Swinging Swede

Classics has released 13 Cab Calloway CDs covering his complete output 1930-1955. Many of them may be OOP now, but perhaps not impossible to find. I'm not a fan of Calloway's vocals, but his band was one of the best, and especially the late 30s-early 40s edition with Chu Berry, Dizzy Gillespie, Cozy Cole, Milt Hinton and others was great.

What was wrong with my reply here?

Baby Face Willette (org) + others unknown c. late 1965 14267 When lights are low (unissued) Cadet 14268 After hours - 14269 Soul elevation - 14270 Get to steppin' - 14271 I got a woman (incomplete) - I think this session was brought up at the old Verve board, but the board members obviously knew more about it than Mark@Verve. I don't remember if we came to any conclusion whatsoever whether the tapes were lost or stíll existed.

I hear he shot J.R. too. Monterose? Yes. And it has never been possible to establish exactly where he was when Wardell's body was found in the desert. And who pushed Brew down those stairs? And who secretly put the bullets in the gun Maini had seen empty the day before? Someone didn't like saxophonists, I'd say.

Art Blakey

This was settled back in 2003: Organissimosiosos

And who can forget this Capitol session where the whole point was that all played instruments they weren't associated with: TEN CATS AND A MOUSE Los Angeles, October 13, 1947 Dave Barbour (tp) Billy May (tb) Bobby Sherwood (tb) Paul Weston (cl) Eddie Miller (as) Benny Carter (ts) Dave Cavanaugh (bari) Red Norvo (p) Hal Derwin (g) Frank DeVol (b) Peggy Lee (dr)

Tenor sax was Stitt's primary instrument after 1948.

I bought my copy many years ago and it doesn't skip. But I also have a Euro copy.

Sound is indeed not the problem (at least not initially). Longevity is. 25-year-old CDs still play fine, unless there was a manufacturing error, but CD-Rs can go bad in a few years. By the way, I think this will be a problem at Amazon marketplace and eBay from now on. A buyer may think he will get the original CD release, and then when he opens it, it turns out to be the CD-R version.

Perhaps to confuse matters from a legal viewpoint. Let's see, we have: Fresh Sound Blue Moon Cool & Blue Definitive Lone Hill Jazz Gambit Jazz Factory Swing Factory Soundtrack Factory Free Factory Essential Jazz Classics Fine And Mellow Swing Hat Groove Hut Jazz Beat Jazz Track Jazz Collectors Jazz Connections Jazz Lips Jazz Row RLR and then I think they have several DVD labels also. I haven't followed those as closely, but are these all "Andorran" labels? 20th Century Jazz Masters Impro-Jazz Jazz Casual Jazz Memories Jazz Movie Classics Jazz Music Performances Jazz Options Jazz Shots Jazz Vip Rhapsody Films Salt Peanuts Standing Oh!vation Stars Of Jazz Swing Era This Is DVD Jazz True Giants Of Jazz

And with Herbie Handcock.

A new scheme?

Harry James's theme song was Ciribiribin.

It was played by that famous jazz musican who had a father who was a guitarist for

Duke Ellington's A Nite At The Cotton Club from 1929. This must be the earliest example.

Dave Brubeck's Jazz At The Black Hawk has 1(!) track recorded at the Black Hawk. The rest is either the Surf Club, studio or Bill Bates's home!

George Lewis's Blue Note album Concert! is mostly studio-recorded.

Those tracks were also on the Classics CD 1948-1949.