Harold_Z

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}

This is the cd reissue. MF all the way. http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&u...l=A2b4tk6dxlkrj

It's a good issue. I still subscribe to DB...even though it's increasingly part of a promotion machine. I have a suspicion that this is the issue that Phil Woods was contacted about a few months ago. To summarize that scene...Phil Woods was contacted about doing an interview and naming his main influence. He did so - named his teacher and credited his teacher with being by far the greatest influence on his jazz playing. DB contacted Phil and asked him to name someone well known. Phil got po'd at the hypocrisy involved and fired off a few salvos at DB.

Devastating news.

There's a Laserlight under Charlie Christian's name that has a few of the Minton's Jam Session tracks and the Bird/Diz stuff you mention. The Bird/Diz are the classic sides that usually come out under the Savoy banner, and were originally on Guild and perhaps Manor. Hot House is one of these.. The laserlight gives no indication on the cover that it's not completely a Charlie Christian disc. Standard cheapo label procedure when it comes to notes, but still a good buy for the price.

I didn't see them around much at all in local record stores...the exception being Eddie Harris.

My opinion...get the box. Too much Too soon? ...Nahhh...you don't have to get into it all at once - you can come back to it as you please. There's a lot to enjoy here and a lot to absorb if your into tracing the lineage of jazz guitar or into tracing the development of jazz in Europe in the 1930s - a fascinating and rewarding subject.

Hi Joe. Welcome and looking forward to your participation.

Since the mid 50s. I was maybe 10.

"Crescent"...That's the one I would go for next.

WKCR was doing a 24 hour tribute today and I heard this and liked it. I couldn't hang in the car long enough to find out what record it was from. It was a big band thing, a somewhat funkified groove on a 12 bar blues, Horns, electic guitar, etc - BUT here's what set it off - on the 9th bar, instead of going to the V chord it went to the IV chord for 2 bars. Simple idea, but nice effect.

An unforseen twist with Johnny Sack getting taken down by an informant who was just involved with the Brooklyn side of things. OUR THING is really going to shit...and nobody has a glimmer about Ray Curto yet. VERY black humor with Melfi's psychology being the catalyst that lets Tony S. realize that he really has to get rid of Tony B. AJ is such a shit head. For a second I was thinking Phil would take AJ out. I thought it was Phil's brother who was killed, not his son. Jim, why is it a copout?

Good closer. Too bad the whole season wasn't as good as the last 2 weeks.

Definitely smoke too.

BTW, the formica body Danelectro was great for eating on the gig.

Not sure about the bodies, but they definitely used the "lipstick tube" pickups. From what I can gather, those old Silvertone guitars have a cult following among guitarists. Yeah...they were Danelectros, and I remember reading that Dan Armstrong (Danelectro) designed them.. The formica body, the pickups, etc. the only real visible difference was the headstock. the Danelectros had a "traditional" 3 tuning keys on each side, whil the Silvertone headstock was set up like a Fender, with all 6 tuning keys on one side. Great deal for the money. The guitar case came with a built in Amp.

I don't know a whole lot about him, but you can hear him on some of the Eddie Harris Vee Jay recordings. He sounds great on those.

Somebody move that CORDEEN out of the way ! I think the little keyboard on top of the Hammond is an ORGANO (for real !). Piano players could bring one on a gig to get organ sounds. Why he needs one on top of a Hammond is a mystery - unless he like the (very) cheesey sound the organo got. A little cheesier than combo organs like the Farfisa or Vox and somewhat earlier chronologically. There was also a version where it was the length of a standard piano keyboard and little contacts would drop when the piano key was depressed and create depresing organ sounds - also muy cheesey.

...and I've seen some photos where I would say Alpha looked good indeed!

I dunno a lot of the skinny here, but Cliff Leeman married Alpha somewhere along the line.