May 25, 2007

Dragon rediscovers Hallberg

The new album Bengt Hallberg All Stars 1953/54 from Dragon records (DRCD 402) is already in the discography:
53-17 Bengt Hallberg: Whiskey Sour, Side Car (take 1+2), Limehouse Blues - Pink Lady (1+2+3)
54-01 Red Mitchell: Red Wails In The Sunset (1+2), Doe Eyes #1 - Doe Eyes (1+2)
54-04 Bengt Hallberg: Redhead, Depressionism, Meatballs, Blues In Fourths (1+2+3)

The Hallberg sides have largely been forgotten since they appeared on Esquire an Pacific EPs. Here they are together with several alternative takes, never published before.

May 22, 2007

With Dexter and Sahib in Copenhagen

In 1962, the German producer Klaus Lorenzen made a tv movie for Radio Bremen from Montmartre in Copenhagen featuring Lars, Dexter Gordon, Sahib Shihab and Alex Riel. Klaus just mailed me, recalling the name of the piano player: Harold Goldberg. The bass player cannot be identified from this picture is Benny Nielsen. (Thanks Michael!) And could someone please locate that movie!
You'll find more pictures here: http://www.swinging-flensburg.de/music-memories2.html
Broadcast date: ARD-Fernsehen, May 23, 1963.

May 16, 2007

No more errors?

It's been quiet in the mail for some time. Does that mean all errors are identified ald all omissions reported?
Well, I found this: On Prestige EP 1341, session 53-11 is featured as "Lars Gullin and the Kenton All Stars".