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Chuck: I was referring to the LPs. I guess I had forgotten that the cd had bonus tracks. For some reason I thought the cd wasn't complete. I'll have to pull the twofer from the shelves and compare. You must be speaking of the lps - there are 2 bonus tracks on the cd version.

I agree that the Louis Cottrell album is a gem. Note that there's some additional material by the Cottrell trio that shows up on the New Orleans twofer on Riverside.

There may be another thread covering this year's bash, but I couldn't find it. This year's bash (2011) is later this week -- June 24th and 25th. Anyone else going? Some additional information: 37th Annual Jazz Record Collectors’ Bash June 24th – 25th, 2011 78s, LPs, CDs & memorabilia Buy, Sell, Swap, Trade, Schmooze Hilton Woodbridge 120 Wood Avenue South Iselin, NJ 08830 Rare vintage videos each day: Admission free with Bash admission or $5 each for film show only. Friday: Jazz collector and film historian David Weiner will present two hours of rare film, newsreel and TV clips, showcasing jazz and pop artists of the 1920s through the 1960s. Among the featured performers will be the big bands of Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Ben Pollack, Abe Lyman, Tommy & Jimmy Dorsey and the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra; small jazz groups led by Louis Armstrong, Kid Ory, Bill Coleman, Teddy Wilson and Mezz Mezzrow; soloists Johnny Dunn, Jack Teagarden, Eubie Blake, Johnny Hodges, Stan Getz, Jo Jones, Coleman Hawkins, Sonny Payne, Roy Eldridge and Frank Wess; and vocalists Alberta Hunter, Dick Powell, Astrud Gilberto, and the Mills Brothers. Plus “swing” cartoons, comedy and beat poetry! Also, after the films, rare record playoffs / challenges hosted by Henry Schmidt. Saturday: Ron Hutchinson, co-founder of The Vitaphone Project, will present a largely previously unseen collection of early sound jazz and vaudeville short subjects. Two different shows: First show from 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM and second show beginning at 8:00 PM. Both shows will include recently restored 1926-30 Vitaphone shorts. More information at: www.jazzbash.net

Bryant also plays a longer version of "If I Can Just Make It Into Heaven" on the following 1991 solo piano recording: "Plays Blues and Ballads" (Jazz Connaisseur JCCD 9107-2)

There's a double cd (AMCD-125/126) that features New Orleans string band music, including the complete recordings by the 6 and 7/8 String Band (some of which were originally on the Circle label). Very charming and highly recommended.

He plays "If I Can Just Make It Into Heaven" on the "Somewhere In France" album. I listened to it on my commute home tonight and had the same thought that you did.

Sigh. "Alone with the Blues" is a long time favorite. I've used it off and on as a musical bed for years.

Not a reissue but another Bill Charlap duo CD that I can recommend -- Bill Charlap/Houston Person -- "You Taught My Heart To Sing" (High Note). I've had this since it was first issued about 10 years ago, and still take it off the shelf about once a month for a serious listen. A 'desert island disc' for me. It's good to hear others will be able to enjoy it too...

From the notes: >>> A sideman date for Flip. Guitarist Nick Esposito, a San Franciscan, had previously recorded for samll California labels, and was best known for a 1945 session he led on Pacifc that included Barney Bigard. Indeed he seems to have been an Ellington fancier -- this was the third time he'd recorded EMPTY BALLROOM BLUES,a little riffer concocted by Duke and Cootie Williams for a 1938 Johnny Hodges date. He leads the ensemble, kicks off his solo with a break, and plays with a somewhat steel-guitarish sound and phrasing. On Don Redman's CHERRY, the guitar-led ensemble voicing is more effective. Esposito takes the first and bridge and leads off the solo order, again a bit twangy. There's a typically sinuous Benny Green bridge, and Flip has the next eight to himself before the leader resumes. This is the best work from the session, but SAN FRANCISCO BLUES plays out at a nice pace, with solo spots for Oscar Peterson, in his first appearance on this set (he takes two), and Flip and Bennie for one each, after which Espo picks for two. The concluding LOVE IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER has a nicely crafted intro, more guitar-led ensemble, swinging Peterson (already himself), more guitar, another bridge for Flip, still more guitar, and a concluding ensemble that recalls the Goodman Sextet's A SMOOTH ONE. (Esposito seems to have disappeared from the recording scene after this brief moment in the spotlight). >>> The timing for Empty Ballroom Blues is (2:33). Can some kind soul with this set in his/her posession tell me what it says about Nick Esposito and possibly other sessions of this guitarist for other labels? Any session notes?What is the Playing time of Empty Ballroom Blues, and what is the solo order? If someone could send me an MP3 of this track for comparison with another Esposito recording it would be extremely helpful ... Thanks in advance!

Yes, it was Eddie Condon. One of my favorite musical quotes. There is that quip that goes something like this: Speaker 1: Ted Lewis really can make the clarinet talk. Speaker 2: Yes, and it usually says: "Please put me back in my case!" :crazy: Who was it again who said that? Eddie Condon??

The master takes of the Edmond Hall sides were originally released on Blue Note 78s (BN 17 and BN18). They were issued as by the "Edmond Hall Celeste Quartet." The bassist on those sides in Israel Crosby. The 10" microgroove issue that you picture (BN 5026) includes an alternate take (and not the original) of Profoundly Blue along with the master takes of Jammin' In Four, Edmond Hall Blues, and Celestial Express. This issue also includes two tunes from another Edmond Hall session that does not include Christian.

Jeff: The Ted Lewis record on which Lewis says "Play it Ted" while Goodman is soloing on clarinet is "Ho Hum" (Columbia 2452-D).

At the risk of revealing some of my secrets, I just went to their website and searched. I'll defer to JSngry who has actually heard the recording. Some searching reveals that there are copies out their to be had if one is so inclined. The next questions are when and where it was recorded and under what circumstances.

I'm more inclined to agree with you that it may be another Don Wilkerson. Here's some more information: The record credits Brother Brown Publishing as the publisher. BMI lists the following information for Buster Brown Publishing: JERRY DON WHITE DBA BROTHER BROWN PUBLISHING 7406 LASALLE LOS ANGELES, CA 90047-2419 (213) 753-0861 Different address on LaSalle Avenue in LA but clearly a connection. Someone could presumably try to call Jerry Don White for more information. BMI lists several tunes under the "Low Down Dirty Shame" title, one of which is the one we're looking for: >>> LOW DOWN DIRTY SHAME (Legal Title) BMI Work #933881 Songwriter/Composer Current Affiliation CAE/IPI # WILKERSON DON NA 0 Publishers BROTHER BROWN PUBLISHING BMI 50834691 >>> I can't find any reference to Tomel records (if you re-order the letters, you get the beginning of Mel Torme, but I assume that's just a coincidence) except for this single issue (Tomel 101), and I can't find any reference to the album referenced on the 45. It may not exist. I would guess that it is not. The label states that this is from the LP "In the Shadow of the Blues" - has anyone here ever heard of this LP? Furthermore, the label gives a California address, and Wilkerson is known to have spent the last 20+ years of his life (he died in 1986) in Houston, Texas. My guess is that this record was issued in the 1970's or later.

Points well taken. I assumed that since Michael Fitzgerald included it in his discography, that he had some reason for assuming it was the same artist. Note, however, that he's listed on alto saxophone, while his "known" recordings show him on tenor. Someone needs to win the record and find out! I would guess that it is not. The label states that this is from the LP "In the Shadow of the Blues" - has anyone here ever heard of this LP? Furthermore, the label gives a California address, and Wilkerson is known to have spent the last 20+ years of his life (he died in 1986) in Houston, Texas. My guess is that this record was issued in the 1970's or later.

Apparently. See here: Don Wilkerson Discography

Bill Easley has more albums than the two you list below. In addition to those on Sunnyside and Milestone, he has albums for Evidence, 18th and Vine (two on that label, so he doesn't satisfy the criteria for this thread), and a recent release on American Showplace Music.

Ben Riley. Memories of T.

What about the earlier April 30, 1938 version recorded for Commodore by Eddie Condon and His Windy City Seven that featured Hackett? That's the one I think of first. Hackett also recorded a nice version of the tune for Decca on December 23, 1943 that isn't too shabby (but not as magical as the others).

The Danny Polo album is a nice set. I've had my copy for a few years and enjoy playing it once in a while. If you like the material as much as I do, you might want to know about a cd that was issued a few years ago (Retrieval 79051) that includes some additional material, some of which had been previously unissued.

I was also somewhat puzzled by the use of the term "needle drop" in this context. In any case, it doesn't appear that Columbia (or Sony or whoever now owns the material) is rushing out to reissue the complete Boswell Sisters (or the portion of the material that they own). The 1995 single CD that they issued in the Art Deco series appears to have used some metal parts (there's a reference in the notes to "metal or shellac parts"), but both CEDAR and NoNOISE were used in subsequent processing. Having access to metal parts doesn't always guarantee better results, as evidenced by some of the early 1940s Ellington sides from Victor that were reissued from metal parts with mixed results.

The box definitely looks worth getting, especially if it's complete with respect to their studio sessions. I have only one of the aforementioned Nostalgia Arts issues (Vol. 2), and John R.T. Davies is credited for the remastering. That disc contains material ranging from 1925 to 1932. An earlier (1994) CD reissue (Vol. 1) on another Carl Hallstrom label (Collector's Classics) contains material from 1931 and 1932, and JRTD is again credited with remastering. As far as I know, there never was a volume 2 in that series, and the relationship between Vol. 1 of the Collector's Classics cd and Vol. 1 of the Nostalgia Arts cd is unclear. Note also that there's another disc that may be of interest on Retrieval (The Boswell Sister, 1930-1935, RTR 79009). It includes airshots that most likely will not be on the Storyville box. Is there a listing yet of what the box will contain? I believe that the late John R. T. Davies did the transfers for the original Nostalgia Arts issues. Of course, sound quality is highly subjective, but a good many collectors would still consider Davies' transfers of 78s the gold standard for reissues. I have bought and cherished many Mosaic sets, but I don't think it's clear that the label has surpassed the level of Davies' work.

Lazaro: Here's some information from "All of Me - The Complete Discography of Louis Armstrong" by Jos Willems (Scarecrow Press, 2006): >> "The identity of the clarinetist on these Columbia sides has been a matter of considerable discussion and speculation for a long time. Hans-Georg Klauer and Iraki de Davrichewy have come to the conclusion after years of research that it is Jimmie Noone. This conclusion is followed here." >> Willems lists the same personnel on both the October 15 and 16 sessions in 1923 by King Oliver's Jazz Band: King Oliver ©, Louis Armstrong ©, Ed Atkins (tb), Jimmie Noone (cl), Lil Hardin (p), Johnny St. Cyr (bj), Baby Dodds (d). I'll give the sides a closer listen when I have a chance.

Several bios on the web say that he contracted polio at age 5.

Have you seen this: Don Freeman - The Musician The following appears at the end of that webpage: >>> You can see and hear Don playing his cornet on the documentary film “Storymaker” available from Clearvue/SVE. … and I still have his last cornet! >>> The following may also be of interest: Cartoon talk A quick search doesn't turn up any obvious references to recordings.