Wanted to go way back. Some of my eldest family members had Bunny Berigan discs to spin and I associate his music with relatives gathered for fun and food. Bunny Berigan “1938” Chronogical Classics cd   300×298 11.5 KB   I’m including a photo of my great-uncle (always just “Uncle”) Arvin “Suds” Selquist, Berigan fan and perpetual prankster, one fine human.  

I'm going to leave this up here for another day then I'm going to move it over to the Hoffman forums to see if I can move more out over there. I have to get these off my shelves. I have CDs laying all over the place these days and it's got to stop.

I read some remarks about this release elsewhere and hadn’t heard it in a LONG time so decided to spin this Atlantic cd edition: Yes “Tormato”      

The jam session with Lester Young, Roy Eldridge, Teddy Wilson, Benny Goodman, Ben Heller, Sid Weiss, and Jo Jones is from the November 16, 1938 Martin Block’s Make Believe Ballroom broadcast. To me this is the Holy Grail of the Savory Collection. The tunes included, “Tea for Two,” “After You’ve Gone,” and “I Know that You Know.” The last one has been available in rather poor sound. In the attached program you can hear, at the beginning, part of Young’s “After You’ve Gone” solo and then within the program all of “Tea for Two” and “I Know that You Know” are included and in great sound. Hope spring eternal that one day these will see a wider release.