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My favorite all time baritone saxophonist is HARRY CARNEY. Yes, I know you´re talking about leading dates and solos... and Carney wasn´t a regular leader (wish he had been!) but: -first of all, I think he was the base and support of the Ellington reeds section... and this means a lot to me! -then he gave us wonderful solos here and there through the years (many years, a whole life he spent with the Duke). He was "more generous" in the early days and he hardly soloed at the end! -and he´s featured in many Ellingtonians small ensembles dates with the likes of Cootie Williams, Johnny Hodges, Rex Stewart... BTW: hear him playing in the 1938 Carnegie Hall Goodman´s concert!!!!!!

A great disc indeed... though I hadn´t heard much Smulyan, Cuber or Brignola before!

I discovered this wonderful label (and Frog, and Oracle, and Timeless and...) thanks to Lon and other AAJ posters... they´ll be damned till the end of times... once you start with one, you can never stop picking more and more!

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Is this what you see from your window, ubu?

??? The sun´s shining here! ... ... B)

A masterpiece, IMHO!

I´ve picked up these 7... planning to get some more! Good sound and interesting dates!

Black, Brown and Beige

I do like the Eldridge sides! Roy looks like he´s containing himself: playing calmly, softer than I´d ever heard him! It´s a superb disc, maybe the second one in my list, after the Webster! The Webster sides are simply wonderful. Ben concentrated on his tone, blowing a few notes, leaving Tatum to do the pyrotechniques... (simply I can´t fix my ears on the rhythm section...) Agree with ubu regarding the Edison/Kessel date... though Sweets is a favorite of mine! BTW: what a hazardous trip yours has been, ubu! Two weeks almost concentrated on Tatum... Danger of serious overdose!

And now FAKE and ILLEGAL STAMPS including Bono, Bowie.... and MILES DAVIS

Not a stamp, but a First Day Cover:

-Los Angeles (Brad Mehldau) -L.A. blues (Lightnin´ Hopkins)

-Los Angeles (Brad Mehldau) -L.A. blues (Lightnin´ Hopkins)

-Boppin´ in Boston (Charles Mingus)

-Jazzbo Brown from Memphis town (George Brooks) -Memphis bound blues (T.A. Dorsey) -The Memphis maybe man (Gillespie-Cook-Moll) -East Virginia, West Memphis (Charles Lloyd) -Memphis rag (unknown) -Madrid-Memphis (Javier Vargas) -Memphis (Cassandra Wilson)

-Chicago bound blues (Lovie Austin) -Chicago stomp down (Creamer, H. - Johnson) -Chicago (F. Fisher) -Sweet home Chicago (Robert Johnson) -Chicago 1987 (Jackie Terrasson) -Little Joe from Chicago (Mary Lou Williams)

-Kansas City breaks (John Lewis) -Kansas City stomp (Jelly Roll Morton) -Kansas City breakdown (Bennie Moten) -Kansas City shuffle (Bennie Moten)

-London blues (Brad Mehldau) -London blues (Jelly Roll Morton)

-New York city blues (Duke Ellington) -There´s a boat dat´s leavin´ soon for New York (George & Ira Gershwin) -The sidewalks of NY (Blake-Lawlor)

Thanks for bringing that one, b3-er! Sneaky bastards defeated!

Even at the risk of being a pain in the neck.... Autograph Musical Quotation Signed, 2 bars from his 1930 hit Mood Indigo, boldly penned on an envelope containing cancelled stamps of the Republic of Togo, two of them depicting Ellington.

And what about this English postmark???

Big Band Leaders BTW: wasn´t the Duke A BIG BAND LEADER???