THE INTERNATIONAL DEMS BULLETIN DUKE ELLINGTON MUSIC SOCIETY 01/1 April-July 2001 FOUNDER: BENNY AASLAND HONORARY MEMBER: FATHER JOHN GARCIA GENSEL EDITOR: SJEF HOEFSMIT ASSISTED BY: ROGER BOYES

Voort 18b, 2328 Meerle, Belgium
Telephone: +32 3 315 75 83
Email: dems@skynet.be

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Dressed To Kill, Metro 371
"Duke Ellington — Downtown L.A. Jazz"
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DEMS 01/1-19/1

Just to hand is an Ellington CD with the above title on an English label "Dressed To Kill" (honest!). It has 70:51 minutes of a concert, but with absolutely no details - (not at all usual for a Budget label product - $NZ 6.99, or about $US 3.00) and the recording quality is reasonably good.
There is no indication whatsoever of the location, recording date or full personnel.
The titles are: Black And Tan Fantasy; Creole Love Call; The Mooche; Newport Up; Sonet (sic) In Search Of Amour (sic); Kinda Dukish & Rockin' In Rhythm; El Gato; All Of Me; Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey; Walkin' And Singin' The Blues; VIP Boogie; Jam With Sam; Skin Deep; Ellington Medley: Don't Get Around Much Anymore, Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me, In A Sentimental Mood, Mood Indigo, I'm Beginning To See The Light, Sophisticated Lady, Caravan, Satin Doll, Just Squeeze Me, It Don't Mean A Thing If You (sic) Ain't Got That Swing, Solitude, Don't Get Around Much Anymore.
From Duke's announcements the band includes Clark Terry, Ray Nance, Quentin Jackson and Jimmy Hamilton, and the female vocalist is Lil Greenwood.
From the selections played, and the personnel announced by Duke, especially with the presence of Ms Greenwood, I imagine that the concert was circa 1958.
Can anyone come up with more accurate details, please?
Wellington Choy**

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Duke Ellington
GOLD (Holland) 011
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DEMS 01/1-19/2

I was in London again last summer and picked up for, two pounds fifty, a CD, "Ellington Gold". The jacket indicates that the label is also "Gold" and the catalogue number of this disc is 11. The label indicates only that these are all live recordings with the exception of tracks 1 and 2, but I do not hear applause. No further information.
Do you have any information about this disc you could share with me?
Mark Ladenson

Thank you for the cassette and for the photo-copies of the cover. You are right. Only track 14 comes from a live recording, a concert at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester.

 1.Take the "A" Train 28Mar46  11  41  32  39  82
 2.Perdido            28Mar46  11  41  34  39  82
 3.Tea for Two        17Jul46  12  41  32  39
 4.Do Nothin' Till .. 11May66       C  32  39  82
 5.Caravan            11May45       R  33  39  59
 6.How High the Moon   9Jun47  13  41  33  39
 7.In a Jam           17Jul46  12      33
 8.Rockabye River     11Jul46  36      34
 9.On the Alamo       17Jul46  12  41  34
10.Moon Mist          17Jul46  12  41  33  39  82
11.Blue Lou            9Jun47  13  41  32
12.Just You, Just Me  17Jul46  12  41  33
13.Crosstown          28Mar46  11  41  34  39  82
14.Medley             26Nov69          32      83
       Don't Get Around Much Anymore
       Mood Indigo
       Sophisticated Lady

We give you here a list of alternate CD releases with references to DEMS Bulletins. This list is not complete. There are many more releases.
11 = Hindsight HBCD 501-1    93/1-4
12 = Hindsight HBCD 501-2    93/1-4
13 = Hindsight HBCD 501-3    93/1-4
32 = That's Jazz TJ 032      93/2-4
33 = That's Jazz TJ 033      93/2-4
34 = That's Jazz TJ 034      93/2-4
36 = Hindsight R 28 J 3136   88/5-5
39 = Success 16139 CD        98/2-14/1; 00/3-13/1
41 = Hindsight HCD-410       88/3-5&7
59 = Charly CPCD 8259-2      98/3-6/3
82 = B&C Records 74082-2     89/1-17, /3-4; 90/1-4&5
83 = Sequel Jazz NED CD 183  96/2-10
 R = RCA Bluebird 6641-2-RB  88/4-6; 89/4-4
 C = RCA PD 89565            87/2-4; 87/3-2
 C = RCA 0926-68705-2        97/2-13, /3-15, /4-10
Track 4 is not complete at the start. This is also true for That's Jazz 32, but the RCA, B&C and Success releases are complete.
Track 14 contains three selections from the Medley. There were in the concert three titles between Mood Indigo and Sophisticated Lady. The copy of Sophisticated Lady on this GOLD CD is mutilated. There are 13 seconds missing after approximately 3 minutes from the start of track 14. Immediately after this deletion the speed of the recording is irregular. The total time of 5:40 as indicated on the cover is not attained.
Sjef Hoefsmit

Ken Burns — JAZZ

DEMS 01/1-20

JAZZ, a film by Ken Burns, is a ten-part documentary on Public Television in January 2001 as a General Motors Mark of Excellence Presentation.
DEMS member Tony Schmidt has sent us the following reports. The first is a description of the 21 tracks Columbia/Legacy CD CK 61444, issued at the occasion of this film and dedicated to Duke Ellington. Here are the correct details about the selections:
 1. East St. Louis Toodle-O          22Mar27
 2. Black and Tan Fantasy        -B   3Nov27
 3. Take It Easy                 -B    Mar28
 4. The Mooche                        1oct28
 5. Rockin' in Rhythm                 8Jan31
 6. Mood Indigo                      17oct30
 7. Creole Rhapsody parts 1&2,   -A  20Jan31
 8. It Don't Mean a Thing             2Feb32
 9. Creole Love Call                 11Feb32
10. Sophisticated Lady               16May33
11. Solitude                         12Sep34
12. Caravan                          14May37
13. Back Room Romp               -1   7Jul37
14. Ko-Ko                             6Mar40
15. Don't Get Around Much Anymore 17/19Jun43
16. Cotton Tail                       4May40
17. Take the "A" Train               15Feb41
18. Satin Doll                        6Apr53
19. Jeep's Blues                      7Jul56
20. Come Sunday      = RHCO 40652-3, 12Feb58
21. Black Beauty                     14Jul60
There are a few wrong dates in the liner notes: for tracks 2. 15. and 20.
There are many other discographical mistakes:
1. There was one unknown tenor/clarinet and one unknown clarinet instead of Rudy Jackson and Harry Carney. The tuba was played by Mack Shaw.
2. Wellman Braud is on bass.
5-9. Lawrence Brown came in the band in Mar32. He was not present on tracks 5 to 9 inclusive.
12. Replace Wallace Jones with Arthur Whetsel.
Because the date of 15. is three years later than indicated in the liner-notes, the personnel is totally wrong. Replace Rex Stewart and Cootie Williams with Harold Baker, Taft Jordan and Ray Nance; replace Lawrence Brown with Sandy Williams; replace Otto Hardwick and Barney Bigard with Jimmy Hamilton and Nat Jones; replace Jimmie Blanton with Junior Raglin. These are remarkable errors, since this recording is taken from the well-known sound short, produced by RKO Pictures.
19. John Cook is wrong, it should read Willie Cook.
21. Add to the personnel for this selection Paul Gonsalves, Harry Carney and Aaron Bell. They are unmistakably present.

The second report from Tony Schmidt covers the ten Ellington selections in the 5 CD set, Columbia/Legacy C5K 61432, and one selection by the Lincoln Center Jazz Orch.:

*The Mooche                1oct28
 East St. Louis Toodle-O  29Nov26
 Black Beauty              1oct28
 Mood Indigo              14oct30
*It Don't Mean a Thing     2Feb32
 Echoes of Harlem         27Feb36
*Cotton Tail               4May40
*Take the "A" Train       15Feb41
 In a Sentimental Mood    26Sep62
 Tourist Point of View -7 19Dec66
 Take the "A" Train       10oct92
The four selections preceded by an asterisk were also included in the Columbia/Legacy CD CK 61444.

The third report from Tony Schmidt is a list of all the Ellington selections used in the Television series.
Episode 1 — GUMBO
Take the "A" Train       10oct92(Lincoln Center Jazz Orch.)
Episode 2 — THE GIFT
Black Beauty                         ??28
Soda Fountain Rag                  2Sep64(CBC TV Interview)
Soda Fountain Rag                  8May37
Choo Choo                           Nov24
Red Hot Band                      29Dec27
The Mooche                          1oct28
Episode 3 — OUR LANGUAGE
Doin' the Frog                    29Dec27
Jazz Convulsions                  13Sep29
East St. Louis Toodle-O           29Nov26
Doin' the Voom Voom                8Jan29
Cotton Club Stomp              12-17Aug29(film)
Black and Tan Fantasy          12-17Aug29(film)
Black and Tan Fantasy              7Apr27
Harlem Flat Blues                  1Mar29
Episode 4 — THE TRUE WELCOME
Creole Love Call                   1Sep49
Echoes of Harlem                  27Feb36
Ring dem Bells                    26Aug30
Rockin' in Rhythm                 23May33(film)
Old Man Blues                       Aug30(film)
Sophisticated Lady                16May33?
That Lindy Hop                     2oct30
It Don't Mean a Thing              2Feb32
Black Beauty                       1oct28
Mood Indigo                       17oct30
Drop Me Off in Harlem             17Feb33
Solitude                          18Dec50
Reminiscing in Tempo              12Sep35
Episode 5 — SWING: PURE PLEASURE
Steppin' Into Swing Society       13Jan38
Single Petal of a Rose            14Apr59
"Dreaming"                         2Sep64(CBC TV Interview)
The Laborers                        Dec34(film)
Creole Rhapsody                    4Mar33(film)
Jeep's Blues                      28Mar38
Truckin'                          19Aug35
Tough Truckin'                     5Mar35
Big City Blues                      Dec34(film)
Episode 6 — SWING: THE VELOCITY OF CELEBRATION
Ridin' on a Blue Note              2Feb38
Echoes of Harlem                  19Jan38
Episode 7 — DEDICATED TO CHAOS
Jump for Joy                       2Jul41
I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart -1 3Mar38
Kissing Bug                       26Apr45
Take the "A" Train                15Feb41
Day Dream                          2Nov40
The New Black and Tan Fantasy     13Jan38
Solitude                           9May41(Billie Holiday)
Harlem Air-Shaft                  11May45
Prelude to a Kiss                  9Aug38
Jack the Bear                      6Mar40
The Minor Goes Muggin'            14May45
Chocolate Shake                   26Jun41
Cotton Tail                        4May40
Cotton Tail                     Nov/Dec41(Soundie);
Work Song                      11/12Dec44
Come Sunday                    11/12Dec44
Emancipation Celebration       11/12Dec44
Solitude                          21Apr37(Hot Club de France)
Main Stem                         26Jun42
Episode 8 — RISK
No Ellington — just Bebop.
Episode 9 — THE ADVENTURE
Caravan                            9May66
Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue   7Jul56
Episode 10 — A MASTERPIECE BY MIDNIGHT
Perdido                            7Jan59(Timex Show)
Switch Blade                      17Sep62
Things Ain't What They Used To Be 24Jun64
The Old Circus Train Blues        28Jul66
Tourist Point of View             19Dec66
Blood Count                       28Aug67
Latin American Sunshine            5Nov68
Sentimental Lady                   2Dec59
In a Sentimental Mood             26Sep62
Single Petal of a Rose         26/27Jul88(Marcus Roberts)
Caravan                              1988(Wynton Marsalis)
Stevedore's Serenade                 1988(James Carter)
Main Stem                            1997(Laguardia Jazz Band)
Ebony Rhapsody                    26Feb34(film)
Take the "A" Train       10oct92(Lincoln Center Jazz Orch.)

The dates shown for all selections are my best guesses, since the "discography" furnished by PBS is nothing more than a list of song titles and a year, not a specific date.
The purpose of the listing in my third report is to illustrate how much of Ellington's music was used for the series and to give a chance to know what's coming as you watch the various episodes. The selections are in sequence. Hopefully Sjef, you and the other European DEMS members will be seeing this truly enjoyable series in the near future.
Tony Schmidt

Last night I finished watching the 10 part, 19¹/₂ hour documentary: "JAZZ" by Ken Burns. I can only presume that shortly it will be broadcast in Europe.
To me it's the first history of this art that has put both Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington in the proper perspective. With the exception of the first part, their lives are followed extensively throughout and rightly so. I hope everyone is as pleased with the references to Duke as I am.
Bill Morton

We are all waiting impatiently to see the series here in Europe. The first rumours however indicate that the BBC will only transmit selected parts of the series because it is far too big and that they won't consider handing over so much air time to jazz.
We are certainly pleased with Duke's prominent place in the series, although we have our doubts if Duke himself would have agreed with leaving out so many of his talented colleagues.
We remind you of his reaction to Stanley Dance's remark in Oct71: "You are regarded now as one of the most important creative forces in American 20^th century music."
Duke's answer: "If chosen, few who would say that. I would say: everybody I'm sure doesn't have the nerve to say that, you know."
DEMS

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Dreyfus Jazz, FDM 36717-2
Duke Ellington — Ko-Ko
distributed by Sony Music France
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DEMS 01/1-21/1

This is a recent Ellington compilation, which you might want to use to present Duke to new publics. It's the cream of the forties' recordings, March-October, a few missing maybe, but with good sound quality.
The compiler is Claude Carrière, who says in the liner notes: "The most beautiful orchestra on earth at its apogee results in the most wonderful disc imaginable". If you have a business and intend to give away a sophisticated present to your distinguished clients and associates, or if you're not, but have a good friend or family member who could use an entry point to the vast Ellington catalogue, consider this one. Tastefully packaged, it is the perfect intro to Duke's legacy for both the uninitiated and the thoroughly initiated. It is remarkable that Sony is distributing RCA recordings.
Selections: Jack the Bear; Ko-Ko; Morning Glory;Conga Brava; Concerto for Cootie; Cotton Tail; Never no Lament; Dusk; Bojangles; A Portrait of Bert Williams; Harlem Air Shaft; All Too Soon; Rumpus in Richmond; Sepia Panorama; In a Mellotone; Warm Valley; Across the Track Blues; Chloe; Pitter Panther Patter.
Need I say more?
Loek Hopstaken

You made me curious and you are perfectly right!
The sound restoration applied by monsieur René Ameline improves substantially on all earlier efforts, the RCA centennial edition included (and that's quite something).
It simply is the best reproduction of the "Blanton-Webster band" thus far. Ko-Ko is a sensation, and there's also the first version of Conga Brava without interfering noises.
It's a funny thing that it took a French engineer to make all those great 1940 pieces sound as they never did before.
In addition to Ellington, the Dreyfus/Ameline tandem offers 19 other collections, including Armstrong, Basie, Hawkins, Fats Waller, Tatum, Parker, Gillespie, Billie Holiday, and Ella Fitzgerald. As far as Duke is concerned, let's hope there will be a "Part Two" very soon!
Louis Tavecchio

It's my fifth collection of forties tracks. But ... I NEVER heard a good noise free recording of Jack the Bear, one where you can hear the music close to as it was intended - pure, transparent. Jack the Bear is in my personal Top Five of Ultimate Ellington. Played it a zillion times, can't get enough. The Blanton Webster set was a disappointment as far as sound quality was concerned. I recall Louis and I wanting to have our money back after we listened to it. Unfortunately, the same goes for some of the 1940 recordings in the complete RCA set. After hearing the revelations of the early recordings, the forties tracks are uneven; some tracks are better than ever, some are the same, some are worse. Among them Jack the Bear! So I kept turning back to my good ol' Smithsonian double LP (Duke Ellington 1940) to enjoy a decent recording. This Dreyfus CD at last offers a Jack the Bear (and that goes for all the other tracks as well!) that sounds as it shou! ld. No distractive noises. The one Duke would choose, as he was interested in music, not in noise.
Loek Hopstaken

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DETS (D) 903 9002 — 2 CD set
Duke Ellington Treasury Shows, Vol. 2
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CD 1 — 400 Restaurant, 21Apr45
Take the "A" Train; Mood To Be Wooed; If You Are But a Dream; Riff Staccato; I'm Beginning To See the Light; from Black, Brown and Beige: West Indian Dance, The Blues, Emancipation Celebration, Sugar Hill Penthouse; I Didn't Know About You; Stomp, Look and Listen; Frantic Fantasy; It Don't Mean a Thing; I Didn't Know About You.
— Treasury Star Parade # 233, Jun/Jul43
Take the "A" Train; Tonight I Shall Sleep; Go Away Blues; Creole Love Call; Three Cent Stomp.

CD 2 — 400 Restaurant, 28Apr45
Take the "A" Train; Midriff; Carnegie Blues; Someone; My Little Brown Book; Kissing Bug; Ring dem Bells; I’m Beginning To See the Light; from Black, Brown and Beige: Work Song, Come Sunday; Candy; Teardrops in the Rain; Accentuate the Positive; Way Low; Take the "A" Train.
— Zanzibar Restaurant, 7oct45
Take The "A" Train; Love Letters; Main Stem;
Fishing For The Moon; Riff’n Drill; Kissing Bug.

Note: The Treasury Star Parade broadcast began and ended with the theme Any Bonds Today? I believe that this was played by an unknown studio orchestra. The New DESOR accepted it as a genuine Ellington recording.
Sjef Hoefsmit

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Hindsight HBCD 504 (3 CD set)
Big Band Jazz
The Jubilee Sessions 1943-1946
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DEMS 01/1-21/3

Taken from the legendary World War II "Jubilee" radio series, this CD presents a collection of 62 big band jazz recordings, including the orchestras of Benny Carter, Earl Hines, Elmer Fain, Count Basie, Erskine Hawkins, Billy Eckstine, Cootie Williams, Fletcher Henderson, Tiny Bradshaw, Lionel Hampton, Wilbert Baranco, Duke Ellington, and the International Sweethearts of Rhythm. The accompanying 20-page booklet presents comprehensive personnel listings, recording dates, track by track annotations, and liner notes by music historian Tom Reed. To purchase this CD, visit http://www.cbmr.org/bookstore/jazzmu.htm#bigband
Center for Black Music Research

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Teo Macero presents:
Impressions of Duke Ellington
Teo Records DE 0002
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DEMS 01/1-22/1

Last year Teo Macero issued this CD.
Teo is, like Ellington was, a musician with many capacities. He plays baritone and tenor saxophone, is a composer, arranger and bandleader and an active record producer. His name is on many Columbia releases since 1957. He stayed 18 years with Columbia.
This CD starts with a very short (0:29) fanfare, which is claimed to be played by the Ellington orchestra. It doesn't impress me as being a genuine Ellington recording. It sounds more like Stan Kenton.
Since even Ellington sometimes didn't sound as real Ellington, I spent several hours trying to locate its origin. I haven't been able to find it. If you should ever find out where it comes from please let me know.
The selections on the (69:00) CD do not sound very Ellingtonian to me with the exception of track 11, I'm Gonna Go Fishin' by a Teo Macero group and Sophisticated Lady and I Got It Bad, two piano-solos by Tommy Flanagan on track 12.
One needs to have a more modern taste than mine to fully enjoy this CD, which contains on all the other tracks original Teo Macero compositions, dedicated to Duke and recorded quite some time ago.
Sjef Hoefsmit

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French Pianists & Tissendier Septet
Ellington Moods
Frémeaux & Associés FA 433
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Much more to my liking is this Claude Tissendier CD.
It contains eleven selections, composed and played by eleven different French pianists, accompanied each time by Claude Tissendier, with or without his septet or only by bass and drums.
All these original compositions are very much written and performed in an Ellingtonian mood. The title of the CD is very appropriate. I liked most track 3, Aaron by Patrice Galas and dedicated to Aaron Bridgers who is one of the eleven French pianists on this album himself. It is an up tempo Hodges-like tune.
Two of the compositions made me think of the same Billy Strayhorn composition, U.M.M.G., track 5, Blowing The Groove by Stan Laferrière and track 9, Spatial Mood, by Patrice Authier.
Two of the pianists are DEMS members:
Claude Bolling, who opened the set with Nuances and Claude Carrière, who closed the set with Fashion Power.
It is obvious that most albums dedicated to Duke contain at least a few and mostly a lot of Ellington tunes. Personally I feel that writing a piece which is apparently very much influenced by Duke is a much more valuable tribute.
I will enjoy listening (for 56:00 minutes) to this very pleasant CD many times. If you cannot find it you could contact Distribution Internationale: Frémeaux & Associés Export Department, 20 Rue Robert Giraudineau, 94300 Vincennes, France.
The full label number is 3 448960 243322.
Sjef Hoefsmit

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Jasmine Records JASCD 102
Mae West — I'm No Angel
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DEMS 01/1-22/3

I coincidentally found this Mae West CD, with 4 Ellington titles: (16) When A St. Louis Woman Comes Down To New Orleans, (17) My Old Flame, (18) Memphis Blues and (19) Troubled Waters. The sound quality is fairly good. Troubled Waters includes more than just that tune.
I guess this may not be new to you, but I think these recordings have been difficult to obtain.
The CD contains 6 original commercial recordings and 22 excerpts of film soundtracks. Total playing time is a bit more than 62 minutes.
Anders Asplund

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SME Records
Ivie Anderson
SRCS 9619/9620
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DEMS 01/1-22/4

Sony has just issued in Japan on their SME RECORDS (Sony Music Entertainment) the complete output of all items recorded by Ivie with Duke from 1932 to 1940. This two CD set has the catalogue number SRCS 9619/9620.
No alternate takes but very decent transfers of the original material.
Jerry Valburn

The "C" Jam All Stars

DEMS 01/1-22/5

This CD is mentioned in DEMS 99/4-25/1 as a BMG release with unknown number. Now we know it is RCA 09026 63569-2.
DEMS

Norris Turney on CD and LP

DEMS 01/1-23/1

Some CD's that are in print with Norris:
• Norris Turney - Big, Sweet & Blue - Mapleshade MS 02632 (with the outstanding track Blues for Edward)
• Jodie Christian - Front Line - Delmark DE 490
• The Duke Ellington Orchestra Directed by Mercer Ellington - Digital Duke - GRP GRD 9548
• Cat Anderson Plays W.C. Handy - Black & Blue BB 886.2
• Booty Wood - Chelsea Bridge - Black & Blue BB 914.2

Some LP's
• Norris Turney - I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart - Black & Blue 33.140
• The Snooky Young Septet/Norris Turney Quintet - The Boys From Dayton - Master Jazz MJR 8130 (Norris is with the Snooky Young group)
• Cliff Smalls - Swing & Things - Master Jazz MJR 8131 (Money Johnson & Booty Wood are in the Group)
• Oliver Jackson - Billie's Bounce - Black & Blue 33.183
• Live at Pluckemin - Harlem....One More Time - 1MT (Taft Jordan is in the Group)

Out of print CD
• Panama Francis & His Savoy Sultans - Gettin' In the Groove - Black & Blue 233320

The New York Times obituary is wrong in that it stated that "Big, Sweet & Blue" was his only record as a leader.
"I Let a Song Go Out Of My Heart " is also issued under his name on LP Black & Blue 33.140. It is available on a CD with the same title, Black & Blue BB931.2. I have not seen it in a record store. I purchased my copy through Cadence. It has previously unissued alternate takes of Simplicity and You See.
Richard Ehrenzeller

Some other Norris Turney CDs:
• Roy Eldridge - "What It's All About" - Pablo
• Newport Jazz Festival All Stars - "European Tour" - Concord CCD 4343. (Harold Ashby is also in this band).

And there are LPs:
• Paul Gonsalves - "In Paris" - Blue Star
• Gunther Schuller - "Symphony In Black" - Smithsonian.
Bjarne Busk

Norris Turney can also be heard on the Paul Gonsalves/ Ray Nance album "Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin' " on the Black Lion label. Norris appears on 3 of the album's 8 tracks including a feature solo on Angel Eyes.
BTW, the recording was produced by Michael James and Stanley Dance in 1970. I have the LP, but it was also released on CD a few years ago*. Great recording!
Bill Saxonis

*See DEMS 98/3-7/2 for Black Lion BL CD 760148.

Shakespeare - Ellington - Strayhorn

DEMS 01/1-23/2

See DEMS 00/1-6

I found the CD "Cleo Laine - Wordsongs".
The title is identical with the title of the book, which was described by Andrew Homzy in DEMS Bulletin 00/1-6, but my CD is Philips 830 461-2.
It contains "Take All My Loves - Sonnet No. 40" (Sonnet To Hank Cinq) and "My Love Is A Fever - Sonnet No. 147" (Sonnet For Caesar).
It was recorded between Jan77 and Feb78, and was published in 1986. It seems obvious that the book was published to accompany the CD.
Hans-Joachim Schmidt

Hans-Joachim wrote a very interesting essay about
Hank Cinq. See 01/1-7.
DEMS

Thank you for the photocopies. From the listing of musicians who worked on this album, I can see that the recording of "Take All My Loves" is different from what Josef Mahdal described in DEMS Bulletin 00/1-6. The Ellington band conducted by John Dankworth made Josef's album. The "Cleo Laine - Wordsongs" album is recorded by a quartet consisting of John Dankworth and Paul Hart, keyboard accompanied by an unknown bass or bass guitarist and an unknown drummer.
I am not so sure that the book "Cleo Laine sings Wordsongs" accompanied the CD. Your liner-notes contain full prints of the lyrics, but no scores. That is sufficient for musical illiterates. The book is apparently for musicians.
Sjef Hoefsmit

Cootie Williams on Warwick

DEMS 01/1-23/3

In about 1960 (Jepsen gives no date), Cootie Williams recorded an album for Warwick entitled "Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me", for which all discographies available to me give "no details", except that Bruyninckx has managed to work out that Williams plays trumpet! Despite his stated policy and the prevalence of Ellington material at one of the sessions, the album is not included in Timner. It has recently been reissued on CD Collectables COL 6121, which at least enables the instrumentation to be determined and the deduction to be made that there were two sessions, though of course their order is unknown. The unknown musicians are not necessarily the same in the two sessions. These details are as follows:
• Cootie Williams with 5 unknown musicians playing baritone, piano, guitar, bass and drums: Always; I Found A New Baby; When the Saints Go Marching In; There's No You; Mack The Knife; Blue Skies.
• Cootie Williams with 5 unknown musicians playing piano, guitar, bass, drums and vibraphone: Don't Get Around Much Anymore; I Don't Mean A Thing; Caravan; Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me; Drop Me Off In Harlem; I Got It Bad.
Can anybody shed some light on this session?
Howard Rye

You must have consulted the very first edition of Timner's "Ellingtonia" from 1976. In all three consecutive editions, the session is documented under Summer 1959. It contains the six Ellington selections and There's No You.
DEMS

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Ella & Duke Live
Razamataz CD RZ 4021
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DEMS 01/1-23/4

I just found this CD today.
It has 37:38 playing time and 9 tracks:
Imagine My Frustration; Duke's Place; Satin Doll; Something To Live For; Wives And Lovers; So Danço Samba; Let's Do It; Lover Man; Cotton Tail.
I'm guessing it's sourced from the Cote d'Azur concerts box set, but I was wondering if you know for certain.
Geff Ratcheson

I am convinced that this is a copy made from the Pablo CD Ella Fitzgerald/Duke Ellington - The Stockholm Concert 1966 - Pablo/Carrere (F) 98.819 (1984).
This CD is identical to Pablo Live (US) and Pablo (G) PACD 2308-242-2; Pablo (J) VDJ 28028; Pablo Live (AU) D 40272; Pablo (G) PACD 2308-242-2; Pablo Live (J) J33J 20006 (source Jerry Valburn).
I am sure you must have one of these releases of Ella's portion of the 8Feb66 concerts. If you compare it and it is different, please let me know.
Sjef Hoefsmit

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Avid AMSC 697 (UK)
The Ray Ellington Quartet
The Three Bears
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DEMS 01/1-24/1

Here is some information on this most interesting CD recently purchased. The web-site for the label is: www.avidgroup.co.uk
This Quartet, apparently extremely popular in England and on the Continent in the years after World War II, was oriented toward bop, if anything, with some emphasis on novelty numbers. Ray Ellington was the drummer and principal vocalist. He was born in London in 1916, obviously no relation to DE or even to Marie Ellington.
I was initially attracted to the CD because the Quartet in its early years featured the English electric guitarist, Lauderic Caton, whose playing I much admire. I was then delighted to find that the CD contains four tracks of the Ray Ellington quartet with "special guest" Ray Nance.
The recordings are stated in the liner notes to have been made on July 1, 1948, obviously during the two-week stand at the Palladium at the outset of the "cabaret act" tour.
The tracks are Moon Mist, Sometimes I'm Happy, I Can't Give You Anything But Love and Blues for Duke. The personnel listed in the liner notes, besides RN, are Ray Ellington (d); Dick Katz (p); Lauderic Caton (g) and Coleridge Goode (b). Timner (Fourth) lists this session at page 471, but has completely different personnel: Bill Richard (p); Lawrence Rix (g); George Goodwin (b) and Reggie Pitts (d). This session is not mentioned by Klaus in "Day by Day", but often he did not mention these incidental recording sessions.
This recording session was mentioned in 1997 in Leeds by Peter Newbrook who chaired a panel discussion titled "The 1948 British Tour".
Peter played there I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby and Moon Mist. He produced the original Esquire 78 rpms. He also unveiled the true names of the musicians, credited in discographies. The true names are now mentioned on this CD with the exception of Ray Ellington, which is the pseudonym of Reggie Pitts. Peter said" Mainly for expediency and secondly for commercial reasons the identity of the musicians was protected by giving them another name." See the conference report in DEMS 97/2-8.
It appears that the frequent scenario of musicians recording under pseudonyms for contractual reasons was again followed here. As to DE, the list in Timner comes to mind: "Earl Jackson and His Musical Champions" and so forth.
Charles Waters

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Harold Baker — "Shorty & Doc"
Original Jazz Classics
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DEMS 01/1-24/2

Browsing the Amazon.com jazz cutout section, I came upon the following:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004UG8Q/
103-9040531-9943846, which is the album Shorty Baker made with Doc Cheatham, Walter Bishop, Wendell Marshall and J.C.Heard on 17Jan61. Baker's Dozen; Night Train; Lullaby In Rhythm; I Didn't Know What Time It Was; Chitlin's and Good Queen Bess.
The CD bears a copyright date of 1994 and it also credits Phil DeLancie with doing the remastering that same year.
OJC (Original Jazz Classics) is the principal reissue division of Prestige.
John Bartholomew

Here is some exact information about significant Shorty Baker records, none of which are on CD:
• Harold Baker-The Broadway Beat on King KSD 608 recorded 10Sep58.
• Bud Freeman All-Stars Featuring Shorty Baker, original issue Swingville 2012, reissued on OJC LP 183.
• George Wein-Metronome Presents Jazz at the Modern on Bethlehem BCP 6050, features Shorty, Tyree Glenn, and Pee Wee Russell. Shorty has a feature on Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me, recorded 16Jun60.
• The Trumpet Album, Savoy 2237 (I do not have the original LP title) features Shorty, Emmett Berry, Art Farmer, Ernie Royal & Charlie Shavers. Ernie Wilkins arranger, recorded 15Jan57.
Richard Ehrenzeller

More Shorty Baker

• Summer Concert 1960. The Bud Freeman Shorty Baker All Stars. Guest star is Red Allen. Jazz Archives LP JA-38. Tyree Glenn is on trombone. Very fine performance.
• Tyree Glenn At The Embers. An original Roulette recording. My version is World Records Club T 430. Shorty appears on 6 tracks out of 11. Hank Jones, Mary Osborne, Tommy Potter and Jo Jones are the rhythm section. Tyree and Shorty suit each other admirably. They both have a distinctive and very beautiful sound. Both are much underrated Ellingtonians.
• The Ernie Wilkins album on Savoy is titled: Trumpets All Out.
Flemming Sjølund Jensen

Still more Harold Baker

• Nelson Williams "Five Horn Groove - The Duke's Trumpets" recorded Paris 1950-51 on LP Jazz Legacy JL 94.
• The Mainstream Sextet 1959 on CD RCA Victor 74321 21832 2 (Germany 1994).
• With Al Hall Quartet 1959 on 2 British Columbia LPs "Cascade of Quartets".
• Tyree Glenn at the London House in Chicago ca 1961 on LP Roulette R 25138.

Monk's Moods

DEMS 01/1-24/3

Not long ago Anthony Brown joined the Ellington community, not only by producing the marvellous CD of Ellington's and Strayhorn's "Far East Suite", but also by joining the Washington and San Francisco Duke Ellington Societies and by making an interesting presentation at the Ellington 2000 conference in Los Angeles.
Anthony has made himself many friends in the Ellington community. That's why we make an exception and announce a totally non-Ellington release: "Monk's Moods" by Anthony and his Asian American Orchestra, produced by Orrin Keepnews and Anthony. It contains exclusively Monk's compositions, most of which are arranged by Anthony himself. This very interesting CD proves how much Ken Burns was wrong in suggesting that Jazz has died. Guest soloist is Steve Lacy.
The orchestra is almost identical to the one that made the very successful "Far East Suite" CD (see DEMS 99/5-22).
If you want to enjoy this second Anthony Brown CD, try to find Keeper Records/Emusic KEM 1001. It's just come out.
Sjef Hoefsmit