Harold_Z

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You can get a track listing here: My Webpage It's a good set - a distillation of the mosaic (although I think it was out before the mosiac). All Aladdin material. Re the Motown set: good stuff. I have a Motown lp. I believe there are tracks on that that are not on the CD set.. Wish I could be more specific , but I haven't listened in awhile.

I'll second GOM on this.

Good question...but he sure as hell was a burner when last heard from.

All of the above - and it is a helluva lot of 12 bar blues in one setting, but the Mosaic set is the only place you're going to get that New Orleans session with Earl Palmer, Lee Allen, etc. Get the set and take it in small doses as per the above advise. That's the way it was intended - these were 78 rpm releases. Amos had a big hit with Chicken Shack Boogie and Alladin used that piece as a model for a LOT of tunes that followed. That being said...they all smoked...and this set should be as appealing to fans of R&B Tenor as well as R&B piano. I think it's obvious that Jerry Lee Lewis dug a lot of Amos Milburn and for anybody that's been digging a somewhat (shouldn't be) obscure "name" - Andre' Williams with his Greasy Chicken is also obvious.

Now that's funny!

Jim, best wishes for all. I hope you get to the bottom of this asap . All of the above posts have said everything so count me in as also offering my prayers and moral support for you and your family.

Not 100% true, but in many cases the earlier the issue, the better. I have some Commodore 78's and they sound wonderful. Also some Commodore 10" & 12" lps from the era when Commodore was still operated by Milt Gabler and many of them beat the Mosaic! I like the sound on the Wild Bill Davison "Mild and Wild" , George Brunis' "King Of the tailgate trombone" , "Billie Holiday" (also my favorite album cover), but the sound of the Muggsy Spanier "Ragtimers" was trebley and distorted. Related: I've found the same sound issues apply to "45" issues of 50's/60's R&B, Soul, Rock, etc. In many cases they beat the hell out of the cd issues in terms of presence and mix.

...or BIX ON THE CORNER

I'm in 100% agreement with Enterprise Server. I finished the book about two or three weeks ago and thought it was excellent. I also had read it in the 70s.

Can the post count. It would limit inflation.

Bad news. I guess he was one of the last guys left that were playing and contibuting as far back as the 30s. I loved his playing. I was just listening to some of the Lester Young Commodores the other day. Anybody remember seeing him on the Joe Franklin Show sometime in the 80s singing and playing "Oh, Look At Me Now" ? Songwriter Irving Ceasar was on the same show. Lots of laughs all around -It was classic.

Not TOO long ago (less than a year?)somebody posted a link to an online store that had vhs tapes of Art's tv series "Jazz Alley" for around $7.99 a tape. There were 3 of them with two half hour shows each on them. I bought all three and at that price they are a bargain. I can't remember which store it was - it may have been Allegro, but I'm not sure. Maybe some of these are still available, so if anybody knows anything about this they can please post it. These tapes had guys like Bud Freeman, Barney Bigard, Jimmy McPartland, Pee Wee, Tony Parenti, George Brunis.....on and on. Just great!

No complaints. Well organized and NO wait. Touch screens that seemed to work fine.

Tony, I have a single 10" lp on Mercury JAZZ CHICAGO STYLE. Floyd O' Brien on trombone and Nappy Trottier on Cornet. Good record. edit: Not Nappy on cornet - it's Muggsy Dawson.

..Also don't pass up whatever you can get of Art on Blue Note. The Bechet stutff can be found on Chronogical Classics and if you can somehow come get the Mosaic Art Hodes, you've got the cream of the crop.

I don't have the new disc, but seeing the tune list I'm pretty sure I have everything on it on Delmark Vinyl from the 60s. At this point in time I wonder what someone whose never been exposed to this type of music would make of it. It's not the polished dixie/swing of the Condon guys and it's certainly not the trite "dixieland" of the bad banjo bands (although there is a banjo present). Instead it's this highly rhythmic, intense ensemble, great feeling music - I love it. It's got the New Orleans stamp all over it. The musicians are dealing in a groove and a style. They aren't polished in the sense of being great readers or having extensive technique - but they deal with what they do and they do it wonderfully. Another aspect of this is how this relates to New Orleans R&B of the same and subsequent time. I don't think a lot of people realize the familial relationship, but it's there. It's Really there !

Happy Birthday !!

MAN ! I'm glad you guys are back !

Happy Birthday Chris and many many more !

Great !!

Great thread Chris ! You HAVE to get an autobiography out. I'm not too adept at posting pictures. but I mangaged to find a nice one on the internet so I'll post it. It's an old photo taken in 1923 in Paterson NJ, where I was born in the mid 1940s - about 1/2 a mile south of where this photo was taken. I'm currently working my day gig a block east of where whoever took this photo was standing (the photo is facing east) in a building not yet built at the time of this photo. This city was mapped out by Alexander Hamilton in the late 1700s and was designed to be an industrial and manufacturing center specifically suited to this purpose by it's close proximity to NYC (maybe 8 or 10 miles east of Paterson).....and this brings me to Jazzypaul's question about what people from this area dig about NYC. ....WAALLLL...when I was a kid I would play hookie from high school and hop the bus into the city (all people within a 30 mile radius of NYC refer to it as THE CITY). In less than an 1/2 hr I'd be haunting the record stores in midtown (King Carol, The Record Hunter, the Jazz Record Center on 47th st,etc) spending my allowance (I was a solidly middle class kid) on Jazz records and usually capping off the afternoon (YES afternoon) standing on the sidewalk watching the likes of Gene Krupa or Louis Metcalf or Charlie Shavers playing at the Metropole. Later on I caught a series of concerts at the Museum of Modern Art (free) with Clark Terry, Eddie Costa, Oscar Peterson, Bob Brookmeyer and more. All this time my parents would satisfy my jazz mania by occasionally taking me to Eddie Condon's, Nick's, Basin Street East to see Louis Armstromg, Wild Bill Davison, etc. MAN....NYC was the JOINT in those days... I could go on and on with this, but trust me...it was happenin'.

I saw Deacon John perform this past Sunday and I have to say I DUG IT ! I DUG THE SHOW I was totally unfamiliar with him and was playing behind another act at the Towaco Jazz & Blues Festival in Montville NJ. I was hanging around after finishing my gig and Deacon John closed the show. MAN! NICE SHOW! It was New Orleans good timey R&B and jump blues. Now and then the Deacon would grab a guitar and do some straight blues such as Elmore James,.etc, but for the most part it was 50s New Orleans R & B...or Rock and Roll as it was called at THAT Time. Shirley & Lee....Huey Smith...that kind of thing. Anybody else hear this guy? He's not a young cat - he's definitely a veteran !

I dig them too and didn't want to imply that I didn't. Those guys get their point across in their own way and chops and polish aren't a part of it - it wouldn't be the same any other way. You don't have to be a virtuoso to get your point across, but virtuosity shouldn't count against you either. For once Mister Z, I have a huge problem with something you said. Those guys have more chops than needed for a "real" message. There are thousands of "faster/cleaner" players out there executing "empty nothings". Being able to communicate is the ultimate "chops" - don't have much to do with tight lips, finger speed, etc. This sounds like the "Monk wars" all over again. I love it when all these boxes start appearing inside of boxes ! Chuck...I don't disagree with anything you said there. I think I'm having trouble saying exactly what I mean, but it's pretty much along the lines of what you said about those guys having all the chops they need. I probably could have made my point better if I'd NOT used John Lee (who I dig) as an example. I don't want to put those guys down - I DIG THEM !! ....and I totally agree about guys who have chops and aren't saying anything (and guys with no chops who aren't saying anything) ...but the guy who bugged Jim was using polish as a negative adjective and I don't think that's valid. Polished and dull...yes. And I dig STAX too! The funny thing is I don't necessarily think that Stax is not polished.

I dig them too and didn't want to imply that I didn't. Those guys get their point across in their own way and chops and polish aren't a part of it - it wouldn't be the same any other way. You don't have to be a virtuoso to get your point across, but virtuosity shouldn't count against you either.