Clunky

Decent Polish Solal disc.

Any recommendations for his later works?? I'd ordered a couple of his BGO 2CDs just a couple of days before he died and really like what I've heard. He used Harry Beckett's trumpet to great advantage.

One could be forgiven for thinking that tracks recorded in a radio station and then left unissued for 40 odd years wouldn't be up to much. Perhaps some casual rehearsal piece or historic fluff of little import, but you'd be wrong. Everything about this release is truly magnificent. The WUBC tracks offer a pretty diverse set of sounds which work very well together and sound so mature it's hard believe that these are Roscoe's earliest recordings. This is significant music.

this is a great date , I recently picked this up on LP

Me too! my copy has made it over the atlantic and into my CD player.

It's the Tolliver set I'm wondering about

ok listening to this right now ( I'd voted Shorter by the way). I presume that's Prince opening the proceedings with a growling like solo which on reflection does sound pretty "modern" for 1926. Lovely track BTW. Any particular players claimed him as an influence?

Did I hallucinate or was there a post saying there was to be a big box of LT material ??

Pow Wow & Strollin' were recorded at the same October 21, 1943 session as "The Moose." Jimmy Pupa, Al Killian, Lyman Vunk, Peanuts Holland (tp) Spud Murphy, Bob Swift, Eddie Bert, Ed Fromm (tb) Charlie Barnet (sax,ldr) Rae De Geer, Buddy De Franco (as) Mike Goldberg, Kurt Bloom (ts) Dodo Marmarosa (p) Turk van Lake (g,arr) Russ Wagner (b) Harold Hahn (d) And according to the discography in the Drop Me Off in Harlem CD, the English Brunswick 78 you have was the first issue of "Moose." I come across Barnet's Apollo 78s occasionally, but have never picked one up. How is the one you got? Thanks for the info. The Apollo 78 is listed as Charlie Barnet And His Orchestra James Campbell, Joe Graves, Jimmy Nottingham, Doc Severinsen, Clark Terry (tp) Walt Benson, Porky Cohen, Fred Zito (tb) Walter Weidler, Wolfgang Weidler (as) Kurt Bloom, Bud Shank (ts) Charlie Barnet (ts, ss, as) Bob Dawes (bars) Claude Williamson (p) unknown (g) Don Totsi (b) Dick Shanahan (d) Bunny Briggs (vo) Billy May (arr) NYC, November 30, 1947 As with most Apollos the sound Q leaves a bit to be desired. Little John Ordinary is a flag waver with little solo space apart form Barnet ( I think), Southern Fried features some wah-wah trumpet and a brief piano solo by Williamson. No vocals on these two sides. Not bad but really not too distinguished as Barnets own solos can sound a little feeble.

Inspired by Jeffcrom's delve into Charlie Barnet I realised that barring one Hep Cd - 1941 Transcriptions and a single Victor 78 I had all too little Barnet and no Deccas. So I went to today to my local 78 stockist to look through the Bs .I found multiple copies of Barnets's Victors on HMV plus at least three copies of The Moose on Brunswick on which Michael Marmarosa is featured. I came away with ... Charlie Barnet and his Orchestra The Moose (Ralph Burns) /Sky Liner 1944 Brunswick 03601 (ex Decca) Charlie Barnet and his Orchestra Flat Top Flips His Lid (Tommy Pederson) West End Blues Recorded October 17, 1944 Brunswick ex Decca Charlie Barnet and his Orchestra Southern Fried/Little John Ordinary November 30, 1947 Apollo 1107 Charlie Barnet and his Orchestra Pow wow/Strollin ( Howard McGhee) Brunswick ex Decca I like of these but Dodo gets the nod on the first. I haven't found the personnel for Pow Wow/Strollin but its good too

Very Warm for Jazz - Ralph Burns (Decca) elegant chamber like set from Ralph Burns with a nice line up including Eddie Costa and Barry Galbraith and next Billy Bean &Johnny Pisano -Makin It (Brunswick UK, ex Decca) and finally ,completing my collection of Decca Mood Jazz albums with animal covers Barry Galbraith -Guitar and the Wind (Brunswick UK , ex Decca)

amazon uk is giving a late October date for this,

Added six 78s to my collection yesterday, Buck Ram - Twilight in Tehran/Swing Street- Savoy 572- 1944 and with a slightly modern sound whilst not exactly boppish. Sound quality is so much better than the transfers on " The Changing Face of Harlem" Savoy 2LP, I always thought these Savoy 2fers offered pretty good sound but here the LP sounds like mud by comparison to the 78.

I really like Budd but this late entry is a poor ambling record on which Budd sounds well past his best .

looking forward to hearing the Mitchell session.