Dan Gould

Nice, CJ, I would not be aware of this one otherwise. I've liked Stryker on a variety of recordings and will definitely seek this out.

But Teachout hides behind his canard and absolutely believes that his (Wein's) version is correct. What is really striking to me is the contrast between Wein's "He said it like I said, and it has to be true because no black man with a white manager could possibly have felt otherwise" vs the categorical dismissal of Louis' "white son".

Are they all listed as in-stock? I placed an order a couple of months back and the fill rate wasn't good and I ended up feeling a little screwed because I went with the Fed Ex priority option based on the original cost/# of CDs. Really changed the economics when you take three CDs out of the pile. Still a very good company that I am sure I'll used again.

Teachout has no credibility as far as I am concerned and Wein had an enormous axe to grind. Since I take it his presumed witnesses to what Louis allegedly said never publicly affirmed Wein's claim nor are they alive to do so today, this is pretty definitive as to where the truth lies. Not with Teachout or Wein.

What Paul said.

Found that one as a cheap used LP a few months before my wedding, partially for the tune "Sweet Sue, Just You". I didn't use it on the tunes I tracked for the reception but I do remember really enjoying the LP. I need to revisit though, it's been quite a while ...

I imagine it was the 45 version of House Warmin that was used. They still should have mentioned it though.

Direct from the source, I paid $16.79 including shipping, and it took just a week to get here. You may want to use the Paypal pay option, their online payment service was down. I never actually received the order confirmation message but I knew Paypal had paid, and they were very quick to respond to my status inquiry a couple of days after I ordered.

Well I happily found this in the mailbox when I got home from work today and can report: 1. It really was recorded at the "Forest Westbrook studio" - the pianist had a studio set up in his apartment, where the band rehearsed. 2. Sound is perfectly good though I will admit I am listening on high quality PC speakers. 3. This was recorded as a demo and presented to Dick Bock. He didn't use it but obviously Carmell made an impression on him. 4. Just because it wasn't purchased by Bock doesn't mean it isn't very good. Do not sleep on this, especially if you dig Carmell. 5. Oh, and the pianist gets a long feature on "Aeregin". He's good.

A fine contributor here for many years and still missed.

So I guess this only fits in a standalone category, "everything including the phone number"

Thanks HP, some really nice tracks on this one. Plus it's rare that I get two right, and on one of them, I was first to at least ID the LP. What really threw me is how truncated that version is. IIRC, the title track from House Warmin' is about 12 minutes long. Re: The Kynard, I'll have to double check if I own Acid Jazz series reissue. You'd think I would but I'm not sure. The fact that I could have had a hat trick on this one leaves me with no option but to withdraw and be one with my shame.

Answering my implied question above, was it PD who was the Carmell Jones nut? I want to say it was but I could be wrong. Anyway I notice a couple of things on the listing - it does say "Special thanks to Leslie Westbrook" - presumably the heir to the pianist who was instrumental in getting the music out. So at least the pianist's family got paid. I'd like to hope that they found Carmell's heirs at least too. And the text says that the session was recorded at the pianist's apartment but down below it says "Recorded at Forrest Westbrook studio". Maybe they meant "Forest Westbrook studio apartment". Anyway I jumped on this and I am hopeful that it is as good as they say. It's kinda like the Uptown release of Hank Mobley/Bennie Green - a future star, right before he was discovered.

Hey There is surely the best for the money because you also get 10 of 11 tracks issued as Babe's Blues, and holy bleeep, the unissued track from that day's session, "Billy Boy," is a burner. And as a very nice added bonus, there is a quite extended series of fours between Gene and the under-appreciated Bill Dowdy. Superb! I agree. A wonderful disc this SHM-CD. Cuscuna mentions in his note, that this unissued Billy Boy rec is from the same 8/13/61 session that produces all other tracks from this CD, while the issued version was from a later session (as you may know of course). Why Michael programmed the insipid "Wait a Minute" instead of "Billy Boy" on the original Babe's Blues is a complete mystery to me.

Well this is exciting news! I'm having a horrible time remembering now but there was someone on the board who was a Carmell completist and he should be all over this. In fact it's thanks to him that I have a nice transfer of that Carmell Returns LP. I used it on one of my earliest BFTs. It was recorded at a Gainesville FL radio station with a local group, if memory serves.

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Just terrible ...

There's a CD of House Warmin'?

All of them are keepers, even The Best of The Kent Singles, which were all released after B.B. left the Bihari's and they used his raised profile with ABC to issue their own singles, recorded from the late 50s to early 60s. Most, but not all of these tracks are stripped down to the original instrumentation (Kent put some out with overdubs). I like that one a lot.

Thanks Bill for a (mostly) ear-friendly BFT. Not many guesses (when have I not said that?) but ... 2 - I recognized this almost immediately and am nearly certain that it is Howard McGhee, from the Argo LP House Warmin', a big favorite of mine for a long time now. I even unwittingly bought it again as a Winley release, Nothin' But Soul. It wasn't a purchase I regretted though because the sound turned out to be better than the Argo LP I had first. However I am away from my collection and discogs shortest track listed on this album doesn't match up. I'm still going to stick with my guess. I know I have this somewhere, if somehow it's not from House Warmin'. 5-6, "Caravan" - ugh. That song outlived it's usefullness to me a long time ago. I will say I like the pianists version a little though. 13 - "Moment's Notice" by McCoy Tyner off of Supertrios. Brings back memories of my roommate in my second year of grad school in St Louis. It was my first year of listening to jazz, and my roommate was a law student with a rather wide definition of jazz ... Flim and the BBs was his absolute favorite (who didn't appeal to me at all) but he also had the Tyner album Double Trios and ended up going with me for my first live performance, by the MJQ at the Kiel Opera House. Anyway, Double Trios led me to purchase this double LP which got a lot of spins back then.