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Dig the flattened cornet. Did Frankie Boy hock the mouthpiece? I saw that flick when it first came out. At the Capitol Theatre in Passaic no less, before it became a big venue for Rock acts.

Egads ! I've got to buy these for the SEVENTH time!!?? I've Got the: Riverside The Fantsasy The Herwin The King Jazz The Swaggie The Retrieval (I think...maybe Oracle?) The samples DO sound good...But I won't be sure until I hear the cds on my system. So far the best I've heard (By Far!) are the JRT Davies issues, bot on lp and cd (yeah...I bought 'em all.). This sounds like it's worth going for.

Great video! That looks like a young Eddie Condon second from right. It's Eddie, Red McKenzie, Jack Bland and (I believe) Josh Billings.

To see the "suitcase set" in action check this out. Not Vic Berton ( I think it's Josh Billings, altho the guy who posted the video thinks not). Mound City Blue Blowers

I just got an IPOD and I'm pretty much a novice on it. How do you back up the files? Just save them to a disc? Also..if I enter a homemade cdr is there a way to enter the titles and artist for each track?

Was that Vic or his Brother Ralph? I know I read a book by Ralph Berton some years ago that was about Bix.

I was listening to the RCA 80th Anniversary series on my ipod yesterday. Davenport Blues by Red and Miff's Stomper's came up. There's no upright, Tuba or Adrian Rollini on the record. Instead, throughout much of the recording, the bass function is handled by Vic Berton on Tympany. Pretty freakin' good! The track is also on Red Nichols 1925-1927 Chronogical Classics. I first encountered the track on the RCA Encyclopedia of Recorded Jazz. That set was terrific and The 80th Anniversary cd series is like an expanded updated version of it.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHRIS !!

See..that's the unknown that bothered me about these sets. If they sound bad DITCH 'EM quick. Don't even listen. Bad sound can sour you on somthing. I had the Louis Hot Fives on those good Columbia lps, but bought the first set of cds that Columbia put out and they were SO rotten that I couldn't listen to them. . I taped the lps and then obtained the complete bunch on French Columbia and that's what I listened too until the JSPs and latest Sony box came out. Well, we'll have to see. But I had to buy very second hand LPs in the '60s, partly because the stuff was so hard to come by - but also, y'know I really didn't mind listening to LPs like "Sit down and relax with Jimmy Forrest" or "Hip Twist" that looked and sounded as if they'd been heavily partied over. I passed up several opportunities to buy better copies and put up with my scratched to fuck copies for decades. MG Yes, but that is what I mean. I would much prefer a noisy lp to a digitally scrubbed, lifeless cd remaster. It's like you get Roy Eldridge, or Ben Webster, or Wild Bill Davison with the air that produces their characteristic sound (rasp) digitally removed because the program thinks it is noise. Everything sounds a block away. So if these quadrophonia remasters are noisy that's one thing. I can put up with the noise if the "life" is still in the music, but if all the presence and life has been removed by the heavy handed use of noise reduction.....that's something else.

See..that's the unknown that bothered me about these sets. If they sound bad DITCH 'EM quick. Don't even listen. Bad sound can sour you on somthing. I had the Louis Hot Fives on those good Columbia lps, but bought the first set of cds that Columbia put out and they were SO rotten that I couldn't listen to them. . I taped the lps and then obtained the complete bunch on French Columbia and that's what I listened too until the JSPs and latest Sony box came out.

Not to overstate something that has been said on this board many times about many musicians. Forget comparisons. It's not about comparing Turrentine and Mobley. Both were great. Their appoaches and sound were not similar. Both were valid. We don't have to choose. We can enjoy both.

If I remember correctly a quid is 20 shillings plus 1 pence? At least in 1969 when I spent the summer on the road (music gig) touring Great Britain. How that equates to today's euro is a mystery to me. A quid is slang for 1 pound. In the pre-decimal system a guinea was 20 shillings and 1 pence (20 shillings = 1 pound, while 12 pennies = 1 shilling) £1 = €1.49 or $1.86 / €1 = £0.67 or $1.25 / $1 = £0.54 or €0.80 at today's exchange rates. AHHH. Got it. Thanks.

If I remember correctly a quid is 20 shillings plus 1 pence? At least in 1969 when I spent the summer on the road (music gig) touring Great Britain. How that equates to today's euro is a mystery to me. MG...Please let us know how these turn out...espescially the audio. I usually can tell from the tune list what session the tunes are from. And how the notes are regarding personel and dates, etc..

I've seen them recently on Amazon for $8.99. The tracklists are good, but not complete. The Wild Bill Davison and Bobby Hackett sets contain a lot, but not all of the things they did on Commodore (and right now I don't know where else that stuff is available. The Chronogical Classics are good but have gotten hard to find.) I have no idea how the audio is and I wonder about legality.

Rocky like Rocky Marciano! EXACTLY !

I agree with you. Not enought props for Stanley. He was a great player with a great sound. Instantly recognizable. There were some lame records along the way, but for the most part Stanley turned out some really nice stuff. From what I've heard, his marriage to Shirley was pretty rocky.

Maybe they should get into the business of selling aspirins to hungover musicians on Sunday mornings. (rim shot)

I too had a gig last night. Again...No trombonist but the restaurant served frogs legs. Do I sense a trend here?

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I just took a fast peak at what's currently available under Bobby's name at CD Universe. I would go with the Live At The Roosevelt Grill series for starters. Great stuff...PLUS Vic Dickenson! A lot of the Bobby Hackett I espescially like are things under Eddie Condon's name on Commodore, Decca and Columbia. Hard or expensive to find on the issues I have, but I did see this Quadromania. It has A LOT of the Commodore sides. All of the important ones. I don't know how these quadromania issues sound, but the repetorie and the price is sure right. Click here for tunes etc

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Happy Birthday Chris.

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Thanks for posting this. Bechet is one of those artists I never stay away from for too long. In the past two days I've been going through the RCA stuff. After an immersion in lp burns I did on the Blue Note "Jazz Classics 1 & 2". How do you find things like this?

I'm with FFA...in the sense that it's not the tune...it's who's playing it. Sure we all have our favorites,ect. Mine seem to change over time. That's the great thing about music. One thing I know for sure is, that my favorite players...I like every tune they play on. I stayed away from this thread because I didn't like the concept. I just checked it out for the hell of it and Soul Stream and FFA have it exactly right.