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And more! And more! Happy Birthday

Larry, I'm sold on those late '30s Armstrong. And later ones too! The Armstrong/Oscar Peterson album has some of the most cutting trumpet playing I know. But this does not make it less true that Armstrong was pretty often on automatic drive in his later years. I'ld be the last one to blame him. Automatic or manual-drive, there was none greater!

Right, Dan! And the same thing can be said about the 'Renaissance' album on Uptown.

That's from the Lucky Thompson discography http://www.attictoys.com/jazz/LT51-56.HTM The Terry Pollard sides with Norma Carson are not listed with the exception of 'Anything You Can Do' where cats and chicks play together. The Terry Pollard septet plays the same three tunes ('Cat Meets Chick', 'Mamblues' and 'The Man I Love') as the Clark Terry septet.

The same things that are being said about Zoot Sims in this thread could be said about so many of the jazz greats. Louis Armstrong to start with. Pops was creative until the early '30s. That does not make any of his later recordings less than remarkable. I'll take any of the post-Dawn Zoot Sims music over some of the very creative musicians that appeared later on the scene!

I have already posted before that the MGM 'Cats vs. Chicks' should be reissued. Hope that those Spanish/Andorran pirates will one day release the date since the owners of the copyrights have never cared to do the job. I have a mint copy of 'Cats Vs. Chicks'. The confrontation is contained in side A of the LP. Side B being devoted to the Terry Pollard trio (with Ernie Farrow on bass and Frank Di Vito on drums. Norma Carson has solos on each of the four tunes she appears on. Very good and natural player who sounds a bit like the Miles Davis of the early fifties. Just a reminder the Cats were Clark Terry (leader), Urbie Green, Lucky Thompson, Tal Farlow, Percy Heath/Oscar Pettiford and Kenny Clarke, the Chicks being Norma Carson, harpist Corky Hecht, Beryl Booker, Mary Osborne, Elaine Leighton, Bonnie Wetzel and Terry Pollard (leader). I remember seeing a gimmick photo from the time of the date (1956) where Norma Carson, a brunette, was faking a duel - both holding trumpets sword-like - with Clark Terry.

The New York Art Quartet (Rudd, Tchicai, Workman, Graves) 'Mohawk' (Fontana)

Even in France, there have been a series ads for the reissues in the daily newspaper Liberation (and probaly some others) but the CDs are barely visible in the usual stores.

My turn then. This one should not be very difficult. 'In my mind, where's the individual who's gonna come out and play for himself? Like, if you have thirteen people and the teacher teach all thirteen of them, you mean to tell me out of thirteen he can't get one individual? So that's the way I think.'

Teddy Wilson & his 1939 Big Band (Fanfare). The America Dances Broadcast via BBC, plus sides with the Paul Baron Orchestra and with Mildred Bailey. Sound is pretty bad, music is pretty good. And more!

Yes, it is disc 1 of the Andrew Hill 'One For One' BN twofer.

Can't be Jimmy Rushing

Durium, that DVD is so bad that I will not condamn myself to a fresh relook at it

I was doing fine until I 'accidentaly' stepped into that secondhand book and recordshop. And there there were those mint vinyls from Fanfare (Teddy Wilson America Dances Broadcast 1939), from SwingHouse (Count Basie 1943 broadcasts) and First Heard (Charlie Barnet 1941-1946 broadcasts with Dodo Marmarosa, Peanuts Holland, Shorty Rogers, Al Haig, etc.). All for a few peanuts. But I was strong enough to resist getting more. I swear I will be even stronger from now on

Recorded on this day... January 3, 1945 Duke Ellington & His Orchestra Radio Transcription session that produced: - Subtle Slough - Hit Me With A Hot Note - Air Conditioned Jungle - Pitter Panther Patter - Prairie Fantasy - Don't You Know I Care? - I Ain't Got Nothin' But The Blues - Blutopia - Let the Zoomers Drool - You Never Know The Things You Miss also recorded on this day: the birth of one MartyJazz! Happy Birthday MartyJazz Hope you will have the time of your life!

I think this is one of the 3 EL's I have resting. I'll try to let them age another year, but who knows. A friend of mine had some of those and offered me a couple of them. I told him I would rather keep them for some time but he started one and I went along. Great smoke! Luckily there was no damn organ player around to spoil the pleasure

Not that rare. But do get it. One of Getz' best album. That's the regular quartet he led in 1970-1971. Like 'Captain Marvel' but rate 'Dynasty' higher!

Giuseppi Logan

Hampton Hawes, vol. 3 'The Trio' (Contemporary) a reissue from the '80s to be followed by: Hampton Hawes 'For Real' (Contemporary, original copy) with Harold Land, Scott LaFaro, Frank Butler

The back page of the liner notes of that George Van Eps CD from Jump has a list of CDs plus two cassettes (including the Teagarden 1945-1951 release) from the label. Do you have that?

Up. In smoke, of course! Cigars I have enjoyed over the past few days; Havanas, of course (sorry all you Ugly Americans!) - Partagas Serie du Connaisseur no. 2 - Juan Lopez Seleccion no. 2 (a brand I never tasted before. I'll return to theses awesome robustos!) - Partagas Serie D. No. 1 Edicion Limitada 2004. One word for this one 'magnifico'!

Also: Duke Ellington Jan. 2, 1945 transcriptions session that produced: - Midriff - I Didn't Know About You - I'm Beginning To See The Light - Mood To Be Wooed - Blue Cellophane

Absoltely, indeed! This is one album to get while the OJCs are still available!

You mean jazz! Was not aware of that...

Forgot side B times. Blame it on all the champagne I drank last night and again at noon Side A: a- Binary (P. Adams)...................................6:54 b- Now In Our Lives (P. Adams)....................6:55 c- Valse Celtique (P. Adams)........................5:39 Side B: d- Dylan's Delight 5P. Adams).......................6:17 e- How I Spent the Night (F.Foster)................7:00 f- Claudette's Way (P. Adams).......................7:24 Can confirm that FF does not play on 'Now In Our Lives'