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Edward Elgar Edward Ellington Ernie Entwhistle

Fantomas Irma Vepp My Friend Irma

look at it another way - virtually every jazz soloist who left something of real worth and excellence did it before he or she was 35ish. (Hawk and Body & Soul one of the few exceptions, Duke in 1940 another, albeith revived by Strayhorn.) After their 'best' work there were gradual or sometimes catastrophically fast fallings-off. I think Artie Shaw sensed this and stopped forthwith. Benny kept the balls in the air for a long time, rewarming old coals and playing 'Airmail Special' right up to the end..

Paul Masson Pol Roger La Veuve Clicquot

Johnny Gray Al Grey Juan Gris

Is the Earl Baker stuff available? Lord lists Jazz Archives 43.

Yes - those kinds of bands were fascinating because you had the likes of Zoot, Phil Woods etc contrastedwith Benny who at times seemed almost an unwilling participant. The nadir in terms of things I've heard must be an album he made for Century with Jack Sheldon, Wayne Andre and Buddy Tate. The boredom reaches out through the speakers and grabs you by the throat.

Margaret Thatcher General Belgrano Barbara Bel Geddes

Another point about the Sauter/Powell period - Benny's arrangers at that time pushed him about as far as he was prepared to go and could handle - viz the unlamented 'bop' of 'Undercurrent Blues' etc in the mid 40s - and I think. got some very fine and inspired playing out of him. It was also, I believe his last creative period. The rest of his life and performance seemed to be a sterile look back to the mid-thirties band and his greatest triumphs.

While Goodman's playing on these recordings is a long way removed from the hot Teschmacher-influenced lad of the late 20s and early 30s (my favorite period for his solo work) the main reason to buy the set is surely the Eddie Sauter and Mel Powell arrangements, plus the impeccable playing of a lot of superb sidemen. In spite of the excitement created by Harry James and Ziggy Elman on the mid thirties band the material played often had a rather mechanical feel to it. In the period on the Mosaic set Sauter and Mel Powell created much more interesting and challenging vehicles for the band and soloists. I've ordered it.

Forrest Ackerman Forrest Crawford Crawford Wethington

Tex Williams Tex Morton Texas Guinan

Ram Ramirez Bobby Lamb Don Ewell

Dimtri Mitropoulos Georgio Papadopoulos Theo Angelopoulos

Heath Robinson H. Robinson Cleaver Lizzie Borden

Phil Napoleon Marty Napoleon Teddy Napoleon

Augustus John Casper John Kaspar Hauser

King Tubby Tubby Isaacs Boule de Suif

Joe Zawinul Madame Zajj Zampano (Il Grande)

Papa Doc Baby Doc Doctor Death

Isaac Asimov Frederick Pohl Theodore Sturgeon

Sister Souljah Sister Rosetta Tharpe Rosetta Reitz

Wat Tyler Jack Cade Perkin Warbeck

the birdman of alcatraz the count of monte cristo the man in the iron mask

Mongo Santamaria Gustavo Santaolalla Santo Pecora