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  1. No, Steve uses Horace Parlan's "Wadin'" as his opening theme. Horace Parlan?
  2. 1. & 2.: I have four sides from the Paul Mares session (1/26/35) as well as the Charles LaVere sides (3/11/36) on a CD called "Chicago 1935" on the Ganett label. Here's a link: http://www.users.dialstart.net/~jandmrec/q...%20reissues.htm I suspect that the CD is likely out of print. I'm not at home, so I can't confirm it at the moment, but it looks like the NORK 2-cd set on Retrieval may have 2 takes of Nagasaki and 2 takes of Maple Leaf Rag from the Paul Mares session. I'll check tonight when I get home. 4. I've heard at least one of two tracks with Will Bill Davision on 78. I don't remember them ever having been reissued.
  3. Archeophone is a label that focuses on early (generally "pre-jazz") recordings. I have the Six Brown Brothers and King Oliver releases. They have excellent transfers and impressive booklets. I've been tempted by some of their other releases, including the "Lost Sounds" set that apparently dovetails with the book (Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1891-1922).
  4. Hmm. My initial attempt to reply to this appears to have gone into limbo, so I'll try again. As Stereojack has already pointed out, the vocalist is not Chick Bullock. He sounds nothing like Bullock. The only real saving grace on this side is the Joe Venuti solo. For what it's worth, Eddie Condon's wit nothwithstanding, Chick Bullock was a far better vocalist than most of his contemporaries.
  5. Here's another: Stephane Grappelli - My Other Love [solo piano session]
  6. A few more off the top of my head. The album titles say it all for the first five: Bud Shank. Plays Tenor. Phil Woods. The Clarinet Album. Zoot Sims. Soprano Sax. Bill Evans & Bob Brookmeyer. The Ivory Hunters [brookmeyer on piano throughout] Oscar Pettiford. My Little Cello. Here's another: Miles Davis. Collector's Items [bird on tenor throughout]
  7. A listing of releases on the choice label can be found here: http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Labels/choice.htm
  8. Harold Z: I was about to add a reference to duo recording done for the Autobiography set on Decca. That had Billy Kyle on piano and was from January 29, 1957. The film credits to Columbia would indicate that its the earlier version on Okeh that was in the film. Is the Town Hall version (5/17/47) also a duo recording? That was issued by RCA.
  9. It's a duo recording with Armstrong on trumpet and Buck Washington on piano. April 5, 1930. New York City. Recorded for Okeh. And it is a lovely recording.
  10. See this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Wish_I_Knew..._Be_Free_(song)
  11. Interesting question. I can't think of any others. Based on information in an on-line Armstrong discography, those are the only two sides on which Armstrong and Hodges appear together. Can someone with the Jos Willems discography confirm that these are the only ones?
  12. Paul: The nickname is explained in "Benny Carter A Life In American Music" (Monroe Berger, Edward Berger, and James Patrick). Here's the story (along with a little background involving Carter and Irving Mills): "The association between Carter and Mills began early in 1931 while Carter was playing in and arranging for the Fletcher Henderson band. One of their first deals concerned Carter's song, "Blues In My Heart," which became a jazz standard. Mills bought it outright for twenty-five dollars, wrote a lyric, added his name and published it. He also set up a recording of it by the Blue Rhythm Band, which he had organized and controlled, but under the name King Carter and His Royal Orchestra -- without Carter in it. Carter, the composer of the song, received no royalties on it for the entire twenty-eight years of its first term of copyright and began to receive payments only on the renewal in 1959. Early in 1931 Mills conceived the idea of adding to the bands already under his management several more to form a group of "Royal Orchestras," all the leaders of which would have first names that were also titles: Duke (Ellington), King (Carter), Baron (Lee), Earl (Jackson). Indeed, this is how Carter came to be known, especially among musicians, as "King." Of these royal leaders only the Duke and the King were musicians; the Baron and the Earl were stage personalities like Calloway, who also joined the Mills bands at this time."
  13. EKE BBB: A partial response somewhat related to your question about the Carney album (although I'm not an English oldtimer): I had parts of the Harry Carney album on a double album called "Great Ellingtonians Play A Tribute to Duke Ellington" (EMI/Double-Up Duo 125 in the Lansdowne Series). The double album also includes material from a Booty Wood session and some material from a Paul Gonsalves/Harold Ashby Session. I eventually found what appears to be a French issue of the Carney ("The Duke's Men" album on Phillips (S 849.106), which also references the Lansdowne Series. Not sure if this helps or not.
  14. Here's a track list for the Gambit set: Gotta Dance The Train And The River The Song Is You That's The Way It Is Two Kinds Of Blues Crazy She Calls Me My All Crawdad Suite Voodoo Trav'lin' Light The Lonely Time Pickin' ŒEm Up And Layin' ŒEm Down The Green Country The Swamp People Show Me The Way To Go Home Forty-Second Street California, Here I Come The Train And The River Pickin' ŒEm Up And Layin' ŒEm Down The Green Country The Lonely Time Trav'lin' Light Forty-Second Street Show Me The Way To Go Home The Swamp People California, Here I Come I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues Space Cabin In The Sky Memphis In June Four Brothers Old Folks Blues In The Barn Topsy Blue Monk Western Suite (Pony Express - Apaches - Saturday Night Dance) Happy Man Princess Song Of The Wind Lovely Willow The Little Melody The Story Time Machine Pony Express (Live Version) Ray's Time The Easy Way Time Enough Come Rain Or Come Shine Montage Mack The Knife A Dream Off Center Careful Come Rain Or Come Shine Ode To Switzerland The Train And The River Gotta Dance Four Brothers Two Kinds Of Blues Song Of The Wind Down Home
  15. Just saw Richard Thompson solo last night. Great evening marred only by my learning shortly before the concert started about Dave McKenna passing away. I suspect it is the same version without some overdubs - noteably Richard Thompson's guitar that answers Donahue's. The Donahue lines are identical. Very useful as I was never completely sure which guitar was which...even though their styles are quite different (a problem I've also had with the final Sandy solo album which is so heavily produced that most of the instrumental playing comes across as quite anonymous).
  16. Sad indeed. Dave was a long-time favorite. We had a few passions in common -- the Red Sox and NY Times crossword puzzles (he would often work on one in between sets at his long-time gig at the Copley Plaza in Boston). I used to ask him to play his tribute to Ted Williams ("The Splendid Splinter") and he would oblige.
  17. For those who aren't overly tired of the tune, there's this album that Dick Hyman recorded in 1977: "Themes & Variations on "A Child is Born" (Chiaroscuro CR 198). On it, Hyman plays versions of the tune in his interpretation of the styles of the following: Scott Joplin, Jelly Roll Morton, James P. Johnson, Earl Hines, Fats Waller, Teddy Wilson, Erroll Garner, George Shearing, Cecil Taylor, Art Tatum, and Bill Evans. He also plays a lengthy interpretation of his own.
  18. Trumpeter and author Richard M. Sudhalter has died: url for NY Times obituary: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/20/arts/mus...0sudhalter.html
  19. McKenna was resident at the Copley Plaza for many years. I saw him many times (but not often enough in retrospect). You could sit at the piano and nurse a beer or two if funds were short. If one could only go back now...
  20. The McKenna/DeFranco duo is well worth having. You won't be disappointed.
  21. The "Let's Have A Session" was a music minus one type date on Ad Lib. Not surprised he didn't know about. It's rather uncommon (to put it mildly), although I think the Andorrans might have reissued it.
  22. Never reissued to my knowledge. It's been particularly elusive for me. I thought I had won a copy several years ago on ebay when I apparently was the high bidder when the auction deadline arrived. I later found out that the orignal deadline had been extended (along with many others) due to some access problem that ebay had experienced. Result: Someone outbid me. Then I finally won a copy a few years ago only to receive word from the seller that he had broken the record while packing it (sounds suspcious; I figured someone contacted him and offered him more).
  23. Before that it was on LP on the MJR label. Not sure that I've seen it around but I've got the vinyl LP issued on Affinity, a division of Charly Records in the UK. My copy was issued in 1986. It was issued under the name of Billy Strayhorn's Septet ( Strayhorn, Qunetin Jackson, 'Cue Porter', Shorty Baker, Russell Procope, Al Hall, Oliver Jackson ). Recorded 14 April, 1959. A fine record if I remember correctly, although I haven't played it in a while. Not sure whether it has ever been issued on CD.
  24. My print version of Bruyninckx lists the second album under "The Night Pastor & Seven Friends." The personnel matches what you list from the record (except Bruyninckx does not mention the presence of Jack Brand. Bruyninckx lists a recording date of October 19, 1967 in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. The tunes: - The Pearls - Darktown Strutters Ball - Tenderly - Night Pastor Blues - Squeeze Me - I Can't Get Started - Bourbon Street Parade - Fidgety Feet - Indiana - Just a Closer Walk With Thee There are notations that Father Robert Owen appears only on the first two tunes. There's also a note that this is a Dick Ruedebush group. Reference to Dick Ruedebush directs you to Dick Reudebusch (note two differences in spelling) where the same session appears (same date, same location, minus two tunes: The Pearls and Darktown Strutters Ball). This time a label and issue number are provided (Claremont CLP672) with the same personnel, except there's no reference to Father Robert Owen, there's a note that Dave Remington switches to piano on Tenderly (replacing Higgins), and there's a note that Jack Brand replaces Cousins on the same tune. Bruyninckx does not seem to list the other session. So, does anyone happen to know if there are two different issues of the 7 Friends session (i.e., one with and one without the pastor) or if this is just another example of sloppiness?
  25. My print version of Bruyninckx lists the second album under "The Night Pastor & Seven Friends." The personnel matches what you list from the record (except Bruyninckx does not mention the presence of Jack Brand. Bruyninckx lists a recording date of October 19, 1967 in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. The tunes:
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