soul (Boland, Jaffe) (2:03)
02 Tangerine (Schertzinger, Mercer) (1:42)
03 Poor Little Rich Girl (Coward) (2:39)
04 Our Love Is Here To Stay (Gershwin) (2:47)
05 That Old Black Magic (Mercer, Arlen) (2:33)
06 Love Is Just Around The Corner (Gensler, Robin) (2:30)
07 Last Night On The Back Porch (Schraubstader) (1:47)
08 All The Things You Are (Kern) (2:06)
09 Babette (Herbert) (2:32)
10 A Foggy Day (Gershwin) (2:22)
11 Beautiful Love (Young, King, Van Alstyne- Haven, Gillespie)  (2:55)
12 I Hear Music (Loesser, Lane) (1:48)
13 Just In Time (Comden, Green, Styne) (2:03)
14 Vilia (Lehar) (2:12)

Label: Embassy WLP 6056
Recorded: 1962
Lineage: LP>FLAC

0310 Tony Crombie [And His Sweet Beat] FLAC 10(23.59)

Contributed by azule serape, who writes:-
A 1957 recording by Tony Crombie during that period when he earned a living playing anything but jazz.
A gimmicky sort of record having the word 'Sweet' in all the titles and played by a smallish group sounding like a combination of Billy May, Sauter-Finegan and Knuckles O'Toole. It's music for doing the washing up by.
All the arrangements are by Crombie and none of the musicians are identified.
FLAC from lp with cover scans.

Tony Crombie - drums
big band - personnel unknown

01 Sweet Beat (Crombie) (2:24)
02 Sweet Lorraine (Parish, Burwell) (2:29)
03 Sweet Potato Piper (Monaco) (2:02)
04 Stay As Sweet As You Are (Gordon, Revel) (2:47)
05 The Sweetest Song In The World (Parr-Davies) (2:29)
06 Sweet Georgia Brown (Bernie, Casy, Pinkard) (1:46)
07 Sweet And Gentle (del Portal) (2:26)
08 My Sweetie Went Away (Handman, Turk) (2:31)
09 Sweet And Lovely (Arnheim, LeMare, Tobias) (2:32)
10 Sweet Sue, Just You (Harris, Young) (2:34)

Label: Columbia 33S 1117
Recorded: 1957
Lineage: LP>FLAC

0309 Joe Harriott [Live At The Free Trade Hall Manchester] FLAC 4(31.26)

Contributed by bluebird, who writes:-
Joe's Quintet was the support group for the Dave Brubeck Quartet during their 1961 UK Tour.
This is not a complete set as Joe says before the first number...'continue with a composition...' but it is a typical live set with a mixture of jazz and free form. Joe's ground-breaking album 'Free Form' had been recorded a couple of months earlier but the public and critics had mixed views about this 'new' jazz. Joe thought that a concert audience might be more receptive to this music than club audiences but whilst the applause here for the free form numbers is polite, it is far from enthusiastic.
The drummer is Phil Seamen who plays more or less as usual ignoring the 'free' conventions but his days with the group were numbered as his addictions made him unreliable and notoriously unpunctual.
I saw Phil performing just once. He was part of the support group for one of the American touring bands, perhaps Woody Herman, at the Odeon Cinema in Leeds during the 1960s and he was the last to appear on stage. He looked absolutely dreadful - a walking skeleton, chalk white. He played the first number with the group and then left the stage. We never saw him again that night but his musical colleagues seemed unperturbed. They just played on without him as though this was a regular occurrence.  Perhaps it was.
Coleridge Goode the bass player in the Joe Harriott Quintet recalls that .....  'Phil could scarcely have chosen a worse night to miss the band call than their Brubeck tour performance at the Hammersmith Odeon in London.'   Coleridge remembered how the other members of the Quintet were forced to take the stage without Seamen who then appeared  suddenly from nowhere just as the performance seemed doomed.  'And there and then, in front of everybody, he was sick all over the place with Brubeck standing watching us.'
Joe announces the numbers speaking slowly and enunciating beautifully. He was immaculately turned out, always wearing a suit and tie wherever he was appearing and he was always the professional.
FLAC from cd with 'cover picture' and track/personnel details.

Les Condon - trumpet
Joe Harriott - alto
Pat Smythe - piano
Coleridge Goode - bass
Phil Seamen - drums

01 Moanin' (Timmons) (6:39)
02 'Round About Midnight (Hanighen, Monk, Williams) (6:31)
03 Joe Explains Freeform: Coda (Harriott) (8:20)
04 Tempo (Harriott) (9:56)

Recorded: January 27 1961

0308 Tubby Hayes [And His Orchestra] FLAC 5(17.23)

Contributed by bellawoods, who writes:
'Deuces Wild', only previously issued on a 78rpm record, is added to the original ep tracklist as a bonus.
FLAC from oop re-issue cd with original cover scans.

Dickie Hawdon - trumpet
Dave Usden - trumpet
Mike Senn - alto, baritone
Tubby Hayes - tenor
Jackie Sharpe - tenor, baritone
Harry South - piano
Pete Blannin - bass
Lennie Breslow - drums (01 02 05)
Bill Eyden - drums (03 04)

01 I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart (Ellington) (3:47)
02 Sophisticated Lady (Ellington) (3:46)
03 Fidelius (Feldman) (3:00)
04 Tootsie Roll (Paich) (3:04)
05 Deuces Wild (Stitt)  (3:46)

Label: Tempo EXA 17
Recorded: April 29 1955 (01 02 05) July 14 1955 (03 04)
Lineage: CD>FLAC

0307 Tubby Hayes [The Little Giant] FLAC 4(12.30)

Contributed by bellawoods, who writes:-
Another contribution from 'The Little Giant'
FLAC from OOP re-issue cd with original cover scans.

Jimmy Deuchar - trumpet
Dickie Hawdon - trumpet
Mike Senn - alto, baritone
Tubby Hayes - tenor
Jackie sharpe - tenor, baritone
Harry South - piano
Pete Blannin - bass
Lennie Breslow - drums

01 Jordu (Jordan) (3:46)
02 Orient Line (South) (2:47)
03 Mayreh (Silver) (2:32)
04 Monsoon (Feldman) (3:26)

Label: Tempo EXA 14
Recorded: March 10 1955
CD>FLAC