Swinging Swede

Found this piece on an eBay listing: IMPORTANT NOTE: The mini-lp market is being infiltrated by counterfeit mini-lp CDs made in Russia. These fakes, especially when still sealed, are almost impossible to tell unless one knows what the genuine Japan original looks like or has one for comparison. Buyers at Disk Union have been fooled! The list of musical artists that have been counterfeited includes: King Crimson (21st Century UICE), Rainbow (POCP), Led Zeppelin (AMCY), Eric Clapton (UICY), Genesis (VJCP 1st edition w/ Virgin logo on Obi), King Crimson (IECP), Jethro Tull (TOCP), Deep Purple (WPCR-1563-1577), Black Sabbath (Victor), Creedence Clearwater Revival (VICP), Jimi Hendrix (UICY). So, BUYERS BEWARE! Purchase items only from dealers who can be trusted to sell only genuine Japan mini-lp CDs. Purchasing “Japan” mini-LP CDs from Russia, Finland, Byelorus, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Hong Kong, and China is risky. There are also dealers in the USA, UK, and Canada that are selling fakes. If the price of a mini-lp seems too good to be true, then it may well be a counterfeit.

Hmm, amazon.de lists these as "Kopiergeschützt", but the back covers do indeed not have any CP info. Well, if EMI Europe is starting to release CDs again after a three-year hiatus, it means they once again will offer products that I am interested in buying. Good for them.

The Blanton-Webster Band! Duke Ellington - Cottontail (1941) Watch those dancers...

Artie Shaw - Everything Is Jumpin' (1940) Artie Shaw - Concerto For Clarinet (1940) The two tracks above were with his new 1940 orchestra with strings. Now back to the 1939 band. Behold a young Buddy Rich who is prominently featured on this track: Artie Shaw - Shoot the Likker to Me, John Boy (1939)

Louis Armstrong - A Rhapsody In Black And Blue (1932) This was new to me!

More from The King of Swing: Benny Goodman - Medley: I've Got A Heartful of Music/Avalon/House Hop (1937) More from the Krupa/James band, plus the quartet with Lionel Hampton and Teddy Wilson mixed in too! Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Mel Powell - Stealin' Apples (1947) This is from a funny Danny Kaye film I've seen on TV a couple of times. Benny Goodman plays a classical musician who gets accustomed to jazz improvisation quickly to say the least. In the clip you can also see Louis Armstrong, Tommy Dorsey and Charlie Barnet, but they aren't playing!

Glen Gray & The Casa Loma Orchestra

Harry James & Jimmy Durante - Inka Dinka Do (1943)

Artie Shaw and His Orchestra (1938) Another movie short with Shaw's great late 30s orchestra. But this was recorded one month before both Georgie Auld and Buddy Rich joined (it's Cliff Leeman on drums). They perform Nightmare, Begin the Beguine, Let's Stop The Clock, Non-Stop Flight and Prosschai.

Benny Goodman & Peggy Lee - Why Don't You Do Right? (1942)

Woody Herman - Your Father's Mustache (1960)

Dinah Washington - All Of Me The Queen of the Blues live at Newport!

Cab Calloway - Blues In The Night (late 1941 or 1942) Cozy Cole can be spotted on drums!

Artie Shaw - Symphony of Swing (1939) Artie's great 1939 band with Georgie Auld and Buddy Rich doing four numbers: Alone Together, Jeepers Creepers, Deep Purple and a smoking Lady Be Good.

Stan Kenton - Southern Scandal (1945)

Glenn Miller - In The Mood (1941) Wasn't Al Klink discussed briefly the other day? He and Tex Beneke can be seen (and heard) here on tenors.

The classic edition featuring Gene Krupa and Harry James!

The great Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra in 1936!

Wow, lots of stuff I haven't seen before there! Count Basie, Zoot Sims & Roy Eldridge in 1979 Eldridge plays surprisingly well for it being so late in his career, I think. He had to stop playing the year after.

BBC gets wrong Guy - and gives cab driver five minutes of fame Patrick Barkham Saturday May 13, 2006 The Guardian Just get the guy, any guy, and stick him in front of the camera is, some fear, the philosophy of rolling television news. For BBC News 24, however, the bloke in reception waiting patiently to pontificate on a courtroom verdict turned out to be the wrong Guy. Guy Kewney, a computer expert, was waiting outside a BBC Television Centre studio to discuss the high court ruling on the Beatles' Apple Corps v Apple Computer on Monday morning. As he watched the news in reception, he was amazed to see "Guy Kewney" pop up on screen. Unlike the white, bearded technology columnist for IT Week, this "Guy Kewney" was black, and appeared stumped when asked about the US computer giant and its tussle with the Beatles over the Apple trademark. "Were you surprised by this verdict?" he was asked. "I'm very surprised at the verdict," he gamely replied. "Because I was not expecting that when I came." A BBC insider said the wrong Guy was a minicab driver, waiting to pick up the real Guy. When the producer went to collect the computer expert from a different waiting area, he called out "Guy Kewney" and the driver said "hello". He was then whisked upstairs to meet the BBC's Karen Bowerman, who asked the first question on live TV. There is only one Guy Kewney in Britain on the electoral roll. As the real Mr Kewney explained in his blog, the accidental impostor at first seemed "puzzled that anybody might imagine that the lawsuit had consequences". The BBC said: "Unfortunately we did make a mistake and the wrong guy was briefly interviewed on air before we cut to our reporter." Watch the clip of the complete interview here: http://img.dailymail.co.uk/video/cabbie.wmv Watch the cab driver's facial expression when he's introduced as Guy Kewney!

There are also two unissued Verve sessions from 1965. It has been discussed before, I think.

Medjuck was quicker than I! Should add that the Jazz Factory release can be expected to be a straight rip of the Soulard CD (as always with the Andorran guys).

But according to Peter Losin's excellent Miles Davis sessionography the dates on the Soulard CD (and jazzdisco.org) are wrong and the correct dates are February 16 & 23, 1957. The sound is very bad, but if you can listen through that, the music is great of course.

Turin in English.