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  1. Great news! Thanks for the link. Actually, I could not resist the temptation and saved it "for eternity".
  2. Re- the "Afro-Cuban Influence": I took the plunge and picked up the mono copy of that RCA original today (neither the mono nor the stereo versions of the record had shifted since I saw them in the store 11 months ago). To make matters even better, the price had been downmarked to 10 EUR in the meantime. Spinning the suite now - nice!!
  3. And Steve Jordan, the Norteno/Tejano accordionist. (OK, fringe of jazz, but anyway ...) Another (much earlier - Big Band era) "near miss" where you wonder if maybe the second one picked up his nickname after the untimely demise of the first one: Corky Cornelius and Corky Corcoran And another "classic" and oft-goofed mixup (Swing era): Joe Thomas the trumpeter vs. Joe Thomas the tenor sax man And then there was Johnny Smith the guitarist (recording for Roost a.o.) and a bit later the soul jazz organ man Johnny Smith who wisely billed himself as Johnny "Hammond" Smith.
  4. Agreed. I picked up that album as a "File under Buck Clayton" item, of course, but Frankie Laine fits in well enough to make it very palatable in that setting. Arnold Shaw dwells quite a bit on this aspect of Frankie Laine in his "The Rockin' 50s" book, using his "Mule Train" hit as a starting point. I never did quite make that connection and found this assessment overrated compared to the Black shouters as pre-rock'n'rollers. A batch of his 78s (all on Mercury) that ended up here when I bought a larger 78 collection (mostly jazz and R&B but with a sizable dose of 40s and very early 50s US pop too) almost 20 years ago did not do much for me either and almost all of them ended up in the "78s fleamarket items" crate. But I must admit I never explored his discography in depth. Two of Laine's Atlas recordings are on the below CD, BTW (yes, the Yurpeen PD labels have been at it again 😁 ) : https://www.discogs.com/release/8803423-Various-Boogieology-The-Atlas-Records-Story Probably not that surprising that he was thought to be Black by some, considering that on these recordings he was backed by the Three Blazers.
  5. Discogs is your (tentative) friend: https://www.discogs.com/artist/1678801-The-Missourians?superFilter=Releases&subFilter=Compilations One CD on VMP, one on JSP. But with almost total overlaps.
  6. Putting a face to a name: 😉 Al Morgan was with the Condonites on various occasions in the early 40s (probably because he was a member of the Zutty Singleton trio at that time - Singleton is on drums in the first of the two C. Peterson pics below):
  7. Meaning that - simply put - the aural difference does not go beyond the "stereo effect" and depends on how effectively the stereo separation has been handled?
  8. This is one of the cases where it is welcome to see an age-old thread revived (as it happened recently here, though for a question not related directly to your initial posts). I had not paid much intention to this thread the first time round. But in fairly recent times I've "accumulated" both stereo and mono original pressings of Bill Holman's "Great Big Band" LP (Cap. (S)T1464) and will now put them on my "to do" record listening stack for a listening comparison.
  9. Big Beat Steve

    Fred Guy

    Will have to dig out certain LPs from my stack of early Ellingtons, I guess ... (Upo to ca. 1930 they are filed in the "Classic Jazz" corner).
  10. Big Beat Steve

    Fred Guy

    Aaahhh ... different "strokes" indeed, then. And me was thinking that all these "different" comparisons might just as much sum up the differences in approach by the Ellington band vs the Basie band. Pity this name did not come up many years ago here. It might have been interesting to see if Chris Albertson might have had something to say about a comparison between Fred Guy and Elmer Snowden.
  11. Big Beat Steve

    Fred Guy

    More than Freddie "Mr Rhythm" Green? Just wondering ...
  12. Perfectly true. Not that enforced commitments to care homes do not happen, but in most cases it really is as you say, and then you can only count on the cooperation of the elderly concerned ... I witnessed a similar case with my father-in-law in 2018 (then aged 79). After he had caused two not so minor car accidents in totally uneventful traffic situations his children (my wife and my brother-in-law) urged him to undergo medical exmainations - and sure enough, dementia had set in. So action was required (particularly because there was a medical history in the family). Thankfully he immediately agreed to move into an assisted living facility (for his own good ...). But of course there are plenty of cases where the persons concerned balk in such situations, and then things get awkward and more or less impossible to handle. (This would have been true in "our" case too because his kids - who have their own fulltime jobs - lived about 300 miles from his town, and he did not wish to move from his town either.) So it is good to see that things in the case of Larry Kart seem to have straightened out for him now, whatever the story behind it all may have been ...
  13. A bit of a stretch calling this a car wrecking yard, but it's a nice photo anyway. A variation on the "Cadillac Ranch" theme? 😁
  14. This sounds really creepy. I've witnessed a coupe of cases of people moving into assisted care homes in my parents' generation (under vastly varying circumstances) in past years so I guess anything can happen. But luckily I've never heard of such enforced cases. Keeping my fingers crossed now that everything works out perfectly well for you from now on.
  15. Careful ... There seems to be more than that. What French RCA reissued (in their Black & White single-LP series released prior to their Black & White twofer series) was made up of the 24 LPs of his "Complete Recordings" that you mention but it appears that these were COMPLEMENTARY to TWO 5-LP box sets (Fats Waller Memorial Vol. 1 and Vol. 2). I have never done a track-by-track comparison between all these LPs but the fine print on the individual LPs says: "Fats' Complete Works will not include the same tracks as the ones on the two sets 730.570/574 and 731.054/058." For those who can do with a smaller helping there also was a 4-LP set "Fats Waller & His Rhythm - The Last Years 1940-1943" on RCA NL90411. This set roughly duplicates Vols. 19 to 23 of the individual B&W LPs (minus certain alternates). I cannot recall having ever seen any Bluebird twofers on Fats Waller (though these 60s Bluebirds invariably caught - and still catch - my attention) so they cannot have covered his entire output.
  16. Following the "reactivation" of the below thread ... ... how about taking this one step further with THIS thread ? Such covers do exist (so please don't "water down" this thread with covers showing one single junked out car only ) Here are three to start with: Not many cars to be seen at first sight but this IS a scrapyard - and a handful of wrecks (including a mid-50s Rambler) are discernible in the background at the upper edge of the cover. The next one is a more typical sight: And this one may be about as far as you can go on ONE album cover (front cover first, back cover next): More to come?
  17. Merry Christmas and a happy end-of-year period to everyone ... With maybe this or that addition to your collections under the Christmas tree ...
  18. +1 😉 Sat down right away now and corrected this in my books by Feather, Chilton, New Grove, AMG, Reclam, Jörgensen/Wiedemann et al.
  19. That's one you ought to haved put in the "Music Books reading" topic as well - to give it more exposure. Looks interesting indeed.
  20. Kudos to Woody Herman to the way he hung on. To be brutally honest, in a way poor Woody lived a life of sorrow in his later years. His former manager had mismanaged his business side and badly screwed up Woody's tax statements which left Woody with really huge tax debts that forced him to carry on working and touring to the end. Beyond what the historians have written about this sad side of his final years more than once, I remember a few hints to this effect by a former employer of mine (quite a character and a big jazz fan since back in the early 50s who became close to several touring jazz celebrities) who had sort of befriended Woody Herman and from time to time hosted him at his home during German tours of the orchestra. After Woody had passed in 1987 my boss (in those few talks touching on our common musical interests) could not help heaving a few heartfelt sighs of relief that "now Woody had finally found his well-earned rest."
  21. I do think the thread starter meant to say he would like to focus on recordings FIRST released in the LP era (i.e. roughly post-1949). I.e. NOT on "The Band That Plays The Blues" nor the First Herd and a good part of the Second Herd (whose original releases predated the vinyl era and therefore were on 78).
  22. Yet I think that (from the outside) Art Pepper aged and looked far better than Chet in his later years.
  23. Well, unsurprisingly so - according to her biography Vera Auer (unrelated to pianist-vibist Pepsi Auer, BTW) married an American and emigrated to the USA in 1960. And even her "Austrian period" seems to have ended early - according to Wikipedia she played mostly in West Germany from 1954 onwards "due to the bad economical climate for jazz musicians in Austria at the time". And yes - she certainly figured in the media coverage of the German jazz scene back then.
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