4 Jun
2002
4 Jun
'02
1:57 p.m.
on 6/4/02 12:55 PM, Ken Waxman at mingusaum@yahoo.ca wrote:
Verve is still sitting on a great George Russell combo album from the early 1960s that was initially released as George Russell in K.C. on Decca and has *never* been reissued.
Not only is it the first recorded instance of trumpeter Don Ellis with the band -- the group that went on to make further diss for Riverside -- one with Dolphy -- but it features some of the first recordings of Carla Bley compositions.
Ken Waxman
actually, THE first recording of a Carla comp -- "The Dance Class". sh