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A nice date at Pizza Express back in 1988. While not a professional recording, the sound quality is very good. The trio runs through a selection of golden oldies like "Exactly Like You" and "I Would Do Anything For You". Art Hodes takes a solo ramble though "Love For Sale" and it made me realize why I love Art Hodes' piano so much. Art Hodes didn't just play piano. Art Hodes reveled in piano. Not in a flashy, showstopping way. He just seemed to really love what the piano itself was capable of doing and he loved to share with us whatever new & classic musical discoveries he made during his many excursions upon the instrument.

Hey, that was me who mentioned that album a couple days ago. Glad you enjoyed it. For me, the band heard here was every bit as exciting as the Terry Gibbs Dream Band (heard on a number of albums issued long after their heyday). Louie Bellson was always one of my favorite drummers and this band sounded very fresh and lively. Are the other albums included in that Real Gone collection other Roulette albums? Are they a mix of big band and small group sessions?I wonder is a Louis Bellson Complete Roulette Leader Recordings boxed set would have ever made sense? (It would have been too big a set if it included the sessions he made with his wife for Roulette.) Recent listening: !! An excellent recording! I hope they find enough good material to warrant a follow-up release.

But anyway -- To go along with the Clapton Christmas album, one may also wish to stuff this in a loved one's stocking this year --

You know overalls must really have had something going for them when even Mr. Greenjeans switched to them instead of the garment which gave his family their name/heritage.

which is a reissue of this LP plus bonus tracks

! And for "To A Wild Rose" in particular on that disc ! The moment when Sonny Rollins concludes his lengthy solo and seamlessly, smoothly slides back into both the melody and the band always gives me goosebumps!

Oh, so he was on the Dizzy Gillespie / Gil Fuller Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra album. I have that, so I guess I must have seen his name before and not realized it. Thanks.

Good music, but one of the laziest concepts for an album cover ever devised! Listening to: I really loved this CD, both the "live" big band set and the small group studio recordings. Band included members such as Conte Candoli, Uan Rasey, Jimmy Zito, Bill Perkins, Joe Maini, Gene Estes, Lou Levy and even Red Callender on tuba! Frank Rosolino plays only on the small group tracks. Charts by Benny Carter, Shorty Rogers, Marty Paich Bob Florence and George Williams for the big band and by Mr. Paich for the small group. Music which sounds "of its time", but also still sounds fresh and lively today. An easily recommended CD for fans of big band jazz or West Coast jazz. Who was tenor saxophonist Carrington Visor? I never heard that name before.

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The Davy Crockett theme song was recorded by Pops --

And you can't forget the TV commercials --

I always liked this track with a dandy arrangement which fits Ms. Lee like a glove.

i just remembered this album as well --

Vince Guaraldi did some theme music for a few animated TV specials about some kids and a dog. Maybe those recordings are still available somewhere. Gary Burton recorded the theme to "Frasier" on his Gary Burton & Friends CD on Concord. I like Ahmad Jamal's version of "Theme From M*A*S*H" There was Dave Brubeck's theme to the short-lived Craig Stevens show, "Mr. Broadway". And this CD is a reissue of this LP with lots of late 50's, early 60's TV themes. (Geez and they misspelled Ms. McPartland's name!) And there's this CD, which might seem a bit smooth for some, but I enjoyed it. It includes such players as Randy Brecker, Kim Waters, Eric Alexander, Dave Samuels and Chuck Loeb. (I love the Dan Quayle approved spelling on the cover, too!)

Tonight (in less than an hour, actually, so I better run) it's the SFJAZZ Collective Plays the Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim. The current Collective is: alto saxophonist Miguel Zenón, tenor saxophonist David Sánchez, vibraphonist Warren Wolf, trombonist Robin Eubanks, pianist Edward Simon and drummer Obed Calvaire. New members for 2018-19 are bassist Matt Brewer and trumpeter Etienne Charles.

I have had this disc on repeat play in the car for the past couple of days -- Such a really great album. Far from being a quick and cheap attempt to cash in on the then raging Beatlemania, this album presents some top notch arrangements by Benny Carter and Ernie Freeman which recast the works of Lennon & McCartney as sophisticated adult pop music. The effect is never clever or condescending. "If I Fell" is given a bossa nova feel. "A Hard Day's Night" is given a Peggy Lee "Fever" style arrangement. And check out this glorious arrangement by Benny Carter, which, for me, is far better than the Beatles original version --

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That incident would have been before he wrote that tune. Each chapter in the book is titled after one of Mr. Frishberg's songs. and Chapter Nine is named after this tune, which was written in 1969.

It must have been A & M Records night on the Hollywood Palace back in 1967 as host Herb Alpert welcomed Liza Minnelli, Burt Bacharach, The Baja Marimba Band and these two -- Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 and Wes Montgomery https://youtube/iPZGdC_PYuk?t=6m1s

I forget what I was looking at on Amazon, but one of the items "also recommended" on that page was this book, which I did not even know existed -- So Amazon made a sale based on that "recommendation". The book arrived this week, but I have not begun reading it yet. It looks like a kind of breezy memoir. I glanced through and found one tale he recounts of a time in 1963 when he was playing at the Shalimar in NY as part of Ben Webster's group. The Shalimar was across from the Hotel Theresa which served as the de facto headquarters for Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam. One night, Dave Frishberg passed a group of men sitting at a table in the club as they were discussing the 1934 Tigers. They were stuck on the name of one player and Mr. Frishberg, being the big baseball fan that he is, was able to interrupt and supply that name. Then he and another gentleman seated at that table went back and forth for several minutes rattling off the names of various players from days gone by. When he returned to the bandstand, Ben Webster asked Mr. Frishberg if he knew who he was talking to. He did not and Mr. Webster said, "You ever hear of Malcom X?". The book also comes with a code number for online access to 21 Dave Frishberg tunes. I have to check that out yet too,