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Sam Musiker - Jewish Wedding Dances (Tikva mono). Wish I could find a picture of this wonderful cover - the second pressing of this great klezmer album from the 1950's. I found some pictures of the first cover, which is much less interesting.

Restless, unsettled, and in need of musical comfort food. So: Dave Brubeck - Gone With the Wind (Columbia 6-eye stereo). Duke Ellington - Ellington Indigos (Columbia 70's stereo pressing)

The Columbia "flags" label was one of the coolest 78 labels of all time. It didn't last long - they switched to a less-colorful (and presumably cheaper to print) label after less than two years. I've got that Ted Lewis sample record, by the way - more as a collector's item than a record to listen to.

It's funny - I don't seek out Kenny Garrett, but almost always enjoy him when I come across him. There's a three-tune sequence from his album African Exchange Student that gets all over me: "Mack the Knife," "African Exchange Student," and Donny Hathaway's "Someday We'll All Be Free." The rest of the album is okay, but those three tunes should have been the whole album; that sequence is just brilliant. I always have a lump in my throat by the end of "Someday."

So you got it? I forgot to check until a few minutes ago. I still have the music.

Dude! The few Brit Parlophones I have sound great.

Johnny Hodges/Wild Bill Davis - Wings & Things (Verve stereo). Oddly enough, Davis does not even appear on three of the eight cuts. Hank Jones plays piano on those tracks, so I'm not complaining.

I love this post. Just finished: Jimmy Smith - Open House (BN Liberty stereo). Casual, all too easy, just another jam session - but still just incredibly beautiful.

Cool! I've never heard Lehman play Jazz with a capital "J." I'm getting this one.

Okay, I've listened to the record enough over the past week to know what I think - at least for now. Here's my blog entry. I'd love to know what y'all think after listening to the recordings.

Yes, the other one is Anna Livia Plurabelle, the hour long 1966 radio opera. Thanks for any leads re B.E. ... I had been trying to dl this (Anna Livia Plurabelle) from Amazon for some time, and I finally bit the bullet and signed up to eMusic so I could legally dl up here in Canada. I wish I liked it more, but I find it really tiresome. I can't imagine listening to this more than a couple of times. In general, I really don't like vocal jazz; they leave me completely cold, including some of the real classics like Byrd's A New Perspective and Hill's Lift Every Voice. I might have been a bit better able to swallow this if the voices were Irish, but everything is spoke-sung with thick French accents. Just not feeling it... I have the Anna Livia Plurabelle LP, and don't listen to it often. But the last time I spun it, late at night, it got to me. It had never "connected" before that. Still not the Andre Hodeir album I'd take to a desert island.

"Spotted Dick is Pudding" was mysterious to me for a while, although our British members probably think that I'm pretty simple for being confused. I love Cecil Taylor's titles - they're like little poems. Probably my favorite is "One Too Many Salty Swift and Not Goodbye." I don't know exactly what it means, but at the same time I know exactly what it means.

Happy Birthday!

I still have it - on iTunes if nowhere else. I'll take a look tomorrow and send you a PM.

Okay, Bell P-144 by the Superior Jazz Band is most definitely not listed in Horst Lange's The Fabulous Fives discography. I spent some time with the 1978 revised edition in the library this morning, and the Superior Jazz Band's record isn't included, nor is Bell P-144 listed in the record index. (Bell P-140 and P-149, both by the Original Memphis Five, are listed.) Not counting the Superior JB record, Phil Napoleon recorded "Virginia Blues" twice in February, 1922: with Lanin's Southern Serenaders for Regal, and with Ladd's Black Aces for Gennett and related labels. Neither of these labels was connected with the Arto/Bell group of labels. And there was no listing for "Georgia" at all in The Fabulous Fives. EKE BBB, I don't know whether your source confused the Regal recording by Lanin's Southern Serenaders with my record, but it's obviously not the same. I would be curious about where his information came from. I have a blog entry about this recording (with a link to MP3s of the record) mostly ready - I'll post it tonight. I want to listen to my OM5 1922 compilation CD one more time first. I'm still going back and forth about Miff Mole....

Kid Thomas - Sonnets From Algiers (Icon mono). I couldn't find an online picture of the original Icon issue, but this early Jazzology reissue is close - the Icon is black instead of blue. Two of my favorite new Orleans reedmen are on board - Paul Barnes on clarinet & Emanuel Paul on tenor sax.

Jackie McLean - Tippin' the Scales (BN, first issue from 1984)

Jimmy Lyons - The Box Set (Ayler); disc one.

Thanks, EKE BBB. A local university library has The Fabulous Fives; I'll get over there and check it out this week. I'm continuing to listen; I burned all my OM5 from 1922, along with the Superior Jazz Band, onto a CD, to make it easy to hear these sides over and over and really get them in my ears & brain. My judgement as of today is that it's definitely Napoleon - with all due respect, I think Mr. Berresford's judgement about the trumpet player is incorrect. I'm less certain about Lytell and Mole - I'll get the tracks posted somewhere on the tubes of the internet soon so that folks here can listen.

Like others here, my tastes have expanded, but probably in different directions than many of you. My youthful love affair with rock was pretty short; when I was about 15 or 16 I discovered Bix Beiderbecke, Charlie Parker and Albert Ayler in quick succession. It's only been in the last few years that I really started listening to any rock again. A lot of the expansion of my tastes has been about the realization that there is a lot more to "soul jazz" than I was willing to admit in my youth. A propos of nothing except for Dan's video post about - I played for a year or two in a one-nighter band with Rick Brunetti, the drummer with Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods. Nice guy, good drummer, and he had some really interesting stories. His sly grin in the video probably meant something like, "Yeah, this song is stupid, but man, are we getting laid!"

Traditional Folksongs & Dances of Greek (Lyra mono). I found this sealed album, apparently from the 1960's, today, and feel like I won the lottery, in a small way. This could have been a tacky "tourist" record, but it's beautiful - the real deal. Among the twelve tracks, there are a couple of excellent vocals by Irene Konitopoulos, but the real gems are the three tracks by the great Greek clarinetist Tassos Chalkias. I love the clarinet tradition of the northeast Mediterranean - Greece, Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria, etc., and these tracks are primo examples of that tradition.

Sonny Rollins - Complete Prestige, disc 4: Work Time, the quartet with Monk, and the 1956 date with Miles.

A barbecue dog roams the neighborhood, hoping for handouts or stolen treats from backyard barbecues. I heard the phrase years ago, although a quick Google search didn't lead to any confirmation, but did lead to some disturbing stories.

Ralph Sutton/Bob Wilber - The Night They Raided Sunnie's (Blue Angel Jazz Club)

Bob Brookmeyer Select - Stretching Out, from disc 3.