From: smehta@kwela.nynexst.com (Sandeep Mehta)
Subject: Re: Looking for Otis Span (sp?) CD set
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Reply-To: smehta@nynexst.com
Organization: Speech Technology, AI Lab, NYNEX S&T Inc, White Plains, NY
Date: 6 Jan 93 18:41:11


In article <1993Jan6.221513.21784@bnr.ca> baril@bnr.ca (David Baril) writes:

> Apparently it was from a 3 CD boxed set and available only by mail
> order from a company whose name has slipped my mind.  The announcer
> suggested that further info could be found in any of a number of
> 'standard' jazz magazines, none of which I recognized or recall,
> which isn't surprising since I know less than nothing about jazz
> (but I know what I like? ;-})

The company is Mosaic:

Mosaic Records
35 Melrose Place
Stamford, CT
(203) 327-7111

The boxed set is all the material that Otis Spann and Lightnin'
Hopkins did for Candid (Nat Hentoff's label). Spann's material is
only on the first 2 discs. The contents are listed below.

/sandeep



Spann, Otis                                                 Mosaic MD3-139 (CD)
Title: The Complete Candid Otis Spann/Lightin' Hopkins Sessions
Recorded: 8/23/1960, 11/15/1960 at Fine Recording Studios, NYC; Nola
          Penthouse Sound Studios, NYC
Released: 1992
With: Otis Spann (leader), piano, vocal (on 1-34)
      Robert Lockwood Jr., guitar, vocals, bg vocals (on 1-34)
      St. Louis Jimmy Oden, vocals, bg vocals (on 1-34)
      Lightnin' Hopkins (leader), guitar, vocals, piano (on 35-49)
Contents:  1) Beat-Up Team                                             ( 06:36)
           2) Great Northern Stomp                                     ( 04:13)
           3) Cow Cow Blues                                            ( 04:16)
           4) Walkin' The Blues                                        ( 04:56)
           5) Otis In The Dark                                         ( 04:35)
           6) This Is The Blues                                        ( 03:09)
           7) Worried Life Blues                                       ( 04:19)
           8) Country Boy                                              ( 04:24)
           9) Beat-Up Team                                             ( 05:59)
          10) The Hard Way                                             ( 05:03)
          11) My Home Is On The Delta                                  ( 03:11)
          12) It Must Have Been The Devil                              ( 03:43)
          13) Take A Little Walk With Me                               ( 03:26)
          14) Ramblin' On My Mind                                      ( 04:03)
          15) Little Boy Blue                                          ( 03:40)
          16) My Daily Wish                                            ( 04:26)
          17) Spann And Bob                                            ( 03:19)
          18) Monkey Face Blues                                        ( 04:56)
          19) One Doggone Reason                                       ( 02:40)
          20) Strange Woman Blues                                      ( 03:51)
          21) It Hurts Me Too                                          ( 04:56)
          22) Baby Child (tk 3)                                        ( 04:26)
          23) Baby Child (tk 5)                                        ( 04:04)
          24) Talkin' The Blues (tk 1, improv)                         ( 05:42)
          25) Talkin' The Blues (tk 3, improv)                         ( 05:20)
          26) Can't Stand Your Evil Ways (tk 2)                        ( 03:43)
          27) Otis' Blues                                              ( 04:15)
          28) Half Ain't Been Told                                     ( 04:39)
          29) Can't Stand Your Evil Ways (tk 4)                        ( 03:50)
          30) Goin' Down SLow                                          ( 03:57)
          31) The Girl I Love                                          ( 03:47)
          32) Band Condition                                           ( 04:20)
          33) Come Day, Go Day                                         ( 04:08)
          34) Come Day, Go Day                                         ( 04:10)
          35) Rainy Highway                                            ( 03:10)
          36) When My First Wife Quit Me                               ( 03:24)
          37) Walk On                                                  ( 04:30)
          38) Lightnin' Guitar Boogie                                  ( 04:04)
          39) I've Had My Fun If I Don't Get Well No More              ( 03:55)
          40) Mister                                                   ( 07:30)
          41) Mighty Crazy                                             ( 07:07)
          42) Wonder Why                                               ( 06:15)
          43) Black Cat                                                ( 06:26)
          44) The Trouble Blues                                        ( 04:43)
          45) Your Own Fault, Baby, To Treat Me THe Way You Do         ( 04:47)
          46) Lightnin's Piano Boogie                                  ( 02:30)
          47) Take It Easy                                             ( 06:17)
          48) Come Go Home With Me                                     ( 03:30)
          Total:                                                       (214:10)
Purchased: 1992
Comments: orig prod Nat Hentoff, reissue prod Michael Cuscuna
          D1,D2 (1-34) rec Aug 23, '90
          D3 (35-49) rec Nov 15, '90

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