Chuck Nessa

Damn, now I need to buy camo pants.

Ray Mantilla Mickey Mantle Mantan Morland

I thought he died with Paul Harvey.

Big Tiny Little Pee Wee Tinney Danny Small

Which one. There were 2.

Yes, we all know.

An early '80s MCA reissue (missing 2 tunes - produced by Steve Hoffman) of

Personality tests? There's something I would stand in line for......

Saw him in an auditorium in Chicago in the early '70s and the entire audience was on "pins and needles" - scared of the performer. A couple of minutes into the solo set he stopped and glared at the crowd. The recital went on without any more drama. I stopped caring.

That info is 3 years old. Things change.

Let me jump on this bandwagon.

Coming soon to your door.

Jack Six Jack Daniels Jack Shit

Possible thought...maybe because live music was so common, being asked to buy a record of what you could go out an hear live seemed kind of a con? One of the first selling points of LPs was that, liberated from the 3-minute 78, you could finally truly approximate what people sounded like in live performance. But of course that doesn't quite get at the idea we have in jazz of the primacy of the "live" performance as a more authentic reflection of the heart of the music, or at least a typically more exciting representation of it. Would be interested to hear from some of our veteran board members if they remember how record buyers or advertising approached the initial wave of live LPs. Were there any jazz sides from the 78 era that were "live" and was the fact that they were live trumpeted it as a selling point? The Goodman Carnegie Hall concert I think was first issued as an early LP in 1950. What were, in other words, the very first live jazz recordings? Brubeck's Blackhawk and Storyville sides were from 52, yes? Could the popularity of those specifically spurred BN to do Blakey at Birdland in 53, or was the idea of live recording more just in the air. The Massey Hall concert is in there too. On another front, certainly, live radio broadcasts were a feature of the music going back forever, and anybody with ears knew that, say, Bird's broadcasts were showing a remarkable side of his genius you didn't get in the studio. Basie, Ellington and for that matter Goodman, Shaw and others also came across differently in live broadcasts too. Interesting - the "cult" of the live performance document in jazz -- origins, influence, meaning. Discuss. You are forgetting JATP.

Frank Wolff went to Sweden for the recordings. He used Rune Andreasson as the engineer. This was a BN project from the beginning.

LOL! On the other hand, maybe later.

Jim, it is time to relax.

Reminded of the Bluebird lp reissues by the Benny Goodman thread I dug out the 16 Dorsey sides to see if I could make a nice disc featuring my old friend Bud Freeman and his friend Dave Tough. I decided Bud was short-changed and will skip the transfers.

Thanks. Of course I wish I had been there. Oliver is in his prime now.

Have not heard it in years but Bruyninckx says it was recorded in NYC on 12/26/68, 2/6/69 and 3/12/69. No additional vocalist is listed but I suggest it is Ivan Harold Browning who appeared on subsequent sessions.

Eugene Goossens Leon Goossens Leon Merian

Frank Langella Lou Pinella Ella Fitzgerald