Zoot Sims/Al Cohn on Fred Miles Presents...Anyone know who's on my lp?

[Lew Green]

I'm into jazz and analogue and thus became a heavy vinyl collector... I recently got a rare
record on the Fred Miles label -- FM-1 "Either Way" Al Cohn/Zoot Sims... the record is quite good
and as this was a tiny one man start up label -- evidently some of thhe players had to use p
pseudonyms... "Old Grand Happy" is on piano -- Anyone know who it i is?

Also, I'm not that big on vocal but there's a male vocalist on three tracks and he's great...
the album lists him as Cecil "Kid Haffey" Collier... Anyone heard of him? Can you tell me
more about him? Thanks,,, Lew Green

[William Damm]

That's Mose Allison on piano. Collier was the oldest member of the above
group, born in 1908. Worked the black theaters from the 20's and was
based in Philly thru the forties and fifties. Sang with Basie & Hampton
on
a few gigs in the fifties.

-
WILLIAM DAMM RVH...@prodigy.com

[Jan R.Klincewicz]

In article <3uabvb$o...@nnrp1.primenet.com>, l...@primenet.com
says...

>
>I'm into jazz and analogue and thus became a heavy vinyl
collector... I recently got a rare
>record on the Fred Miles label -- FM-1 "Either Way" Al
Cohn/Zoot Sims... the record is quite good
>and as this was a tiny one man start up label -- evidently some
of thhe players had to use p
>pseudonyms... "Old Grand Happy" is on piano -- Anyone know who
it i is?
>
>Also, I'm not that big on vocal but there's a male vocalist on
three tracks and he's great...
>the album lists him as Cecil "Kid Haffey" Collier... Anyone
heard of him? Can you tell me
>more about him? Thanks,,, Lew Green
>

I'll ask Fred next time I see him. He walks around to every
Jazz club in Philly with a one-sheet legal sized jazz flyer
called "Abundant Sounds" (which was the name of his recording
studio). He told me that his Cohn/Sims album was recently
re-relased on CD as was his "Cliffor Brown - Begining and the
End"

[Shemu-ail Ben-Moshe]

I'm a personal friend of Fred Miles. I used to help him set up gigs for
cats visiting Philly to do a gig. I even spent time in his studio on Mole
St. where he recorded cats like Al and Zoot. The cat on piano called "Old
Grand Happy" was Mose Allison. Ask Fred if you don't believe me, and tell
'em Sid said so. Fred is not in the best of health these days, but he's
still out there pushin his publication all over town. A lot of folks
think that Fred has kept the jazz grapevine alive though they may not dig
his personal politics. Later!

Jan R.Klincewicz (Jan.R.Kl...@Bell-Atl.Com)
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