The Lost Tapes: Jazz

Introduction This is one of the true treasures in all of music. I have the CD edition of Bird and Dizzy's 1947 Carneige Hall performance and the 1953 Quintet of the Year show with Max Roah, Charles Mingus and Bud Powell, and while the latter is a true favorie of mine I was absolutely blown away when a hitherto unknown recording from Town Hall in June 22 1945 was found in the most unlikely place and subsequuently remastered for CD. The story, as far as the find of this long lost gem and its release is concerned is almost as interesting as the music itself. It begins with Bob Suthenblick, a medical doctor and music collector.whose love for bebop and its off-shoots made him invest in a small record company. So practicioning MD by day, and releasing records by long forgoten jazz stars of the '40s and '50s by night. Uptown Records soon became home for new live recordings and even some studio ones (recorded by Van Gelder in New Jersey nontheless) by people like Frank Wess and

This is one set i really love, it's about 25 mintes and seems to be a radio broacast from a club or maybe a even an in-studio live broadcast. Either way it's a really good sounding Soundboard. While i'm a fan of the first Mahavishnu Orchestra incarnation, I sometime felt they could at times become too virtuosistic for their owng good. That's understandable considering you had one of the best guitarist/composers of alltime, perhaps the best jazz/fusion drummer of all time in Billy Cobham, and Jan Hammer and Jerry Goodman was definitely nothing to scoff at. The only member I felt was just taking up space (though he was competent enough) was Rick Laird. But its extremely rarely I revisittheir music despite having all thier records. For me its something missing on there for mch of it. Keith Jarrett had a quote about the Miles Davis band with Steve Grossman, Chick Corea, Dave Holland and Jack De Johnette that was (and i para-phrase) - "they all had great solos but i