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That definitely sounds like an interesting area for exploration and explanation/analysis. I’ve only recently come to the conclusion that Cook (plus Mitchell, with an honorable mention to Louis Smith) were really the best — and maybe even ideal — front-line for Horace. I slept on Horace quite a bit for a decade or two because — for me — I usually found his albums with JoeHen slightly lacking. Don’t want to overstate that — but for me they never seemed to quite click as well/hard as I felt they should. But it’s only been in the last half-dozen-years that I went back and really spent some time with the Mitchell/Cook Silver band — which ON PAPER (for me) always seemed like it ought to have been somehow ‘lesser’ than the Silver albums that came after Mitchell/Cook. (And that’s entirely my own biases that frankly let me come to that utterly wrong conclusion.) Now I think Cook maybe did some of his very best work with Silver — and those bands with him were among the best things Silver ever recorded.

More Bobby Gordon, with another Bob. Booby Gordon and Bob Wilbur “Yearnings” Arbors cd    

Very happy to share two tunes featuring Percy France and Papa Jo Jones ... I learned a couple of months back that Percy was the last tenor saxophonist to play in Papa Jo Jones & Friends but was so disappointed to not find any recorded examples of those gigs to date.  But a WKCR Benefit at The West End is better than none. With Loren Schoenberg (piano) and Skinny Burgan (bass):      

“Bobby Gordon Plays Joe Marsala: Low Register” Another great Bobby Gordon cd on Arbors. He’s a great interpreter of 'thirties swing music in particular by clarinet leaders.     Bobby Gordon-clarinet Randy Reinhart-trumpet Keith Ingham-piano, celeste and arrangements Russell George-violin James Chirillo-guitar Vince Giodano-bass Arnie Kinsella and Steve Little-drums