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  17. Best track you heard all week

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    Fats Waller: Sweet and Slow" from Fats Waller - Complete Recorded Works Vol. 3 (JSP)

    I confess I only knew "Sweet and Slow" by the Gerry Mulligan Concert Jazz Band. Checking that sleeve note now, I see it does in fact date from 1935, Fats's era.

    I've never heard the Mulligan version. Didn't even know he did it.

    I have it on a Verve LP, reissued by the British HMV label, simply called Gerry Mulligan: the Concert Jazz Band. Sleeve note writer, Alun Morgan, says of this track: '"Sweet and Slow" comes from the 1935-vintage musical Broadway Gondolier (music by Harry Warren, lyrics by Al Dubin), a show which contained also "Lulu's Back in Town". In the hands of the Concert Band this takes on a personality as close to Duke Ellington as the Ducal tributes which used to be presented by Charlie Barnet and his orchestra.'

  19. How are Oliver Nelson's other Impulse projects?

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    Compared to Blues And The Abstract Truth, More Blues while a fine album, no way compares to that classic session. Good album no doubt. Just don't have the same expectations, IMO.

    Despite my praise for More Blues, I quite agree with you. It doesn't equal the classic album. But we're talking such wonderful music here that even a second best is a five-star jazz disc, particularly from today's standpoint.

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