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The original recording is not of professional quality. It was taped by UCLA students on, I suspect, relatively modest equipment. The 1980's reissue was remastered by Jack Towers, one of the best in the business at the time. I suspect Jack did the best with what he had. My point is, even if there were a master tape, this thing isn't going to ever sound great.

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It's nice to have access again! I've also been jonesin' all week. I'd like to second the request for a larger font. I kinda liked the peach, but I can get used to this!

Lead singer of the Tokens was Jay Siegel.

I love Joe Mooney. Several years ago, there was nothing by him available, but with the reissue of the Atlantic and Columbia LP's, and two very fine sets on Hep which contain all the Decca sides plus a number of rarities, just about everything recorded by this great and underappreciated talent is currently avaiable, as it should be!

I got caught up in the Backgammon craze in the 1970's, and became a reasonably skilled player. Even read a couple of books about Backgammon strategies. As I became separated from my usual gang of players, I eventually lost interest, and hardly played at all for 20 years. About 7 years ago, my brother (who lives across the country) and I began playing on line, and have become so totally addicted that we play twice a week for about 90 minutes a session. At a buck a point, I owe him about 450 bucks right now!

I played a game called Screw Your Neighbor back in the late 60's. It was a variation of Crazy Eights, with extra added powers added to certain cards. As in Crazy Eights, the objective was to "go out" (get rid of your cards), but it was allowed to gang up on a player that was getting ready to go out. Great fun for stoned hippies!

I have to say I like them all. The first one I ever owned was "Not Really the Blues", so it may be my favorite, but not by much. It's great to hear these boppers stretch out.

No doubt booted right off the Mosaic set!

This is a nice record - original pressings are pretty rare. Alto player Gabe Baltazar played with Stan Kenton in the early 1960's.

AMEN!!

My favorite Horace albums are "Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers" which really defines hard bop, and "Doin' the Thing at the Village Gate", a stellar live album, which I ran out and bought after seeing Horace live for the first time at the Jazz Workshop in 1965. Also partial to "Silver's Serenade" and "The Stylings of Silver."

If I remember correctly, the Jazzland edition (which is how I first heard it as well) was retitled "Shadow Waltz". I replaced it with the Japanese edition in the late 70's. Also have the session on the Riverside/Contemporary Rollins box that Fantasy issued a few years ago. This is one of my favorite Sonny albums, especially the extended title track.

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Words I NEVER want to hear while record shopping: "Honey, I'm gonna wait in the car." My mind reels at the number of sales I've lost because the wife came in and said, "Honey, are you done yet?"

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This is a question I have been asked hundreds of times. Apparently some people were just dropped onto the planet this morning.

I don't have an exact date, but I believe Joe passed within the last year or two.

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Berigan led his own big band beginning in 1937, which recorded extensively for Victor. The music is of pretty high quality with many classics in amongst the more commercial sides. Also recorded with Benny Goodman's band in 1935 and with Tommy Dorsey in 1937. Both associations yielded a number of classics, icluding King Porter Stomp, Sometimes I'm Happy (Goodman), Song of India, Marie (Dorsey). These are essentials for the Berigan fan. Chronological Classics and Hep have issued several volumes of his Victor sides, none of which are on the Mosaic.

THis obit claims she was 94. According to most sources, she was born October 15, 1915, which makes her 91. http://www.americanpress.com/index.php?opt...&Itemid=105 Lake Charles-born Nellie Lutcher, a stylish jazz vocalist and pianist who was a top-selling recording artist in the 1940s and '50s, died Friday in Los Angeles. She was 94. Lutcher's hits included "Hurry on Down," "He's a Real Gone Guy" and "Fine Brown Frame." She sang a duet with Nat King Cole, "Can I Come in for a Second." Lutcher also had a novelty song she wrote about her hometown. It was "Lake Charles Boogie," and the lyrics included: "This little ditty / is a song about the city / where I was born." She performed well into her 70s. "My mom was a fighter," her son, Talmidge Lewis of Concord, Calif., told the American Press. "The things she believed in most were loyalty and family." Local rediscovery Lutcher's death comes at the same time her hometown had already begun a series of events saluting her life in music. The Imperial Calcasieu Museum, in conjunction with the American Press and others, has been organizing exhibits and tribute to Lutcher for this fall - timed to coincide with what would have been Lutcher's 95th birthday. Last month, rising artists Wendy Colonna, Eleisha Eagle and Breanna Fye appeared in a joint concert to raise money for the exhibit. Family tributes American Press Staff Writer Eric Cormier, who arrived in Los Angeles the day before her death in order to interview her, was with a Lutcher family member Friday when the news came by telephone. "My Aunt Nellie just died," jazz musician Daryl Jackson Munyungo, her nephew, told the American Press after hanging up. He got the call from another Lutcher nephew, Gene Jackson, who had been managing the ailing jazz great's affairs. Lutcher had been in failing health, battling pneumonia and other ailments before entering hospice care. "She was a fighter to the end," Jackson said. "She had told the family, 'I'm going to go when I'm ready to go.'" Of her renewed local recognition in Lake Charles - events which now double as tributes, he said, "We are very happy that Lake Charles is going to recognize her. This is an opportunity for all her fans, young and old, to honor her." Lutcher's life Nellie Lutcher was the oldest child of Isaac "Skinner" Lutcher, a bass player who worked for a packing company on the lakefront, and Susie Lutcher, who lost five of her 15 children to death during infancy. At age 8, she was as assistant pianist at New Sunlight Baptist Church in Lake Charles under pastor was M.T. Jackson. Lutcher attended Second Ward School and performed in the school orchestra. As a teenager, she played the piano briefly with the Imperial Orchestra, then the Southern Rhythm Boys, a local group of musicians from Texas and Louisiana. At 11, she played piano for blues singer Ma Rainey. In 1935, Lutcher moved to Los Angeles. She played piano with small groups. She signed with Capitol Records in 1947. over the next several years, her songs ranked on the pop, jazz and R&B charts. She also recorded with the Decca, Epic and Liberty labels. In 1952, she was honored on Ralph Edwards' NBC-TV show "This Is Your Life." Lutcher was only African American woman to serve on the board of directors of the Los Angeles Musicians Union. She had been a member since 1947. By BRETT DOWNER AMERICAN PRESS

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