Larry Kart

Allll those titles are very good, though "Big Duke and Fats" is tops IMO. Gorgeous playing by Joe Wilder.

Check out Talbert's "Bix Duke and Fats"

Glad to pass the word on.

"Bud´s worst friend" -- How so?

It is Jackpot, a fun record.

I went big on the sale too. Of the ones you bought, I can highly endorse "Troubles."

Amico and JR Monterose play "Half Nelson":

Apparently I find myself on a Magnarelli kick. Again an excellent rhythm section -- Versace sparkling on piano rather than organ, Gill a stalwart walker, and the sadly departed Reedus so cool. Joe's rather Dorham-like lyricism I find irresistible, (check out his version of "Old Folks"). I mention Dorham, but Joe's initial inspiration was a lovely trumpeter from his native Syracuse., N.Y., the late Sal Amico, who can be heard to good advantage IIRC on Sal Nistico's initial Riverside album.

Sure do like that rhythm section: Brown as they say is a different drummer -- a gas. The 10 minutes plus version here of "My Ideal" is almost as hypnotic as Grant Green's "Idle Moments." '

Fascinating "progressive" jazz of the 1920s. Check out "Humpty Dumpty" and "Feelin' No Pain" on You Tube.

no? A long and varied life,

Great stuff, both volumes

Mike Melito "The Thing Is To Swing, " with Joe Magnareili, Grant Stewart, et al. Nice choice of tunes -- two from Tommy Turrentine, a medium-up "Lush Life" (surprislngy effective that way) "Straight Street" etc.

Andy Fusco, Gene Quill

Yes, andJohn Jenkins too

Ernie Henry

Thanks

Where can this be found?

I meant the later one with Geo Daly,

A good one

Surpriingly (given my expectations) good.

On of the things about Lafitte that I find unique and attractive is that on ballads he begins improvising during the theme statement and never stops. It's not that he gets all "swingy" right from the start; rather it's that he almost immediately creates new ballad-like lines that are continuous in mood and shape with those of the tune he's playing. This is especially evident on his superb version of "Blue and Sentimental."

Fiunny thing about that book. I was among. the last people to have contact with Hawkins before he died -- I put him on the plane that took him back to NYC after his appearance in Chicago for that that WTTW broadcast the previous day with Roy Eldridge; and there was some contretemps at the gate about them letting him on the plane and taking him to his first class seat. I rather angrily settled that, after which Hawkins gave me a sign of thanks. But Chilton changed what I said about this episode when he interviewed me into genteel Britishisms. For instance "I'm normally diffident in the face of officialdom." I never would have said that and didn't.