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Some locally earlier in the year from Stereo Jacks. The others from the annual record bash in New Jersey.

It's material that I acquired during this year.

A few hours of deferred listening and cataloging of 78s: Jimmy Carroll and His Orchestra. My Melancholy Baby/The Sheik of Araby. Schirmer Records. [Alec Wilder arrangements] Hackberry Ramblers. Bonnie Blue Eyes/Just Because. Bluebird. Sidney Bechet and his New Orleans Footwarmers. Save It Pretty Mama/Stompy Jones. Raymond Burke and His New Orleans Jazz Band. Over The Waves/Blues for Joe. Southland. Sandy Brown's Jazz Band. Special Delivery/African Queen. Tempo. Alex Welsh and His Dixielanders. Shoeshiner's Drag/Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me. Decca (English). Benny Goodman Quartet. Whispering/Tiger Rag. RCA Victor. Benny Goodman Trio. Nobody's Sweetheart/More Than You Know. Texas Wanderers. Deep Elm Swing/You Gotta Know How To Truck and Swing. Tiny Grimes' Swingtet. Flying Home - Part 1/Flying Home - Part 2. Blue Note. Jack Teagarden. Love Me/Blue River. Brunswick (English) Chick Bullock. Take My Heart/These Foolish Things. Melotone. Mezz Mezzrow and his Swing Band. Mutiny in the Parlor/The Panic is On. Bluebird. Eddie Lang's Orchestra. Walkin' the Dog // Luis Russell and His Orchestra. Jersey Lightning [torrid! sounds amazing]. Parlophone. Thomas "Fats" Waller. I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby/Dragging My Heart Around. Parlophone. Sid Catlett's All Stars. Humoresque Boogie/Organ Blues. Manor. Jimmy Yancey. The Fives // Art Hodges/South Side Shuffle. Circle. "Fats" Waller and His Rhythm. Sweet and Slow/Lulu's Back in Town. HMV. Mel Powell and His Orchestra. When Did You Leave Heaven/Blue Skies. Commodore. Jess Stacy and His All Stars. Clarinet Blues/I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me. Commodore. Eddie Barefield's Quintette. Clarinet Blues/F' Taint One Thing It's Another. Sonora. Muggsy Spanier and his Ragtime Band. Lonesome Road/Mandy, Make Up Your Mind. Turk Murphy's Bay City Stompers. Kansas City Man Blues/Shake That Thing. Turk Murphy's Bay City Stompers. Brother Lowdown/Yellow Dog Blues. Sherry Magee and his Dixielanders. Shake It and Break It/Tin Roof Blues. Vocalion. Sherry Magee and his Dixielanders. Satanic Blues/Bluin' the Blues. Vocalion. Omer Simeon Trio with James P. Johnson (album set). Lorenzo's Blues/Harlem Hotcha // Bandanna Days/Creole Lullaby. Disc.

The samples on line sounded great, even on my phone. I was really looking forward to hearing them tonight. Sigh....

My package from ImportCDs finally arrived. Unfortunately, they sent me "Rhythm and Blues Christmas" instead of the NORK set.

I remember reading that New Yorker article at the time. 25 years?!

The NY TImes no longer owns the Boston Globe. The TImes sold it in 2013 to John Henry (who also is the majority owner of the Boston Red Sox as well as the Liverpool soccer (or football, if you prefer) team).

Happy Birthday Jeff! Have a great one!

A friend recently passed along a copy of a recent book by Walter Mosley. The main character in it is a retired New York City detective named Joe King Oliver.

The McKenna material excellent. I'm listening to it now.

On the plus side, Devers looked impressive last night. He's always an adventure on defense, though.

That's great news about the McKenna. Here's more information about it from the Arbors website: >>> Tunes: Too Marvelous For Words, Vernon Duke Medley, Craziology, Soon Medley, Exactly Like You, Detour Ahead, Time Medley >>>

Keep your hands off of Eovaldi!

The Odd Couple. Herb Geller.

Homeland used a performance by Tomasz Stanko as its theme in some seasons. Theme from the Avengers -- Laurie Johnson Orchestra; original theme was by John Dankworth, but the one by Laurie Johnson is the one I remember It looks like Brother Jack McDuff and Lalo Schifrin, among others, recorded the theme from Mannix.

There was an earlier thread about this. See here: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?/topic/6649-stuff-smith-set-no-longer-available/&page=1

It doesn't look like she had an extensive recording career. Outside of her recordings with Teddy Wilson, the rest appear to be big band sides with Will Hudson, Emery Deutsch, Isham Jones, and Raymond Scott. I don't remember having heard any of those.

Simosko & Tepperman show the following after the December 31, 1963 concert with Coltrane: - Sextet of Orchestra USA session on January 10, 1964. - TV broadcast of New York Philharmonic Young People's Concert on February 8. - "Out to Lunch" session on February 25. - late February: appearance at the "Once Festival" in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Plays there with a bass ensemble and with the Bob James Trio. Apparently not recorded. - Andrew Hill Sextet session ("Point of Departure") on March 21. - Town Hall (NYC) concert on April 4. - Gil Evans session on April 6. - radio broadcast with Charles Mingus Jazz Workshop on April 12 at University Aula, Oslo, Norway. Simosko & Tepperman don't appear to indicate exactly when Dolphy joined Mingus or when the group went to Europe. Presumably that information is available elsewhere. I found a reference to a concert at Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, The Netherlands on April 10, 1964.

It's the last performance with Coltrane listed in the Dolphy biography and discography by Simosko & Tepperman (1979 reprint of the 1994 edition).

The Delmark CD adds alternate takes of "Out of Nowhere" and "Chloe" that were not on the original Columbia LP.

Good choices all. You picked some of my favorites. There's something majestic about his Blue Note sides with Bechet. "Lord Let Me in the Lifeboat" springs to mind. With Bunk, my recommendation is to take him for what he was, not what he claimed to be. What he was is compelling enough.

The original issue of "Popcorn Man" was withdrawn shortly after it was issued, so the 78 is rather scarce.

When I saw Scott a few months ago, he said that the Goodman and Ellington estates had thus far been uncooperative with respect to allowing the issue of material from Savoy.

Slightly off topic, perhaps, but I thought I'd recommend two discs that focus on Shorter compositions: