Ted O'Reilly

...as DiNovi says, maybe Levey, maybe Tiny Kahn, maybe Ellis Tollin. Pretty good choices.

That 1944 Henry Jerome band was Gene DiNovi's first real gig, he reports in his interesting autobiography. It can be read FOR FREE at https://www.wattpad.com/259593883-i-can-hear-the-music-the-life-of-gene-dinovi and if you want to get right to the Jerome part, go to Chapter 8.

An Amazon review of this package says "Very poor reproduction. Sound distorted off key- waste of money- don't buy." What do you say?

...and the late guitarist Nelson Symonds is one of those tragically under-recognized players. Had to quit playing after a serious heart condition. ADD: Peter Friedman, I remain amazed at the breadth of your knowledge, and collection... The sound is barely adequate, but the playing is fine!

Hey! Don't be putting down Belle Barth! or Redd Foxx, or...

Nor have I heard anything about Resonance. I know that Bill Evans was not happy when unapproved takes were later included in re-issues. I know of a Toronto musician who would stay after a session to erase unwanted material.

Yes, but maybe the artist (passed on or still with us) might think that the " presentation will be palatable and/or inspiring" would be best served by catalogue items approved, issued and royalties-paid-on. Very, very, very few "performance/live" recordings are up to the standards serious artists would approve, especially if the source is a on-off local radio taping. I know, I've done hundreds of them, and the artists have agreed to a ONE TIME broadcast to promote the week-long gig, and nothing else. (Yet, with their approval, lots of my tapings have been issued.)

Especially if the ants are listening through earbuds.

If the (apparently) non-stop Victory Parade for the NBA champion Toronto Raptors ever ends, I'll make my way to the Rex Hotel for John McLeod's "Rex Hotel Jazz Orchestra" performance. The club is about two blocks from the epicentre of the celebration, estimated to bring about two million fans to the city hall square...

I wonder if the objective was to reduce the inherent problems with inner groove cutting and distortion on LPs. They're not really the Holy Grail of sound, y'know. Only live sound is, and even there I wonder if you're hearing what I'm hearing.

I know nothing of either station's sound, nor the source of what they broadcast, but boy oh boy there's an awful lot of signal processing that's available for radio stations to shout out their programming. That could be as much involved as to whether it's old LPs or 'digital crap'...

Oh, my... Saddened to hear this. I heard Walter many times at Jazzland. A very good, very adaptable drummer, and a lovely man. It seems to me that 63 is much to young to die. (I know Jim Galloway, the Scots/Canadian sax man who played Jazzland for many years knew how pronouce Walter's name, and loved playing with him.)

Pianist Dick Wellstood. I know this from personal experience, but find no documentation.

I was just on the phone with him, and Phil sounds as always: sharp as a tack. He mentioned he had lunch today with a terrific young pianist, David Braid a one-time student. Phil and David do occasional concerts that are completely improvised. One starts playing, the other joins in. Quite amazing! Phil deserves much more attention than he's ever received, in my estimation, as a player, composer, bandleader and teacher. Extraordinary career... Happy Birthday, Phil!

An always-interesting Australian trumpeter Bob Barnard. Two mainstreamish LPs on this one; the first 11 tracks are a quintet, the last 7 by a tidy octet.

Thanks! That was a good band, especially the under-recognized Don Ewell.

..but it delivers what? Long career, lots of options... Big band, sideman, small groups? Always interested in Big T, but don't know this one.

...certainly Ray Brown.

I remember him kicking around Toronto's then folkie-hippy Yorkville area in the early '70s. Always fun! and good respect for the sounds of the early jazz era.

Agreed. And there was a very interesting latter-day Jo Jones album that showed him demonstrating the various styles of his contemporaries and influencers. I once put his examples beside the quoted drummers in the performances he mentioned. Don Vickery, a fine local drummer / teacher used to use that in his college classes...

The AM stations I worked at had stereo cartridges on the turntables, wired to mono output. (This was in the early '60s.) And of course, there were stereo 45s issued, too... The record companies offered good service to radio stations, but I don't recall too many exclusive-to-radio mono things. Not that the US companies didn't -- we just didn't in Canada.

Both, that's true. But oddly enough, it's not a bad record! They're not playing down to anyone, though it's a lounge gig...

All-impish, all the time: then, now and forever!

Once again, I reveal my ignorance. What is "imp-less"? Is that to mean "lacking impish-ness"? No imps to be heard, nor elves or sassies? No mischievous sprites? No 'what fools these mortals be'?

Sometimes you just want to swing... I'm still recovering from Ed's passing, but with material like this he'll always be with us. It's nearly 44 years ago this was taped (and I remember being there one of the nights), yet it's still fresh and squeezeably soft and tasty. It has a delightful version of one of my favourite songs, "It Might As Well Be Spring", which it might actually be in Toronto today...