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I appear to have scored a new Brookmeyer select. I haven't listened to it yet, but chances are that it's not going to be the kind of thing I *love*. Are people still looking for this thing? Once I give it a listen, I may be willing to trade it (+ some money, maybe) for something on the list below. Here're my impossible wishes: #109 The Complete Edmond Hall/James P. Johnson/Sidney De Paris/Vic Dickenson Blue Note Sessions #110 The Complete Blue Note Recordings of Sidney Bechet #132 The Complete Blue Note Recordings of George Lewis #135 The Complete Roulette Live Recordings of Count Basie and His Orchestra (1959-1962) #149 The Complete Roulette Studio Recordings of Count Basie and His Orchestra #168 The Complete Capitol Fifties Jack Teagarden Sessions

Well, I just looked at the BFT 72 discussion thread, and it looks like the four tracks I liked are four of the five you disliked, so this is going to be just right up my alley, right? ) Download, please.

Thanks, Dr J! I just listened to it once so far, but will quickly post so I can read the discussion thread as it forms. Most of the tracks weren't to my taste (most of what was recorded after world war 2 isn't...call me picky and old-fashioned), but there were four that stood out in a positive way: 1. I like this a lot. I don't recognise the voice. Old blues style, but recorded in the second half of the 20th century? 9. I could do without the reeds whining in the background. Trumpet is a little too clean for my taste. I like the guitar best. Not wildly interesting, but o.k. reminds me of Keb' Mo'. Good lord, this goes on forever! Cut everyone but the guitar player, and I'd listen to it again with pleasure. 17. Again, don't recognise the voice, but I kinda like it. Like a mellower Ruth Brown. 19. I'm a sucker for boogie woogie, even if it all sounds more or less the same. Anyway: I like this. Curious to hear who it is.

Download, please.

Better get in my guesses at the last minute! Unsurprisingly, I liked tracks 1 through 4 and wasn't smitten with anything else. Gimme the old stuff. 1: Reminds me of Cantrell & Williams and Vess L. Ossman, but I don't have much of this late ragtime early jazz stuff, so everything sounds like the two or three things I have. I'm picturing Joe Bussard mugging to this in his basement. 2: Arthur Pryor, maybe? Could be Europe, but I think Pryor is more likely. 3: "I'm gonna play no second fiddle", Perry Bradfoord's Jazz Phools. Awesome record! Ranks up there with Bessie's recording, in my book. 4: Ellington, maybe? It's really driving, but it's not Webb, Lunceford, or Basie. Could be some sound-a-like. Charlie Barnet, maybe? Sounds like it's a little earlier, though. Oh, there's a bari sax! I think it's Ellington with Carney taking that solo. Don't recognize the track, but he recorded so much... Love it. 5: No idea. The drummer is a little too high-hat happy for my mind, and the trumpet player is a little too harmonically out there (yeah, I know...), but I really like the piano player. The ensemble at the end makes my ears bleed. I'll embarrass myself by guessing at *some* of the newer stuff, at least: 8: Chet Baker? 12: This sounds like Tennessee Ernie Ford a bit. I'd be mighty surprised if it were him, though. Is this from the 50s? Anyway: thanks! Had fun with it.

Hot Ptah, a million apologies for not posting anything sooner. I spent the last month and a half buying a house (signed yesterday!), so now I have time again. Before I read the reveal, I'll put my (very brief) notes here. I just wrote down which tracks I liked a lot and some very sparse guesses. Overall, I enjoyed this one a lot, and played it quite a bit on my commute, but didn't keep good notes. Disc 1 1) A Neal Hefti arrangement? 3) The Lion? Or maybe James P.? 4) Grappeli or a sound-a-like. And Django? Then probably Grappeli. 12) Ooh, like this! 15) Like this one, too. 16) God, I know this...but can't place it. Disc 2 4) Enjoyed this one. 9) Another one I think I know but can't place.

Yay! Sign me up for a download, please. I haven't been contributing at all lately, but hope to have some more time soon.

Download for me, too, please.

PM sent on Pee Wee and Coltrane/Ellington. And I'll recommend the Trumpet Kings album to those of you that don't have it yet.

Without doubt, Shapiro and Hentoff's Hear Me Talkin' to Ya is the best jazz book I've read. I'm currently battling my way through George T. Simon's The Big Bands, which isn't as interesting as I hoped. I was expecting something more like Stanley Dance's "The World of ..." series. Simon just brushes the surface, and his writing isn't very good. I picked up a few things I had not heard before, but I'm thinking of giving up and starting another book. Maybe Lomax's "Mr Jellyroll". The "The World of ..." series is pretty good. I've also enjoyed Gunther Schuller's scholarly Early Jazz and The Swing Era. For more anecdotes, Eddie Condon's We Called It Music is hard to beat. Other things I recently read and liked: Nicholson's Reminiscing in Tempo: A Portrait of Duke Ellington and Goggin's Turk Murphy: Just for the Record (I live near SF, so this is locally interesting to me, too).

So, why are you selling it? If it's so awesome, why did you only listen to it once? Just curious.

Thanks for these tracks, Joe. I'm not going to be able to say anything meaningful about them, so I'll just have to go with impressions and gut reactions. Like most modern jazz, most of these sound like a bunch of guys playing at the same time, in different keys, for a really long time. I'm used to the length of a 78, so anything above, say, 3:30 feels like an eternity to me. Tracks I found myself bopping my head to: 5, 14 (the parts that sound like a Mancini sound track--the rest just freaked me out), and 15. 16 sounds vaguely familiar, though I suspect when I see what it actually is I'll go "who? what?". I liked the quotation from 1812 Overture I heard in one track (I tried to find it again just now, but I don't remember which track it was in). In short: no idea what any of it is, and most of it scares the pants off of me, but I'm curious to find out what the four tracks I mentioned above are. Thanks! Edited to add that track 3 reminds me of "The Italian Job", so I'll make my one guess for this BFT and say that Quincy Jones arranged it. Another edit: I need to stop listening to this. Now I think I'm hearing Real Big Fish sort of riffs in track 4. What's wrong with me?

Nice! The full (I think, even though it's a minute shorter than the running time on imdb) clip is also up on youtube, but it'll look and sound better on TCM, I'm sure. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvJ2YKh_oks

I have most of Brel's albums and a fair bit of random Kishore Kumar and Asha Bhosle, but given what was posted before, some would want those. In addition, given Van Basten II's username, I suspect that my few Boudewijn de Groot CDs also don't fit the bill. So...what about the three Britney Spears CDs I own? Dreadful catchy pop!

sign me up! (also, this is bft 68, not 70.)

Part 3: 17. "What Are You Gonna Do When There Ain't No Jazz?", Barbara Dane, 2000 What Are You Gonna Do When There Ain't No Jazz? (GHB) Bob Mielke (tb), Richard Hadlock (sax), Mark Caparone (tp), Ray Skjelbred (p), Pete Allen (b), Clint Baker (g), Barbara Dane (vcl) Barbara is more of a folk singer in my mind, or perhaps a blues singer. Half of this album was recorded in New Orleans and half up in Oakland. A personal aside: the guitar player on this track (and the other Oakland tracks) is a talented multi-instrumentalist who leads a New Orleans combo here in the SF Bay Area. I go to hear him about twice a month. 18. "My Home Is in a Southern Town", Don Ewell, 1957 Man Here Plays Fine Piano! (Good Time) Don Ewell (p), Darnell Howard (cl), Pops Foster (b), Minor Hall (d) 19. "Whoopee Stomp (alternate take)", The Lumberjacks, 1928 Ben Pollack, Volume 6: The Whoopee Makers (Jazz Oracle) Jimmy McPartland, Al Harris (tp), Jack Teagarden (tb), Benny Goodman (cl,as), Gil Rodin (as), Larry Binyon (ts), Vic Briedis (p), Dick Morgan (bj), Harry Goodman (tu), Ray Bauduc (d) 20. "Jammin' for the Jack-Pot", Lucky Millinder and the Mills Blue Rhythm Band, 1937 Cotton Club Stars (Stash) Charlie Shavers, Carl Warwick, Sweets Edison (tp), Alfred Cobbs, Wilbur DeParis (tb), Tab Smith (as), Eddie Williams, Ben Williams, Harold Arnold (ts), Billy Kyle (p), Danny Barker (g). John Williams (b), Lester Nichols (d,vib) 21. "Michigander Blues", Jabbo Smith, 1929 1929 - The Complete Set (Retrieval/Challenge) Jabbo Smith (cn), Omer Simeon (as), Earl Frazier (p), Ikey Robinson (bj) 22. "Mary Lee", Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra, 1929 Band Box Shuffle (Hep) Ed Lewis, Booker Washington (cn/tp), Thamon Hayes (tb), Eddie Durham (tb,g), Harlan Leonard, Jack Washington, Woody Walder (rd), Ira "Buster" Moten (p), Basie (p), Leroy Berry (bj), Vernon Page (tu/b), Willie McWashington (d,vcl) 23. "Sweet Georgia Brown", Louis Armstrong and His All-Stars, 1957 Mack the Knife (Live at Newport) (Pablo) Louis Armstrong (tp), Trummy Young (tb), Edmond Hall (cl), Billy Kyle (p), Squire Gersh (b), Barrett Deems (d) 24. "Mama's Got a Baby", Jelly Roll Morton's Hot Seven, 1940 Last Sessions: The Complete General Recordings (Verve) Henry "Red" Allen (tp), Claude Jones (tb), Albert Nicholas (cl), Eddie Williams (as), Morton (p, vcl), Wellman Braud (b), Zutty Singleton (d) 25. "If You're a Viper", New Orleans Jazz Vipers, 2004 Live on Frenchmen Street (New Orleans Jazz Vipers/CDbaby) Joe Braun (as,vcl), Charlie Fardella (tp,vcl), John Rodli (g,vcl), Tom Saunders (bass-s,vcl), Robert Snow (b), Neti Vaan (vln) That's all. If you end up rushing out and buying one of these albums, let me know whether you end up liking it. Thanks for listening and reading.

Part 2: 9. "Dr Watson and Mr Holmes", Spirits of Rhythm, 1934 Spirits of Rhythm 1932-1941 (Retrieval) Leo Watson, Wilbur Daniels, Douglas Daniels (tiples,vcl), Teddy Bunn (g), Wellman Braud (b), Virgil Scoggins (vcl,d) (A tiple in this context is a tiny guitar-like instrument.) Some jive silliness that makes me smile every time. 10. "Chicken and Waffles", Bunny Berigan & His Blue Boys, 1935 Bunny Berigan: The Key Sessions 1931-1937 (JSP) Bunny Berigan (tp), Edgar Sampson (cl,as), Eddie Miller (cl,ts), Cliff Jackson (p), Grachan Moncur (b), Ray Bauduc (d) I didn't get on the Mosaic band wagon until after the Berigan set went OOP, so I had to settle for the (also OOP, but found cheaply at Amoeba) JSP. The sound is fine, but I sometimes wonder about the alternates I'm missing. (Any comments from someone who has the Berigan Mosaic?) 11. "On the Sunny Side of the Street", Eddie Condon, 1944 The Town Hall Concerts, Volume 8 (Jazzology) Bobby Hackett (cn), Wingy Manone (tp,vcl), Max Kaminsky (tp), Ernie Caceres (bari), Pee Wee Russell (cl), Jess Stacy (p), Eddie Condon (g), Bob Casey (b), George Wettling (d) This is one of my favourite jazz series. All volumes highly recommended. Eddie Condon's informal concerts are a delight. 12. "Cotton Club Stomp", Bratislava Hot Serenaders, 2003 Cotton Club Stomp (?) A instead of album art: I can't figure out what the label is (Stiefel Eruocart? Kalypso?), and I'm not going to bother typing in the personnel (for one, too many crazy accents!). Finding this CD outside of Slovakia isn't trivial. I ordered mine from hudba.info with a little translation help from a Czech friend, and didn't have any trouble. You can also try sending a message to manager@serenaders.sk or hot@serenaders.sk and seeing whether you can get a CD directly from them. 13. "Sweet Sue, Just You", The Bechet-Spanier Big Four, 1940 The Complete H.R.S. Sessions (Mosaic) Muggsy Spanier (cn), Sidney Bechet (ss, cl), Carmen Mastren (g), Wellman Braud (b) Go buy this set right now! (Aside: I hadn't realised I'd included two quartets with Carmen Mastren on this BFT until typing up these notes just now.) 14. "When My Sugar Walks down the Street", The Original Memphis Five, 1957 Connee Boswell and the Original Memphis Five in Hi-Fi (BMG Japan) James Lytell (cl), Frank Signorelli (p), Anthony Sbarbaro (d), Billy Butterfield (tp), Milford "Miff" Mole (tb), Eugene Traxler (b), Connee Boswell (vcl) Some huge jazz names in a, to me, surprising combination. I like this CD, though I think Connee's voice is already not as good as it once was (she was 50 when she recorded this). 15. "Lady Be Good", Count Basie and His Orchestra, 1944 1944 (Hindsight) Personnel is unknown (discographies do not agree with each other), but that's Artie Shaw on clarinet. There's a good version of "Bird Calls" on the same disc which I almost used instead of this track. 16. "Algiers Stomp", Mills Blue Rhythm Band, 1936 Mills Blue Rhythm Band: 1933-1936 (Retrieval) Red Allen (tp), Tab Smith (as), Billy Kyle (p), John Kirby (b), O'Neil Spencer (d)

No worries. Hope you enjoyed some of it.

Part 1: 1. "Every Little Moment", Harlem Hot Shots, 1935 The Complete Brunswick & Vocalion Recordings of Louis Prima and Wingy Manone (1924-1937) (Mosaic) Wingy Manone (tp, vcl), Matty Matlock (cl), Eddie Miller (ts), Gil Bowers (p), Nappy Lamare (g), Harry Goodman (b), Ray Bauduc (d) 2. "When My Baby Starts to Shake That Thing", Harry Dial's Blusicians, 1930 That's My Stuff: Chicago, 1929-1930 (Frog) George Dixon (tp, as), Omer Simeon (cl, as), Cecil Irwin (cl, ts), Zinky Cohn (p), Eustern Woodfork (bj), Hayes Alvis (tu), Harry Dial (d, vcl) 3. "Piggly Wiggly - A", Beale Street Washboard Band, 1929 Get Easy Blues: Chicago 1928-1930 (Frog) Herb Morand (tp), Johnny Dodds (cl), Frank Melrose (p), Baby Dodds (d) 4. "Swingin' on the Famous Door", Delta Big Four, 1935 Roy Eldridge: Little Jazz Trumpet Giant, Disc 1: Swing Is Here (Proper) Roy Eldridge (tp), Joe Marsala (cl), Carmen Mastren (g), Sid Weiss (b) Four bad-asses. Incidentally, if anyone knows of a better (fill in your own definition here) source for this track than the Proper Box, I'd love to hear about it. 5. "When I Get Low I Get High", The Loose Marbles, 2007 untitled (CD-R bought from the band) Meschiya Lake (vcl), the rest of the line-up unclear: it varies a lot. Not everyone's cup of tea, but I sure love Meschiya's voice. There's an interesting New Yorker article about the band. In short: they're street musicians that have become popular in the lindy hop dance community. Recently, Meschiya and the Loose Marbles split ways and she sings with other bands (including her own "Little Big Horns"). There are quite a few videos on youtube. This is my favourite: 6. "I've Found a New Baby", Frank "Big Boy" Goudie, 1935 Django Reinhardt: The Classic Early Recordings, Volume 1 (JSP) Frank Goudie (tp, cl, ts), Stephane Grappelli (p), Joseph Reinhardt (g), Sigismond Beck (b), Jerry Mengo (d) 7. "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea", Dicky Wells and his Orchestra, 1937 Django Reinhardt & His American Friends: Complete Sessions (Definitive) Bill Dillard, Bill Coleman, Shad Collins (tp), Wells (tb), Richard Fullbright (b), Bill Beason (d) Yes, I'm afraid I pulled this from a set put out by our Andorran friends. What can I say? It's not a session that's on the Mosaic. There are Chrono Classics and Prestige releases that have this session, too. 8. "Lindyhopper's Delight", Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra, 1939 Strictly Jive (Hep) Dick Vance, Stark, Jordan (tp), Nat Story, Sandy Williams, George Matthews (tb), Garvin Bushell (cl,as), Hilton Jefferson (as) Wayman Carver (fl,ts), Ted McRae (ts), John Trueheart (g), Tommy Fulford (p), Beverley Peer (b), Bill Beason (d) Recorded about four months after Chick Webb passed away, with Ella nominally fronting the Savoy Ballroom house band. The title is spot on: this is a delight to dance to.

If you don't want to get spoilers, don't read past this message, I suppose. It's the end of the month, so it's time to shock and amuse with the grand reveal. There wasn't a whole lot of participation this month, and I apologise if you found the music a tad too obscure (or, worse, plain not interesting). If you found something you liked: good show!

For the past few years, that's been Sidney Bechet for me.

I'd like to post the answers/reveal this week so that we don't run into september. If you still want to take a stab at it (DrJ?), do it quickly!

I have both of those. The Witherspoon, in particular, is great.

These are the last two I picked up this year. I found both without booklet & box, one as individual CDs at Amazon, and one as a set on eBay. They were relatively inexpensive (about $20/CD), so there's some hope there!

Time to get this thread back on topic, I think. My OOP wishlist: 1. Hall/Johnson/De Paris/Dickenson Blue Note 2. Sidney Bechet Blue Note 3. George Lewis Blue Note 4. Columbia Condon Mob 5. I can't decide...one of the Roulette Basie's, or one of the complete Commodores. My IP wishlist: 1. Beiderbecke/Trumbauer/Teagarden (it's in the mail!) 2. The 30s Ellington set, when it comes out 3. Columbia & Okeh Goodman Orchestra 4. Shaw Bluebird & Victor 5. Armstrong Decca I just ordered the Bix after the EMI master disaster, because I thought Mosaic probably needed the order. (O.K., and I really wanted it. I'm selfish. You caught me.) I'll probably cave and order one of the others soon--probably the Goodman, because I have more of the Shaw and Armstrong already.