HELLO DOLLY COMING IN JULY

Ella's Hello Dolly album is coming in july, though it doesn't appear on Verve's schedule for that month!

Miky

Jimmy Smith died

This morning I was notified that organ player/legend Jimmy Smith has died, at the age of 78 if I'm right.
Only 2 or 3 years ago he recorded 'Dot com blues' for Verve, of which I know some tunes.
Of course he's not a jazz vocalist, but anyway, he was a jazz great.

ELLA FITZGERALD SINGS THE JEROME KERN SONGBOOK

Finally reissued on Verve Master Edition Series the last Songbook missing. A MASTERPIECE!!!!!!!!

VERVE REISSUE SCHEDULE

The Verve Music Group Release Schedule
Updated 1/26/2005

2/1/05
Chiara Civello - Last Quarter Moon - New Release - Verve Records
Brazilian Girls - Brazilian Girls - New Release - Verve Forecast

2/8/05
Various Artists - Get Happy: The Arlene Centennial Celebration - Reissue - Verve Records

2/15/05
Ella Fitzgerald - Sings the Jerome Kern Songbook (VME) - Reissue - Verve Records
Wes Montgomery - Smokin at the Half Note (VME) - Reissue - Verve Records

3/1/05
Kurt Rosenwinkel - Deep Song - New Release - Verve Records

3/15/05
Art Ensemble of Chicago - Certain Blacks - Reissue - Verve Int'l
Art Ensemble of Chicago - Phase One - Reissue - Verve Int'l
Art Ensemble of Chicago - With Fontella Bass - Reissue - Verve Int'l
Paul Bley - Improvisie - Reissue - Verve Int'l
Anthony Braxton - Donna Lee - Reissue - Verve Int'l
Anthony Braxton - Saxaphone Improvisation - Reissue - Verve Int'l
Dave Burell - After Love - Reissue - Verve Int'l
Emergency - Homepage to Peace - Reissue - Verve Int'l
Steve Lacy - The Gap - Reissue - Verve Int'l
Steve Lacy and Mal Waldron - Mal Waldron With The Steve Lacy Quintet - Reissue - Verve Int'l
Roswell Rudd - Roswell Rudd - Reissue - Verve Int'l
Archie Shepp - Black Gypsy - Reissue - Verve Int'l
Alan Shorter - Tes Esat - Reissue - Verve Int'l
Clifford Thornton - The Painter and The Lash - Reissue - Verve Int'l
Frank Wright - Uhuru Na Umga - Reissue - Verve Int'l

3/22/05
Dizzy Gillespie - Dizzy: The Music of John Birks Gillespie - Reissue - Verve Records
Jamie Cullum - Coast to Coast - New Release - Verve Records

4/5/05
Various Artists - Jazz in Paris-Champs Elysess - Box Set - Verve Int'l
Various Artists - Jazz in Paris-Montmartre - Box Set - Verve Int'l
Various Artists - Jazz in Paris-Rive Gauche, Rive Droite - Box Set - Verve Int'l
Various Artists - Jazz in Paris-Saint Germain Des-Pres - Box Set - Verve Int'l
Various Artists - Verve Remixed 3 - New Release - Verve Records
Various Artists - Verve Unmixed 3 - Catalog/Reissue- Verve Records

4/12/05
Jackie Greene - TBD - New Release - Verve Records
Al Cohn - Al Cohn Quintet Featuring Bob Brookmeyer - Reissue - GRP Records
Harry 'Sweets' Edison - 'Sweets' (LPR) - Reissue - Verve Records
Dizzy Gillespie - Sittin' In (LPR) - Reissue - Verve Records
Joe Newman - Joe Newman Quintet At Count Basie's (LPR) - Reissue - Verve Records
Various Artists - Vote Verve - Reissue - Verve Records

4/26/05
Xavier Cugat - Cugi's Cocktails (LPR) - Reissue - Verve Records
Gene Krupa - Plays Gerrry Mulligan Arrangements (LPR) - Reissue - Verve Records
Buddy Rich - Blues Caravan (LPR) - Reissue - Verve Records
Max Roach - Jazz in 3/4 Time (LPR) - Reissue - Verve Records
Papillon - Dance of the Infidel - New Release - Verve Records

5/10/05
George Howard - The Very Best of George Howard - Reissue - GRP Records
John Klemmer - The Very Best of John Klemmer - Reissue - GRP Records
Various Artists - Con Mucho Ritmo! The Very Best of Tropi Jazz - Reissue - Tropi Jazz

5/17/05
Count Basie - The Complete Clef, Mercury, and Verve Studio Recordings (1952-1957) - Box Set - Verve Records

5/24/05
Ella Fitzgerald - Jukebox Ella: The Complete Verve Single Vol - Reissue - Verve Records
Various Artists - Burlesque Compliation - Reissue - Verve Records
Shirley Horn - Live at Le Jazz au Bar - New Release - Verve Records

6/2/05
Acoustic Alchemy - Best Kept Secret (DVD) - Reissue - Verve Records
Sammy Davis Jr. and Carmen McRae - Boy Meets Girl: The Complete Sammy Davis Jr. and Carmeb McRae on Decca - Reissue - Verve Records

6/7/05
Michael Brecker - The Very Best Of Michael Brecker - Reissue - Verve Records
Bill Evans - Montreux Jazz Festival (SACD) - Reissue - Verve Records
Ella Fitzgerald - Mack the Knife - Ella in Berlin (SACD) - Reissue - Verve Records
Antonio Carlos Jobim - The Composer of Desafinado Plays (SACD) - Reissue - Verve Records
Wes Montgomery - California Dreaming (SACD) - Reissue - Verve Records
Oscar Peterson - We Get Request (SACD) - Reissue - Verve Records
John Scofield - That's What I Say - New Release - Verve Records
Various Artists - Deff Jazz - New Release - Verve Records

6/14/05
Wayne Shorter - Breaking the Sound Barrier - New Release - Verve Records

6/21/05
Lizz Wright - TBD - New Release - Verve Records

6/28/05
Brian Culbertson - TBD - New Release - GRP Records

7/12/05
Albert Ayler - New Grass (LPR) - Reissue - Impulse Records
Yuseff Lateef - Psychicemotus (LPR) - Reissue - Impulse Records
Freda Payne - After the Lights Go Down (LPR) - Reissue - Impluse Records
Gabor Szabo - Spellfinder (LPR) - Reissue - Impulse Records
Various Artists - We Get a Kick Out of Jazz - New Release - Verve Records
Bernie Williams - TBD - New Releases - Verve Records

7/19/05
Paul Brown - TBD - New Release - GRP Records

7/26/05
Gato Barbieri - Chapter 4 Alive in New York (LPR) - Reissue - Impulse Records
Oliver Nelson - Live From Los Angeles - Reissue - Impulse Records
Pharoah Sanders - Elevation - Reissue - Impulse Records
Michael White - The Land of Spirit and Light (LPR) - Reissue - Impulse Records

8/2/05
Herbie Hancock - TBD - New Release - Verve Records

8/9/05
Larry Carlton - The Very Best of Larry Carlton - Reissue - GRP Records
Lee Ritenour - World of Brazil - Reissue - Verve Records
Will Downing - TBD - New Release - GRP Records

8/30/05
Charlie Haden - Liberation Music Orchestra TBD - New Release - Verve Int'l

9/13/05
Billie Holiday - The Complete Verve Studio Master Takes - Box Set - Verve Records

9/15/05
Thievery Corporation - Sounds From The Vevre Hi-Fi 2 - New Release - Verve Records
Thievery Corporation - Sounds From The Verve Hi-Fi 2 (Vinyl) - New Release - Verve Records

9/20/05
John Coltrane - Live at the Half Note - Reissue - Impluse Records
Roy Hargrove - TBD - New Release - Verve Records
Susan Tedeschi - TBD - New Release - Verve Forecast

9/27/05
Jimmy Witherspoon/Brother Jack McDuff - The Blues Is Now (LPR) - Reissue - Verve Records

TBS
Various Artists - Billy Crystal Presents The Milt Gabler Story - Reissue - Verve Records
Teddy Thompson - TBD - NewRelease - Verve Forecast
1/4/2005

Verve release

On http://www.vervemusicgroup.com/buzz.aspx?bid=37, a complete release schedule is published, including Jukebox Ella vol. 2 and a Verve Master Edition of ELla's Jerome Kern Songbook.