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That's a great recording - maybe my single favorite Bechet record, but it's not really what Late is looking for. There's no saxophone on it (Bechet plays clarinet on it) and it's a full band performance, not a solo. Great record, though.

Nothing I haven't mentioned before: Papa Celestin's Original Tuxedo Orchestra - Hey La Ba/My Josephine (Regal 1200) Papa Celestin's Original Tuxedo Orchestra - Marie Laveu/Maryland My Maryland (Regal 1201) These are great - excellent New Orleans jazz on well-pressed, quiet surfaces. These might be the best recorded performances by the legendary Alphonse Picou. (I might change my mind tomorrow, but that's how they strike me tonight.) Jelly Roll Morton - Winin' Boy Blues/Honky Tonk Music (Jazz Man 11) Jelly Roll Morton - Fingerbuster/Creepy Feeling (Jazz Man 12) Excellent 1938 performances which were poorly recorded and poorly pressed. Great music; lousy-sounding records.

Flute Fever is a pretty fabulous album.

Sam River Complete Blue Note - the "Involution" session from disc 3

I posted this in the vinyl forum, but I thought it might go here as well. This was my 45 RPM playlist last night: Al Johnson - Carnival Time/Good Lookin' (Ron) The Wild Magnolias - Iko Iko/Smoke My Peace Pipe (Polydor) Professor Longhair - Go to the Mardi Gras/Everyday, Everynight (Ron) Rebirth Brass Band - New Second Line/Put Your Right Foot Forward (Syla) Chuck Carbo - Second Line on Monday/Meet Me With Your Black Draws On (504) Olympia Brass Band - Mardi Gras in New Orleans, parts 1 & 2 (Dejan's Olympia Brass Band) James Rivers - Closer Walk/Take Your Choice (Instant) Earl King - Street Parade, parts 1 & 2 (Kansu) Eddie Bo - Every Dog Has Its Day/Tell It Like It Is (Ric) Professor Longhair - Big Chief, parts 1 & 2 (Watch) Dirty Dozen Brass Band - Lil Liza Jane/Feet Can't Fail Me Now (Mad Musicians) Bill Sinigal and the Skyliners - Second Line, parts 1 & 2 (White Cliffs) L'il Queenie and the Percolators - My Darlin' New Orleans/Wild Natives (Great Southern) The Dirty Dozen single predates their first album and has never been reissued. The Rebirth single also has never appeared on an album. Bill Sinigal's little record was very influential in New Orleans when it came out in the 1950's - it turns a brass band standard into R & B; Ellis Marsalis is the pianist. Allen Toussaint is the real draw on the James Rivers record. And L'il Queenie's "My Darlin' New Orleans" is my favorite New Orleans single of all time. When I pull out the boxes of 45s, this is always the last one I play for the evening. When my wife heard this last night, she said, "Oh, Little Queenie - you're about to go to bed."

The Allmusic dates for Dragonfly are correct.

Exactly what I was going to suggest. Maybe Only Monk or More Monk.

Since I'm 500 miles from my favorite city, I'm celebrating Mardi Gras at 45 RPM: Al Johnson - Carnival Time/Good Lookin' (Ron) The Wild Magnolias - Iko Iko/Smoke My Peace Pipe (Polydor) Professor Longhair - Go to the Mardi Gras/Everyday, Everynight (Ron) Rebirth Brass Band - New Second Line/Put Your Right Foot Forward (Syla) Chuck Carbo - Second Line on Monday/Meet Me With Your Black Draws On (504) Olympia Brass Band - Mardi Gras in New Orleans, parts 1 & 2 (Dejan's Olympia Brass Band) James Rivers - Closer Walk/Take Your Choice (Instant) Earl King - Street Parade, parts 1 & 2 (Kansu) Eddie Bo - Every Dog Has Its Day/Tell It Like It Is (Ric) Professor Longhair - Big Chief, parts 1 & 2 (Watch) Dirty Dozen Brass Band - Lil Liza Jane/Feet Can't Fail Me Now (Mad Musicians) Bill Sinigal and the Skyliners - Second Line, parts 1 & 2 (White Cliffs) L'il Queenie and the Percolators - My Darlin' New Orleans/Wild Natives (Great Southern)

Another spin of this very enjoyable album.

And you gots to have "Carnival Time" by Al Johnson.

As I understand the science, sunspots can suck all the 1's off your CDs, leaving only the 0's. This will cause Willis Jackson to sound like Kenny G. And possibly vice versa.

This probably just puzzled AfricaBrass; I wasn't around in 2006, when he last posted. I've heard a lot about you, though, AB, and am glad you're back. And even after the accident, I still have three toes on my left foot. It's cool.

For Mardi Gras: Lee Allen and His Band - Walkin' With Mr. Lee/Promenade (Ember) Fats Domino - When My Dreamboat Comes Home/So Long (Imperial) Sugar Boy [Crawford] and His Cane Cutters - Overboard/I Don't Know What I'll Do (Checker) Frankie Ford - Last One to Cry/Cheatin' Woman (Ace) Paul Gayten - Fishtails/Confused (Regal) Paul Gayten - Ooh La La/Goodnight Irene (Regal) Chris Kenner - Sick and Tired/Nothing Will Keep Me From You (Imperial)

Thanks to everyone for your help.

Steve Lacy - School Days (Emanem). A wonderful record, as anyone who has heard it knows. My copy has the original one-page Emanem catalog inside - nine albums were available in the fall of 1975.

No, the other Red. The one who married that gal. You know. Yeah - dude owes me ten bucks.

Thanks, Jim! I have no problem ID-ing Touff, but don't have any experience with trombonists Moon and Dick Kenney. I also had that Pickwick LP - it was one of the first jazz albums I had, when I had fewer than 15 or so. I'm not sure what happened to it, but "Pimlico" and "Sentimental Journey" from Road Band brought back memories of it.

Thank you, gentlemen. J.A.W. (or anyone else), does the Mosaic booklet identify the soloists on: I'll Never Be the Same Gina Pimlico? Thanks!

Bump. Anyone willing to help?

"So Long," by Gil Evans, from the Ampex album - tenor by Billy Harper.

Happy happy!

Yeah, but you and I and the other folks here are the exceptions. We're going to do what we need to do to make our music sound good. Most folks have lost any sense of what good sound is. Maybe that's always been the case, but I think it's worse now. When I was a kid, my parents certainly weren't audiophiles. But the cheap-ish stereo we had still sounded pretty good.

This article brings out the crotchety old man in me - "You kids get those low-res mp3s off my lawn!" Only in the last few posts has anyone touched on the issue that bothers me about the new generation of music listeners. There's a big difference between hearing recorded music through computer speakers or generic iPod earbuds and hearing it through a good sound system and decent speakers. It doesn't matter how lossless your audio files are if the only way you hear them are through the speakers that came with your computer. I know you can play your iPod or computer through your sound system, but most people don't. From what I can tell, most younger folks don't even have what we old fogies would call a stereo. It bothers me that an entire generation doesn't really know how music is supposed to sound. Now let me get to the restaurant before 5:00 PM so I can get the early bird special.

As a frequent browner in the Ebay 78 RPM section, I know that that item has been up for a long time - renewed several times. That would seem to indicate that it's overpriced.

Right now I'm listening to Road Band!, a very enjoyable Capitol album by Woody Herman. The sleeve gives the personnel and recording dates, but doesn't identify the soloists. Some soloists are obvious to me; others are not. Would someone who has the Herman Mosaic Capitol big box check and see if the soloists are identified in the booklet and post them here? If it helps, the tunes are: October 13, 1954: I'll Never Be the Same Gina June 6 & 7, 1955: Opus de Funk Captain Ahab Cool Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Pimlico I Remember Duke Sentimental Journey Where or When Thanks!