78rpm: Spellbound (Hitchcock) - Eddie Safranski's Quartette, 1946 - Savoy 601

[erikkihss]

Found the link. This guy has some great and rare photos.

BTW, the "Spellbound" cut is from an album called "Loaded" on Savoy. It also features a group with Stan Getz, Shorty Rogers and Kai Winding. Sanford did a solo album on Prestige called "Piano D'or" It's out of print tho. I still miss him. Lessons with him were like living history with lots of musicians hanging out all the time.

[erikkihss]

My old piano teacher. What a character Sanford was. I loved him. Thanks so much for posting this. Where did you find the picture?

[SwingMan1937]

@erikkihss Just found the pic on Google - think it was in an "official" Flickr account.

Always dig hearing stories like yours. Before doing a bit of research for this record, I thought Sanford Gold might've been a pseudonym for Stan Kenton.

[babzrella57]

@SwingMan1937 thank you so much for sharing. I love this song!!!! Have to have it.

[harrykasior]

always perfect

thanks

with all my sympathy

[BcuzJazz]

Hey you weren't kidding me when you messaged me that this one's very Kenton-esque; and I *LOVE* early Kenton (Finally got the Complete Kenton on Caitol and Decca CD boxsets just 3 months or so back, been wanting that since I was in high school :-)

Great Disc, thanks for sharing!

[SwingMan1937]

@BcuzJazz You bet, guy. :)

Yeah, before some help with research a few months back, I could've sworn that was Kenton himself at the piano under a different name! I mean, Safranski & Musso were in Kenton's outfit at the time, so I thought they were able to talk their boss into a small side session.

But, research (not to mention a HELL of a lot of searching for the picture!) turned up the info that Sanford Gold is an actual person - session pianist out of Cleveland.

[XicoFlavio]

Very good clip. It's a pity no information about the musicians.

xF

[SwingMan1937]

@XicoFlavio They're listed in the video description. ;)

[BrewskLitovsk]

Wow! Thanks for this rare gem. -- Didn't know that this recording existed. Outstanding! The pianist sounds a lot like Art Tatum, doesn't he?

By the way, funny coincidence here: I listened to the recreated soundtrack recording, conducted by Ray Heindorf, just today.

As you can imagine: It was a very suspenseful breakfast. -- Alas, Ingrid Bergman wasn't available.

The composer should be mentioned too. It was the one and only Miklós Rózsa.

[patoman881]

Beautiful for Friday morning! I love my Savoy records:-)

[sideshowtink]

Now that is one beautiful record!! Loving it!