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Unfortunately there is no trace of any live recordings of the Al Cooper Savoy Sultans. Thus no real proof that the band was the Terror of the Savoy Ballroom. The band that even the Mighty Duke Ellington aggregation was afraid of competing against! I haven´t listened to this disc, but from what I´ve read, the seven recording sessions they did for Decca weren´t very successful, were they?

Yep. And I have all of it as well. Deus, you sure about that?? I have somewhere in the basement, some 30 or 40 vinyls of rare BG releases that came out on the Sunbeam label. Bought them years ago for 1 buck each. I'm sure you don't have those. I'll sell them to you for a fortune! (What are friends for ). And then, Deus, transfer them to CD-R and send them to me, please... you know my address That´s what friends are for! yup, and then we reverse the Belgrade-Madrid-Zurich connection to Madrid-Belgrade-... I guess you get the drift deus must have money, and if not, he can make some Hey, we could start a collection: Give Deus money to buy all those rare Benny Goodman discs... WE NEED THEM!

Yep. And I have all of it as well. Deus, you sure about that?? I have somewhere in the basement, some 30 or 40 vinyls of rare BG releases that came out on the Sunbeam label. Bought them years ago for 1 buck each. I'm sure you don't have those. I'll sell them to you for a fortune! (What are friends for ). And then, Deus, transfer them to CD-R and send them to me, please... you know my address That´s what friends are for!

Congratulations, Chuck! I still haven´t bought it, but I think I´ll order some Nessa discs after Christmas... and the Marsh will be included, of course! BTW: you don´t need to win any poll to gain our respect...

Dan Aldag wrote this in the last issue of DEMS bulletin:

BTW, what year Fletcher disbanded his orch? Quoting from various sources: -In 1929 the band travelled to Philadelphia to play in a musical revue called Horseshoes. During rehearsals for the show a dispute over White musicians' role in the production fractured the band and half of the orchestra quit. Henderson put together another version of the band. -The Depression took its toll on the band, and the increased competition from other orchestras (along with some bad business decisions and the loss of Coleman Hawkins) resulted in Henderson breaking up the big band in early 1935. -In 1936, he put together a new orchestra and immediately had a hit in "Christopher Columbus," but after three years he had to disband again in 1939.

No, not with Prez, Milan but... did you hear about this one? Guess so! http://www.rainerjazz.com/CD/Frog/DGF31.htm

Some more photos, from 30th Willisau Jazz Festival 2004 in Willisau, Switzerland on August 26 - 29, 2004 (Irene Schweizer, Fred Anderson and Hamid Drake)

I´ve just read he´s been often called the "Lone Prophet on the Prairie". http://www.ccchronicle.com/back/2000_spring/00may01/ae5.html

Some of you will criticize it (that old story ´bout Tatum only knew how to make it when playing solo and bla,bla,bla...), but I like the version on disc 5 of this treasure:

Giorgio Gaslini Jimmy Jones Jonah Jones Jimmy Johnson James P. Johnson Krysztof Komeda

... Billy Bang ... Barak beat me to it! Hey, nobody mentioned EKE?

Those Spaniards are krazy!

I usually file those "All-Star" reunions under the name of the musician with more discs in my collection. In your example, Ellington wins 150-30, more or less...

Yep, but I don´t put them under "Va" (from "various") but under "VV" (from "VVAA", "various artists")

B & O But I wouldn´t pay much attention to my criteria... B-)

I keep the blues albums in a separate section. Howling is filed under WOLF (not far from the WATERS, Muddy) I have them separately as well. But da Wolf is filed under H, near the HOPKINS, Lightnin´. Yep, I don´t seem to be very consistent with my filing criteria

And as I know you like blues a lot, brownie.... where do you file your Howlin´ Wolf?

The Luckey Roberts / Willie the Lion Smith disc LAL mentions is a real work of art, IMHO. Sadly, it contains some of the very few recordings by one of the great masters of stride piano, Luckey Roberts. Check the Solo Art CD "Luckey Roberts / Ralph Sutton" [sACD 10] for more.

Agustin, as far as I remember, somehow you've already have that book first published by Twain publishers, right? Ashamed to recognize I still haven´t read the book, Milan.

And since we´re talking about Prez, which biography or book do you recommend? -"Lester leaps in: The life and times of Lester 'Pres' Young", by Douglas Henry Daniels -"Pres: The story of Lester Young", by Luc Delannoy -"You Just Fight for Your Life: the Story of Lester Young", by Frank Buchmann-Moller or any of the ones written/compiled by Lewis Porter ???

Thanks for the clarification, Mike. I should have pointed it out. Lewis Porter also compiled the "Lester Young reader", right?

Thanks, Flurin. I received your mail. I´m afraid I won´t be able to attend your program on Sunday. But will access to it if it´s archived, be sure!

Well, I have to disagree. I don´t like Charlie Parker or Billie Holiday less because of their drug addiction: their musical legacy is unquestionable and I love´em both. But I want to know about their lives, to try to place their music, their recordings, in the appropiate context and circunstances. And same for Dizzy. I´m not going to like him less because he had a knife or he could have been a MF. He was a wonderful trumpetist. But I want to KNOW the facts, and not only that he was a human being. Cheers, Agustín

How Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, and Cecil Taylor Revolutionized the World of Jazz by Howard Mandel Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group (due out April 1, 2005) ISBN: 0415967147 Editorial Reviews (from Amazon.com)