Jim Duckworth

Wow! I just started that one night before last.

Diiscs 4 and 5-the Caddy For Daddy and Slice of the Top elements. Never enjoyed any more than I did this morning.

Rolled through Teddy Wilson, Wingy Manone, and solo sessions; now really enjoying the Cab Calloway elements of this box.

Happy Birthday, Mr. Nessa!

Ben Webster with strings has been an absolute go to for me over the last two months.

Those are the two I reached for when I heard of his passing.

Mine just arrived, but I never received a shipping notice. This set is number 242, and I think that's the lowest number I've yet received on a Mosaic.

Phil May lead singer and so forth of The Pretty Things has died at age 75 of complications following hip surgery.

Thank you for posting the Dog Breath Variations and Uncle Meat. Not only did I enjoy this clip immensely, but I found the entire Yellow Shark performance from Frankfurt on Youtube.

Watching an Amazon Prime video on Lenny Bruce I heard Mort Sahl claim that Paul Desmond discovered Lenny Bruce.

A slighty more worldly friend brought this over when I was 14-I found one in the cut-out bin of the sort that were ubiquitous in retail establishments in that day. Now, at best, I found this record "interesting," but the first jazz record that I dug from the second I put it on right through the run out groove was a pretty rocked out newish Miles Davis record: A Tribute to Jack Johnson.

I'll get in on this as well-a long time favorite. I had originally wanted to name my second son Wardell (my first son was Dexter and it seemed to make sense), but this was met with universal discouragement.

My credit card was charged, but as of yet I've received no notification.

This record was something of a cause celebre in its day, yet somehow only in the last month or so have I discovered this one for myself.

I can't imagine that this means anything positive for me: high official with the district in which I work once said that the biggest problem our schools face is veteran teachers. And for my part, I have not been Mr. Cooperation at work-I don't have any problems with my co-workers or students-I just hate everything that gets handed down to me from on high like testing or the curriculum I am now expected to follow "with fidelity." I will probably have to fall back on a career that utlizes my arcane knowledge of jazz and my proclivity to criticize my superiors.

Last night the president refered more than once to "teachers of a certain age" not returning to the classroom in the same capacity. I'm interested in this conceit as I am a teacher of a certain age-63.

Mrs. Duckworth put this one on, drawn, perhaps, by the word "Happy" in the title. I'll take it!

I made a playlist of the Roulette Basie band playing tunes from the Old Testament Basie band-from discs 5,6,and 7.

This one has some great elements coming together! Louis, Bobby Hackett, Jack Teagarden, Don Byas, some Berman Herman, Hot Lips Page and a really early appearance by Herb Ellis.

Thanks for the heads up! I'm in!

I wish I had another Paul Quinichette record like this one!