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and featuring Conte Candoli, Bennie Green, Boots Mussulli and Ed Shaughnessy. A favourite of mine! Oops, should have posted it in the Jazz of the Later 1940s thread!

Am pondering this following good reports here, but at £47 have been slow to take the plunge! Anyone want to offload one for less?

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I was probably won over by the admittedly politically incorrect line: "You're such a pretty girl I'd do it for you any old time"

Well, that's Young Lions defined, so what is neo-bop?

Well, it looks like they do. Many musicians have been named in this thread, but no one other than me has mentioned the ones in my list. They are, as I've said, of a later and younger group.

Perhaps I'm not quite so accurate! I'm sure Sept/Oct will do.

Now listening to the Winchester album for the first time. Nice! The Al/Zoot album has long been an all-time favourite and I know and like the Griffin. Of course, I now expect you to listen in return to some Albert Ammons/Pete Johnson boogie piano duets!

You won't be disappointed! Welcome in the New Year with Zoot Sims' vocal chorus on "Blues"

In the past I have used the term "neo-bop" for the music of these people. The way this thread has gone suggests this was erroneous as "neo-bop" denotes the music of an earlier generation. Am I right?

Lot of activity on 22nd Nov: Ellington/Blanton, Goodman/Christian, Spanier, but nothing on my birthday 19th. Of course, it was a Sunday and I guess studios would have been closed. Am I right, or was the Lord's Day not scrupulously observed in those circles in those days?

Being more interested in the boogie woogie duos of Ammons and Johnson, the Spanier dixieland revival and the Goodman small groups with Christian, I had forgotten the extent to which the scene at the time of my birth was dominated by the big bands. This section of the Rich biography is largely the story of the big bands of Bunny Berigan, Artie Shaw and Tommy Dorsey, with frequent mention of Gene Krupa, Benny Goodman and Harry James. Black bands of Basie, Chick Webb and Louis Armstrong also loom large, reminding me that there's been recent discussion on the board of a book dealing with those years in Armstrong's career. Ah, yes! The great Ellington/Blanton sides! I'd forgotten about them! Join the party, Steve. What was happening in the recording studios when you first saw the light of day?

What have you found in your researches, Optatio? In my current reading, a Buddy Rich biography, I find that Buddy cut four sides with Artie Shaw's Orchestra on 24th Nov 1939, just five days after I was born. Less to my taste, mind you, than the Ammons/Johnson, Spanier and Goodman/Christian dates I mentioned before.

That's a nice one! Now playing:

Both winners! Now listening to:

I think the people I listen a great deal to are from a slightly later generation: Eric Alexander, Jim Rotondi, David Hazeltine, John Webber, Joe Farnsworth, Kenny Washington, Peter Washington, Dmitry Baevsky, Mike DiRubbo, Dwayne Burno, Grant Stewart, John Swana, Peter Bernstein, Vincent Herring, Mike LeDonne, Joe Magnarelli.