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i found this picture yesterday. royal roost, 11.december1948- you can see the instruments of the charlie ventura group who was together with billy eckstine and charlie parker at the royal roost. from this date airchecks exsist on savoy. keep boppin´ marcel

i think, it was al haig?! keep boppin´ marcel

Are these Royal Roost airchecks equal to my 1948 live recordings with Fats' Gang? You can listen here Keep swinging Durium yes, they are. but it was tadd dameron´s "gang". (and on anita´s recordings is unfortunately no fats navarro.) wonderful, timeless, stylish bop vocals. keep boppin´ marcel

she was one with absolutly her own style. love the airchecks with her from the royal roost from 1948.

i like "the national anthem of bop": "how high the moon". and beside that, i think the melodie from the russian anthem is very pretty. keep boppin´ marcel

and don´t forget carl woideck´s book about charlie parker. it has a good biography and also goes throught his recordings. second i would take the new brian priestley book "chasin´ the bird", it´s a little bit more in his music. i don´t like russ russell´s "bird lives". too much false "facts" and uncorrect. so, if you want to start with bird, take woideck and priestley! keep boppin´ marcel

"the hawkins-riff": here´s my old list of that riff from 1937 - 56: hawkins used in more or less complete form in the following recordings: paris, 28.april37: crazy rhythm (all star-jam band with benny carter and django reinhardt) hilversum, 14.june38: swingin in the groove (trio with freddy johnson and maurice van cleef) 2 takes savoy ballroom, nyc, 09.january39: one o´clock jump (chick webb orch. tp used riff: ?dick vance or bobby stark or taft jordan) without hawkins! nyc, 16.january41: one o´clock jump (metronome all-star band) chicago, 10.april41: feedin´ the bean (count basie orch.) 2 takes nyc, 04.december43: esquire bounce (leonard feather´s esquire all stars) nyc, 08.december43: hawkins barrelhouse (hawkins orch. for signature) nyc, 08.december43: bechet parades the blues (st. louis blues) (sidney bechet and his v-discers) without hawkins! nyc,24.may44: three little words (his sax ensemble with tab smith, don byas and harry carney for keynote) nyc,14.june44: stompin´ at the savoy (cozy cole/hawkins all-stars for savoy) nyc,01.december44: scram! (leonard feather´s all-stars) hollywood,feb./march45: mop, mop (afrs jubilee 122) nyc,15.january46: look out (metronome all-stars, harry edison,tp, plays the riff) without hawkins! nyc,18.january56: the bean stalks again (billy byers orch.) i´m not a musician but hawkins´ title "stuffy" has also something from that riff. so i think you can credited it to coleman hawkins. keep boppin´ marcel keep boppin´ marcel

It's out: http://www.gullin.net/Gullin.pdf Gullin website with CD discography: http://www.gullin.net/nyintro.htm that´s great news!!! thanks for information!! keep boppin´ marcel

medjuck, that´s interesting! i try to find also out where this "hawkins riff" is coming from for years. i´m not at home now but tonight i will look at my list and write down all hawkins´s recordings where he used that riff. it goes back to the 30´s in holland! and there´s one live recording with chick webb´s band where (i think taft jordan on trumpet) is playing it. makes fun to find out such things. keep boppin´ marcel

yes, i know and use this link to the visarkiv sometimes for discographical informations. but i wonder when the long awaited lars gullin discography by pär rittsel is comming out!? and the caprice boxes are great!!! keep boppin´ marcel

thanks for info! that´s great news! all their cd´s are wonderful. (in sound and presentation) keep boppin´ marcel

brownie lives! and again: enjoy the only known film of clifford brown here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo5giymiLj8 keep boppin´ marcel

brownie, i also wish you a happy birthday with a lot of good music! all the best. keep boppin´ marcel

this is the newest issue of the gillespie berlin concert on mps. for € 4,99 !!! coming out tomorrow. unfortunately without the little kid.... keep boppin´ marcel

that´s interesting with joe, joe and joe (i mean thomas.. :-) look what i´ve found here: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...mp;category=157 are there any recordings of "foots" and his sax quintet?

They are very nice recordings indeed. I have the old Prestige LP you show in the photo and I have been enjoying it for a long while. BTW, it looks like Foots Thomas was one of the saxophone teachers of Jackie McLean (according to Eugene Chadbourne in the All Music Guide). Luca yes, and wasn´t joe thomas his trumpet playing brother? with jimmie lunceford and on a fine session with jonah jones and the keynoters? seems that they come from a music family. keep boppin´ marcel

yes, and here is more: http://www.fenn-music.de/shop/31_sonderakt...itel=&label keep boppin´ marcel

speaking of walter "foots" thomas: the four sessions (31 tracks with various breakdowns and alternative takes) with his "jump cats" or "orchestra" from 1944 and 1945 for the "joe davis" label are one of my all-time favourits. it is wonderful arranged music and they swing like mad! along with great musicians like Budd Johnson, Jonah Jones, Oscar Pettiford, Specs Powell, Slam Stewart, Ben Webster, Charlie Shavers, Eddie Barefield, Cozy Cole, Coleman Hawkins, Emmett Berry, Doc Cheatham, Clyde Hart, Milt Hinton, Hilton Jefferson, Teddy McRae, Billy Taylor and Milt Yaner. i was delighted when i found all the alternate takes on the "neatwork" label because the old "harlequin" lp´s are so hard to find! this is fine music and for all who don´t know this sessions - go for it!!! keep boppin´ marcel (sorry for my enthusiasm, but i was happy to read "foots" thomas name here!)

i think this is the most entertaining book for you:

bonjour, here you can find the newsreel from the wedding: http://www.gaumont-pathe-archives.com/FR/2...p;x=36&y=10 keep boppin´ marcel

welcome on board, norman! keep boppin´ marcel

i don´t think so. i have the information from here: http://www.bigband-era.com/ keep boppin´ marcel

buddy schutz, 92 years old. drummer in the Miller band of 1937 that didn't make it....Goodman in '38 and '39 (replacing Dave Tough).... and Jimmy Dorsey through the war. still alive! keep boppin´ marcel

fascinatingly!!! thanks for the great links. from this color pictures you get a more realistic view of that times. keep boppin´ marcel

here you can read the first 28 pages of his biography. and the cover is different from the others shown here. http://www.liquidatorgraphics.com/culture/ipaidmydues1.htm click on the "next arrow" to continue to read. keep boppin´ marcel