Episode 222: Great New Historical Albums Part 2

Discovering Jazz

The recording quality of some of the live performances that have been recently unearthed, restored, and enhanced is incredible!

Two of the best are from The Charles Mingus Lost Album from Ronnie Scott’s, and Dave Brubeck Trio (sans Paul Desmond) Live from Vienna 1967.

Other new discoveries I feature in this episode are Chick Corea from the Montreaux Jazz Festival 1993 and Swedish pianist Esjborn Svennson’s recording just three weeks before he died in a scuba diving accident. Then there’s Ella Fitzgerald, At The Hollywood Bowl: The Irving Berlin Songbook.

Rounding out this episode are some reissues. Three of them are from the 11 cd compilation from Black and White Records. I start this episode with Jack McVea and “Open the Door Richard”, followed by some very early Ernestine Anderson. And a highlight is a seven piece all-female instrumental group from 1945 called “The Hip Chicks”.

Another reissue isn’t really a reissue, because it’s a track that never made it onto the album. I’m referring to Gil Evans Orchestra “Out of The Cool”. Hear their version of Horace Silver’s Sister Sadie.

The episode ends with a Donald Byrd album that BlueNote never released after recording it in 1973. It’s called “Live Cookin’ With BlueNote at Montreaux.