Sandy Mosse, Ira Schulman & Eddie Baker - Chicago Scene - Argo LP 609 - Argo Original Pressing, Black Label, Mono
Sandy Mosse - Tenor Sax
Ira Schulman - Tenor Sax
Dave Mulholland - Trumpet
Eddie Baker - Piano
Jimmy Gourley - Guitar
Leroy Jackson - Bass
Dorrell Anderson - Drums
Recorded - July 6, 1956, Universal Studios, Chicago
Supervision - Joe Segal
Recording - Jack Weiner
Cover - Don Bronstein
Released - April 29, 1957
Be prepared for a monster Argo rarity : Sandy Mosse, Ira Schulman & Eddie Baker's Chicago Scene! I've been looking for this particular side for ages now, but finally got lucky last week. This side is a bit different from the typical Soul Jazz fare posted here regularly, but nonetheless it's an important and historic LP which documents some of the Chicago bop scene of the mid 1950s. Sandy Mosse is the perhaps the best known of these Chicago players. Pretty good fidelity with just some minor surface noise from the original fifty four year old Argo mono vinyl!
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Wonderful! Feeling happy with a bottle of good red and this excellent jazz. Cheers!
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Great, a Jimmy Gourley album I didn't know! Thanks so very much.
ReplyDeleteBig thanks for this - been on the wish list for quite a while.
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Thanks for this rare LP. My friend Paul D., discographer, wishes to extend his thanks to you as this rip has allowed him to correct a very big error which appears in several discographical works - starting with Jesen - that list "Ira Sullivan" as a player instead of Ira Schulman, a lesser known Chicago saxophonist (01/12/1926 - 20/07/2008).
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I just asked Bobby Baker- Eddie's brother- and he confirms that Ira Schulman plays on this record.
ReplyDeleteHere's Bobby Baker playing in Chicago last summer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J810iCBj2BQ
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Are Bobby Baker and Eddie Baker from Chicago?
There was another piano player named Eddie Baker from KC who I thought might have spent some time in Chicago around the time of this recording. But I don't know about him having a brother named Bobby. Different guy? I assume the Eddie Baker on this LP is the same as the one on Max Roach + 4 -- "On the Chicago Scene", right?
And -- much thanks to Preston for this!!
ReplyDeleteThis seems to be the best place for a one size fits all thank you. I've downloaded a great deal of this valuable and otherwise-historical material over the last several days, filling out gaps in the collection or upgrading sound quality. Just didn't want this to go unappreciated - I understand the frustration from drive-by collectors and felt this deserved at least one shout-out.
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@2bad- Yes, Bobby and Eddie Baker both still reside in the Chicago area. He is the same Eddie Baker who played with Max Roach.
ReplyDeleteEddie Baker also appeared on the Bill Russo album The World Of Alcina: http://jazzismylife.wordpress.com/2010/02/26/bill-ruso-the-world-of-alicia-1955-6/
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Re Argo 609: Incredible rarity ! Known from (incorrect) discographies only. I never dreamt of ever getting to hear this.
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thank you for this nice piece out of rarity land.
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Sandy Mosse/Ira Schulman/Eddie Baker - Chicago Scene
ReplyDeleteAllegedly this album was reissued on a Japanese CD in 1999, but it must be incredibly rare, since I've never seen a copy turn up anywhere. So this LP rip fills the void quite nicely!
Of the two tenorists, I think Mosse is the "better" (not that Schulman is a slouch), showing himself to be a good representative of the white brother school of tenorists à la Zoot Sims (in particular) and Stan Getz.
Jimmy Gourley on guitar was very easy to recognize from his recordings in Europe a few years earlier (with Clifford Brown among others). He would return to Europe later.
Although the participating musicians are not all that well-known, I must say that a very strong aspect of this album is the original compositions. They are very good and much superior to a lot of the blowing session stuff that was common in those days.
What is surprising, considering the short playing time here (just 31 minutes), is that the discographies show that another six tracks were recorded at the session but remain unissued. Why wasn't more included? Also notice that the final "Clara's Blues" fades out. One suspects that there was a subsequent breakdown and that no other take was attempted.
What is here is very fine though. Many thanks for making this obscure but rewarding album available!