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Noble "The Thin Man" Watts' "Hard Times". Great record. I think it's Lee Allen on Amos Milburn's New Orleans version of "Chicken Shack". I dig Maxwell Davis on the original too, and on "Let's Have A Party".

I'm trying to picture Miles and Hoagy hangin' out. It reminds me of story I heard from a musician friend. A friend of his (I know - this is reaching hearsay level) said he was in LA stopped waiting for a red light when he looked over at the next car and saw........Stan Getz and Keith Richards !

Is this the same as the Jazztone lps ?

This is a good example of why a lot of this is highly subjective. I thought the late 80s reissue was terrible and a casebook example of digital scrubbing.

Very nice !

LOL

It's kind of a moot point. People own things and have the right to sell them. An interested organaztion or individual can purchase them for either altruistic or selfish reasons. That's reality and anything else would be stepping on somebody's toes.

HEY CATESTA....YOU LOVE JAZZ AND ITALIAN FOOD ! Not necessarily in that order. Right? WELLLL.......North Jersey is the JOINT !! You're minutes outside of THE APPLE (Jazz capitol of the world - for the unitiated) and the Italian restaurants in Newark, Lodi, Garfield, and many other North Jersey locales are one step beyond. There are none better. ANYWHERE ! ANYWHERE !. YA' UNNERSTAND !? YA UNNERSTAND !!?

It certainly looks like it would be great music.

Sorry to hear this.

Danny D'imperio sent me the following a few weeks ago: Following a succession of heart problems, Joe Dodge died on August 18, 2004. He was 82. He was a gracious, forthright and often very funny man. Joe was an invaluable source as I worked on Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond. He and Desmond met in the army and loved one another's playing. Paul wanted Dodge in the Brubeck Quartet from the beginning in 1951. It finally worked out in 1953. When Dodge quit in 1956 to spend more time with his family, he was succeeded by Joe Morello. Doug Ramsey

It shouldn't matter - just be aware and listen for speaker distortion. If you hear any just back off on the volume and you should be fine

It shouldn't matter - just be aware and listen for speaker distortion. If you hear any just back off on the volume and you should be fine

I saw this in Tower the other day and picked up. Only $12.99 and I bet it's cheaper online somewhere. It's GREAT. Louis TV shots from the 50s and 60s. NO BS voiceovers - NO BS commentary. Just Louis Playing and Singing. There's the famous Umbrella Man shot from the Timex show with Dizzy, there's a great Jeepers Creepers with Louis backed by Big T., Tony Parenti, Ruby Braff, Cozy Cole, etc. there's a South Rampart Street Parade where the Lawson Haggart Jazzband (billed as the Bobcats) includes Bud Freeman, Lou McGarity, and Cutty Cutshall.....and theres stuff with the All Stars when Trummy Young and Edmond Hall were on the scene...and more...Hoagy Carmichael, Anita O'day, Hamp, Krupa. WOW! This is the best Louis on DVD or VHS I've seen.

I think it was a Dylan tune the first week. This past week it was Lightnin' Hopkins capping it off. The show cracked me up this week - that had to be the funniest head scene EVER in a movie. Al gets an epiphany while getting head. YES - Bullock's girlfriend ALMA is smokin' !

Me either.

Jimmy is on my "Get It All" list. I've enjoyed every record I've gotten by him., with a special fondness for The Jazz Oddysey Of Jimmy Rushing, which happens to be the first recording I bought by him when I was a teenage jazz nerd. Sometimes I think that my favorite records by various artists are the first I encountered.

I have the Wichita transcriptions on a Stash cd. I don't think that cd would be too difficult to find, although it is oop.

You left out Feelings and Color My World. Two tunes that I couldn't play without falling asleep on the stand. BARF!

I bought it a couple of weeks ago. I like it a lot. Even if you're a big Motown fan there's a lot here that you haven't heard. It's early Motown, so it's pretty R&Bish with some doowop and a small portion of hokum and novelty thrown in. IOW it's a bit raw compared to later Motown and there's a lot of unfamiliar artists and a lot of B sides that never made reissue before. At the same time, this is music that is definitely trying for pop success. Like the Mosaic Commodore sets, I don't think you'll see these reissued in as complete a form again.

I vaugely remember something about one of the Wilbur De Paris Atlantics being among the first or THE first stereo Jazz record. I think 1957 was the year that Stereo lps first became available.

I love this disc, but my problem is that I can't think of anything much different to say than what I said about Chicken Shack. This is a good reminder to listen to this disc again - I haven't in a while.

Happy Birthday, D.

Yes, the jazz Atkins diet contains a lot of Fats! There's a great album of obscure Fats Waller tunes on the Stomp Off label. It's by Marty Grosz and it's titled.... "UNSATURATED FATS"

I'm revisiting (and enjoying immensely) the first Condon Mosaic.