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RCA had several studios in what I assume was it's NY offices. I'm vague on the exact location, but I'm thinking (around) 40th St and Sixth ave and I think the studios were on the 4th floor..there was a studio "A", studio "B" etc. I'm not sure when they started using this facility. I was there in the late 60s and I assumed that was the studio used on Jazz dates from the 50s. Anybody have any info on this location?

Actually...Jazzmoose is onto it. He's elucidating the correct pronunciation AND derivation of the phrase in question. Surprised you missed THAT one DEEP ! Patricia - the answer is the pronunciation used on THE HONEYMOONERS when Ralph wanted to learn Polo and he and Norton were perusing a book and got to section on...POLO PONIES.

POLOPONIES ?

To add to what Larry said - both Joe Cinderella and Lou Mecca taught guitar extensively in the Northern New Jersey area and I know that people that studied with them are now teaching also - I'm sure their influence will continue to show up for a long time to come.

That's a good cd, but the bad news is that Lou died last spring, I think from cancer.

Maybe I was just not in a receptive mode - I'm not adverse to listening further and I remember hearing something last summer that I liked from her current release at that time. I think it was a blues album at the time (?).

WBGO announced they were going to a live brodacast of (I guess) the first show of the evening. I was going to try and get it on cdr and totally forgat about it. I had a feeling it would be a drag...they were playing a tune from her latest album and I couldn't change the station fast enough. VERY boring.

I have the 10" lp. Spooky Drums is on it - listed as "SPOOKY DRUMS ONE AND TWO".

Chris...I enjoyed hanging with you and Danny and consider both of you friends. Believe me, I don't like the animosity that has developed.

There's the American Music GHB release...that's from a film short if I remember correctly... AND there's the new disc which is a reissue of the Folkways 10" lp (and I guess there was a 78 release also). ...and I wholeheartedly agree with all the praise lavished heretofore upon these invaluable recordings.... Now I wanna check out what's on that JAZZ ARCHIVES NEW ORLEANS DRUMS before I score to see if I have it on other issues,

Jimmie Lewis was with Basie in the 50s. I saw him many times live in the early 60s with King Curtis - he preceeded Chuck Rainey with Curtis. Great player on both upright and Fender. I know he did a lot in later years with pianist Red Richards and remember seeing him on TV with Red and Alberta Hunter. I think he mainly freelanced on the NYC scene after the gig with Curtis.

Nobody is forcing ANYBODY to read or respond to ANYTHING. If you don't dig it...just lay out 'til the chorus is over.

True...but in the case of many recordings (and particularly the first cd reissues of some of the more important recordings) the existing issues leave much to be desired. So if I know that Columbia (Sony), for instance is planning a reissue of vintage material, and I know that I like the sound of recent Columbia issues, I tend to wait for the new issue. Same with John R.T. Davies, or Malcolm Addey, and a number of other sound restoration experts. If I know an issue from them is forthcoming, I'll probably wait for it.

He's on a lot of the Ike Quebec Blue Notes and sounds fine. He's mostly known as a Motown session dude. There's an old Motown lp by Earl Van Dyke and the Soul Brothers. I don't know if it ever made it to cd.

Ok...we can safely NOT add this photo into the batch with the BUDDY BOLDEN and RED McKENZIE archive of questionable jazz photos. Safe to say MOSAIC flipped the negative. Chris and P.D. - - - you both have my admiration for posting two droll, sarcastic posts. I love sarcasm.

Dan, I haven't heard the Jimmy Forest/ Grant Green CARAVAN - but I take it it's uninspired??

Dan, you never know what somebody may bring to a tune. For me that's one of the great things about jazz. Any tune is cool with me.

I was 18 in 1964. It was my first semester of college and I was working weekends as a musician. The Radio station at the time that I listened to the most was WNJR- AM in Newark NJ. At this time very few cars had FM radios, WNJR's programing was devoted to Gospel in the morning, R&B in the afternoon and Jazz after midnight (or maybe 1:00 AM). It was here that I first heard THE SIDEWINDER, MY FAVORITE THINGS, SONG FOR MY FATHER, etc. (Also Aretha, B.B. King, Jimmy Reed, Muddy, Claude Jeeter, The Swan Silvertones, the Five Blindboys.... etc) As far as I can remember there was no 24 hr a day Jazz station on AM or FM in the entire Metropolitan New York area. WEVD-FM and WQXR-FM devoted some time to Jazz, and I mostly recall Mort Fega and a weekly 1 hr program with John S. Wilson on Wednesday nights at 10:00. THE SIDEWINDER got frequent play on WNJR. Was the average rock or pop fan aware of it? I don't think so.....nah. Was LEE MORGAN a well known name...only to Jazz fans. But in 1964 there were a GREAT many more "casual" jazz fans that there are now ...semi hip people if you want to call them that. The two Jazz albums that everyone had in my first year of college were THE SIDEWINDER and the LOU RAWLS LIVE album on Capitol. The Basie ATOMIC lp was around a lot too. THE RUMPROLLER came and went unnoticed by the casual fans. It never achieved the popularity of THE SIDEWINDER....And as I remember it..CORNBREAD was the next attempt at this kind of hit.

Same here. Hope it comes back.

Not positive, but a lot of guys took whatever dates came their way and I don't see why Sam would be an exception. Easy bucks and often during the day.

P.D. - Where can you order Fresh Sounds from?

I suspect that Sam Rivers appearance was limited to an overdubbed soprano solo on THE JEALOUS KIND and that probably he was there as a result of arranger and Co Producer Richard Tee's contracting the horns for a sweetning date.t There are 3 or 4 studios mentioned in the credits. The Rhythm tracks at least were apparently done in Jamaica and finishing touches added in Manhattan....and that is where I suspect Sam entered and the horns were added. I wouldn't be surprised if some research turned up an earlier album of some sort where Tee and the other Stuff guys worked with Sam. Those guys recorded with everybody in Manhattan in the 60s and 70s.

To add to the wonderful stuff mentioned above.... There is an obscure Ruby Braff LP called "You're Getting to be A Habit With Me" on BELL label. It's absolutely terrific and deserves reissue. Ruby's 50s stuff on RCA and Vanguard are great too. Also a Bethlehem lp called "The Many Angles Of John Letman" by Trumpeter John Letman. Great session with Panama Francis, Kenny Burrell, Dick Wellstood and Bill Pemberton. Of course anything by Johnny Hodges fits the bill. It's a drag the Jimmy Rushing's "The Smith Girls" on Columbia hasn't seen reissue.

Lon hit it on the head. It IS system dependant and any particular system may not be optimum for a particular remastering. Perhaps fiddling with the EQ can help. Just prior to the release of the latest Armstrong remastering, WKCR played many of the original 78s on air with only "on the fly" EQ'ing . They sounded incredible (they also played the ODJB 78s on another show - also incredible). It is a credit to the recent remasterings that they have essentially sucessfully transferred the sound of the 78s to CD. I've owned the Armstrong and Holiday material in many diferrent issues. The Columbia lps from the 50s sounded great, as did the Frence CBS complete issue. Without a question the late 80s - early 90s Armstrong issues (at least the 1st 2 volumes) were the worst issues I heard, and I found them totally unlistenable - I just continued on with my lp issues. I think the recent issues are the best I've heard. (BTW - the earlier cd issues improved as the series progressed chronologically. By the time it got to the big band material it sounded OK to me). The early "Quintessential" Holiday issues were not as bad as the earlier Armstrong cds , but nowhere as good as the latest remaster.

Mug and brush do the job for me- and I have both a Mach 3 and an older Atra. The Mach 3 handles better. I change the oil regularly and they both run fine. (rim shot) ...but seriously folks, If you haven't tried the mug and brush routine, do so. For those of us who are heavy in the five O'clock shadow department it's almost the best and easiest on the epidermis. The shaving in the shower routine surpasses it and you get used to shaving by feel without a mirror pretty quickly.