DEMS BULLETIN
DUKE ELLINGTON MUSIC SOCIETY
10/3 December 2010 - March 2011
Our 32nd Year of Publication
FOUNDER: BENNY AASLAND
HONORARY MEMBER: FATHER JOHN GARCIA GENSEL
EDITOR: SJEF HOEFSMIT
ASSISTED BY: ROGER BOYES
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THE INTERNATIONAL DEMS BULLETIN DUKE ELLINGTON MUSIC SOCIETY 10/3 December 2010 - March 2011 Our 32nd Year of Publication FOUNDER: BENNY AASLAND |
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The New DESOR corrections
DEMS 10/3-22
We remind you that these
corrections are merely suggestions. They are not (yet) accepted by the authors
of the New DESOR. Unsigned suggestions were brought in by Hoefsmit.
Page 8. Session
2819, 20Dec28, St. Louis Blues. I knew Adelaide Hall well. This is definitely
not her voice... nor is it her phrasing. It's probably a member of the Hall
Johnson Choir, sounding rather as they do in the Bessie Smith film. Maybe it's
the name HALL Johnson Choir that led to this mis-attribution.
Earl Okin
Page 20. Session 3214, 22Dec32. According to the liner-notes by
Steven Lasker for the Mosaic 11 CD Box, Lawrence Brown and Johnny Hodges were
out on I Can't Give You Anything but Love and on Porgy. Fred Guy
is only out on Porgy.
Page 21. Session 3304, 17Feb33. In a note to the discographical
details as mentioned in the booklet of the Mosaic 11 CD Box, Steven Lasker
stated that: "The labels
for Columbia 35837 and Brunswick 6527 show “Drop Me Off At Harlem". That
would mean that we should put that "At" title between parentheses
after the "In" titles.
Page 25. Session 3501, 9Jan35. The first release of Admiration
Stomp came on the LP FDC 1003. The title read Admiration.
The title Admiration Stomp is found only in discographies, not in the
recording files or on any 78 rpm release of which I'm aware.
Steven Lasker
I suggest that Admiration Stomp should be placed between parentheses
after Admiration.
Sjef Hoefsmit
Page 25. Session 3502, 5Mar35. According to the liner-notes by
Steven Lasker for the Mosaic 11 CD Box, Fred Guy was not in this session.
Page 26. Session 3503, 30Apr35. See the correction for Page 25.
Session 3501.
Page 26. Sessions 3504 and 3505, 19Aug and 12Sep35. According to the
liner-notes by Steven Lasker for the Mosaic 11 CD Box, Lawrence Brown was not
on these sessions.
Page 26. Session 3601. 3Jan36. According to the liner-notes by Steven
Lasker for the Mosaic 11 CD Box: "This entire session remains unissued as
the master no longer exists at Sony archives." DESOR 3601 should be
deleted.
Page 27. Session 3604, 27Feb36. According to the liner-notes by
Steven Lasker for the Mosaic 11 CD Box, Billy Taylor plus Hayes Alvis and Otto
Hardwick played on all four selections. Joe Nanton only played on Isn't Love
the Strangest Thing?.
Pages 37 and 1334. I have the double CD Collectibles COL-CD-7843,
which includes the 1950s LPs Blue Light and Hi-Fi Ellington Uptown. The Blue
Light CD appears to have Take -1 (DE3819d) of Pyramid, contradictory to
DEMS 07/2-29, which in turn suggests that New DESOR disc 0238 is incorrect, since
it lists Pyramid as 3819e.
Brian Koller
I cannot argue with you. I do not have the original "Blue Light" LP.
Neither do I have the Collectibles re-release. There is a small possibility
that Collectibles has a different take than the original "Blue Light"
LP.
I have both takes of Pyramid on the French CBS LP 88242. Comparison with
this LP revealed that CBS Portrait R2K 44395 (DEMS 90/3-4 and 91/4-5) and that
Sony & BMG 88697302362
(DEMS 08/2-31; 08/3-30 and 09/1-25) both have take -1. In a few weeks I hope to
be able to compare these releases again but now against the two takes on the
Mosaic 11 CD Box set. I hope that somebody who has the original "Blue
Light" LP will be so helpful as to compare the takes on the Mosaic set
with the LP. Before it has been established that the original LP has take -1, I
would not suggest making a correction in The New DESOR.
In the meantime I have been able to make the comparisons with the Mosaic 11 CD
Box (CD 9, tracks 7 has take -1 and track 22 has track -2). My conclusions as
mentioned above are confirmed.
Sjef Hoefsmit
Page 41. Session 3906 and 3907, 20 and 21Mar39. According to
the liner-notes by Steven Lasker for the Mosaic 11 CD Box, on neither session
did the full orchestra include Juan Tizol.
The ledger shows only two trombones present at these sessions.
Steven Lasker
Page 114. Session 4567, 23Sep45. A SECOND Take the "A"
Train during this broadcast from Zanzibar was sometimes mentioned until the
conclusion for the "Comments on Timner's 4th edition" page 16: "can
be deleted. It has never been found." Only Timner-4, Ole. J. Nielsen's
disco and earlier Benny Aasland's WWoDE 45-72 (theme) had this item and I've
found no additional info in DEMS Bulletin.
A second Take the "A" Train was however played on this
occasion and survives: I found it by chance while browsing through my
collection on a very old tape from Ed Hausmann in Canada. It runs for some
43sec on piano between Love Letters 4567e and Riff Staccato
4567f. Here attached you'll find this passage (with end of Love Letters
and beginning of Riff Staccato) as an MP3 file and I think that you'll
agree with me.
Klaus Götting
I agree. Thanks. The correction has already been made by Giovanni Volonté and
Luciano Massagli. See in the "small corrections" and on Correction-sheet
1102.
Sjef Hoefsmit
Page 127. Session 4605, 16Jan46. C-Jam Blues (encore), DE4605h is
listed as unissued, but it has been issued on the 13 CD box set from Masters of
Jazz, "Anniversary" (1999). [See DEMS 00/1-17]
It is on CD #5 from the set, the "Friends" CD, as Track 20, which
includes both the familiar V-disc issued DE4605g as well as the encore,
DE4605h.
Brian Koller
Page 237. Session 5722 took place on 22Jun57 at the Carrolltown Sunset
Ballroom, according to a new find for Duke's Itinerary by Agustin Perez Gasco
(e-mail to the Duke-LYM list on 5Aug10).
Klaus Götting
Page 352. Session 6363, 21Aug63. I would suggest to include in the New DESOR
Joya Sherrill's beautiful "narration" of Purple People.
The recording (in broadcasts # 25 and # 49) is announced as session-track -12
and runs for 1min43 approximately. It is (only) narration, but so is the
shorter and incomplete 6363l What Color Is Virtue? which nevertheless is
listed, just as is Duke's My People 6363v. By the way: tracks -9, -10
and -11 may be similarly interesting but I can't tell; I haven't heard them.
Klaus Götting
We think that the note at the bottom of the session is sufficient documentation
for these narrations. See also Correction-sheet 1059.
Track -11 does not exist. Track -9 is seven seconds and track -10 is seventeen
seconds long.
DEMS
Pages 475 and 476 plus Correction-sheet 3031/1. New DESOR Disc 0922, for
the DVD of the 1967/1974 documentary "On The Road with Duke
Ellington", appears to omit two relevant Ellington recordings that are on
the DVD.
On Chapter 8 of the DVD, Ellington is at Columbus, Ohio, on 25Apr67, presumably
before the rehearsal session of DE6750, checking out the piano there and/or
practicing a troublesome medley transition on the piano.
Later on Chapter 8, Ellington is performing his finger snapping routine,
accompanied by bass and drums. This is at the end of the Morgan State College recital
of 1May67, DE6755. This comes right before the snippet from the June 1937
Paramount movie short.
Brian Koller
Page 693. Session 7342, probably September 1973. The specific date is
6Sep73. See Terrence Ripmaster's book "Willis Conover", page 164.
Klaus Götting
Page 714. A Blues Serenade. (3825) I hear Rex Stewart and Johnny
Hodges, not Cootie Williams and Otto Hardwick.
Steven Lasker
Page 801. Clementine. 4104c. Some of my friends think that it is
Billy Strayhorn on piano. I believe they are right.
Sjef Hoefsmit**
Page 852. Drop Me Off in Harlem. The second chorus in 3304 should
read (according to Steven Lasker's liner notes for the 11 CD Box):
2°16AW,8FJ,8AW. I agree.
Page 866. Farewell Blues. The second chorus in 3501 should read
(according to Steven Lasker's liner notes for the 11 CD Box): 2°RS instead of
2°CW. Eddie Lambert (p59) and I agree.
Page 867. Fickle Fling. Other title - Camp Grant Champ
should read Camp Grant Chant. Page XXXIV.
Marcello Piras
Page 960. I've Got To Be a Rug Cutter. 3701 and 3702. In his
liner-notes for the Mosaic 11 CD box, Steven Lasker made the remark that there
is no tap-dancing on these recordings, merely foot stomping by the band.
Page 968. Johnny Come Lately. The description of 4309a is not
correct. The structure clearly differs from 4301v and should read as follows
(changes underlined):
1°16BAND,8LB,8BAND; 2°16JN,8BAND,8JN; 3°16BAND&JR,8DE,8BW;
4°(nc)16BAND
Jean Portier
Page 1051. No Greater Love. According to Steven Lasker's liner
notes for the 11 CD Box and Eddie Lambert p61: CW and not AW played the 8 bars
for trumpet in both choruses .
Page 1122. Shoe Shine Boy. According to Steven Lasker's liner
notes for the 11 CD Box and Eddie Lambert p61: RS and not AW played behind Ivie
in the second chorus.
Page 1372. LP 0466, Joyce 1066. Track B01 should include after Everything
but You (4582j): Take the "A" Train (4582a).
Brian Koller
Page 1385. Double CD 0532, Music Masters 65119-2. On this double CD
"The Great Chicago Concerts" Track 1-04, Memphis Blues (4647f)
also includes the opening bars of St. Louis Blues (4647g), which is not
included in this release.
Brian Koller
Page 1423. I have four recordings of this title:
6LP box set "An Explosion of Genius", New Desor 0736,
Track A05 3906e and Track A06 3906f
1CD Stew Burp, New Desor 0828,
Track 019 3906f
4CD Best of DE, New Desor 0919,
Track D12 3906e
One easily to determine difference between 3906e and 3906f is the piano notes
near 0:17.
Track D12 matches with A06, and Track 019 matches with A05.
It appears that Track A05 is 3906f, and Track A06 is 3906e.
Brian Koller
That is the case. See DEMS Bulletin 81/1-2, top of right column.
This should indeed be corrected in The New DESOR page 1423.
Thanks.
DEMS
Page 1424. LP 0746, Unique Jazz 15. On this "Rainbow Room
Broadcasts 1967" LP, the last 10 seconds of Sophisticated Lady
(6772i) are missing on Track A05, but are present at the beginning of Track B02,
Kentucky Avenue, A.C. (6772j).
Brian Koller
Page 1492. Al Sears was born 21Feb10 according to John Clifford in his
article "The Big Raw Tone" in the Bulletin number 4, Nov10, of the
Duke Ellington Society of Sweden. "Al decided to coincide his birth date
with that of George Washington [22Feb] as it was a national holiday at the
schools."
DEMS**
Correction-sheet 1089, session 9069, 7May71. According to the Newsletter
of the Duke Ellington Society Southern California Chapter, Volume 14, #3 page
3, the name of the interviewer was Arnold Dean.
The New DESOR correction-sheets
Here are the latest
additions to the Correction-sheets:
DEMS 10/3-23
Sessions
1101 6645 Los
Angeles 11May66 10/2-8
9096 Pittsburgh 30May66 (Duke's
Beer)
6108 NYC 2&3May61 09/1-11
1102 6024 Los
Angeles 21Jul60 09/1-11
4567 NYC 23Sep45 10/3-22
Discs
3031/2 "On the Road" Docurama DVD 0922 02/2-22/7
"Paris
Blues" Optimum Classics DVD 0923 09/1=11
3403d Universal 61106092 DVD 0924 09/1-13
as soon as there are more sessions for 3031/2, the sheet will be
updated until the number will change into or 3031
Small
corrections
5014 - Two pages with
small corrections, assembled August 2009, from page 18 until and including 1487
(see 09/2-22); assembled December 2009, from page 220 until and including 1504
(see 09/3-37); assembled April 2010, from page IX until and including 1461 (see
10/1-28); assembled August 2010, from page XXIII until and including 1498 (see
10/2-20).
Al these "small corrections" are assembled
from the very first (5001) to the last one (5014) on what we prefer to call
sheet 6000, see http://www.depanorama.net/desor/
DEMS**
DESOR
small corrections
DEMS 10/3-24
These corrections are
authorised by Luciano Massagli and Giovanni Volonté.
DEMS
DESOR small corrections 5014
Volume 1 (Corrections December 2010)
XXV - Add: OC … Optimim Classics (09/1-11)
XXVI - Add: Un … Universal (09/1-13)
14 - Session 3009, 12Jun30, Sweet Mama: FMRS (FM-4001/02) is 3009b instead of 3009a.(10/2-18)
23 - Session 3403, 26Feb34, 3403d, delete unissued; add Un 61106092 (09/1-13)
25 - Session 3502, 5Mar35, Moonlight Fiesta, 3502c; add: FMRS (FM-4001/02). (10/2-18)
32 - Session 3713, 16Jun37, Moonlight Fiesta, 3713c; delete FMRS (FM-4001/02). (10/2-18)
114 - Session 4567, 23Sep45. Make a note that the session should be replaced by the session 4567 on Correction-sheet 1102. (10/3-22)
291 - Session 6024, 21Jul60. Make a note
that this
session should be replaced by the session 6024 on Correction-sheet 1102.
(09/1-11)
295 - Session 6036, Dec60. Delete this session. (09/1-11)
298 - Session 6108, 2&3May61. Make a note that this session should be replaced by the session 6108 on Correction-sheet 1101. (09/1-11)
430 - Delete session 6645 and make a note for the corrected session 6645 on Correction-sheet 1101 (10/2-8)
431 - Add session 9096, 30May66. Correction-sheet 1101.
Volume 2 (Corrections December 2010)
1064 - Paris Blues. Delete 6036b.
The correct structure of 6108a
is: 1°(nc)4HS&JHa;pas8BAND;2°(nc)8HS&JHa;
3°(nc)4HS-JHa&PG,4PG,2PG&BAND,2BAND;
4°2RN,8BAND,4LB;5°(nc)8BAND&JH;
6°(nc)4MME&JH,4BAND&JH;cod2BAND.
The correct structure of 6108b is:
int2LS(f.),2HS&LS(f.),6LS(f.)-HS-JHa;
1°(nc)7BAND&LS(f.)&HS&JHa,1PG;2°BAND;
3°*8JT&PG,6PG;4°BAND;cod2BAND.
6108g: delete:cod4BAND;
add:6°BAND;pas4BAND;7°(nc)4LS(f.)&HS&JHa;
pas8BAND&LS(f.)-HS-JHa;8°3LS(f.)&HS&JHa,%
6108i:cod58BAND&MME&PG instead of:
cod58BAND&MME.
1064 - Pars Stairs (ABAC30)
The correct structure of 6108e is:
1°(nc)8DE;pas4BAND;
2°20BAND,2JHa,2BAND,6BAND&JHa;
pas2BAND&JHa,2BAND;
3°8BAND,8RN,12BAND,2BAND&PG&LS(f.);
cod4BAND,4LS(f.)
1088 - Riff Staccato. 4567f:int2DE instead of int8DE.
1143 - Sophisticated Lady. Delete 6036a.
1204 - The Clothed Woman. Delete 6036c. The
correct structure of 6024d is:
1°IDE;pas4DE;2°IIDE;cod12DE.
1352 - Add 0922, DVD, Docurama, NVG-9502. Correction-sheet 3031. (02/2-22/7)
1360 - 0395, Franklin Mint Recording Soc. (FM-4001/02)
Track B01, Sweet Mama, is 3009b, not 3009a.
Track B05, Moonlight Fiesta, is 3502c, not 3713c.
Track D05 is 6102e, track D06 is 6103b. (10/2-18)
1389 - Add: 0923, DVD, Optimum Classics, OPTD-1348. Correction-sheet 3031. (09/1-11)
1403 - 0626 RCA FXM1-7302. The title on track A03 should not be underlined. (10/2-18)
1406 - 0644, RCA Victor EPAT-435.
Track B02 is 4435d instead of 4335e. The title of track B02 should be
underlined. (10/2-18)
1412 - 0679, Roulette R-52074. Side A and side B must be switched. (10/2-18)
1424 - Add: 0924, DVD, Universal 61106092. Correction-sheet 3031. (09/1-13)
1458 - Marie Hawkins Ellington Aug 1, 1922 - (10/2-18)
1493 - Sherrill, Joya Aug 20, 1927 - Jun 28, 2010. (10/2-2)
Correction-sheet 1053. Session 3403, 26Feb34,
delete unissued; add Un 61106092 (09/1-13)
DEMS 10/3-25
At he end of another year, I wish the
readers of DEMS Bulletin, very pleasant holidays and a perfect 2011.
Sjef Hoefsmit**