Big Beat Steve

Ho hum ... I KNOW records like those by the Carpenters would make my Christmas unbearable ... and several others on this listing would be a borderline case with me too. But tastes differ anyway ... So I guess I'll spin this one again for now:

This has been a regular in my CD player on Dec. 24 for most of the past 20+ years.

Keeping my fingers crossed, good luck and all the best, Allen.

Sounds like you wouldn't like Carlo Manzoni. (Though I don't know if he has been translated into English at all)

Good to hear MG is doing well under the circumstances. I was thinking of him only yesterday when reading here about the forum as such an excellent resource for jazz knowledge. MG contributed a lot.

Yes. In the headline.

I think they tried to get rid of it (without looking closer or even inside) as fast as they could. Because an unattended package at an airport can spell BIG trouble once the anti-terrorism machinery gets moving ... Understandable reaction if you are way down in the pecking line and have nothing to gain in your poorly paid cleaning job anyway So the bottom line is that the owner who "left" it at the airport was way worse than careless.

Isn't that rather "The Old Masters" for TOM? At least that's what it says on my TOM label LPs that I have (Louis Prima, Sharkey Bonano, Fats Waller, Coon-Sanders a.o.)

Or to put it another way: The year the second AFM Petrillo recording ban struck - right?

No, not quite ... This pic has been circulating on the social media in France: Actually I really am keeping my fingers crossed the vaccine will improve matters enormously and soon. But it does worry me that there seem to be many doctors and nurses here who are exceedingly wary about rushing out to get vaccinated (and my better half who works in the medical field is hesitant too - what she has witnessed among a number of patients who for professional reasons had to have themselves vaccinated against porcine flu - that was rampant a couple of years ago in some areas - was not always pleasant as far as the side effects went and in at least one case she herself witnessed has caused lasting damage ...) So, honestly, I am sure many citizens would feel a lot safer if in these initial stages of vaccination it would be a matter of course that ALL the members of Parliament of a country that starts vaccinating would be among those who get vaccinated FIRST. The politicians place their bets on the vaccine and tell us that side effects or allergies - if any - will (yes, "WILL", not "should") be very light only (heard here from one in the news only yesterday, but how does he KNOW?) so they should be happy to serve as post-clinical-trial guinea pigs.

Talking about unknowns ... I am in a different age bracket but to me it remains unknown that (or why) a FORUM should be called a "bulletin board". (Yes I realize some are sentimental about that BN thing that once was, but still ...) Judging by the way exchanges take place, a forum is a forum is a forum ... (or maybe a "Message board" like the H.A.M.B. is ...) but a "bulletin" board? Everyone can place a message (on a forum, so things come full circle) but there is no place where everyone can paste up a "bulletin". The forum boss or the mods could, but the rest of ous? Nah. So ...

60 1/2. And this thread IS frustrating!

IMO Louis Armstrong most of the time remained himself in whatever he recorded and performed - just a category of his own which you may like or may not like and find too easily digestible or not, but that's how he was. But wasn't it so that to those who remained convinced that jazz and fun and entertainment do not rule each other out - particularly after 1945 - he remained rather more in the "sell" (and not much wrong with creating or being a hit with the public, right?) than in the "sell out" camp. I wouldn't give that much attention to those who may have accused him of selling out e.g. in the 50s - at least over here many of the scribes who claimed so were those who idolized beyond all reason those musicians in jazz of whom some fellow musician (from the R&B field IIRC) one once said they looked on stage as if they had not smiled for at least two weeks.

Yes, upon listening to that track again my first thought was "If Prez had been on the date George Handy would have been another one whom he'd have asked "Where's your left people?"

Howzat? Sleeve too high? Or just a rack that's crammed full? I can sympathize with the latter but I have yet to see an oversize LP that is THAT big (unless it's a box set with a way oversize box) ... Anyway ... comforting to see that I am far from the only one who is taking it easier now about what used to be "must haves" (or "must search for by all means").

I think it was more or less "in tune" with what he played and scored elsewhere (Boyd Raeburn). Modern - yes. Bebop? Well ....? But then I suppose that even at that time you couldn't have Dodo Marmarosa, Al Haig or George Walington all the time ... (But OTOH isn't it so that in other - more recent - areas of jazz a mix (or even clash) of styles, even from outside jazz - incongruous as they may be at first) is often hailed as the finest thing and a sign of openmindedness to be embraced? )

Jo, von mir aa. Genieß' die Jausn, au in der jetzigen Zeit!

Phoenix AZ to New Jersey? Just around the corner, eh? WTF indeed.

Thanks for your impressions and evaluation. Actually my curiosity not so much concerned that Mosaic set but rather what I already have of that music (and need to pull out again), which seems to cover a lot of the Mosaic contents.

You're making me curious enough to dig out my Teddy Wilson LPs again for listening. I have a fair amount of his pre-c.1946 recordings, including the May 23, 1934 solos on the 3-LP "Complete Teddy Wilson Piano Solos" box set issued by CBS. (BTW, does the Mosaic include the alternates that the CBS set has?) And what, more precisely - in your opinion - would be the time frame of the "urgently evolving Wilson of the 1930s" recordings that you allude to?

I suppose you're talking about ALAMAC??? Now if you could give a release/catalog number of that LP you are looking for? There must have been at least 2 different Alamacs by the 30s Basie band). FWIW, I have 6 of the 8 tracks on your test pressings (plus "The Count Steps In" as a 7th track) from the 30/06/37 date on yet another Italian P.D. LP (Archive of Jazz 101.581), and that's just one of many reissues according to the discographies.

I'll out myself as an oldster, then: I remember being allowed by my parents to stay up very late to watch the opening match of the 1970 World Cup in Mexico (Mexico-Italy 0:0). Though at 10, I did not follow soccer that closely yet during the Mexican Cup and the first one I really ate up from start to end was the 1974 World Cup in Germany. By 1982 that enthusiasm had long ebbed off to that of a (very) occasional watcher and sports news reader, though, as other hobbies (including 20s to 60s music and record collecting ) kept me more than occupied. Rossi's name is familiar, though.

A document of its time. They did all sort of garish things in these 70s.

Discogs is your friend: https://www.discogs.com/de/Len-Barry-1-2-3/release/2825622 1-2-3 was a huge hit and in accordance with the habits of the day of course an album capitalizing (no, not Capitol ) on that hit was issued. No backing musician lineup given, though (this was not a usual practice with pop albums anyway). But there you have the "other" tracks from that release.