More tracks on Membran

Another 10 CD box, European Jazz; New Sounds From The Old Continent, contains two of Gullin's tracks: Lotus Corniculatus and Half Nelson. In addition the entire "Sax Appeal" session with Curbits, Play for love, Birdland, Zodiac and Just a take. Plus Blues for Bill and Nils Lindberg's group recordings (sans Lars) from October 1960.
The box also gives us Franco Cerri's Flavio's Blues (with Lars, Flavio Ambrosetti and George Gruntz).
Listen to the Blues and Just one of those things (the latter without Lars) on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQR9VoxtGnU
Apart from that, the box offers a nice mix of wellknown and forgotten singers as Cleo Laine, Alice Babs, Rita Reys (who sings jazz in Dutch), Inge Brandenburg, Lita Roza and Jula de Palma.
Plus groups led by Krysztof Komeda, Bobby Jaspar, Jutta Hipp, Tubby Hayes, Bernard Pfeiffer, Sacha Distel, Basso-Valdambrini and Martial Solal and Dizzy Reece.

Don't Get Scared vocalesed on YouTube

Jon Hendricks wrote the lyrics to Getz' and Gullin's solos on Don't Get Scared and has recorded it a number of times with Annie Ross and King Pleasure. You can hear them on YouTube along with a more recent take with Kurt Elling and Jon Hendricks:

There is also a much differnt, more modern recording of the tune by Errick Johnson .

Flamingo Spotting

The two Getz–Gullin duets from 1951, Flamingo and Don't Get Scared, keep reappearing. The other day I saw a 10 CD box from Membran (232755) titled Stan Getz: Master of the Sax. It also includes the six quartet tunes Getz recorded the day before and eight tunes recorded in Stockholm in December 1955. All with Bengt Hallberg. Plus Getz' sessions with Silver, Brookmeyer, Hampton, JJ Johnson, Gillespie, Oscar P and Mulligan.

Sax Appeal reissued

Berlin-based Sonorama Records has reissued the rare 1960 Sax Appeal; The Swedish Modern Jazz Group both in vinyl and CD formats. Nils Lindberg's session (with Gullin, Billberg, Bäcklund and Lundström on saxes) was issued in small quantities on Swedish Barben and Telestar labels and in Britain on the Tempo label – plus a Swedish issue on phono tape by Europafilm that is exceptionelly rare.
The CD contains four bonus tracks from another Lindberg session, alas without Gullin. You can order them from Sonorama (link above) when they get their e-shop opened. The CD is €14, the LP €16. You can also shop on ebay.de. The prices at cdon.se are 199 and 179 SEK.
A simpler and cheaper way is to buy the Dragon CD Nils Linberg: Sax Appeal and Trisection (DRCD220) for 99 SEK at Ginza.

Universal fills the gaps

The classic album Fine Together – The Artistry of Lars Gullin from 1958 was reissued on a CD by Universal in 2004 along with tracks from additional sessions, recorded by Sonet and Philips. Now, Universal has published a double CD album – Lars Gullin; Good Day to You –with the same content as the previous plus some unissued alternative takes plus the entire album Lars Gullin With Strings from 1980 ( the live session from 1964).
Great recordings from 1957–58, the years before the 1959 Italian exile plus the legendary homecoming concert at the Museum of Modern Art 1964. An indispensable compilation, well executed by veteran producer Jan Bruér.

The best of what?

Universal has published a three cd box called Jazz – The Best 1950–2011 (Jazz – Det Bästa 1950-2011) with tunes by Melody Gardot, Dinah Washington, Norah Jones, Esbjörn Svensson Trio, Madeleine Peyroux, John Coltrane, Diana Krall, Miles Davis, Jan Johansson, Alice Babs, Billie Holiday... Most artists appear once but there are three tunes by Lars Gullin: Fine together, Happy again and Night in Tunisia and he appeares also on Stan Getz' Speak Low.
Don't ask me how they reasoned at Universal, igonore it or buy it.

Metronome 60 years

Metronome Records celebrated it's first 50 years with a double cd album with jazz sessions. Ten years later a four cd album appared: "Metronome Records 60 år". The one cd dedicated to jazz contained many of the classics from the prevoius one: The Midnight Sun, Rolf Ericson's Flight to Jordan, Moody's Mood for Love and Stan Getz' Dear Old Stockholm.
This time the pieces featuring Lars Gullin were: Danny's Dream and Ma, Whisky Sour (Hallberg) and Stockholm Sweetnin' (Clifford Brown/Art Farmer.
Gerard Hoogeveen helped me fill this gap in the discography.
Warner 505186569642 published 2009.

Stan Getz Stockholm Sessions encore

Not Now Records(E) NOT2CD393 "The Cool Sound Of Stan Getz", containing tracks of 2 LP's : The Steamer (with Quintet) and Imported From Europe (ex Verve MGV-8331) with band incl. LG (session 58-06 a-c, 58-07 c, f and 58-08 a, c, 7 master takes in total).
Found by Gerard Hoogeveen.

Sax Appeal reissued

CD & Vinyl: CD-Digipack 6-Page (+4 Bonus Tracks)/
Limited Vinyl-LP/ MP3
THE SWEDISH MODERN JAZZ GROUP - “SAX APPEAL”
SWEDISH FOUR BROTHERS-SOUND 1960
(Sonorama C-58/ L-58)

American jazz with a beautiful Swedish accent: Legendary and highly sought after album for four saxes and rhythm section recorded 1960 in Stockholm. High class ensemble led by composer, arranger and pianist Nils Lindberg, feat. Lars Gullin and Sture Nordin, playing own pieces unmistakably rooted in the characters of Swedish folk music, as clearly heard in “Curbits”, “Brand New” or “Zodiac”. Recorded from the master tapes, original cover art, comes as 1:1 vinyl reissue LP, while CD includes four bonus tracks from the lost vinyl EP “Jazz in TV Time” by “Nils Lindberg TV-Orkest” from the same year:

Nils Lindberg och TV:s Jazzorkester: Maffy Falay tp, Åke Persson tb, Allan Lundström ts, Torsten Wennberg bars, Nils
Lindberg p, Sture Nordin b, Conny Svensson dr. Oct 31, 1960
COTTON TAIL, TABOO, BLUES FOR BILL, MOONLIGHT IN VERMONT (Col SEGS74)

Wax offers booth Sonya tracks

Sonya Hedenbratt recorded two tracks 1951 with Gunnar Svensson's septet – in fact the regular Ericson–Domnérus band. Perdido is already available on DRCD 381 and Dedicated to You on Invision's Godbitar med Sonya. The new cd from Wax records, Sonya Hedenbratt, CD 1031, contains booth tracks.

Dragon hits eleven

Volume 11 is here – Lars Gullin; After Eight p.m. 1954/56 Dragon DRCD 410 – with seven unissued takes. The complete contents are:
After Eight P.M .- Mean To Me (take 2) - Medley: (Just Friends -Someone To Watch Over Me - Lover Man) - Half Nelson - Primula Veris (take 1) - Laburnum Vulgare (take 1) - Lotus Corniculatus (take 1) - Galium Verum (take2) - Perntz (take 1) - Perntz (take 2) - Jeepers Creepers (take 1) - Mean To Me (take 1) - Lover Come Back To Me (take 1) .

Another Esquire LP

This LP is not included in my discography: British Esquire 320: Zoot Sims, Al Cohn, James Moody; Tenor Contrasts. It contains Yellow Duck (session 50-01) with Zoot Sims and the James Moody tracks (51-03) The man I love, Again, Embraceable you and How deep is the ocean. It was reissued in 1986 in the Treasure Chest series. Thanks Ben!
Esquire Records was founded in 1947 by Carlo Krahmer. He recorded the new, modern British jazz and exchanged recordings with Dial and Prestige. Thus, Swedish musicians as Gullin, Domnérus and Hallberg were introduced in England with their own recordings as well as in sessions with guest like Stan Getz (Esquire 309), Clifford Brown (Esquire 322) and George Wallington (323). Read more about his company on this site that, alas, only lists the records made by Brits.

Naxos doubles

Budget label Naxos issued last year an Arne Domnérus CD with 20 recordings in chronological order from December 1950 to October 1951. All tunes where Gullin is preset are already available on Dragon DRCD 381. But a handful of Domnérus quartet tracks with (as usual) excellent piano by Gunnar Svensson may merit a purchase.

Italian reissue on vinyl

The 1959 Gil Cuppini session that produced Topsy and I'll Remember April originated on an Astraphon EP and a Broadway LP, later reissued on the Hollywood label. Now it has reappeared as Dejavu djv 2000037, still on vinyl.

The overlooked compilation

Few may have noticed – I didn't – the existence of a sampler with gems from the magnificent ten volumes Swedish Jazz 1928–1969. But it was published in 2006 as a single CD, simply called Compilation. It offers a nice selection, including the Paramount Orchestra from 1928, the Swedish Hot Quintette with Emil Iwring on violin and Stan Hasselgard in his classic masterpiece All the things you are.
And four tracks featuring Lars Gullin: Barit with the Domnérus band (50-08), Bengt Halbergs group with Side Car (53-17), Gullin's own Fedja (56-09) and Nils Lindberg's Brand New (60-03).
Look for Caprice CAP 21777.

Italian addition – Franco Cerri

The three tunes from session 59-15, that is Lars with a rhythm section with George Gruntz, piano, and the leader Franco Cerri on guitar, is also published on an Italian reissue of the original Columbia: Jazz Classics(I) 33 FC 101 Franco Cerri and his European Jazz Stars. It's an LP (said to be Made in Italy), distributed by Japanese DIW, according to Gerard Hoogeveen. The record is a 200 g vinyl in a limited quantity of 500 copies. You can find it on Ebay for $70.

Annie Ross – but beware

The compilation "The Women I Love/Angel Eyes/1942-1954", published by Dreyfus Records, contains The Song is You from Annie Ross' 1953 Stockholm session with a Gigi Gryce small band (53-12).
Beware of certain sellers on Ebay that seem to include Lars Gullin (and other names you search for) in records where he does not appear. Thus, you'll find him in connection with Annie Ross in a Gershwin compilation. But Annie Ross recorded I was Doing All Right with Zoot, not Lars.
The same thing happens with a number of Chet Baker cd:s. It is a method to circumvent Ebay's policies!

Annie Ross in anthologies

There's an album from 1992 that includes Annie Ross' Stockholm 1953 recording of I was doing all right: The Great Jazz Vocalists Sing The Gershwin Songbook. Originally published by Blue Note Records both on cd and audio cassette. It also appears on the web as published by EMI/Capitol.
The same song is also included in the collection The Women I Love/Angel Eyes/1942-1954, published by Dreyfus Records.

Imported exported

The Stan Getz LP, Imported from Europe, is the latest to reappear as a Japanese "mini-lp" CD. Verve (J) POCJ-2719 should be equal in contents to the original LP MGV 8331. Sessions 58-06 to 08.

Monica Z a la japonaise

Three tunes from the 1960 session: Monica Zetterlund med Lars Bagge Orkester are featured on a Japanese CD, DIW-325. Session 60-05: Detour Ahead, Get out of Town, Don't Dream of Anybody But Me (Li'l Darlin').