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Can't say for sure about the whole LP, but there's some great drumming on the medley on side two that HAS to be Earl Palmer. That'd make it LA.

Sad news. A marvelous musician. RIP

I heard that he got a very large tax credit.

Valburn donated his vast Ellington collection to the Library of Congress a long time ago.

I bought this record when it came out - always liked the quintet tracks, found the two big band tracks to be rather light versions of pop tunes, although I recall that Wayne Shorter soloed on them, so they had some merit. When the CD came out 20 years later with the remaining tracks from the big band session, including two arrangements of tunes also performed by the quintet, the album went up in my estimation. I wouldn't believe every opinion expressed in the record guides.

The Signature label that MG refers to was a late 1950's venture by Bob Thiele, which in its short existence released records by Ray Bryant, Steve Allen, Eddie Lawrence and a few others. This discussion was focussing on the 1940's catalog, which was much larger and for the most part is unrelated except in name (and founder, of course). The proposed boxed set would be concerning the 1940's productions.

This would make an interesting set, perhaps a little too broad in scope if they included everything. Signature issued records in several numbering series: 900 - Traditional jazz & blues, mostly reissues from Paramount label. 1000 - Blues - Dickie Thompson, Walter Brown, Cousin Joe, Leo Watson, etc. 15000 - Mainstream jazz and big band - Yank Lawson, Bill Stegmeyer, Johnny Bothwell, Hazel Scott, Will Bradley, Mary Osborne, Sam Donahue, Anita O'Day, Flip Phillips 28000 - Mainstream jazz - Coleman Hawkins, Yank Lawson, Dicky Wells/Lester Young, Nat Jaffe, Shorty Sherock, Barney Bigard, Dicky Wells 90000 - 12" 78's - longer tracks from above sessions Thiele retained ownership of the catalog and many of the sides saw reissue on Brunswick, Contact, Bob Thiele Music, Dr. Jazz, and other labels over the years. While many are familiar with the Hawkins, Wells/Young, O'Day, Phillips, and Lawson sides due to their multiple reissues, there's a lot of really interesting music that deserves to be heard. I've got a lot of the 78's, and I know that the sessions by Dickie Thompson, Nat Jaffe, Bill Stegmeyer, and Mary Osborne, to name a few, would please fans of music from this period. That's Y.

Is that Marty Paich conducting the band?

If you can find "Jo + Jazz" or "Jo + Blues", these are her most jazz oriented sides. I also love her late 1940's Capitol sides, there have been several CD's released from this period. She made many LP's for Columbia in the 1950's. I've never heard a bad one, although she's at her best singing ballads from the Great American Song Book. In the 1960's she recorded a couple of hard-to-find gems: "Do I Hear a Waltz (Dot) and "Getting Sentimental Over Tommy Dorsey" (Reprise). Don't know if these have ever been reissued. Stafford is one of the greatest!

A buddy of mine who lives in Austin hipped me to him some years ago. A damn fine player, and this is very sad news.

Always thought Jackie had the best moves - he truly did float like a butterfly! His boxing background really did him well, although it didn't hurt that he also had a great set of pipes. I agree with MG - Jackie's LP's were mostly schlock, but I wouldn't put the blame completely on Dick Jacobs and the arrangers - in order to cross over in those days it was necessary to go pop, as much as we may hate it now. Sam Cooke's records suffer from many of the same problems.

I had a similar item a few years ago. A Horace Silver French sleeve with a US Blue Note 45 inside, with the sticker. Put it on Ebay, got 10 bucks.

Well, he still writes his column regularly, but it's obvious why he had to give up the TV show.

Oh man, that is painful! I's gotta take a pretty good ear to be so consistently off.

According to the first link, I'm Boney Dog Bailey.

Thanks for posting this. A great spirit!

How's that again?

I thought it was a perfunctory run-through of some of their hits - nothing memorable. Daltry's voice was not so hot, but I was impressed with Zack Starkey. More importantly, THE SAINTS WON!!!

Another sleeper is "Idle Gossip" on Chiaroscuro. There's a version of "Waltzing Matilda" that's just lovely!

The original LP's were on Roulette, not United Artists. It is unusual that Mosaic or Blue Note didn't issue these, but I guess Fresh Sounds beat them to the punch a long time ago.

It's hard to go wrong with almost any Mulligan. A lot of great sides have been mentioned already. Although I've owned them for years, I recently rediscovered the three sextet albums recorded for Mercury/Emarcy, plus two LP's of outtakes issued in Japan. Are these covered by the Lonehill set? The album with Ben Webster is a desert island disc, but just about all of his collaboration albums are noteworthy (Getz, Desmond, Hodges). Unlike some musicians, Mulligan seemed to thrive in these pairings. The Mosaic set of the Verve big band sides is first rate, as are the various live recordings from the 1960 Europe tour. The Zurich concert (on TCB) is stellar, with Zoot in rare form!

Bags Unlimited. http://www.bagsunlimited.com/cart/browse.asp?subcat=15 I use the MLPB12 for Mosaic sets, with bubble wrap.

This is very sad news. I caught up with them a little late, maybe 10-15 years ago, but I became a big fan.

I believe you are correct. There are CD reissues of the big band stuff on others labels (Halcyon, for one), but I thought the sound quality was inadequate.

I'll second the thumbs up for the Swaggies. I'm a big fan of this band (big band and Bobcats), but I've got most of it on LP and 78.