Harold_Z

Same here.

I can't stop Loving You Born To Lose You Don't know Me All of the above got a lot of pop Radio play when this lp was first released. They were the hits off this album - but it's a remarkably consistant and interesting record. Ray realized that R&B and Country were flip sides of one coin - and apparently he realized it for some time. A few years before this release he did Hank Snow's I'm Moving On for Atlantic. Don't miss Vol 2. More of the same and including Ray's GREAT version of You Are My Sunshine, with the great Margie Hendrix chorus after the Basie style big band chorus.

AT LAST - the PERFECT illustration of the phrase ALL OF THE ABOVE !

I like it and I would say it's fairly of a piece with many other GG Blue Notes. IOW - if you're a GG fan, there's nothing here that would turn you off.

It's a Putney Dandridge session - and Yes, Artie Bernstein was a great player - thoroughly professional.

Let's just say I'm preparing for my retirement.

Singing AND playing... Louis Armstrong CHANGED music. Profoundly.

P.D. SAID: "Also... trivia question.. What was the recording where Armstrong's voice was heard for the first time.. hardly a vocal by my terminology, although I have seen it credited as such." Pops' "Everybody Loves My Baby" with Fletcher Henderson. Louis sings a tag to end it. Not on the other takes. I think this was a 3rd take.

Fats the piano player Fats the singer Fats the composer ....and it's ALL good. Nah...GREAT! He had it goin' on ! Never a dull moment with Fats. Lon's got it right. GET EVERYTHING !!

Usually King Oliver's solo on "Dippermouth Blues" is mentioned as the first jazz solo. Louis first solo is "Chimes Blues" - both recorded the same day in 1923. BUT....that IS a clarinet solo by Larry Shields on the Original Dixieland Jazz Band's 1921 "St. Louis Blues"....and probably somebody can come up with other early solos. Louis the singer or Louis the trumpet player ??? WOW...I can't do it - they're inseparable.

The funny thing here is...no matter what you get, you'll be getting something good. The thing is to maximize the purchase and get the most bang for the buck. that's assuming you dig Duke and are going to stay with this. So, I'm for obtaining the most complete sets that are in good sound. i.e RCA reissues, Classsics, etc. ....but don't go too crazy here...you can't get hurt.

Aside from the bread and the superimposed fun associated with various collateral activitiees ...all that stuff...There is something special that happens when you are really locked in and the esp is really happening. It's really difficult to put in words but it does happen, (Not too often - most gigs are STRICTLY for the bread) - but when it does happen - it's smokin' !! ...and that's the REAL BUZZ that giggin' can give you.

You got it, Chris ! That's the first one that came to mind for me. I purposely didn't look at this thread for a few days just waiting for someone to mention this. In the early 60s I attended a Louis performance at a venue in Totowa, NJ called at that time, "The Gladiator's Arena". It's where the Holiday Inn on Rt. 46W is now. They had a Sunday night Jazz scene happening for 4 or 5 Sundays. I saw Pops, Duke, Stan Getz with Charlie Byrd, Maynard and Dave Brubeck's classic quartet with Paul Desmond, Morello and Wright. What a deal and what a delight for a teenage jazz freak! Anyway...it was the All Stars with Trummy, Joe Darensbourg, Billy Kyle, Mort Herbert, and Danny Barcellona. I was in the front row. Louis asked if there were any requests and I shouted at the top of my lungs...."WEST END BLUES !"......Pops hit that intro immediately (and perfectly) ... I was floored.... and they played the tune. I'll NEVER forget that.

I thought the sound was fine on most Riverside recordings, but I wasn't happy with the pressings, which contained more that their share of snap, crackle and pop. Also I didn't like the sound on 78 era reissues, but back then there was very little to compare them to. The first King Oliver I ever heard was an lp called "Louis Armstrong 1923" and the sound was horrific.

Yeah...I have a copy of that also.. I guess the '58 edition. It's an enjoyable book - very little text and primarily photos, A lot of which I haven't seen elsewhere.

I can't stand it when the liner notes are small print and a different shade of the same color as the background. Horrible.

Best invention of the 90s: Bi-Focal Contacts.

My intro to Bird was a Dizzy Gillespie Savoy lp called "Groovin' High". It contained the Guild sides and I was happy with the sound on the lp. When the cd era arrived I still liked the sound on this lp better than the reissues such as the above mentioned "Yardbird Suite" set. I know Denon reissued this lp on cd, but I've never heard it and don't know how the sound on it is. I have the "Complete Savoy/Dial" set and I DO like the sound on that.

The only Parker I've got so far is the 2 CD "Yardbird Suite" compilation (apart from some early stuff with the Jay McShann Orchestra which I don't really listen to due to the quality of the sound recording).

Sums up my feelings entirely.

I guess that's not one of them.

Mule, Bill Crow's excellent book JAZZ ANECDOTES has a short, humorous piece on the filming of the audience segment. Bill was one of the audience members. As I remember it, they watched the footage and their reaction was filmed and edited into the fim.

The audience visuals were filmed later and edited in. In other words....the audience is an OVERDUB !

Looks like a good set - I'll keep an eye out for it too. One question - I was always under the impression that producer Milt Gabler brought in big band veteran and studio pro Cliff Leeman to play drums on these - at least on "Shake, Rattle and Roll" and "Rock Around The Clock". I didn't see any mention of this in the AMG blurb - do they mention it in the notes?

DING DONG DADDY FROM DUMAS. Here's the AMG link. The JSP set is my preference on this one. Pops just blasts out the lick on a break towards the end of the tune. No mistaking it. http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&u...dy|{From|Dumas}