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Danny Barker Everett Barksdale Howlin' Wolf

I like it, but it might be beyond some bandleaders I've worked for.

Or King Curtis.

Bob Hope Kermit Schaefer Henny Youngman

YES ! I LIKED RAY TOO ! OK. But that's about the only one I liked.

Ahhh. I sense a meeting of the minds. "Has there ever been a good one?" You mean movie about musicians ? No..there has never been a good one. Not only that, but they are so far off the mark that they make me cringe. Literally. The only reason so far (after the first viewing, just in case they finally hit it right) is to see the real cats in the flick.

Who played the young Duke Ellington in "The Cotton Club" movie ? Pretty good likeness as far as I recall. He should be ready to play a middle aged or older Duke by now.

Floyd Patterson Emile Griffith Benny "Kid" Paret

Wilson Pickett Gary Puckett Jeb Clampett

Gail Storm Johnny Thunder Elmer Snowden

Best wishes to Ray for a full and speedy recovery.

Betty used to live in New Jersey and I used to see her in local spots like Gulliver's back in the 70s. Always excellent and enjoyable and always a good rhythm section behind her.

The Bihari Bros - Gotta love 'em.

Correction...I AM 100% positive. I went to the collection and LO AND BEHOLD - it was there (although I have it on KENT). I played the first minute of the first track. Definitiely phony Live...and HORRIBLE phony stereo too. Kind of funny - they have a phony announcer introduce BB. I suspect I did the same thing 30 years ago. Played the first minute and put it away - the record looks MINT !

I'm not 100% positive, but I think I heard it back in the day and i remember it as canned applause - phony live.

Miller Huggins Casey Stengel Yogi Berra

The Rafael Mendez influence ?

I think I have that album. Do they do "Jazz Me Blues". "Shimmeshawabble", Blues My Naughtie Sweetie" etc ? It's GREAT ! Also some of the Warner Bros Matty stuff has Abe Lincoln along with Moe Schneider. Kinda like a West coast Lawson Haggart, Bobcats deal. GREAT !

GEEZ I'M ENJOYING THIS THREAD !!

I have both boxes (and actually had most of the material on vinyl for years). The MOB box is really a collecton of sessions by varying leaders covering a period from 1940 until the mid 50s and in many cases linking the session's with Condon is really a marketing ploy on Mosaic's part. i.e there was NO marketing link with Condon when the Jimmy Dorsey "Dixie By Dorsey" came out, although Cutty Cuthsall and Dick Cary were close associates of Condon. Likewise the "Billy Plays Bix" lp and I'm sure the others. The result is that the Condon All Stars box has a unity of approach and a continuity that the Mob Box doesn't. However....The session that opens the Mob Box (Bud Freeman -with Eddie on guitar) is an essential date. There is some primo Jack Teagarden and Pee Wee Russell on these and they are just great. I've had this on 10" lp, several times on 12" and the sound here is by far the best I've heard and again...this is a great session. There's a lot to enjoy on both boxes, but when listening to the Mob Box it might be better to take each session as an individual recording, independant of the session preceeding it and following it, both as leader and as to when it was recorded. I had to have both boxes...but that's me.

As PHILLYQ mentioned, WBGO in Newark is the jazz station here and they have some kind of affiliation with NPR. They carry Piano Jazz and the hourly news casts are NPR newscasts. WNYC is the NPR station here.

Chick Webb Duck Dunn Henny Youngman

Shelley Long Edith Head Alan K. Ball Ernie Ball Vinnie Bell Barnacle Bill

A shocker.

...and why he would want to give it to Logan's wife ?