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  1. Thrasher Sisters with Gerald Wilson

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    I have always had a soft spot for the 4 tracks by Gerald Wilson's Big Band from 1945 with the Thrasher Sisters. These Exclusive-recordings have been re-issued on Classics some ten years ago. I still wonder who the Thrasher Sisters actually were: Besides a few snippets in Billboard-Magazine, I have never found any info at all.

    Where were they from ? Really only 3 ? Any other recordings they made ?

    Can anyone help ?

  2. Ray Vazquez and his Be-Boppers

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    Thanks, Niko ! Great source I wasn't aware of at all. Things get clearer - and, in addition, it confirms and adds to the liner-notes on the Onyx-LP about the kind of crook that Maury Rappoport must have been - albeit a crook also running that fascinating fly-by-night Rex-Hollywood label besides his other shadier jobs ...

  4. Ray Vazquez and his Be-Boppers

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    I have a copy of Rex Hollywood 25099.

    His name is spelled Vasquez and the song titles are Snake Den / Clutching Hand.

    Haven't listened in years but seem to recall Anthony Ortega as the saxophonist.

    Thanks, Chuck, for the quick reply ! If you ever play it again, I wonder how BIG the band approximately is. Could there be any link to Roy Porter's session for Rex since both Dolphy and Ortega had the same teachers ? If it's Ortega this would be (possibly) his first records ! Makes it even more fascinating !

  5. Ray Vazquez and his Be-Boppers

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    While gathering some information on the fascinating sessions issued on Maury Rappoport's Rex-Hollywood label (not Roger Kay's New York "Rex" label), I stumbled over a really puzzling entry in Jan Evensmo "History of the Tenor Sax, 1945-49":

    4 tracks by Ray Vazquez and his Be-Boppers on Rex 25099 (Snake Ron / Clutching Hand) and Rex 26000 (Jinnies Packard / Home Run) - allegedly with Lucky Thompson (or, unlikely, Walter Benton) on ts.

    Has anyone ever heard these ?

    Were they ever re-issued on LP / CD ?

    Any info sheding light on this enigmatic date is very welcome !

  8. Arnold Ross

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    but I'm listening to his 1945 version of I Cover the Waterfront and I'm saying, this guy is a GREAT pianist -

    ... you're not living in the past - but you're listening to some truly fine pianists that deserve to be better known !

    There are lots of GREAT Arnold Ross solos - just try his session with Benny Carter for Keynote to mention ONE of my favorites !

  10. Clarence Profit: Early Bebopper and Great Pianist

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    is there no LOVE for Clarence?

    My Dad loved Nat Cole, Tatum, etc. and always told me about Clarence and how ahead of his time he was. I think I may have something on a comp but that's it. How much is available?

    Besides the Merritt-LP (produced by Jerry Valburn) and the CD on Memoir (which I had never seen) Profit recorded with Teddy Bunn and several Washboard Bands in the early 30's; see discographies - and these tracks are on various CDs.

    In addition, Profit composed "Lullaby in Rhythm" with his buddy Edgar Sampson in 1938.

  11. Clarence Profit: Early Bebopper and Great Pianist

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    sounds intriguing, but where can I actually listen to his playing?

    (and what about Clyde Hart?)

    As much as I like Profit - I would not label him "early bebopper". Clyde Hart sure was ! Profit's playing (based on the few records he made) reminds a bit of the solos Jimmy Jones made for Wax - albeit almost a decade later !

  16. Chronological Classics

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    The latest batch is out now:

    1460 Lucky Millinder 1951-1960

    1461 Stan Kenton 1952-1953

    1462 Red Nichols 1930-1931

    1463 Wardell Gray 1950-1955

    1464 Eddie Condon 1954-1955

    ....

    Because of the reasons mentioned in my last post, it is still pending whether this was the latest or last batch !

  17. Can anyone help ?

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    asked my chinese colleague what he can read (so maybe let's forget for a moment that he keeps his dirty laundry under my table at work) he says the song is called "I want you come" ( :) ) the artist is Yi Min (where Yi is the family name) and the company is called Shanghai Beidai Cassette Company

    (where i wouldn't take the word cassette too literally as he called the record a cassette...)

    Niko,

    Thanks for your kind reply ! The song title (as translated by your colleague) makes me wonder whether the singer in question was some sort of Eastern Mae West <_<

    Well, the hint to the page from the Philippines may be helpful - but yet another language to learn...

  18. Can anyone help ?

    in Discography

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    I found this:

    Pathé

    Beginning in 1908, Pathé began a massive schedule of recording in China through its office set up in Shanghai in 1907. Pathé's recordings covered almost all early Chinese famous Beijing and Cantonese Opera performances. The artists who made the recordings for Pathé served in Beijing and Cantonese operas' famous theatrical troupes by the end of the Qing Dynasty. Some of them served as teachers and performers in the Beijing Opera for the Imperial Palace during the Qing Dynasty. The records were 9.5", 11.5" and 14" in diameter, double-sided, vertical-cut with an etched-label (fig. t). Pathé's etched-label has become very popular to many Chinese collectors.

    Antique Phonograph News

    Thanks for the tip !

    Brian Rust's very useful "American Record Label Book" (1978) mentions Pathé and it's American & British companies controlled thorugh subsidiaries in detail on pp. 236-243 - but again no further clue as to a Chinese branch (which it was as the record seems to have been pressed in China).

  19. Can anyone help ?

    in Discography

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    I just tried to google pathe and 35833, the catalogue number. Unfortunately, UK google treats pathe as path, and you get loads of computer addresses. If you're in Sitzerland, maybe your local google isn't so stupid.

    MG

    Thanks for the hint: Have tried it before - same here :(

  21. Can anyone help ?

    in Discography

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    A few days ago, I picked this 78 up at a rummage sale for free.

    It's no jazz - but a fairly pleasant female cabaret singer accompanied by a small combo.

    Matrix in wax is B-1211-1 and B-1251-1; embossed "Made in China".

    Can anyone tell me what the labels say so I may search the internet ?

    Thank you all !

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  23. Carmen McRae

    in Discography

    Posted

    Ted,

    Thank you very much for asking Ted Ono: This makes sense as Bethlehem (nor any other record-company) recorded in "real" Stereo in 1954. If the trumpet parts were indeed dubbed in at a later date, this was done in a very clever manner. And yes: The question remains unanswered...

  24. Carmen McRae

    in Discography

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    Ted,

    Thanks for your response.

    I ask here because Lord/Bruyninckx are definitely not precise here: There IS a trumpet on the alt.-takes.

    Incidentally, I'd say the "unknwon" vbs is Joe Roland (who also played clarinet) - but did he play trumpet ? I doubt it's him on the alt.-takes mentioned.

  25. Chronological Classics

    in Re-issues

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    Hi Swinging Swede,

    I can't add much to what you wrote. You put it all in a nutshell. Basically, it's very simple: How can you make ends meet when new issues of Classics (or any other CDs for that matter) pop up days (not weeks) after their release on notorious internet-sites where they can be downloaded for free ? With fully scanned booklets, of course...

    And yes, to the best of my knowledge, not even Gilles Pétard knows exactly how to carry on. As I wrote here several times before, I'll let this forum know when there are NEWS not RUMOURS.

    Keep swinging !

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