Swinging Swede

That blog also talks about another new Armstrong release, recorded at Basin Street in May 1955, right after Satch Plays Fats had been completed. It is coming out on the Mr. Music label in just a few days.

Listen to samples here. Ella Fitzgerald plays harmonica on the last track. I have never heard that before!

Cootie Williams in later years.

Yes, the first link also includes releases from the other Jazz Hour label, which specialized in unissued live big band recordings from the Swing era (mostly). No relation whatsoever between those labels, although they frequently get confused in eBay listings etc. The Jazz Hour With label always seemed like a shoddy bootleg label to me, drawing from various other sources.

Harry "Sweets" Edison

Hint, hint, hint... Whatever became of the "Discovery" series?? Anybody know what Andrew Hill and/or Wes Montgomery recordings were being prepared for release, and is any of that still in the pipeline? FWIW, Freddie's "Without a Song" came out in June '09. There have been no "vault" releases from Blue Note in three years, due to some EMI decision that Cuscuna can't do anything about. But since the Montgomery now is coming out on Resonance with Cuscuna's involvement, it is probable that the Hill will follow later.

OK, can he then also bring us the Buddy Bolden cylinders ASAP?

from here Thanks for the link. Very interesting article. I must quote the conclusion of that story:

I first posted on the old BNBB back in 1999, asking something about Louis Smith. Time flies.

The way I have understood it, it was a bit more complicated and the split didn't happen until later. Cobblestone was a subsidiary of Buddah Records. The Fields/Schlitten Cobblestone albums were made in 1971-72. In 1972 they left to form the new independent label Muse, which conceptually continued in the same way as Cobblestone. It may be that Fields was the sole owner, but Schlitten was still listed as producer in the early years. Later they split with Schlitten forming Xanadu. You'll notice that the first Xanadu albums weren't made until 1975, a full three years after Muse had been formed. Apparently Schlitten got the rights to parts of the Muse catalogue. For example, the very first Muse album, James Moody's Never Again!, was reissued on a Xanadu CD with three previously unissued tracks from the same session as James Moody And The Hip Organ Trio. Most of the Cobblestone albums were reissued on Muse, so Fields must have brought over the rights to them, but the Newport In New York sets were not, so they may be owned by Sony today. These Cobblestone/Muse/Xanadu matters seem quite messy, i must say!

A Google search for "chronogical" gives 1,530,000 hits. I'd say it's a word now!

Bloomdido?

And here I thought that Macs couldn't get malware...

IM & WGM Tania Sachdev, India, 2414

WGM Sopiko Guramishvili, Georgia, 2395

The statement "Today is opposite day" is actually a paradox: Opposite Day on Wikipedia

Easter is actually a pre-Christian word (like Yule), named after a Germanic goddess (Ēostre in Old English) in whose honour feasts were held during Easter month (April). Easter/Ēostre

What's that, her year of birth? Elo rating. The higher, the better. As a comparison, Garri Kasparov still holds the top record: 2851.

Domnérus was in the Swedish All Stars group that took the 1949 Paris Jazz Festival by storm (where Miles Davis and Tadd Dameron also played), he jammed with Charlie Parker in 1950, recorded with James Moody in 1949 and 1951 and with Clifford Brown in 1953, to name some of his early achievements. He was first recorded as a teenager in 1941, so his recording career spanned well over six decades.

Woody Herman's later Deccas are one of the most glaring omissions in the CD reissue here. A bit surprising since they cover the gradual formation of the famous First Herd. Classics should have gotten to it, but unfortunately folded when they were at 1941. The Proper box The Woody Herman Story has a fair bit of late Woody Herman Deccas, but is still far from complete in that regard. One discographical item that has intrigued me is the Ralph Burns arrangement of Flying Home which was recorded at the very last Decca session in December 1944. Inexplicably it remains unissued but it should be a good 'un. Perhaps it perished in the 2008 Universal fire, though.

Same here! The only two pure singers I would buy albums by are Dinah Washington and Jimmy Rushing. Otherwise I would simply prefer the backup band to ditch the singer and take instrumental solos instead. It is a different case with instrumentalists who also sang, like Jack Teagarden. Some of them I can (somewhat) enjoy or at least tolerate. But even so, I still prefer them playing their horns to actually singing. To even come up with a third name, I had to think a bit. I have actually liked early Kay Starr when she was Charlie Barnet, so I'll throw her in. Thus: 1) Dinah Washington 2) Jimmy Rushing 3) Kay Starr

Same here. ditto What they said.