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This is from Ellington '66, an album of pop tunes, including two Beatles songs. It's pretty cool to hear Cootie Williams growling "I can't stop loving you...." There are a couple of passages of trombone duets - Lawrence Brown playing the melody and Buster Cooper (I think) wailing over and around it. Johnny Hodges has some nice spots, and Sam Woodyard keeps up a great shuffle - light, but intense - throughout. This performance is a hoot.

Hank Mobley - Third Season (BN "Rainbow" Series)

Scored a stack of 78s in Augusta, Georgia yesterday - jazz and "hot dance" from the twenties and thirties. The highlights: Six Brown Brothers Saxophone Sextet - Darktown Strutters Ball/Van Eps Trio - Rasberries (Victor, 1917). Nice raggy pre-jazz. Leona Williams and Her Dixie Band - Mexican Blues/Uncle Bud (Columbia, 1922). Her "Dixie Band" is the Original Memphis Five, one of my favorite bands from the 20's. Broadway Broadcasters - That Certain Party/No Man's Mamma (Cameo, 1925). One of those anonymous dance band 78s that sometimes turn out to be pretty good. Red Nichols has a solo on side one, and there's a trombone solo on side two that sounds like it might be Miff Mole. Harry Reser - Heebe Jeebes/Ukulele Lady (Columbia, 1925). Pretty cool banjo solos - not jazz, exactly, but very modern for the time. Very well recorded, too. Lucille Hegamin - No Man's Mamma/Dinah (Cameo, 1926). Pretty good vaudeville/jazz singing. None of the authorities seem to know who was in the band, but the clarinet player is good. Chick Bullock and His Levee Loungers - Darkness on the Delta/Gene Kardos and His Orchestra - Goofus (Conqueror, 1932/33). Some of the discographies I looked at suggested that "Darkness" may have Bunny Berigan on board. There's a beautiful trumpet solo, but it's obviously not Berigan - Sterling Bose, maybe? Duke Ellington - Solitude/Moonglow (Silvertone, 1934). This one is a bit of a mystery. Silvertone was a Sears store label, but they weren't supposed to be active in 1934, when Conqueror was the Sears label. I'm guessing this is a 1940's reissue of the 1934 Brunswick record - it's the same takes as on the Mosaic box. There was one modern jazz record in the stack: Milt Page Trio Featuring Oscar Pettiford - It's Only a Paper Moon/Soda Pop (Manor, 1944). This is a Nat Cole Trio-styled group. OP is credited on the label, and has a great solo on "Soda Pop."

I got all excited for a moment when I saw the thread title - I thought, "At last, a forum thread for the likes of me!" I can't answer your question, though. Because I'm a dim bulb.

I've got the vinyl.

Paul Jeffrey is the saxophonist.

Marcello, I'm trying in vain to turn this up under Amazon or elsewhere--any ideas on how I find it? Thanks. Since I bought it in Europe, I checked on Amazon UK.

The Clarinet Artistry of Jack Maheu (Fat Cat's Jazz). Great playing by a clarinetist who, as far as I can determine, is now in a personal care home in New Orleans.

Flowing logically from the above: Michael J. Smith - Geomusic III-PL (Poljazz). With Zbigniew Namyslowski and Jacek Bednarek.

Jazz Studio Orchestra of the Polish Radio - Polish Jazz (Muza). A really excellent 1969 big band album; Tomasz Stanko is the major soloist, and wrote a couple of the pieces. Zbigniew Namyslowski is the only other name I recognize, and he's not even listed in the personnel listing, although he's credited with one of the solos.

A few Piedmont blues discs today: Brownie McGhee - Workingman's Blues/Step It Up and Go No. 2 (Okeh). The label calls him "Blind Boy Fuller #2." Side one has some great Sonny Terry harp. Sonny Terry - Lost John/Fox Chase (Library of Congress). Wild! Gabriel Brown - Down In the Bottom/Bad Love (Joe Davis). Nice raw blues from 1943.

Thanks for listening, Ubu. I won't respond to every one of your comments, because I'm starting to repeat myself, and because you're obviously read the rest of the thread by now. Nice job recognizing Garrett on #6, and you at least suspected that it was the Messengers. Your reaction to #8 was exactly what I was hoping for with this track. A lot of folks have picked up on the Ayler-esque quality. It is a tenor, though - the sound is so unusual that I can see it being hard to tell. You are the first listener to pick up on the "street" roots of the drumming on #9. To me, the drumming is one of the the things that elevates this track above the common level of this style. Apparently a lot of folks disagree. That's a tenor there, too. I really enjoyed reading your comments about #11, but it's not Tadd Dameron. I have done the same thing in blindfold tests - thought I recognized someone and made logical assumptions about the personnel which turned out to be wrong, because my initial guess was wrong. So it's not Fats, Eager, Ernie Henry, Shihab, or Tadd. It is a great track, though, isn't it? Some of the other tracks have been identified by now, as you know. I enjoyed reading your comments - even your wrong guesses showed insight.

Gene Ammons - Bad Bossa Nova, or Jungle Soul, or Ca'Purange, or whatever it's called. (My mono Prestige copy has all three titles in different places. Whatever it is, "Ca'Purange" is a bad-ass tune.

Maybe off-topic, but this might be a good place to point out that the 1955 Paul Barbarin session reissued in the Mosaic Complete Atlantic New Orleans Sessions has a couple of tracks that are different in their mono and stereo versions. Mosaic just used the stereo takes.

TTK, some years ago I got a promo without the booklet of his album Time's Mirror. Perhaps you are thinking of that one. I enjoy it. I don't know who did the arranging. Tom Harrell did all the arrangements on Time's Mirror.

Okay, what am I supposed to do with this? Well, me. Michael J. Smith Steve Lacy

Brother Jack McDuff - Screamin' (Prestige mono)

My newly-arrived replacement copy of disc 6 from the new Ellington set.

Ouch! That's great that Mosaic is replacing the disk, but still, OUCH! Hopefully you'll get the disk soon! Just arrived!

What a coincidence - I just picked up the fabulous Bar Wars by Willis Jackson in a used CD store today. The same store had a Woody Shaw which I already had. I found Fathead Newman's Captain Buckles on Label M a few months ago, and Turkish Woman at the Baths by Pete LaRoca a few months before that. But Atlanta has so many places that sell used CDs that all sorts of things show up. Bar Wars is taking the top of my head off, by the way. I should have had this one years ago.

Wardell Gray/Dexter Gordon - The Chase and the Steeplechase (MCA). Side one is Wardell & Dexter from a 1952 Just Jazz concert; side two is a nice set of studio recordings by Paul Quinichette.

Thesaurus of Classic Jazz (Columbia); Disc 2 of this great 1959 four-record set - Miff Mole and his Molers.

The Duke of Iron Danielle Steel Horace Silver

Track 8 predates Ellery Eskelin by a bit. Thanks for listening; glad there was some stuff you liked.

Nope, just the master.