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Wow. I wish I could have heard some of this, although I doubt I would have hung in for seven hours.

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Marion Brown - Afternoon of a Georgia Faun (ECM). Is there any else here who thinks that this album has not held up well? To me, only some moments work.

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Some recent finds - one 1947 New Orleans revival record and a bunch of 1930s and 40s swing: Bob Wilber's Wildcats - New Orleans Shuffle/I Can't Say (Rampart). One justification for jazz revivalism is to keep great tunes alive. I've always loved "New Orleans Shuffle," recorded by the Halfway House Orchestra in New Orleans in the 1920s. Red Allen - If It's Love You Want/Count Me Out (RCA Victor) Red Allen - Let Me Miss You/Check Up (RCA Victor). J.C. Higginbotham is on board. These two records represent a complete session. Wingy Manone - Corrine, Corrini/I'm a Real Kind Papa (Bluebird) Wingy Manone - Blue Lou/How Long Blues (Bluebird). These are all really nice; all have Chu Berry, and I had only heard one of these four sides before - "Blue Lou" is on an LP I have. Hearing "How Long Blues" solved a 30-year mystery for me. I had always wondered about the source of the "How Long Blues" used as the closing theme of my all-time favorite TV show, Frank's Place. Here it is. Chuck Nessa and Paul Secor, did you know this? Let Hite - Yes, I Love You / Varsity Seven - Shake It and Break It (Commodore). I had never seen a green-label Commodore before - I guessed they used this label for reissues. These are from the Varsity label, and "Yes, I Love You" is actually "T-Bone Blues," with Mr. Walker's vocal. Duke Ellington - The New East St. Louis Toodle-o/I've Got to Be a Rug Cutter (Brunswick) Barney Bigard - Mardi Gras Madness/Watch the Birdie (Vocalion) Jimmie Lunceford - White Heat/You Can Fool Some of the People (Vocalion)

Great record. Paul Bley - Axis (Improvising Artists)

They played a composed piece by Shirley, a long, excellent improvised piece, and Wayne Shorter's "Dolores."

Chicago guitarist Steve Marquette's improvising string trio, The Few, at Eyedrum in Atlanta. It was a good set, but I think I was more impressed by the opening act, the local cello duet of Benjamin Shirley and Chelsea Dunn. Besides, Eyedrum has no heat or air conditioning, and every time Marquette plays there he brings Chicago weather with him.

Bubber Miley and his Friends 1929-1931 (French RCA). Some weird stuff here, like the strange combination of Miley's growl trumpet with Leo Reisman's sweet band. But I like incongruity, and I like this album.

McCoy Tyner - Expansions (BN Liberty). This is sounding really good to me tonight.

Andrew Cyrille - The Navigagor (Soul Note)

Taft Jordan Plays Duke Ellington: Mood Indigo (Status labels in a Moodsville cover)

Anthony Ortega - A Man and his Horns (Herald mono). This 1961 album features Ortega overdubbing alto, tenor & baritone saxes, flute, clarinet, and bass clarinet.

Art Ensemble of Chicago - Full Force (ECM). Stirring and beautiful.

A bunch of 1920s country today. Some of these records are in rough shape, but somehow that doesn't bother me when listening to early country. South Georgia Highballers on Okeh Floyd Russell (aka Marion Underwood) on Silvertone. His "Coal Creek March" is a masterpiece. Louis Watson on Silvertone North Carolina Ramblers on Columbia Holland Puckett on Supertone Scottdale String Band on Okeh. (I only live a few miles from Scottdale, which was a cotton mill town east of Atlanta.) JIlson Setters (aka James Day) on Victor Walter Morris on Columbia Earl Shirkey & Roy Harper (aka Roy Harvey) on Columbia Darby & Tarlton on Columbia.

Schubert Trio no. 1 in B flat, Op. 99 - Thibaud / Casals / Cortot. The original U.S. issue, from 1926, and the oldest 78 album in my collection. Then the November, 1945 Bob Mosely Beltone session with Lucky Thompson and Charles Mingus: Vout Rhythm / Beggin' the Boogie Bee Boogie Boo / Stormy Mood

PM sent on the Bill Dixon box.

Jean Germain - The Chase (Bartok) / Hank Jones - Night Music (Dial). The Jones side is actually from a Howard McGhee Sextet date. Sonny Berman - Nocturne / Howard McGhee - Thermodynamics (Dial). "Nocturne" is really haunting. Sonny Criss - Blues for the Boppers / Tornado (aka Wee, aka Allen's Alley) (Mercury) Hans Koller Quartet - Up From Munich / Beat (Discovery). Jutta Hipp is on piano. Stan Kenton - Invention for Guitar and Trumpet / 23 Degrees North, 82 Degrees West (Capitol promo)

I'm really sorry this happened, but shouldn't we use this opportunity to class up the thread title a little? "To what classical music are you now listening?"

A bunch of New Orleans-related 78s: Lovie Austin - In the Alley Blues / Merry Makers Twine (American Music, from Paramount). "Alley" is a bad-ass slow blues. Sidney "Pops" Bechet with Noble Sissle's Swingsters - Sweet Patootie / Viper Mad (Decca) Basin Street Six - Everybody Loves That Hadacol / Those Same Sweet Words (Mercury) Sharkey (Bonano) and His Kings of Dixieland - Somebody Stole My Gal / With a Pack on My Back (Capitol). This is one of the quietest 78s I own - little difference from a mint LP. Sharkey (Bonano) and His Kings of Dixieland - Bourbon Street Bounce / Pizza Pie Boogie (Capitol) Armand Hug - Edna / That's How Much You Mean to Me (New Orleans) Santo Pecora - March of the Mardi Gras / My Lou'siana (Mercury) Santo Pecora - Mahogany Hall Stomp / Listen (Mercury) Santo Pecora - Basin Street Blues / Twelfth Street Rag (Mercury) All the Pecoras have George Girard on trumpet (as does the Basin Street Six), and two of them have young Pete Fountain on clarinet (as does the Basin Street Six). Fountain was an excellent jazz clarinetist is his younger days.

I was aware of that, but didn't want to go there, partly because I had every other track on LP. I've had a download in my iPod for years, but due to my age and inclination, it never seemed "real."

Corrected in my post. Same with the English title on back of my copy. And, yes, my suspicions that the American issue doesn't actually exist are based on the fact that I found so much incomplete and contradictory information about it.

Thanks for the info. And Steve, I also think that it's a very musically valuable and interesting collection of tracks. My use of the word "hodgepodge" was prompted by somewhat random nature of the collection - besides tracks from Dawn, there are tracks from Bethlehem, Roost, and Dial. I get the impression that some producer shopped around a bunch of tracks which were unissued or out of print at the time, resulting in this record and the Harmony album of the same title (Modern Jazz Festival). The Harmony has a bunch of tracks from some of the same sessions and is an equally interesting album. As far as rarity, part of me thinks that the American Jazztone Modern Jazz Festival never actually existed - or at least that it was pressed in extremely small quantities. In any case, I'm glad to have both records.

The Eagle Brass Band (GHB). A New Orleans-style brass band led by Barry Martyn, recorded in London in 1966. The personnel consists of half Brits and half touring New Orleanians. It's not the best N.O. brass band record I have, but it's notable for being the only full-length brass band album with Captain John Handy on alto sax.

Okay, Festival du Jazz Moderne (see post above) might have another pretty rare track, this one with John Coltrane. "Strictly Instrumental" is credited to Oscar Pettiford's All-Stars, but it's apparently a leftover track from the Bethlehem Winner's Circle album. If it's ever been on CD, I can't find it. Does anyone know if it's had a CD issue? Coltrane is not featured, but improvises the first bridge - a fairly complex and intense eight measures.