Swinging Swede

Same tour, but this was in Gothenburg. Yes, he scatted with Roberta Gambarini, the band was fronted by Slide Hampton, and I also remember Roy Hargrove, Paquito D'Rivera and former Basie drummer Dennis Mackrel. Excellent concert.

Nice catch!

FWIW, I thought it was funny. But then I like puns and how you can play with words that can mean different things. Perhaps there is a Scandinavian bent to it, where the same word can mean quite different things in Swedish/Danish/Norwegian, but you sometimes have that in American and British English as well. Anyway, it somehow reminded me of this YouTube classic:

Louis Armstrong & Kenny G

That will never catch on.

This saddened me. I saw James Moody with the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band in the summer of 2005. He was still playing fairly well, frequently smiling and also scatting on a number. I did not know that he went to a school for deaf. Must that not have affected his musical abilities somehow? I have heard of famous jazz musicians losing their hearing at later stages of their careers, but not having a problem all along. Moody went all the way back to the early bebop era, having first recorded with Dizzy Gillespie in 1946. Do we have any other musicians from the bebop era still living any longer?

Hey, that's the unissued Tyrone Washington session!

I think some of the best Dorham technically was with Bird. But I think he was the wrong choice as replacement for Clifford Brown in the (Brown-)Roach quintet. When he isn't playing it still sounds like the Brown-Roach quintet, but as soon as he comes in, he sounds woefully inadequate in comparison. Not that anyone really could have filled Brownie's shoes, but I read that Conte Candoli was offered the spot to replace Brown and turned it down, but that is something I could have seen work out much better.

J.D. King played with McGhee in Andy Kirk's big band, but then Lord has a separate entry for one James King playing tenor on McGhee's own recordings. I suppose it really is the same guy. There are some hot tenor battles with Teddy Edwards on the McGhee tracks, if memory serves me right. Otherwise he shows up as sideman on a handful of sessions in the late 40s, but the Tampa album seems to be the last mark he made discographically.

Well, one would think so, but the noughties started on January 1, 2000, and the 201st decade ended on December 31, 2010. So you do the math!

Well, are any more reissues coming out from Blue Note at all? I don't think there have been any since 2008.

Yes, sometimes the AMG search just doesn't work properly. I have noticed it several times, but it seems to be temporary problems.

There are few sounds in music that are more familiar to me than Johnny Hodges's alto sax.

Yes, when it concerns sensitive login information, the rule is to always log in yourself and not through a link in an e-mail that you can't know the source of. And as sonnymax said, you can right-click and view the source to see what the real URL is. It doesn't have to be the same as the text that is showing. To give a harmless example, the link below does not take you to Paypal, but to Amazon. It could have been something much worse. http://www.paypal.com

Are you sure about that? Both jazzdisco.org and Lord seem to say that Bad! Bossa Nova was the original title, and Jungle Soul the later one.

Sorry, I might be slow in understanding, but I still don't see why you're asking this... is there any evidence anywhere suggesting Coltrane is NOT on this tape anywhere? How about the first post in this thread?

More concerts released: Newport Jazz Festival 1955 Teddi King *Woody Herman & Erroll Garner Newport Jazz Festival 1972 Freddie Hubbard Quintet Oscar Peterson Newport Jazz Festival 1973 Benny Goodman Quartet Donny Hathaway Herbie Mann Group Ruby Braff-George Barnes Quartet *This concert has been removed, but not before someone had commented that Woody Herman and Erroll Garner sounded remarkably like Paul Desmond and Dave Brubeck... The Benny Goodman concert reunites the original quartet for what must have been the last time. Gene Krupa was very ill and would die just a few months later. An eyewitness account relates that Krupa fell over his drumset when Hampton patted him on his back at the end of the concert, and he had to be helped up.

This session has been discussed before: So it is not Coltrane any more?

BLP 1518 was a reissue of two 10" albums, BLP 5058 and BLP 5062, so chewy has a point. Here are the originals:

OK, here is a serious question: If Macs have always been that much better (and I am not necessarily disputing that they have), why haven't they become dominant on the market a long time ago?

I think you're confused... I'm leaning towards that conclusion too. At this point it seems like the memory is a mixture of different albums. For example, I found a pink album called Live At The Copa, which has a (different) Jobim tune! (The Boy From Ipanema)

The Beatles!?