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This is just a frivolous post to see where my count is.

A BIG HAPPY BIRTHDAY DURIUM!! :party:

Ed - could you be off by a couple of years and possibly a city? Ernest Ansermet wrote a complimentary piece on Sidney Bechet in 1919 when Bechet was in Paris. Here's a portion: With Cook's orchestra, Bechet toured New York and Europe. In London he bought a straight-model soprano saxophone and began to adapt it into his repertoire. At Buckingham Palace, he entertained the Prince of Wales with his original composition "Characteristic Blues." Taken with Bechet's fine musicianship, Swiss conductor Ernest Amsermet attended a number of his performances. As quoted in Jelly Roll, Jabbo, and Fats, Amsermet stated: "There is in the Southern Syncopated Orchestra an extraordinary clarinetist who is, so it seems, the first of his race to have composed perfectly formed blues on the clarinet … I wish to set down the name of the artist of genius; as for myself I will never forget it - it is Sidney Bechet."

I'm not disappointed. I'm going to miss this show - one of the best series I've seen.

Does this new release contain a lot of duplication of the Stash cd's? Which BTW were great!.

Danny said that he was still playing but not taking anything other than club dates - no jazz gigs. Don't know the reason for that.

Yeah..Sonny's a drag. I've been on a Louis Prima listening trip ever since Davis played Buona Sera.

Thanks Paul!

Any more info about that documentary? Is it available anywhere?

Wellll....I would be really disappointed in the writers if it went like that.

Same here. Don't know the answers to the questions you've posed other than a suspicion that "the kid" is another form of Jacob. One good thing about the sideways thing is that llana is still around.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KATIE!!!! Hoistin' Henry will flip when he sees that video! Did you know that in the Chinese restaurants he frequents he is known as Hoisin Henry, because of his fondness for that sauce?

I'll take 'em both too. Rough 'N Tumble was probably the first Stanley T. lp I bought. When it first came out. Loved hearing McCoy do those Ray Charles licks!

Thanks Guy, I didn't know about this one. I just put my order in.

Thanks for posting this Durium. I am always amazed by similarities between (for one example) the early recordings of Pixinguinha and early jazz recordings from the US. I know you are aware of this similarity and I'm sure there are others,but there is surprisingly little to be found online. Imho, this is something that needs to be documented before it fades further into the past.

Cresent City Bounce Archibald is great. I have an lp on the Krazy Kat label with both parts of Stack-a-lee (sic) and 10 other tunes but I think they are all on this set I linked to.

She's a great singer pianist. I've always assumed she lived around North Jersey. Years ago - when there seemed to be many more jazz gigs than there is now - she frequently was on the scene. Gigging and often sitting in.

I love Big Joe! I came in during the lp era and the above and duly lauded "Boss Of The Blues" was my first Big Joe. I quickly snagged the rest of the Atlantic lps and two Savoy lps and then an Arhoolie lp. When cds hit I just grabbed all I could! Gotta say I dig the late 30s, early 40s stuff too! It's all good!

I just ordered. Too good a price not to! Thanks for posting this Chris.

I know that even into the 70's he took "anonymous" sideman work dates on pop dates. Offhand I can't think of any Jazz dates where he was a sideman.

IIRC clear vinyl HAD to be pure. Any impurities would be visible. i.e sometimes records were melted down and the vinyl reused. There might be paper from labls, etc, mixed in. So actually clear vinyl was a plus. At least if you were buying new.

Yeah..it swings like mad! Jackie Wilson is in the pantheon. I saw him live once in a Lodi New Jersey club (Luciano's)and it was like that - A house band trio (organ bass)and Jackie carried a guitarist. Phenomenal show. One of those joints where the bandstand was behind the bar and the best seats were bar stools. Jackie had some pipes. Him doing Danny Boy is something I will never forget.

This is as good a spot as any to interject - Check out Brad Gowans and his valide. Brad was an early member of the Condon gang and was a valve trombonist. Sometime in the 40s he invented the valide - a combination valve and slide trombone. He was working pretty much in a dixieland format and wanted to be able to get the "tailgate" in that the valve didn't fulfill.

Happy Birthday Johnny !!