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Allen - would you know the name of the abovementioned trumpeter (was it Ernest Coycault?) - I'm currently listening to this CD (picked it up out of historical interest & I'm glad I did) - his band was "thrown" out of Australia in 1928 - interesting liner notes Coycault is who Allen is talking about. I've listened to the album again since he posted this - that's all I'll say, except that I'd like to know more about why Gushee thinks there's a Bolden/Coycault connection.

CDs arrived today - thanks for the quick service!

Happy birthday - a big one!

If it's that Nonesuch edition, that's a really well-done CD - recorded piano roll albums can be really bad. I had the Nonesuch CD, but I think the ex-wife got it.

Okay, you've got December, which finishes out 2013. You are down tentatively for February of next year. (I might need to open some slots for new presenters at some point.)

Art Blakey - Live Messengers (BN). Side one; I don't know why the Messengers' August, 1961 Village Gate live session wasn't issued at the time, but I sure like the two long tracks that eventually came out on this double album. Slightly later: Maybe the problem was technical in nature; there's some weird distortion in the second track, "Arabia," which I had forgotten about. Doesn't bother me - I'm really glad to have these tracks.

Laboratorio della Quercia (Horo). Sides two and four of this all-star avant-garde workshop big band album from 1978.

Bob Brookmeyer - 7 x Wilder (Verve stereo). Six Alec Wilder tunes and a blues from 1961.

Steve Lacy - Points (Le Chant du Monde). An interesting one, from 1978 - Lacy's tribute to the soprano saxophone. That's what all of his albums are, in a sense, but this is an explicit tribute to the instrument and some of its practitioners.

Joe Capraro - Dixieland Down South (GHB). A hybrid - A GHB record in a Southland cover. The record label calls it a Mike Lala record (he's the trumpeter on this 1958 session), but the back cover makes it clear that the session was led by guitarist Joe Capraro. In any case, it's a nice album, with Raymond Burke on clarinet on half the tunes.

Hopefully, this so-called "guide" knows that you should spend all your time on Bourbon Street, except for quick visits to t-shirts shops and chain restaurants.

Hank Mobley/Kenny Clarke - Hard Bop (Savoy)

Doc Evans & Knocky Parker - Classic Jazz at Carleton (SOMA). A 1954 concert at my wife's alma mater, a liberal arts college in Minnesota.

Louis Cottrell and His New Orleans Jazz Band (Nobility mono)

This was releaed back in the 1950s on the related Concert Hall Society and Jazztone labels. I've got the Jazztone album - it's pretty much over-the-top racehorse Dixieland. It's interesting to hear Nichols in this context, but I don't remember his playing to be very distinctive in any kind of "Nichols-like" way.

PM sent on: Julius Hemphill - Raw Materials and Residuals (Black Saint, non cdr version) $9 Woody Shaw - Little Red's Fantasy (32 jazz) $7

Jack Teagarden - On Okinawa (IAJRC). A decent (and decently recorded) 1959 concert.

No more calls, please. We have a winner. Oh yes, I'd say so, especially since it includes that ninth song. Actually, that and the first one would make a nice single...er...double....er...single........ Actually, Greg, those are bands/artists, not songs - this is apparently an anthology. This old dude has actually heard of about one-third of them. El Vez bills himself as "The Mexican Elvis."

The Compleat Bud Freeman (Monmoth/Evergreen)

Another of my estate sale finds: Wild Bill Davison/Eddie Miller - Play Hoagy Carmichael (Realtime). I actually already had a copy of this, but the one I found today was in nicer condition.

One of my Facebook friends works for a company that manages estate sales. Whenever she posts about a sale and mentions records, I try to go. I've never found anything worth buying - until today. The deceased was a jazz fan - mostly trad and big bands. There were even stacks of 78s - nothing very interesting, unfortunately. But I did buy an Evan Christopher CD and ten LPs, for a buck each. This evening I played the first three: Zoot Sims - Quartets (Prestige OJC) The New Orleans All-Stars - In Concert at the Dixieland Jubilee (Dixieland Jubilee/GNP Crescendo) Ralph Sutton with Ruby Braff - On Sunnie's Side of the Street (Blue Angel Jazz Club) The Zoot speaks for itself, and I had been looking for the Ralph Sutton record, recorded at his wife's club in 1968. The Dixieland Jubilee is disappointing, despite the presence of some musicians I really like - George Girard, Raymond Burke, and Johnny St. Cyr.

I've got a couple of those Everests. 'Back in the day' they were just about the cheapest jazz vinyl on sale. Yep - they were pretty valuable in terms of hearing some great music cheaply. They provided my first hearings of Eric Dolphy, Lightnin' Hopkins, Charlie Parker's Dial recordings (issued under Miles Davis' name), Bird's broadcast recordings, Mingus, etc. I still have the Sonny Rollins (with his Period recordings) and the Lightnin' Hopkins in addition to the Benny Carter; the rest are long gone, replaced by better issues. But I remember them with affection, particularly the three Charlie Parker live albums which were reissues of the Historical Masterpieces series.

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The Early Benny Carter (Everest); cheap issue of some wonderful 1936-37 British recordings.