Harold_Z

MAN !....That really sounds like the average New Jersey lounge band scene ! I can actually dig gigs like that on the rare occasions when everybody - all the musicians - are on the same page...i.e. appropriately hip and appropriately sardonic. Usually the guy fucking gigs like that up is the leader. Edit to add - ...And when they're bad but there's a couple of hip players - there are definitely big laughs - Sarcasm reigns supreme !

I believe Larry Lucie is still active.

Yeah...this thread STINKS !

hey man, don't be so negative. I was just trying to be observant.

This thread is fulla shit !!

I get it no matter which square I rest the cursor on. Somebody knows......

One google later... Allegheny Jazz Society, 283 Jefferson Street, Meadville, KPA 16335, Joe Boughton. Email: alljz@alltel.net

I think the label is now owned (or at least distributed) by a gentleman (can't remember his name) associated with the Alleghany Jazz Society in Pennsylvania. As Lon mentioned, the new 90s material is excellent. I'm thinking of 3 cds by Keith Ingham's New York Nine that are really good. Marty Grosz, Dan Barrett, Ken Peplowski, etc on board these.

Stride ? Just hunt up all the Fats Waller, James P. Johnson, Willie The Lion and Dick Wellstood you can find. When all is said and done Fats is the stride cat for me and a couple of quintessential tracks are Carolina Shout and Handful Of Keys. These shouldn't be hard to find at all.

Funny thing this time - on the way to the gig (about 30 highway miles) people were really driving nuts - tailgating, cutting off, really aggresive. On the way home everybody was very cool.

Yeah...mine was pretty nice too. No hassles. I was thinking lst night that this was 40 years since my first NYE gig ! HOLY SHIT ! I think I worked 35 years straight without missing one. In the past couple of years it's been hit or miss.

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL ! I just arrived home after my NYE gig - didn't have a drink all night not wanting to run the gauntlet on the ride home. I'm now sitting down with a nice shot of Jack Daniels and a tall glass of Ice water.....Ahhhh.

Condolences. Unquestionably one of the greats. Any interiviews with him I ever heard, whether on radio, tv, or in print - always impressed me, as did his musicicianship. Another of the greats gone.

What Marty said. Very sad news.

Great album. I've had it since the days of vinyl and it's stayed in rotation regularly. I dig the Jazz/R&B nexus and the R&B tunes being played and blown upon. Sidewinder mentions the Grasella Grass is Greener. It makes an interesting comparison in that there are a couple of the same tunes, but the proof is in the pudding....I play Good Thing a helluva lot more than Grass.

Very sad news. Condolences to all concerned.

Nice sideman appearance on Willis Jackson's "Bar Wars".

Thanks for the clarification Brownie. I think the album Lon meant was the Urania, since the OJC "Meet Me Where They Play The Blues" is the same as the "Jazz Great", but has one extra track.

Sorry to hear this sad news. I saw him in the early 80s in a small club on Long Beach Island - the kind of joint where you could get a seat right up in front of the band stand. He had a smokin' band and really did play burnin' guitar. I also remember he had a drummer that played two and four LOUD on the bass drum when they played in straight four. Different - but it worked. He MADE it work.

That's the same as the Bethlehem (or Urania) cd Lon mentions. Excellent.

You really can't go wrong getting more of Teagarden's work with Pops. Don't miss the 1940 session with Bud Freeman's Famous Chicagoans. Teagarden made my must have list a long time ago - I just get anything by him I don't already have and I'm never disapointed, so imho...if you are focused in on T, then he is fine on the 30s big band things. It depends on your tolerance for that kind of big band and your tolerance for 20s and 30s recording techniques. The records Frank mentions are indeed great and have the advantage of being recorded in sound that does not suffer by modern recording standards, so you can't miss by getting these. I would add the Verve "Misery and The Blues" to those. Also I would explore the recordings Teagarden did with Eddie Condon - in particular those currently available on 3 Chronogical Classics - Eddie Condon 1938 - 1940, Eddie Condon 1944-1946, and Eddie Condon 1947-1950. Teagarden is a life long study. For me literally. I started listening to Jack Teagarde when I was about 10 years old. I'm 58 now and still listening and still buying everything I can get that I don't already have by him.

A "Boston" is definitely a solo. For one source (I think) Rex Stewart uses and defines the tem in his "Jazz Of the Thirties" Anybody play bid whist? A Boston is when you take every book.

For anybody within driving distance...the Princeton Record Exchange (Princeton, NJ) is just great. LOTS of Jazz, both new and used items and great prices. Largest selection I've scene since the days of vinyl. It's probably a little more than an hour from Manhattan, and probably about and hour and a half from Philly. It's a smorgasboard.

Frankie Ford?

Man ...I'm sorry the season is over ! I'm going to get withdrawal pains....what a show! Everybit on a par with THE SOPRANOS and DEADWOOD and maybe better! My take on next season ? Carcetti gets a lot of play....Cutty gets a lot of play....Marlo gets play but will probably meet his demise (I'm not sure if I'm being analytical or indulging in wishful thinking). I missed the most of the first season. I made up my mind last night to get the dvds - I made a mistake not taping the shows as they played. I'm convinced that the best programs on tv are currently the Sunday night HBO things. Anybody catch the actor that plays Colvin in RAY? With a wig and moustache... I'm still impressed with McNulty and Stringer being played by guys that normally speak with a English/Irish accent...These guys are pros! I understand via the grapevine that Bodie is a Paterson guy.