Chuck Nessa

A musician/friend with nothing to gain, no ax to grind, told me this story 20+ years ago. He was at RVG's for one of the big band sessions for Bashin' and Jimmy was a no-show. To save the session, Creed Taylor called in Lloyd Mayers to imitate Jimmy. Anyone out there to confirm or deny?

The BNs are where he defined the style and where the most "jazz" resides. The bulk of the Verves are fine documents of his playing but much of it is too commercially oriented to beat out the BNs for my taste.

Can't 'splain that one Aggie.

Not sure why, but some sets are harder/impossible to find on the Yourmusic site when compared with BMG. I have found a way around this. Look up and individual title, such as "The Count Basie Story" and the address looks like this http://www.yourmusic.com/browse/album/60249.html - then find the item you want on the BMG site and the address is http://www.bmgmusic.com/catalog/product/cd...productId=54991 . Now enter the 5 digit product number in place of the number on the Yourmusic address. The above example finds the Verve Charlie Parker master takes box. Got the Granz Jam Sessions set ordered for $24.95 and the Parker for $14.97.

It is a decent, not great, record. Quartet with Jimmy Jones, Al Hall and Oliver Jackson. It was originally on English Columbia. If you are hunting for tenors on MJR, find the Julian Dash first.

Peggy Lee?

About 40.

Yeah, they'd have to include the Gloria Smythe material and I don't think that would be a great attraction.

That's why I've got a bead on that Black & Blue LP Chuck mentioned! B-) I forgot to mention the leader was Oliver Jackson. Hope this helps.

The series is listed on the Verve site with a March 15 release date.

Jo Stafford.

Sorry, but I have a huge problem with the term "digitally remastered". If it came from tape or film to digital, that happened. I have the same problem with people talking about Dolby, Cedar and NoNoise. Most folks using the terms don't know the processes or the real results. End of bitch.

Crap, all this stuff running through my head. If I can sort the crap out, it might be interesting to relate dealings with Jimmy. Maybe not - I'll see. I took off Freddie Roach's Down To Earth and threw on The Sermon.

I used to have the following session, but don't remember much about it other than being delighted Mr. France was on it. -Presents Le Quartet- : Percy France (ts) Cliff Smalls (p) Leonard Gaskin (b) Oliver Jackson (d) New York, September 27, 1982 How am I to know Black & Blue (F)33180 You've changed - Brittwood rag - Sugar - You stepped out of a dream - C.C. rider pt. 1 - C.C. rider pt. 2 - For once in my life - You're gonna hear from me - Limehouse blues -

Very, very nice site. Great work guys.

I think everyone has stated Hanks "station" in the BN stable. I'm sure he "paid for himself" but not a bunch more. Blakey and Smith might not have been recording for Alfred after '64 but they still had a regular stream of new releases coming from the vault.

Conrad Lester plays tenor on Mo' Greens Please. Percy France is on Roach's Down To Earth.

I certainly hope they duplicated the original tape work. It should be issued as Gil wanted it to be heard.

Tis my understanding the tapes were never lost. The massive number of edits to create the mono masters was (previously) impossible to recreate in stereo. At the very least, it would be a huge pain in the ass. Current digital techniques made the stereo version possible.

I agree Manny was "almost" a Billy Byers.

Thanks for posting stuff like this.

Geez, I didn't know Wilbur Sweatman looked like THAT!

That might be the reason I never bought it. MA always seemed to be the "fall back" guy to hire for charts on a record date in the late '50s 'cause he'd deliver the goods on time. Always seemed "generic" to me. He may be a smart guy, but his name never made me buy a record and stopped me in a couple of cases.

Seems that Louis Nye is about to get an earfull.