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I was happily listening to CDs in my living room, but my cat requested my presence in my music room, where she wanted to share the comfy blue chair. So now I'm back there, spinning 12" 78s: Cliff Jackson and His Village Cats - You've Got Me Walkin' and Talkin' to Myself/Quiet Please (Black and White) Cliff Jackson and His Village Cats - Cliff's Boogie Blues/Jeepers Creepers (Black and White). These aren't particularly well recorded, but they are nice quiet vinyl pressings. Sidney Bechet and the DeParis brothers are among the Village Cats. Jam Session at Commodore No. 6 - At Sundown/When Day is Done (Commodore). The usual suspects - Eddie Condon, Bobby Hackett, Pee Wee Russell, etc. Art Hodes - Sugar Foot Stomp/Sweet Georgia Brown (Blue Note). With Vic Dickenson and Edmond Hall, among others. Art Tatum Trio - Body and Soul/I Know That You Know (Comet) Art Tatum Trio - On the Sunny Side of the Street/Flying Home (Comet) Art Tatum Trio - Boogie/If I Had You (Asch) Paul Whiteman and His Concert Orchestra - Ol' Man River/Selections from "Show Boat" (Victor). I know I've mentioned this great record before in this thread. It's not really jazz, except for twelve transcendent measures by Bix in the "Show Boat" medley. But it's excellent pop/show music of the time, with the great Paul Robeson doing the vocal on "Ol' Man River." Rgodridge, I have half a dozen of Rev. Gates' 78s (and a CD), but I haven't heard "Women Spend Too Much Money." He's got some strange ones.... Okay, sorry, kitty, but it's back to the living room and the CD player now.

These three records are now on their way to me from Japan, much to my delighted surprise. I never thought I would see them, much less have copies to play. And since I was paying a good bit for postage anyway, I also bought a copy of Marion Brown's Juba-Lee from the same vendor.

Then it was a pretty good joke - shame on me for not recoginzing it as such. I like what I've heard by Namyslowski, too, but the only albums I have that he plays on are long-out-of-print Polish LPs by Michael Smith and the Polish Radio Jazz Orchestra. I need to get Astigmatic myself.

Martial Solal! I don't know what 50's/60's records by him are now available (I have a lot on vinyl), but I've never heard anything by him that's less than excellent. (I just looked on Amazon Canada - there's a lot there by Solal, but much of it seems kind of expensive.) And "non-American" jazz might be a better way to word it. "Un-American" has the connotation of "anti-American."

Rev. Johnny L. "Hurricane" Jones - Prayer Meeting at Sister Mary's House (Jewel). Kind of amazing. I kind find a picture online, which is too bad, because the Reverend's suit is as amazing as his sermon.

Okay, thanks for volunteering. The master list has been updated, and we are now covered through the first half of 2014. The rest of this year and the first half of next year look like this: #116 - Hot Ptah - November, 2013 #117 - mikeweil - December, 2013 #118 - Spontooneous - January, 2014 #119 - Hardbopjazz - February, 2014 #120 - Stefan Wood - March, 2014 #121 - Dan Gould - April, 2014 #122 - The Magnificent Goldberg - May, 2014 #123 - jeffcrom - June, 2014 Let me know if that doesn't work for anybody.

Dave Holland Quintet - Jumpin' In (ECM). I bought this when it came out in 1984. I hadn't spun it in quite awhile and had forgotten how strong it is. The Star Lite Singers - Footprint of Jesus (Hue). This incredibly obscure album by a Lexington, Mississippi gospel sextet might be my favorite gospel record of all time. It was Rev. Charles Pitchford's group, and the guitar (and bass, I think) is played by his brother, the great, ill-fated Lonnie Pitchford, one of my favorite latter-day Mississippi bluesmen. The vocals are deep, and Lonnie's accompaniment adds a further level of bluesy wonderful-ness. I bought a copy in Clarksdale 20 years ago; I imagine that it's pretty much impossible to find now. I don't often add to my blog these days, and don't often plug it, but I like my Lonnie Pitchford entry.

I remember seeing that one listed way back in the day, but never actually saw a copy. I have several 45s and LPs where Freddie Roulette is effective as a sideman. How does he do having to carry an album as a leader? Well, I suspect that producer Harvey Mandel (and maybe Tower of Power bassist and sports doper Victor Conte) had more to do with the direction of the album than Roulette. It's not a masterpiece, but I like it, partly because it's kind of oddball - an album of instrumental R & B featuring lap steel guitar. Sugarcane Harris is on violin on a couple of cuts. It's certainly not the kind of thing that's going to appeal to everyone, but it certainly appeals to me.

Too cool, Brownie!

Your post made me smile, Snowboy.

Freddie Roulette - Sweet Funky Steel (Janus)

Jerry McCain - Blues on the Move (Robox). Gadsden, Alabama's foremost bluesman on a pretty hard-to-find 1979 album. It's poised nicely between Southern soul blues and more traditional styles.

This again, chosen from among several local (Atlanta) gospel albums I was thinking about tonight.

Enjoyed that, rgodridge! Today it was gospel time among the 78s. Some of these were first spins of records I had found a couple of months ago, but which kept getting put aside in favor of others finds. I started out with some very cool stuff from the 1920s, than moved up to the 1950s: Bessemer Sunset Four - Rollin' Down to Jordan/Heaven is My View (Vocalion, 1928) Rev. A.W. NIx and His Congregation - Black Diamond Express to Hell, parts 1 & 2 (Vocalion, 1927). This is an amazing record. Rev. J.M. Gates - Adam and Eve in the Garden/Samson and the Woman (Montgomery Ward, 1926/27). My homeboy, recorded for Victor. The Kelly Brothers - Prayer for Tomorrow/God Said He Was Coming (Vee-Jay, 1956). "Prayer for Tomorrow" is pretty great. Bells of Joy - He's My Friend/Stop Right Now, It's Praying Time (Peacock, 1952) Bells of Joy - Let's Talk About Jesus/I'll Work, Lord (Peacock, 1951) Roberta Martin Singers - - Ride On, King Jesus/Grace (Savoy, 1958). One of my latest-issued 78s. Now excuse me, I have a train to catch.

Classic Capitol Jazz Sessions, disc 6 - inspired by rgodridge's playing of some of the Capitol Jazzmen sides on 78.

I was coveting a beautiful Edison cylinder player in an antique store the other day, but my wife would just go ahead and kill me if I came home with such a machine.

Herbie Hancock - Crossings (WB)

From the Lord discography: Billy May (tp) Jack Teagarden (tb,vcl) Jimmie Noone (cl) Dave Matthews (ts) Joe Sullivan (p) Dave Barbour (g) Artie Shapiro (b) Zutty Singleton (d) Los Angeles, November 16, 1943 Clambake in B flat Casanova's lament Solitude I'm sorry I made you cry Shorty Sherock (tp) Barney Bigard (cl) Les Robinson (as) Eddie Miller (ts) Pete Johnson (p) Stan Wrightsman (p-1,celeste-2) replaces Johnson, Nappy Lamare (g) Hank Wayland (b) Nick Fatool (d) Peggy Lee (vcl) Los Angeles, January 7, 1944 Sugar Ain't goin' no place Someday sweetheart (1) That old feeling (2) There was a Jack Teagarden session on the same day as the first Capitol Jazzmen session, with a different clarinetist: Billy May (tp) Jack Teagarden (tb,vcl) Heinie Beau (cl) Dave Matthews (ts) Joe Sullivan (p) Dave Barbour (g) Artie Shapiro (b) Zutty Singleton (d) Hollywood, CA, November 16, 1943 Mighty lak' a rose Stars fell on Alabama 'Deed I do

What I almost said earlier about track 4 is that if it wasn't Coltrane, then it was kind of disturbing. To put in the time and energy to imitate another musician (even a great one) so slavishly is so far from the way I think about music that it's hard for me to get my head around. On the other hand, go, Wendell Harrison! (And Jerome Richardson!) And thanks again for a very interesting BFT.

Worth picking up? Yes, and the CD issue has half of a "bonus" session with George Coleman. The other half is on Memphis to New York Spirit.

I'm in!

Lou Donaldson - Sophisticated Lou (BN). Not a masterpiece, but everything doesn't have to be.

I've really been on a 78 spree lately; here are some recent jazz finds. All of these except the last one are in really wonderful condition. Howard McGhee - Mad Hype/Rummage Bounce (Modern, 1945). With Teddy Edwards and Roy Porter. Barney Bigard Trio - Steps Steps Up/Steps Steps Down (Signature, 1944) Dave Brubeck Trio - Body and Soul/Let's Fall in Love (Fantasy, 1950) Dave Brubeck Quartet - Me and My Shadow/Mam'selle (Fantasy, 1951) Helmut Zacharias Jazz-Ensemble - Embraceable You/What Is This Thing Called Love (German Brunswick). With Rolf Kuhn. Billy Root - Our Love is Here To Stay/Easy Living (Roost). His only recording as leader until a late-in-life CD. I can't find any info about this one. Root has a good rhythm section; excellent piano solos on both sides. Anybody have any info about this? Chu Berry and Charlie Ventura - Dream Girl, parts 1 & 2 (Sittin' In With). What the hell is this? It's the first issue on this label, apparently, and sources say it's either from Philadelphia, October, 1941 or New York, September, 1941. It's actually a brutally-edited improvisation on "All of Me" chords, with a solo by each tenor player. The rhythm section is unidentified. Again, anybody know anything about this?

Okay, it's so late in the month, that I'll claim an ID on this, even though I "cheated" on my self-imposed BFT rules. It's this: Mr. Mangione's fourth album, I think, with the great Wynton Kelly on piano. I sure liked that track. And while researching it, I found that Mangione is the trumpet (or flugelhorn) player on the Byrds' "So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll Star" - a little blast from my own personal past. My understanding has always been that Hugh Masakela was the trumpet player on that one. My info was from Mangione's Wikipedia entry, so it may not be correct.

I don't have access to that interview - does Root talk about his first (and almost only) recording as leader, a 78 on the Roost label? I just found a copy of the record, but can't find any info - personnel, recording date, location, etc.