Steve Gray

They are from March 1930, and the Mosaic is: DUKE ELLINGTON: THE COMPLETE 1932-1940 BRUNSWICK, COLUMBIA AND MASTER RECORDINGS. Whether those titles are, or are not, Columbia masters, they're too early. I am aware of that, all of the titles in that list of 47 are before 1932. So is the difference that those 47 are available to Columbia but the Hit of the Week 2 are not?

I'm confused. I too have the 2 'Hit of the week' titles on the Naxos CD but shouldn't they be included in the list of 47 above?

Many years ago someone sent me a postcard with this pic. Dorham, Mingus, Coleman, Roach Wouldn't you just love to hear that band.

Jim Pepper - Witchi Tai To or however you spell it.

That looks like a mistake on the D.E. Panorama discog. That is a Victor session.

I'm finding that difficult to read, have they missed out details of disc 3? Yes, it does look interesting.

Yes it was, mine cost £5.68 Unfortunately the Mosaic is going to cost an awful lot more, when you add in $45 shipping and potential customs charges.

Presumably that is Herbie Nichols on piano who is known to have played in Dixieland bands. Wonder if he solos?

Pretty much sums it up for me, too. Me too. I'll play a Bill Evans record instead I liked that quote "I've been a really good guy since Perugia" I almost expected him to follow that with "And I have been taking all my medicine"

Yeah, thank god for the Andorrans

I understand from another board that this set contains a flyer for another MD set to be released next year. Does anyone have any idea what this is? Thanks

I'm a big fan, saw him a couple of times in N.O. when I have been there for Jazz Fest He made a couple of records for Columbia, Props for Pops and Cream of the Crop. Nowadays his records come out on small N.O. labels, they can generally be found at the Louisiana Music Factory. Do a search here Louisiana Music Factory He is also featured on the Yockamo All Stars CD. There is also a Danish Big Band album on Storyville featuring him in a tribute to Louis Armstrong.

Yes, I did, maybe 3 or 4 times a week but my time of day was different. I used to catch the bus from Fleet Street after work to get to Picadilly Circus, looked around for an hour or so before going home with my purchases. Tower did have a wonderful selection but, on reflection, it was very expensive. (I bought a large number of Japanese Blue Notes there over the years) I always liked Mole but it never came to grips with CDs (IMO) and I stopped going there soon after I bought a CD player in 1984.

Yes, that's the one. Thanks

There is a picture of Horace Silver standing outside Dobells included in the LP version of 'You Gotta Take A Little Love'. I am not sure but I don't think it was included in the CD version. Anyone know of any other 'jazz musician standing outside/inside record shop' pictures?

My god, I saw Roland Kirk in Dobells as well!!!. Can't remember what he was doing, just getting in the way I think.

I remember Colletts moving to Charing Cross Road but for the life of me I cannot remember it having a music section, but I am sure that is just my memory failing me. I must admit my memory of exactly when Collets morphed into Rays is very hazy. One record shop that WAS in Monmouth St was 'Soul City' but that was at a different time and a different sort of music.

This description definitely sounds like Dobell's after it relocated to Tower Street. It probably mentions in in the NY Times article (I didn't read all of it) but Asman's was in New Row, a small street off St. Martins Lane. The woman who ran it after James Asman retired, and moved to Mole with it, was called Maureen. When Ray's moved from New Oxford St. to Shaftesbury Avenue, it was actually in both Shaftesbury Avenue and Monmouth St. You could walk in one side and out the other. Monmouth St. is an extension of St. Martins Lane (actually Upper St. Martins Lane). I just mention this in case anyone was confusing Monmouth St with St. Martins Lane.

Here is a picture from the later days in Charing Cross Road, after the addition of the folk and blues shop. I went to Dobell's for the first time in about 1962 and for me it was never the same after the move to Tower Street.

Michael Cuscuna

£56 will buy you one ... Humphrey Lyttelton Discography

Mildly fatal?

I have the Japanese CD issue. I had been looking for the cover art for this to add to iTunes and hadn't been able to find it so a big thank you for supplying it. :-)

Billie Holiday's father, Clarence Holiday, played guitar with Fletcher Henderson among others. Is that what you are thinking of?

I am really surprised by the anti Benny Green feelings expressed here. I personally enjoyed Benny's sleeve notes enormously. But then I probably come to him from a different angle to you guys. I'm English, he was English, and I spent my teens getting to know Jazz partly through his radio programs in the 60s. When Kind of Blue was first issued in England, it had notes by Benny which I thought were a model of intelligent writing.