Goofers corrected

My good neighbor Ulf Schwartz just called, having noticed that I goofed on session 52-15: For Goofers Only I-II was published on Modern Music M7, a 12 inch 78, and You Go to my Head and All the Things You Are on M6, a 10 inch 78.

Setting the Brüel session right

I reported my doubts about the date in my footnote to 53-09. Three jam sessions in the Shell building: The first two with Gullin and Brüel. But on the October 1952 meeting, Rolf Berg played guitar. No guitar is heard on the published excerpt.
That leaves us with a most likely candidate: 26 January 1953 with Leif Asp and Sven Bollhem in the rhythm section.
The third candidate (19 May) is the least credible. Certainly even a small notice in OJ would have mentioned the presence of the two baritone stars!
The editor of the Swedish Jazz Discography on line, Göran Eriksson, called me the other day and strongly advocated that this is the correct information:
Shell Building, Stockholm, 26 January 1953

One solo out of ten sides

Lucio in Pescara asked about Arne Domnérus´ recording of Daydream with singer Bibbi Johnson – does it feature any solo by Lars? I decided to check a number of tunes that haven't been reissued on CD or vinyl (for obvious reasons):
52-05 Sölve Strand with Rolf Ericson – no LG solos.
50-08 Bibbi Johnson w Domnérus – no LG solos. A few bars of obligato can be heard on Daydream.
52-13 Lilian Anderson w Domnérus – 8 bars solo by LG on Long Ago. Nothing on How Deep.
52-20 A-M Blom w Domnérus – nothing.
53-01 Simon Brehm – no LG solos.
Listen to LongAgo.mp3 - LongAgo.wma
Other sides without Gullin solos are a single side with singer Diana Miller, backed by Domnerus' band in the session 52-18 and two sides where the band (as Roffe Ericsson's orkester) backs crooner Bertil Attlemark on Artist B 3076. No jazz interest.

Another Flamingo

I have probably missed a number of reissues of Flamingo – Don't Get Scared (51-08), but here is one more. Both tracks on the 2 CD album: Stan Getz; Autumn Leaves, Castle Pulse PDSCD 630 (Sanctuary records [UK] 2005.) It is, by the way, an unusual compilation with Winding, Kenton, Herman and Goodman, from live performances and broadcasts, plus a number of more common quartet tracks.
Both tracks also on the album From Long Island to Stockholm, issued by (French) Universal International in 2003. I had that title attributed to a Saga (F) album.
Afraid also in the 2 CD box New York - Los Angeles - Stockholm - Boston 1945-1951, Frémeaux FA239.

Help me with this!

I need help – two tracks on Anagram CD6 with Harry Bäcklund and Bill Evans' drummer Marty Morell are not in the discography: Here Comes That Rainy Day and I've Seen with Allan Wajda p and Björn Alke b. They must have been taped in connection with Bill Evans' fourth engagement at the Golden Circle 25 October to 15 November 1969.
Add to that on the same record Stars Fell on Alabama with Bertil Löfgren tp, Bäcklund ts, Lars Sjösten p, Sture Åkerberg b, and Leif Wennerström dr.

The list grows longer ...

56-09: add a-b to the CD WEA 9031-77580-2.
57-04: add c to Sonet 986 5667.

Thanks, Torsten Asmussen!

The forgotten tapes

Only parts of the 1964 concert at the Museum of Modern Art (Moderna museet) were published on Sonet. Now Jan Olsson reports that he has rediscovered the remaining materal, including You Stepped out of a Dream, Ablution, Detour Ahead and Fascinating Rhythm. The first two have been issued on Anagram CD7.
But Detour Ahead is played by Rolf Billberg alone with the rhythm section and strings. Nu Gullin present, so strike b from session 64-02.

Half Nelson

Half Nelson from session 56-13 is among the tunes on East West 4003.

Tenor horn or what?

My publishers and I settled on tenor horn for the Moretone session – even if Leppe Sundewall usually has been listed playing bass trumpet. The Swedish Jazz Discography on line says btp – but on the other hand claims that he played th, tenor horn, in the 1949 James Moody sessions. Photographs show him playing a bass trumpet during those recordings! On one photo from the Moretone session he seems to hold a tenor horn, which resembles a thin, small tuba. The sound, however, is very similar from the two horns.
Lennart "Leppe" Sundewall played the trumpet as well as the two bigger horns, one octave lower than the trumpet, and also appeared as a singer and showman under the name Lou Sandy.

More musicians present

On the two last sessions with The Moretone Singers (54-10 and 54-11) Leppe Sundewall th and Kurt Järnberg tb joined the group. Both musicians worked with Lulle Elboj's band at the time.
Often Sundewall's instrument is called bass trumpet - I'll be back on that subject.
The conductor Ole Mortensen spelled his last name like this, without 'h' as Torsten Asmussen pointed out. More of his corrections will be published.

Alice Babs on a Cupol LP

Maybe the two Alice Babs sides from session 51-09 barely merit inclusion in a jazz discography. Well, Rolf and Arne take eight bars each on Kärlek, säg vad är de´, a translation of The Trouble with Love is Love by her husband Nils Ingvar Sjöblom, so why not? I included them for completeness, and because the live version of Be-bop-Knopp, (A little be-bop bud), had a solo by LG in 51-13. Gerard Hoogeveen reports finding the two tracks on a Swedish LP: Alice Babs – Paper Doll, Cupol CLPM 6012, pressed in Haarlem, The Netherlands, by CBS who owned the label.
(On other tracks, Alice is backed by the "Paris Orchestra", Sten Carlberg's trio with Thore Swanerud and Gunnar Johnson, the Estrad Elitorkester 1947, Putte Wickman, Kenneth Fagerlund and the Hep Cats, a dixie band.)

Both tracks reappeared on a 1973 LP, Cupol CLP 96, in a reissue series called Gamla favoriter (old favorites).

Why did I forget the Sparton?

The LP "Swedish Jazz; Gosta Theselius and All Stars" was published 1956 in the USA by Bally and in Canada (also the UK?) by Sparton – the same record with number 12002. The Canadian Cover has the Sparton name printed along the upper edge on the Bally cover. Sparton printed their own red labels – Bally's were blue.
This session was brought to my attention by Bengt-Arne Wallin, who recalled a session organized by a Belgian producer (Jacques Kluger).
A Swedish issue appeared some twenty years later on Gazell. Lars solos on Cool and Cozy, The Swingin' Thirds and his own Bugs. The second baritone solo on Cool is played by Lennart Jansson.

Lars Gullin: Summertime, Vol 9 1954/56 DRCD 401

Dragon Records has published volume 9 in their Gullin series, including the titles:
Primula Veris, Laburnum Vulgare, Lotus Corniculatus, Galium Verum (54-07), Fedja, Ma, How About You, Perntz (56-09), Summertime, Lover Come Back To Me, Yesterdays, A Foggy Day (56-11), So What, Always (56-12).

Three Moodys and More

Lucio Fumo of the Pescara Jazz Festival in Italy noticed a few errors:
51-05 a Love Walked In
51-06 a Moody's Bounce
51-06 b Two Fathers
-are all on Dragon DRCD 391.
51-26 a Any Time
51-26 b Party for Pres
51-26 c Car Rider
-are issued on Dragon DRCD 381, not 395.
53-17 d Limehouse Blues
53-17 e Pink Lady
-are the titles on MEP 34 and Esquire EP 59.
Thanks Lucio!

Quincy Jones reissue

The four titles Jones Bones, Sometimes I'm Happy, Liza and Pogo Stick from 1953 appear on a new CD from Gambit records (Spain). The band includes Art Farmer, Jimmy Cleveland, Åke Persson, Arne Domnérus, Lars Gullin, Bengt Hallberg, Simon Brehm and Alan Dawson.
In addition, the majority, a number of Harry Arnold big band classics as The Midnight Sun, Doodlin', Meet Benny Bailey and Quincy's Home Again.
Ouincy Jones + Harry Arnold + Big Band = Jazz!

Photo credits

An email that disappeared in the final book production contained captions and credits. Here are the missing details:
Nils Edström photographed at the Golden Circle, Jan Fridlund in Teatro Lirico in Milano and Bengt H. Malmqvist in Paris for the Estrad cover.
Thanks to Jan, who rediscovered his Milan negatives, taken 47 years ago, and let me scan them, thanks to Nils who shared his huge archive of jazz photographs.

Japanese Metronome issues

I had to leave a hole in the discography in order to have it ready for printing. The omission is the details on several Japanese reissues of Metronome LPs. Just recently did I find some details on the web: http://park8.wakwak.com/~morizane/DISK_BARI/BARI/baritone_etc_2.html.
Still the record numbers are absent.
Americans In Sweden / Gets (!), Konitz & Zoot contains Don't Be Afraid, Flamingo, Dedicated To Lee, Late Date and Yellow Duck.
Swingin' In Sweden / J. Raney & G. Wallington contains Red Wails in the Sunset, Doe Eyes, Blue Bird, Round 'Bout Midnight, The Song Is You and Jackie.
Stockholm Sweetnin' / Clifford Brown - Art Farmer contains Stockholm Sweetnin', 'Cuse These Bloos 2 takes), Falling In Love With You, Lover Come Back To Me (2 takes), Pogo Stick, Liza, Jones' Bones and Sometimes I'm Happy. TEICHIKU ULS-6074-B
Lars Gullin Quartet has Circus, I Fall In Love To Easily, Igloo, Danny's Dream, Be Careful, Lars Meets Jeff, Manchester Fog, A La Carte and Soho.
Lars Gullin Plays Standard includes Summertime, Lover Come Back To Me, A Foggy Day, Yesterdays, All Of Me, Like Someone In Love, Jeepers Creepers, You Go To My Head.

Agda really exists

When I found the title "Smart Agda" in the database of The Swedish National Archive of Recorded Sound and Moving Images (SLBA, Ljud- och bildarkivet) , I thought is was a typo - and chief discographer Björn Englund promised to correct it. But Gullin's tune Smart Alec was in fact published as Smart Agda along with Smooth Breeze on Esquire 10-338.