Eddie Costa, Newport Jazz Festival, Saturday, July 6, 1957.From a picture by Burt Goldblatt.
Hace unas semanas monté una colección con todos los temas que pude encontrar en Spotify en los que estaba presente Eddie Costa, lo comenté aquí. Los usuarios de ese servicio pueden acceder a esa colección a través de http://open.spotify.com/user/ferurbina/playlist/3JE9Y7DEFPguczr3sa8xJH.
La novedad es que parece ser que Spotify ha incorporado uno o varios sellos "andorranos" (no me he preocupado en comprobarlo), y la colección de Eddie Costa se ha ampliado enormemente. Para empezar ya están sus dos discos a trío, Eddie Costa-Vinnie Burke Trio (Jubilee, 1956) y el recomendadísimo The House of Blue Lights (Dot, 1959), todo lo que grabó con Sal Salvador en cuarteto, las grabaciones completas del quinteto de Hal McKusick y Art Farmer para Coral, cuatro cortes con John Coltrane para el LP Winners' Circle (original Bethlehem), los dos LPs de Mundell Lowe para RCA con versiones de temas televisivos, varios temas con Manny Albam, Urbie Green, etc. El único problema es que este tipo de reediciones se toman muchas libertades con los títulos y los titulares de los discos, y la identificación se complica. Por ejemplo, el Guitar and the Wind de Barry Galbraith aparece como parte del disco Manhattan Jazz Septette, que a su vez se asignó, sin motivo aparente, a Oscar Pettiford (son los temas que van de "Bull Market" a "What Am I Here For?", ambos inclusive). Como en la ocasión anterior, he tratado de mantener el orden cronológico de grabación.
En todo caso, lo que importa es la música, y la colección de Eddie Costa en Spotify tiene ahora mucho más fuste.
La novedad es que parece ser que Spotify ha incorporado uno o varios sellos "andorranos" (no me he preocupado en comprobarlo), y la colección de Eddie Costa se ha ampliado enormemente. Para empezar ya están sus dos discos a trío, Eddie Costa-Vinnie Burke Trio (Jubilee, 1956) y el recomendadísimo The House of Blue Lights (Dot, 1959), todo lo que grabó con Sal Salvador en cuarteto, las grabaciones completas del quinteto de Hal McKusick y Art Farmer para Coral, cuatro cortes con John Coltrane para el LP Winners' Circle (original Bethlehem), los dos LPs de Mundell Lowe para RCA con versiones de temas televisivos, varios temas con Manny Albam, Urbie Green, etc. El único problema es que este tipo de reediciones se toman muchas libertades con los títulos y los titulares de los discos, y la identificación se complica. Por ejemplo, el Guitar and the Wind de Barry Galbraith aparece como parte del disco Manhattan Jazz Septette, que a su vez se asignó, sin motivo aparente, a Oscar Pettiford (son los temas que van de "Bull Market" a "What Am I Here For?", ambos inclusive). Como en la ocasión anterior, he tratado de mantener el orden cronológico de grabación.
En todo caso, lo que importa es la música, y la colección de Eddie Costa en Spotify tiene ahora mucho más fuste.
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A few weeks ago I built a playlist with everything I could find in Spotify featuring Eddie Costa, as I announced here. Users of this service can acceed the list through this address http://open.spotify.com/user/ferurbina/playlist/3JE9Y7DEFPguczr3sa8xJH.
The news is that it seems that Spotify has incorporated one or several "Andorran" labels (I haven't checked properly), and the Eddie Costa collection has grown enourmously. For starters, we now have his two trio albums, Eddie Costa-Vinnie Burke Trio (Jubilee, 1956) and The House of Blue Lights (Dot, 1959), which I strongly recommend, everything he recorded with Sal Salvador as a quartet, the complete recordings of the Hal McKusick-Art Farmer Quintet for Coral, four tracks with John Coltrane for the album Winners' Circle (Bethlehem, originally), two albums Mundell Lowe did for RCA covering TV theme tunes, several tracks with Manny Albam, Urbie Green, etc. The only problem is that this kind of reissues assign titles and artists to albums very liberally, and identifying the original albums becomes quite difficult. For instance, Barry Galbraith's Guitar and the Wind is there, but as part of Manhattan Jazz Septette, which in this particular reissue appeared under Oscar Pettiford's name for no reason I know of (it's the tunes between "Bull Market" and "What Am I Here For?", both inclusive.) As before, I've tried to lay the tunes chronologically.
In any case, the music is what matters, and the updated Eddie Costa playlist in Spotify is quite an upgrade.
The news is that it seems that Spotify has incorporated one or several "Andorran" labels (I haven't checked properly), and the Eddie Costa collection has grown enourmously. For starters, we now have his two trio albums, Eddie Costa-Vinnie Burke Trio (Jubilee, 1956) and The House of Blue Lights (Dot, 1959), which I strongly recommend, everything he recorded with Sal Salvador as a quartet, the complete recordings of the Hal McKusick-Art Farmer Quintet for Coral, four tracks with John Coltrane for the album Winners' Circle (Bethlehem, originally), two albums Mundell Lowe did for RCA covering TV theme tunes, several tracks with Manny Albam, Urbie Green, etc. The only problem is that this kind of reissues assign titles and artists to albums very liberally, and identifying the original albums becomes quite difficult. For instance, Barry Galbraith's Guitar and the Wind is there, but as part of Manhattan Jazz Septette, which in this particular reissue appeared under Oscar Pettiford's name for no reason I know of (it's the tunes between "Bull Market" and "What Am I Here For?", both inclusive.) As before, I've tried to lay the tunes chronologically.
In any case, the music is what matters, and the updated Eddie Costa playlist in Spotify is quite an upgrade.
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