Harold_Z

What can you say or think when somebody like Jimmy Smith goes?

Do any of these allow you to adjust the burn rate? I've heard that 8X is optimal.

Isn't that the same fate that befell Little Willie John in the mid 60s ?

Welcome, Chandra. Don't worry, Norah's cool with a lot of us.

The music is back !

The DID make it. Thankfully. Roy Eldridge birthday broadcast is happening. a perfect example of what makes this station valued, special and unique. Where else are you going to get 24 hours plus of Roy Eldridge ?

Look Out by Johnny Hammond Smith is another good one. Johnny Hammond is joined by vibist Clement Wells.

Yeah...I said something like " tell me where there's a roller skating rink with THAT band!" The same person on another occasion told me she just loved jazz - she had heard Joe Tex's "Big Legs And All" record on the radio. WTF !

Apropos the above post...a couple of years back I was playing Jimmy Smith's Open House cd on my PC at my day gig. An office colleauge made some comment relating to roller skating rinks! Jimmy Smith !

The sides Miff did for Commodore are excellent. Probably the only ones easy to find are the Muggsy Spanier sessions that are available on Chronogical Classics. There were also Commodore dates under Bobby Hackett and Miff himself. All excellent.

DJs weren't on the horizon when I started doing gigs - at least not outside the context of discotheques. Once they started doing club dates/casuals the handwriting was on the wall. Audiences dug it - they didn't have to complain that the band did a song "different" from the record.

Yeah...it's over. There's a guy on my daygig that DJs. He makes several hundred per gig and up - what musicians should be getting. When audiences prefer a guy playing records to live bands it's all over.... and it aint coming back. There's no reason for it to come back. I think those of us over 40 or 50 at least were able to get a taste of what it was like when gigs were in abundance.

Staples has a sale on - a spindle of 50 Sony for $10. What's the plural of Sony ?

I like the Bud Freeman version originally recorded for Keynote and later released on Emarcy and now available on Chronogical Classics. Wild Bill Davison is in fine form on this. Off on a tangent: Another tune with the same name was done by The Temptations and also Gladys Knight. Some quitessential James Jamerson on both of those, particularly the Gladys.

BTW - Teddy is the trumpeter on screen behind Elvis in "King Creole" when they do "Evil".

Makes sense to me - they're all recordings

Brad is correct. WKCR is invaluable. I pledged last Saturday. It should be pointed out that they only have an on air fund drive when they are really up against the wall. The last fund drive before this drive was several years ago.

Totally uncalled for. Chris was on the scene for a lot of important happenings on the jazz scene and he knows the history of this music inside out...and besides all that..NO poster deserves to be disrepected like that.

It just started here. I think (thankfully) my gig is cancelled for tonight. I dig the gig but the driving in this stuff in awful.

Les Paul and Mary Ford ?

All in all I think this a very good flick and definitely worth seeing. Jamie Foxx is MORE than good and he deserves all the kudos that have come his way (and hopefully continue to come his way.) I agree with Jim that it's Hollywoodized to a certain extent, but heyyy...that's what Hollywood does. Usually movies about musicians tend to really annoy me and this one didn't. The thing to do is see this flick AND the O Genio DVD.

Marlowe Morris is also on some of the Jimmy Rushing Vanguards - playing Hammond Organ.

Come to think of it...I don't believe thare are any recordings of Pops and Pee Wee together - and that's too bad.

I've had this on vinyl since the 70s. Always liked it (and the companion lp where Monk plays standard such as Tea For Two and Just You, Just Me ). For me the track that always comes first to mind as "yeah - that's what happens when Monk plays Duke....." is It Don't Mean A Thing I like Monk's take on Ellington. It seems clear to me that Ellington had some influence on Monk's playing in general and hearing him do Duke's tunes is interesting and enjoyable for me.

I haven't listened to this in a long time - like Jim I listened to it a few times when I bought it wayyyyback upon it's original issue. Here's the deal with Eric - he was playing a telecaster on that date and he hated Telecasters. He was a Super 400 guy and an L5 guy - he DESPISED playing telecasters and only used them in the studios because it was the "in" guitar in the NYC studios at the time for the kind of dates he was doing and Eric felt he would lose dates if the producers didn't see a Telly. He would use the Telly for most dates and the Gibsons on dates where he was comfortable with the producer. He eventually felt established enough to use first an L5 and then a Super 400....and those are the axes that delivered the sound he wanted. He also started to charge double scale (again - to producers he felt he could) around that time. He felt if he worked half as much he'd make the same bread.