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Rust will include Hawkins recordings up to the recording ban in 1942. Jean-Francois Villetard did a two volume discography of Hawkins covering through 1957. Not online as far as I can tell.

Pomeranz was not effective last night. Wright and Rodriguez are still injured, so Dombrowski was looking for another starter.

I assume you're asking about free discographies. How about Brian Rust's Jazz Records (6th edition): https://78records.wordpress.com/category/brian-rust-jazz-records-discography/

Yes, it's new.

Happy Birthday Jack!

It's out.

I was there a couple of hours before they put the bulk of them out. Had to be elsewhere before the rest came out. The jazz bins were surprisingly empty before then.

Bad news. A real shame. Dismissing it as "a legacy program" does it a real disservice. Sounds like what happened with NPR stations in the Boston area several years ago. Now we have two largely talk and news NPR stations. Some of us soldier on at the college/community station level where we're rather more insulated from radio consultants, ratings, and any pressure to "better reflect a news-and-information format." Sigh.

Anyone been there lately? I heard from a friend who visited a few weeks ago that their stock was way down. Wondering if it's worth a trip.

The exam for the class you never went to dream is fairly common. I still get that one once in a while. I also get the radio/dead air dream occasionally. The one that I get most often involves driving my car, needing to brake to avoid a collision, and finding that I'm sitting in the back of the car (from which the brakes are obviously, not easily accessible). Not comforting. I assume it has something to do with control issues. There's another one that I have trouble remembering later but, when I'm in it, I think "it's that same dream again!"

I was surprised by this move, but Hanley has not looked good lately. Moreland is hitting and playing better defense at first. Hanley had a vesting option for, I think, $22 million for next year based on at bats. He was well on his way to vesting if he continued to play anywhere near the amount that he had been so far. Still, a big surprise. Did not see it coming. FWIW, he seemed to be far more engaged this year than he had been earlier.

Lots of tree last names but not many well known first names. How about: Hazel Scott Holly Cole Holly Hoffman

Here are a couple more:

Allen, Received already. That was fast! Thanks.

I agree that the Keynote session is somewhat disappointing. It looks good on paper, but it really never gels. Sort of lackluster.

Ted, This 10 inch issue is from the period you remember. Note the reference to "CBS crime photographer's blue note pianist."

Allen, I'll take it. Is it Vol 5? Never mind. Just saw the no-5 in the URL. I'll still take it if it's available. Jon

Big Beat Steve -- You are correct. I was thinking of Teddy Weatherford with respect to recordings from India. Chittison recorded a fair amount in Paris -- a lot with Willie Lewis and on a session with Louis Armstrong as well. Here's a link to Jan Evesmo's discography/solography on Chittison: http://www.jazzarcheology.com/artists/herman_chittison.pdf There was an LP issue on Meritt that had a lot of his solo sides:

I can't give specific recommendations off the top of my head (at work), but a general observation regarding Chittison is that his later work veered more into cocktail piano style. His earlier work, though, is excellent. He had an interesting career. If memory serves, he spent time (and made recordings) overseas in places like Paris and India.in the 1930s.

I guess that's what you need to do when you keep trading away your best starters!

If you were a kid in NY in 1969, you'd remember him like this (blue, orange, and white): Yes, but the Red Sox loss on opening day (wasting a nifty 6-inning, 1-hit effort by Chris Sale) when the bullpen imploded (you need to take Joe Kelly out sooner if he doesn't have his control) was ugly.

The McIntosh pool towel will only set you back $45. Or you could spring for the $18 keychain. So many choices...

Bird is having surgery tomorrow. Expected to miss 6 to 8 weeks.

You can look at some pages of it here: https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Entertainment-Discography-1897-1942-Expanded/dp/0306762102 Some excerpts from the introduction (which is not available in the preview): >>> All artists? No, not quite that; a work of such a scope would call for a series of massive encyclopedic works beyond the means of all but the wealthiest collectors and enthusiasts. So where and how have we drawn the line? We decided that jazz and blues musicians, entertainers though they undoubtedly are, should be excluded, as volumes on their recordings already exist. (This accounts for the exclusion from this book of names such as Ethel Waters, Lee Wiley, Rudy Vallee, Will Osborne, George Olsen, Bob Crosby, and Maxine Sullivan). Artists whose fame spread through their records, and who in this medium were truly prolific, as as Billy Murray, Irving Kaufman, Edward M. Favor, Henry Burr and Ada Jones, seem to us to deserve a volume each. We are left with the minstrel pioneers, the vaudevillians, the film stars and radio personalities, and the straight actors and actresses -- some of whom even lifted their voices in song, some with delightful results that leave us wishing we had more, others rather less successfully, but with undeniably interesting results -- and these are the subjects of the hundreds of chapters in this book. A further qualification is that they should be artists of American birth, or of such stature that they are as well-known in America as in their own countries, here we can see in this book biographies and details of the records of not only American citizens such as Bing Crosby, Edwin Booth, Jessie Bartlett Davis and Dinah Shore, but Noel Coward, Beatrice Lillie, Maurice Chevalier, Conrad Veidt, Raquel Miller and Bert Williams. >>> If you have any particular artists of interest, I can let you know if they're included.