Swinging Swede

Maybe I was dreaming this, but wasn't there also a "Herbie Handcock" screw-up on some BN CD reissue sometime in the last decade? Yes.

Then we have MMA fighter Rich Franklin, who is noted for his resemblance to Jim Carrey. He even has the nickname "Ace" (as in Ace Ventura).

Those Lunceford clips sound great. They managed to get some of the World transcriptions too. I guess the reason they couldn't access the unissued World transcriptions nor metal parts for most of the Decca material is the Universal fire some years ago. I'm still upset about that one. The file format of the sound samples certainly is weird. It ends in ".mp3" but doesn't seem to be real mp3's, but rather wma's. They thus can't be played in media players that usually play mp3's.

Michel Legrand and chess grandmaster Levon Aronian:

Chrome is a great browser and the one I primarily use nowadays. But the new versions of Firefox (4) and Internet Explorer (9) are much improved as well. IE9 is supposedly a lot faster than IE8. However, if you are on Windows XP you are stuck with IE8. IE9 requires Windows Vista or later!

Joe Roland & Gene Roland

Eddie Costa: Jubilee, Verve, Mode, Coral & Dot. And the Memorial Concert album was on Colpix...

No, no, no, that's Two Artists, One Album, Two Chairs!

Sad how both Lambert and his old partner Buddy Stewart were killed in car accidents.

Having it in stereo will be nice.

I haven't heard this album (yet!), but Lord says 'Live "Basin Street East"'. Was it recorded after the audience had left then (it happened)? Perhaps the tape ran also at the actual gig and the tracks are from that. Just speculations, but I now know what release to look for.

FWIW, Lord lists Noone on all of these four tracks and says that the personnel is taken from "King Oliver" by Laurie Wright. My Classics CD says "Buster Bailey or Jimmie Noone". Chattanooga Stomp was recorded on the 15th and the other three tracks on the 16th, so it is possible that the clarinetist was switched for the latter session. Two more tracks were recorded at the earlier session: Junk Man Blues and a first attempt at London Cafe Blues, but they remain unissued and presumably lost.

FWIW, Lord does not list these tracks anywhere in Shearing's discography. But, since it was a live recording, perhaps more material was unearthed from the same occasion? The question then is why the Capitol issue didn't include any extra material. But the Capitol CD was released eight years earlier, so the additional material could have been found in the meantime.

It was the first two tracks of the session. Perhaps Hank arrived late.