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Al Sears went on to some fame as an early "Rock and Roll" tenorist in and around the Alan Freed thing!

Any indication what the cause of the Foot Drop was?

Ronnie Kleb & Jade Mykroe - Our Foolish Hearts

Enticing!

I'm quite interested.

When was that?

Mike The Treefrog - Uncommonly Reviled

He did two big band records for Columbia, though. One great, one regrettable.

re: Teddy Wilson...the first that I know seeing that brought into the discussion was a Metronome(?) "pro vs con" in the 1950s right after the big Riverside breakthrough. article that was part of a series where two critics would "take sides" about a given artist. In Monk's case, it was Stanley Dance taking the "con" on Monk. He jibed at the notion that Monk could be playing "regularly" if he wanted to by commenting that the evidence put forth was the Minton's recordings, on which Dance said that Monk was playing "sub-par Teddy Wilson style piano". I'm going from 40+ year memories of college music library immersion in old jazz periodicals, so I'm not sure if it was Metronome, but am absolutely certain that it was Dance, and that my quote is about 90% accurate, even with the passage of a lot of years. I also recall that Dance disingenuously used some semi-quote from Coleman Hawkins about the Monk's Music session to discredit Monk, which I think was almost certainly placed out of context. If anybody was explicitly linking Monk to Teddy Wilson before that, I'm not aware of it. It certainly could have happened, though. But I'm interested in seeing just how far back that goes as far as the general public discourse. I mean, I hear it, but it's at best secondary, imo.

Flo Barry - Come Down & Play

it is

Hello.

I discovered Plugged Nickel Wayne about the same time as I began a deeper dive into .Wayne. The kindred spiritness was immediately apparent imo.

This is probably/maybe true, but I'm not sure that it is relevant, especially going forth. I think he's a lot more/bigger than that. Especially the "song" part of it, because as "song" continues to evolve/devolve/revolve, Monk's profundity continues to reveal itself as it's own thing, a very standalone reality.

I was lucky enough to get just the contents of the discs, from which I was able to use the Robert Campbell site to create a fully chronological private set of "all known" Chicago-era Ra recordings. It makes a wonderful, if not a corrective (because what needs correcting?), then definitely a parallel reality to the one created by relying strictly on the Saturn recordings as released. For anybody who has the resources (not the least valuable of which is time), it might prove to be a worthwhile endeavor.

Why would you wash dishes? We have a dishwasher for that! My dog Fiona shows no preference for any music, but she does hate a running vacuum cleaner. Other than that, she's cool with other non-dog noises.

Stu Downer - The Gravity Of Feathers

1 Brunswick Duke 78, but also one Vocalion Hodges 78 of "The Jeep Is Jumpin'" which is very much as much a treat for the eyes as for the ears, watching it go around that fast and wondering where they were putting all that music, there was so much happening so rapidly, surely this was not a three minute 78!

Apparently there's a player missing on Track 6 that might have really upped the intergenerational ante...and possibly the musical interest quotient as well.

Is the theme along the lines of "intergenerational" performances? A little post-posting sleuthing suggest this?

There's the Pete Christlieb solo(s) for the ages.

Little Johnny Sludge - Death Wears A Skirt (and Shoes To Match)

The Butch Slatz Big Band - Microdots & Moongleams (Recorded LIVE at Filly's)!!!

Not as familiar as I had thought ..