THE INTERNATIONAL DEMS BULLETIN DUKE ELLINGTON MUSIC SOCIETY 01/2 August - November 2001 FOUNDER: BENNY AASLAND HONORARY MEMBER: FATHER JOHN GARCIA GENSEL EDITOR: SJEF HOEFSMIT ASSISTED BY: ROGER BOYES

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Email: dems@skynet.be

DEMS 01/2-23/1

I have sent you a copy on cassette of this CD, will you please tell me the correct take-numbers? Lance Travis

With pleasure:

CD-1 (66':45")
  1. Black and Tan Fantasy             7Apr27   B
  2. Creole Love Call                 26oct27  Vi
  3. East St. Louis Toodle-O          19Dec27  Vi
  4. The Mooche                        1oct28   O
  5. Hot and Bothered                   oct28   P
  6. The Blues with a Feeling         22Nov28   O
  7. Double Check Stomp               11Apr30   R
  8. Mood Indigo                      10Dec30   R
  9. It Don't Mean a Thing             2Feb32   A
 10. Slippery Horn             -A     17Feb33   A
 11. Daybreak Express          -1      4Dec33   R
 12. Dear Old Southland        -1      4Dec33   R
 13. Stompy Jones                      9Jan34   R
 14. Troubled Waters           -2      9May34   R
 15. Saddest Tale                     12Sep34   A
 16. Showboat Shuffle                 30Apr35   A
 17. Clarinet Lament                  27Feb36   A
 18. Echoes of Harlem                 27Feb36   A
 19. In a Jam                         29Jul36   A
 20. Diminuendo in Blue        -1     20Sep37   B
     Crescendo in Blue         -1     20Sep37   B

CD-2 (69':37")
  1. Gypsy Without a Song             20Jun38   B
  2. Battle of Swing           -2     19Dec38   B
  3. Portrait of the Lion      -2     21Mar39   B
  4. Tootin' Through the Roof  -A     14oct39   B
  5. Ko-Ko                     -2      6Mar40   R
  6. Concerto for Cootie              15Mar40   R
  7. Cotton Tail                       4May40   R
  8. Sepia Panorama             2^nd     7Nov40   F
  9. Take the "A" Train               15Feb41   R
 10. Chelsea Bridge                   17Sep41   S
 11. Raincheck                         2Dec41   R
 12. Moon Mist                 -1     21Jan42   R
 13. Things Ain't What They Used to Be 9Nov43   W
 14. from "Black, Brown and Beige"
     Worksong / Come Sunday           11Dec44   R
 15. Midriff                   -2      2Jan45   W
 16. Frankie and Johnny               26May45   V
 17. Transblucency                     9Jul46   R
 18. Royal Garden Blues                3Sep46   R
 19. Jam-a-Ditty                      11Dec46   U

B = ARC Brunswick; Vi = Victor; O = Okeh; P = Pathé; R = RCA Victor; A = ARC; F = Fargo; S = Standard Radio Transcription; W = World Broadcasting Series; V = V Disc and U = Musicraft.
The date of the very last selection is 11Dec46 and not 18Dec46 as mentioned in the Masters of Jazz booklet.
There is no reason to doubt the other dates. I have only checked the selections from which an alternate take exist in the same session.
This double CD was not earlier described in DEMS Bulletin. That's why I give all the titles.
Sjef Hoefsmit

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The Gold Collection (EEC) 1997
Retro R2CD 40-19 (double CD)
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DEMS 01/2-23/2

I have sent you a copy on cassette of these CDs. I know that the second CD is identical to DEJAVU D2CD 19, titled "Duke Ellington Deluxe Collector's Edition". Will you please tell me the correct take-numbers?
Lance Travis

With pleasure:

CD-1 (62':22")
  1. Black and Tan Fantasy         3Jul66  L
  2. Creole Love Call              3Jul66  L
  3. East St. Louis Toodle-O      19Dec27    Vi 30
  4. The Mooche                    3Jul66  L
  5. Saturday Night Function      16Jan29    Vi 04
  6. Cotton Club Stomp             3May29    Vi 30
  7. Saratoga Swing                3May29    Vi 30
  8. Jungle Nights in Harlem       4Jun30    Vi 04
  9. Mood Indigo                  10Dec30    Vi 04
 10. Rockin' in Rhythm             3Jul66  L
 11. Echoes of the Jungle         16Jun31    Vi 30
 12. Delta Serenade        -1      9Jan34    Vi
 13. Solitude                     10Jan34    Vi
 14. Merry Go Round               30Apr35    A  46
 15. In a Sentimental Mood        30Apr35    A  46
 16. Country Gal                  16oct39    B  46
 17. Harlem Speaks                15Aug33    A  46
 18. Clarinet Lament              27Feb36    A  46
 19. Echoes of Harlem             27Feb36    A  46
 20. Caravan                      14May37    M  46

CD-2 (61':24")
  1. Sophisticated Lady    -2     15Feb33    C  46
  2. Prelude to a Kiss     -2      9Aug38    B  46
  3. Diminuendo in Blue    -1     20Sep37    B  46
  4. Crescendo in Blue     -1     20Sep37    B  46
  5. Ko-Ko                 -2      6Mar40    R  48
  6. Concerto for Cootie          15Mar40    R  46
  7. Harlem Air-Shaft             22Jul40    R  48
  8. All Too Soon                 22Jul40    R  07
  9. Sepia Panorama        -1     24Jul40    R  48
 10. Across the Track Blues       28oct40    R  48
 11. Chloe                        28oct40    R  48
 12. Take the "A" Train            3Jul66  L
 13. Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin'  5Jun41    R  48
 14. I Got It Bad          -1     26Jun41    R  46
 15. Wings and Things              3Jul66  L
 16. Perdido               -1     21Jan42    R  57
 17. C-Jam Blues                  21Jan42    R  57
 18. The Hawk Talks               20Nov58  L
 19. Soul Call                     3Jul66  L
 20. The Opener                    3Jul66  L

L = LRC 33C38-7680, "S.R.O."; Vi = Victor; A = ARC; B = ARC Brunswick; M = Master; C = Columbia; R = RCA Victor; 30 = Giants of Jazz CD 53030, 46 = 53046, 48 = 53048, 57 = 53057, 04 = 53304, 07 = 53307. For 57, 04 and 07 I used information supplied by Jerry Valburn.
The tracks marked with L are all from live performances. Track 18 is from the Salle Pleyel in Paris, all the other tracks are from Newport.
Track 15 is mis-titled Things Ain't What They Used to Be. Track 20 is mis titled Open House as on the original release. See for the LRC CD "S.R.O." DEMS 98/4-2. Track 6 is mis-titled Do Nothin' till You Hear from Me.
During the identification of the tracks, I got the impression that everything, with the exception of the LRC tracks, was copied from Giants of Jazz CDs. Only track 12 and 13 are not. Track 12 is indeed the rare take -1.
Sjef Hoefsmit

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Gallerie GALE 405 (double CD)
A Portrait of Duke Ellington
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DEMS 01/2-24/1

CD 1
  1. Take the "A" Train                  15Feb41  R  46
  2. Black Beauty                    -2  21Mar28  B  30
  3. The Mooche                           1oct28  O  30
  4. Never No Lament                      4May40  R  46
  5. I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart -2   3Mar38  AB 46
  6. I Got It Bad                    -1  26Jun41  R  46
  7. Caravan                             14May37  M  46
  8. Old Man Blues                   -6  26Aug30  R  30
  9. Solitude                            14Feb40  AB 46
 10. Hot and Bothered                     1oct28  O  30
 11. Creole Love Call                    26oct27  V  30
 12. C-Jam Blues                         21Jan42  R
 13. Perdido                         -1  21Jan42  R
 14. Cotton Tail                          4May40  R  46
 15. Black and Tan Fantasy           -B   3Nov27  O  30
 16. Chelsea Bridge                       2Dec41  R
 17. Tiger Rag  part 1 -B and part 2      8Jan29  B  30
 18. Jump for Joy                    -2   2Jul41  R
 19. Moon Over Dixie                      2Feb32  A
 20. Moon Mist                       -1  21Jan42  R
 21. I'm Beginning to See the Light  -2   1Dec44  R
 22. What Am I Here For?                 26Feb42  R
 23. Johnny Come Lately                  26Jun42  R

CD 2
  1. Mood Indigo                         17oct30  B  30
  2. East St. Louis Toodle-O             19Dec27  V  30
  3. Cotton Club Stomp                    3May29  R  30
  4. Sophisticated Lady              -2  15Feb33  BC 46
  5. In a Sentimental Mood               30Apr35  A  46
  6. Ring Dem Bells                      26Aug30  R  30
  7. Take It Easy                        21Mar28  B  30
  8. Saratoga Swing                       3May29  R  30
  9. The Dicty Glide                 -1   7Mar29  R  30
 10. Prelude to a Kiss               -2   9Aug38  AB 46
 11. The Sheik of Araby                  16May32  A
 12. Rockin' in Rhythm               -2  16Jan31  R  30
 13. Conga Brava                         15Mar40  R  46
 14. The Blues I Love to Sing        -2  26oct27  V  30
 15. Jubilee Stomp                       26Mar28  V  30
 16. St. Louis Blues                 -2  11Feb32  A
 17. Misty Mornin'                       22Nov28  O  30
 18. It Don't Mean a Thing                2Feb32  A
 19. Crescendo in Blue               -2  20Sep37  AB
 20. Things Ain't What They Used to Be   30Jul45  R
 21. Main Stem                           26Jun42  R
 22. Concerto fFor Cootie                15Mar40  R  46
 23. I Can't Give You Anything but Love  30oct28  V

DEMS 01/2-24/2

I have sent you a copy on cassette of this CD, will you please tell me the correct take-numbers?  Lance Travis

DEMS 01/2-24/3

Thank you, Lance Travis, for sending me a copy on cassette. In the case of some of the tracks, the take number is important because there were two takes possible.

DEMS 01/2-25/1

14oct30  Mood Indigo                               -A

DEMS 01/2-25/2

See DEMS 99/5-25 ad 1278 and 00/4-19/1.

This long expected CD is out now. It has more than 72 minutes of gorgeous music. Now everybody can listen to Soso and hear that it has nothing to do with Woods, as earlier explained in DEMS Bulletin. See lead-sheets on page 26 [below:].

To prove that the suite contained originally seven parts and not four (and later even three) as performed in many concerts, we print on page 27 the sheet with the selected recordings from the two recording dates, 28 and 29Jun71 and the label on the box in which the tape was found [below:].

In the second recording session were 3 selections not belonging to the Togo Brava suite and already released on 2 Pablo albums. Goof -11 is on "Up in Duke's Workshop", Eulb -25 and Tenz -31 are on "The Intimate Ellington".
Bjarne Busk explains in his excellent liner-notes, that the numbers after the titles are not take-numbers, but track-numbers. Not only were the recordings numbered consecutively through the whole session, the numbering could sometimes even continue through the next session as happened for instance from 1 to 3Feb71; from 27 to 28Apr71 and from 28 to 29Jun71.
Probably caused by a poor layout on page 3, it seems that Wild Bill Davis was still out during the recording of Making That Scene -35. That was not the case.
We could only find two errors. Lover Man is not edited from take -6 and the second insert coda -7. If the description in the New DESOR is correct, we hear the complete take -6.
The stamps, reproduced on the cover of the booklet are not taken from a series of four, but from a series of seven stamps. There were two stamps with Duke (as you can see), two with Johan S. Bach, two with Beethoven and one with Debussy.
The late Erich Wahl had all seven stamps in the collection, which his widow and his son donated to DEMS. This set had number 162 in the listing on page 26 of 97/3. Two members asked for item 162 at that time, but in the end we kept it for eventual future use. When we learned of the plans for the Togo Brava CD, we loaned the stamps to Storyville. We asked that Erich's collection be mentioned as the source for these illustrations. But his name is not to be found on the CD, which is why we mention it here.
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DEMS 01/2-28/1

This label coming from our friends at Ember has just issued the 24 tracks from Jazz Archives JA-12/13. Despite listing only 19 titles, all 24 are there but with a different running order from the Jazz Archives LPs. This time the sequence is chronological which makes much more sense.
It has better sound than the LPs, better pitch consistency and a couple of the earlier tracks are slightly longer than the LPs, by including announcements with piano intros underneath them.

   Titles correctly listed          Actual   Shown
24Mar38
  1. If You Were in My Place         3.29 *   3.28
  2. Oh! Babe! Maybe Someday         3.06 *   3.04
  3. If Dreams Come True             3.19(!)  1.39
  4. Harmony in Harlem               3.41(!)  3.18
  5. Dinah                           3.41(!)  2.12
17Apr38
  6. You Went to My Head             1.43     1.42
  7. Three Blind Mice                3.04     3.05
  8. Downtown Uproar                 3.15 **  3.18
24Apr38
  9. On the Sunny Side of the Street 3.50     3.49
 10. Dinah's in a Jam                3.23     3.23
1May38
 11. Harmony in Harlem               3.41     3.40
 12. At Your Beck and Call           2.26 *   2.25
 13. The Gal from Joe's              3.11 *   3.10
     segue into
 14. Riding on a Blue Note           2.43     2.40
 15. If Dreams Come True             2.51     2.50
15May38
 16. If Dreams Come True             3.19     2.34
 17. Birmingham Breakdown            2.41     2.40
 18. Rose Room                       2.15 *   2.14
 19. Echoes of Harlem                4.38     4.39
     Titles not listed but present on CD (still 15May38)
 20. It's the Dreamer in Me          4.40
 21. Ev'ry Day                       2.38
 22. Lost in Meditation              3.59
29May38
 23. Prelude in 'C' Sharp Minor      2.59
 24. Rockin' in Rhythm               4.01

Total duration 75.27.
    *  = including opening announcement
  **  = including opening and partly closing announcements.
(!) Track 5 fades in; ends early. The times as shown seem to be copied from the Archives of Jazz CDs. The mistake at track 5 is probably due to reading the neighbouring time of Harmony in Harlem. The 2 other mistakes are due to reading the indications from the wrong dates.
Brian Priestley

DEMS 01/2-28/2

I received from Amazon.uk this CD containing the two well known Reprise albums, which were released in 1963 and 1966. This CD is made in Germany by Warner Music Manufacturing Europe, but the copyrights (2000) belong to Warner Music UK Ltd.
Hans Kalter

The Afro Bossa album was earlier reissued on CD Discovery/Musicraft 71002 (DEMS 93/1-4). Both album were included in the Mosaic 5 CD box MD5-193 (DEMS 00/1-15/1 and 00/3-16/1)
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DEMS 01/2-28/3

At the 1993 Ellington Conference, Phil Schaap announced that Jimmie Blanton is the bassist on the two Jeter-Pillars Orchestra 78's from August 1937.
His sources of this information are Hayes Pillars (one of the leaders!) and Milt Hinton. These four recordings can now be found on the newly issued CD, The Territory Bands 1935-1937, Jazz Band EBCD 2165-2. This CD lists Vernon King as the bassist, who is generally listed as such. Does anybody have any further information on this?
Richard Ehrenzeller**

DEMS 01/2-28/4

This special promotional release by Bang & Olufsen was described earlier in Bulletin 0/1-22/3. Here is some additional discographical information about this rare CD.
The 12 titles were recorded by The Danish Radio 15Jan99 in Studio 3, Radiohuset, Copenhagen.
5 titles (C Jam Blues; Come Sunday; Sophisticated Lady; Mood Indigo; Pitter Panther Patter) were used as one of the Danish contributions to the 9 hour long "Euroradio Special Day" radio broadcast on 25Apr99 commemorating Duke's 100th anniversary. They were played near the beginning of the broadcast (after 30 min). Later all 12 titles were issued by B&O.
Bjarne Busk

DEMS 01/2-28/5

Kenny Burrell, who turns 70 this summer, released his 96^th album at the end of May. He considers himself a lucky man. So lucky, in fact, that he named his 7^th album for Concord after Duke Ellington's tune "Lucky So And So."
On this album, Burrell treads into new territory: vocals. He sings on four tracks. Source Downbeat's web site, <www.downbeat.com> 
Bill Saxonis

DEMS 01/2-28/6

TDES members Bob Porter produced this reissue and Will Friedwald wrote the liner notes.
19Apr50. With a.o. Billy Kyle, Shorty Baker, Tyree Glenn and Lucky Thompson: Danny Boy; If I Knew You Were There; Song of the Wanderer; Dedicated to You.
25oct50. With a.o. Billy Taylor, Tyree Glenn: The Blues Came Falling Down; Old Folks; I'm Travelling Light.
21 or 27Jun51. With a.o. Jimmy Mundy, Paul Gonsalves and strings: Now I Lay Me Down to Dream; This Is Always; I Won't Tell a Soul I Love You.
1952 or 1956. With a.o. Al Sears: You Will Be Mine; After the Lights Go Down; Tell Me; Autumn Winds.
Richard Ehrenzeller

DEMS 01/2-28/7

We found a favourable review by Eddie Blackwell in the May edition of Jazz Journal. The selections are:
1. Just Squeeze Me; 2. Mood Indigo; 3. Black and Tan Fantasy; 4. Sophisticated Lady; 5. Ducally; 6. Satin Doll;
7. Medley: Solitude, I Got It Bad, In a Sentimental Mood;
8. I'm Beginning to See the Light; 9. Four Kisses; 10. B.P.

Selection 5 and 9 are Harold's own compositions.
Lloyd Mayers is on piano, Earl May on bass and Leroy Williams on drums. The total time is 67 minutes.
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