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In the meantime I got the information by way of a PM from a board member.

I recently purchased the Artie Shaw 3-cd Hindsight set "King Of The Clarinet - Live Performances 1938-39". I got the three discs without the box and the companion booklet. Now I am looking for the discographical information (band personnel and recording dates and locations). Internet search so far was not successful.

Thanks, Harold. I already spotted the two Chronological Classics. They are on my want list.

Thanks very much, Augustin. Guarnieri seemed to have recorded more in the 50's, 60's and 70's than I was aware of. Do you know if any of these albums have been reissued on cd?

Johnny Guarnieri was one of the truly great swing piano stylists and one of a handful (or two) of superb stride players. He was part of several first rate swing sessions in the 40's (some of them classics like the recordings with Benny Goodman's Sextet and Septet, the famous quartet recordings of Lester Young on Keynote and the Gramercy Five sessions with Artie Shaw). He was scarcely recorded after the 40's, but did two outstanding solo albums in 1978 ("Fatscinatin'") and 1984 ("Echoes Of Ellington"). Guarnieri, a descendant of the famous italian family of violin builders, had phenomenal technique and a light swinging touch. He was, to my ears, influenced by Fats Waller, Earl Hines and Teddy Wilson, a great accompanist and capable of producing interesting and always swinging solos. The two solo sessions already mentioned (issued on the rather obscure labels Caz Jaz and Star Line respectively) are highly recommended for lovers of swing piano; Guarnieri displays his inventive approach and superb technique to great advantage on two tributes to Fats Waller and Duke Ellington. Any other recommendations (solo or trio) and / or oppinions on this unduly neglected pianist?

Braff was a highly consistent player and you generally cannot go wrong with any of his recordings. However my personal favorites are: Ruby Braff - George Barnes Quartet: Live At The New School (Chiaroscuro) Ruby Braff - Ellis Larkins: Grand Reunion (Chiaroscuro) Ruby Braff: Very Sinatra (Red Barron) Ruby Braff: Live At The Regatta Bar (Arbors) Ruby Braff - Dick Hyman: America The Beautiful (Concord) Ruby Braff - Dick Hyman: Play Nice Tunes (Arbors) Ruby Braff - Roger Kellaway: Inside + Out (Concord) Ruby Braff: Being With You (Arbors)

Found a track listing and a picture of the box 1 Sidney Bechet - Wild cat blues 2 Johnny Hodges - The blues with a feeling 3 Johnny Hodges - Rent party blues 4 Sidney Bechet - Summertime 5 Sidney Bechet - Old man blues 6 Johnny Hodges - That's the blues old man 7 Sidney Bechet - Blues of Bechet 8 Steve Lacy - Johnny came lately 9 Frankie Trumbauer - Singin' the blues 10 Otto Hardwicke - Black and tan fantasy 11 Paul "Stump" Evans - Wild man blues 12 Johnny Hodges - The dicty glide 13 Benny Carter - Gee baby, ain't I good to you ? 14 Benny Carter - Swing it 15 Willie Smith - Swingin' uptown 16 Johnny Hodges - Accent on youth 17 Russell Procope - Blue rhythm fantasy 18 Earl Warren - Out of the window 19 Pete Brown - Ocean motion 20 Johnny Hodges - Dream blues 21 Willie Smith - Uptown blues 22 Benny Carter - Night hop 23 Johnny Hodges - Junior hop 24 Tab Smith - The jitters Volume 2 1 Johnny Hodges - Things ain't what they used to be 2 Louis Jordan - Ration blues 3 Eddie "Mr. Cleanhead" Vinson - Cherry red blues 4 Earl Bostic - You need coachin' 5 Johnny Hodges - Mood to be wooed 6 Charlie Parker - Now's the time 7 Charlie Parker - Lover man 8 Sonny Stitt - Bouncing with Bud 9 Johnny Hodges - Esquire Swank 10 Charlie Parker - Hot house 11 Willie Smith - Sophisticated lady 12 Sahib Shihab - The thin man 13 Charlie Parker - Parker's mood 14 Ernie Henry - Oh Henry 15 Buddy Collette - Collette 16 Lee Konitz - Subconscious-Lee 17 Woody Herman - Tenderly 18 Sonny Criss - Tornado 19 James Moody - I'm in the mood for love 20 Art Pepper - Art Pepper 21 Sonny Stitt - Imagination 22 Earl Bostic - Flamingo 23 Charlie Parker - K.C. blues 24 Art Pepper - Pooch McGouch Volume 3 1 John Coltrane - Bittersweet 2 Lou Donaldson - Lou's blues 3 Benny Carter - Sunday afternoon 4 Art Pepper - Susy the poodle 5 Paul Desmond - Stardust 6 Sonny Stitt - Pink satin 7 Gigi Gryce - Hymn of the orient 8 Lee Konitz - Lover man 9 Russell Procope - Happy go lucky local 10 Lou Donaldson - Quicksilver 11 Bud Shank - Jasmine 12 Dave Schildkraut - Solar 13 Lennie Niehaus - Day by day 14 Herb Geller - Joe Maini - Coronado 15 Frank Morgan - The champ 16 Herb Geller - Blues in the night 17 Julian "Cannonball" Adderley - Chasm Volume 4 1 Jackie McLean - Dr. Jackle 2 Johnny Hodges - Pretty little girl 3 Jackie McLean - Lights out 4 Hal McKusick - Lydian lullaby 5 Gene Quill - Phil Woods - Sax fifth avenue 6 Julian "Cannonball" Adderley - Hoppin' John 7 Zoot Sims - Woody'n you 8 Coleman Hawkins - The stampede 9 Bud Freeman - Crazeology 10 Barney Bigard - Hot feet 11 Prince Robinson - I've found a new baby 12 Coleman Hawkins -Hello Lola 13 Coleman Hawkins - Lost in a fog 14 Dick Wilson - Lotta sex appeal 15 Chu Berry - Christopher Columbus 16 Lester Young - Shoe shine boy 17 Herschel Evans - Blue and sentimental 18 Gene Sedric - Honeysuckle Rose 19 Chu Berry - Sittin' in Volume 5 1 Buddy Tate - Rock-A-Bye-Basie 2 Charlie Barnet - Cherokee 3 Bud Freeman - The Eel 4 Coleman Hawkins - Body and soul 5 Lester Young - Tickle Toe 6 Ben Webster - Cotton tail 7 Chu Berry - I don't stand a ghost of a chance with you 8 Charlie Barnet - Rockin' in rhythm 9 Georgie Auld - Breakfast Freud 10 Don Byas - Harvard blues 11 Illinois Jacquet - Flying home 12 Lester Young - Tea for two 13 Coleman Hawkins - The man I love 14 Arnett Cobb - Flying home N°2 15 Jack McVea - Illinois Jacquet - Blues 16 Ike Quebec - Blue Harlem 17 Coleman Hawkins - Flyin' Hawk 18 Flip Phillips - Slam slam blues 19 Don Byas - I got rhythm 20 Illinois Jacquet - I don't stand a ghost of a chance with you Volume 6 1 Lester Young - These foolish things 2 Dexter Gordon - I can't escape from you 3 Allen Eager - Allen's alley 4 Don Byas - Cherokee 5 Gene Sedric - These foolish things 6 James Moody - Moody speaks 7 Al Sears The Beautiful Indians - Hiawatha 8 Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - Hollerin' and screamin' 9 Allen Eager - Fine and dandy 10 Charlie Ventura - Allen Eager - High on an open Mike 11 Lucky Thompson - Just one more chance 12 Illinois Jacquet - Diggin' the count 13 Dexter Gordon - Wardell Gray - The chase 14 Allen Eager - All night, all frantic 15 Charlie Rouse - The squirrel 16 Gene Ammons - E.A.A.K. blues 17 Dexter Gordon - Teddy Edwards - The duel 18 Wardell Gray - Coastin' with J.C. 19 Coleman Hawkins - Picasso 20 Brew Moore - Brew blew 21 James Moody - Tropicana 22 Charlie Ventura - Euphoria Volume 7 1 Gene Ammons - More moon 2 Stan Getz - Long Island sound 3 Don Lanphere - Go 4 James Moody - Out of nowhere 5 Wardell Gray - Easy living 6 Sonny Stitt - All God's chillun' got rhythm 7 Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - Squattin' 8 Lester Young - Neenah 9 Sonny Rollins - I know 10 Gene Ammons - You're not the kind 11 Charlie Ventura - Big four blues (O.H. Blues) 12 Paul Quinichette - Cross fire 13 Bob Cooper - Coop's solo 14 Ben Webster - The Duke and the brute 15 Stan Getz - Parker 16 Sonny Rollins - Shadrack 17 Jimmy Giuffre - The princess of eveil 18 Wardell Gray - Farmer's market 19 Paul Quinichette - Sequel 20 Flip Phillips - Salute to Pres 21 Don Byas - Laura 22 Gene Ammons - Somewhere along the way 23 Illinois Jacquet - Port of Rico 24 Lester Young - These foolish things Volume 8 1 Zoot Sims - Al Cohn - Tangerine 2 Red Prysock - Soft 3 Ben Webster - The iron hat 4 Arnett Cobb - Operation 5 Jimmy Heath - Turnpike 6 Big Jay McNeely - Nervous, man, nervous 7 Zoot Sims - Zoot 8 Sonny Rollins - The stopper 9 Paul Gonsalves - Don't blame me 10 Phil Urso - Wizzard's gizzard 11 Frank Foster - Bumpkins 12 Sonny Rollins - Oleo 13 Bob Cooper - Excursions 14 Sonny Rollins - Silk 'N satin 15 Frank Foster - Frank Wess - Two Franks 16 Stan Getz - Pernod 17 Al Cohn - Lullaby of Birdland 18 Harold Land - Lands end 19 Bobby Jaspar - Nory's kick 20 Jack Montrose - Paradox 21 Bill Holman - Toot sweet Volume 9 1 Dexter Gordon - Autumn in New York 2 John Coltrane - S'posin' 3 Sonny Rollins - Paradox 4 Johnny Griffin - Riff raff 5 Al Cohn - Zoot Sims - Crimea river 6 Bill Perkins - Two degrees eats, three degrees west 7 Buddy Collette - Sleepy slept there 8 Lucky Thompson - Undecided 9 John Coltrane - Stablemates 10 Hank Moble y - Carol's interlude 11 Johnny Griffin - Mildew 12 Sonny Rollins - St. Thomas 13 Paul Gonsalves - Diminuendo and crescendo in blue 14 Al Cohn - Winter Volume 10 1 John Coltrane - Hank Mobley - Al Cohn - Zoot Sims - Tenor conclave 2 Stan Getz - Blues for mary Jane 3 Sonny Rollins - Decision 4 Jack Washington - Topsy 5 Serge Chaloff - Blue Serge 6 Harry Carney - Sono 7 Leo Parker - Wee dot 8 Charlie Ventura - Body and soul 9 Serge Chaloff - Chickasaw 10 Leo Parker - Who's mad 11 Sonny Stitt - This cant' be love 12 Gerry Mulligan - Bernie's tune 13 Bob Gordon - Meet Mister Gordon 14 Gerry Mulligan - Come out wherever you are 15 Virgil Gonsalves - Too marvelous for words 16 Harry Carney - Take the "A" train 17 Serge Chaloff - Body and soul 18 Pepper Adams - Tricotism Great set, highly recommended! I just found it - of all places - on a market in a little village in the Provence (southern France) for €20.

The last few days: Complete Count Basie Verve Studio Fifites Recordings, all discs fantastic set! This morning: The Complete Roulette Live Recordings Of Count Basie And His Orchestra, disc V Basie with Louis Bellson in Sweden

Benny Goodman: The Complete Small Combinations Vol. 3/4 1937-1939 (RCA) Andy Kirk: Mary's Idea (GRP)

My cd's arrived today. Thank you very much David!

I am selling the following cd: Shelly Manne And His Hollywood All Stars: Hollywood Jam (Eastworld) Japanese pressing of an album originally released on Atlas. The session, recorded 1981, features Bill Watrous, Art Pepper, Bob Cooper, Pete Jolly, Monty Budwig and Shelly Manne; it is part of the Art Pepper "The Hollywood All-Star Sessions" box. Price is $20, shipping included. Paying via PayPal. Please PM me if interested.

Art Pepper: The Hollywood All-Star Sessions (Galaxy) discs 1 and 2 wonderful music!!

Thanks for reminding me... I tell you, it will be hard to control yourself once you'll stand in front of that shelf, I spent an hour there on Saturday, had my Penguin guide with me and some notes I took over the years... Ordered some from JPC, all on sale: Depart - Reloaded (ACT) Joachim Kühn - the piano solo album (ACT) Brubeck - Ret Hot & Cool or whatever it's called (Sony/Legacy) and the NY Contemporary Five Storyville CD (wanted that one for a looooong time) I was there yesterday. You were right, I really had a hard time These are the spoils: Earl Hines And His Orchestra: 1934-1937 (Classics) Johnny Guarnieri: 1944-1946 (Classics) John Kirby: The John Kriby Sextet 1939-1941 (Columbia, 2 cd) Andy Kirk And His Twelve Clouds Of Joy: 1936-1937 (Classics) Mills Blue Rhythm Band: 1934-1936 (Classics) Flip Phillips: Together Flip & Woody (BBC) George Wein: The Magic Horn (RCA) Various: Swing Trumpet Kings - Harry Edison, Buck Clayton, Red Allen, Roy Eldridge (Verve, 2 cd) The overall price was Swiss Francs 114 (roughly the same in $), making it 11.40 Francs per disc, not bad. And the postman brought these: Art Pepper: The Hollywood Sessions (Galaxy) Atsuko Hashimoto Organ Trio: Time After Time (Thousand Days) feat. Jeff Hamilton

Thanks for reminding me...

I did hope (and think) so, but still taking a step back I felt stupid about posting that (it's pretty irrelevant anyway...) Did you pass by the store already? You'll have to ask specifically, I assume (the one guy that was there still recognizes me although I usually drop by once a year only, but he always pulls out piles of stuff not displayed... or just say you heard about the Classics from someone... I plan to pass by later this afternoon. They mention the classics on their website and encourage to ask for items not displayed. Will report back...

Is this used store in Zurich? If so, would you mind to disclose the name and location of this store? Thanks. He he, should I? As I won't be able to buy all I want anyway, yes of course! It's Silverdisc (Limmatstrasse, Tramhaltestelle Dammweg, eins vor Escher-Wyss-Platz). Most of the discs are not displayed but the guy there let me check them myself in their backoffice. Cost is 14 CHF per disc - not that cheap, but good enough, considering they're new or almost new (one had some writing in the CD list inside the booklet, though... doesn't bother me too much, but if it bothers you you might want to check thoroughly. The earlier 6 Basie discs are by the way still available from Abeillemusique for 25 euro... just sent in an order there, myself, though I have all of that music already on various CDs and CDRs... now I miss said 1941 volume plus the Neatworks. Just in case: what I remember is: large chunks of Ellington, Calloway, Krupa, Fats Waller, Teddy Wilson (I think I'll rather go for the Heps there, if I ever get them all... I have the Billie Holiday box, so I have many of those sides already). It's pure overkill, but you're bound to find some great stuff there, I'm sure! And make sure you also check the displayed discs, some Classics are in there, they just stock up whenever some other discs are sold and the have more space in their display shelves. Thanks very much. I appreciate your unselfish attitude. you'll have to do burns of all the discs I won't be able to get now because you're wealthier than me... that was int eh fine-print in the previous post, didn't you see? The fine-print was too fine-printed, thus it did not appear on my computer screen. Just out of curiosity: Why do you assume that I am wealthier than you? well, I'm a student (though with an ok paying part-time job) and you're 15 years older... but then you have family... stupid thing to post anyway, sorry! -_- Never mind! I took it not that seriously.

Is this used store in Zurich? If so, would you mind to disclose the name and location of this store? Thanks. He he, should I? As I won't be able to buy all I want anyway, yes of course! It's Silverdisc (Limmatstrasse, Tramhaltestelle Dammweg, eins vor Escher-Wyss-Platz). Most of the discs are not displayed but the guy there let me check them myself in their backoffice. Cost is 14 CHF per disc - not that cheap, but good enough, considering they're new or almost new (one had some writing in the CD list inside the booklet, though... doesn't bother me too much, but if it bothers you you might want to check thoroughly. The earlier 6 Basie discs are by the way still available from Abeillemusique for 25 euro... just sent in an order there, myself, though I have all of that music already on various CDs and CDRs... now I miss said 1941 volume plus the Neatworks. Just in case: what I remember is: large chunks of Ellington, Calloway, Krupa, Fats Waller, Teddy Wilson (I think I'll rather go for the Heps there, if I ever get them all... I have the Billie Holiday box, so I have many of those sides already). It's pure overkill, but you're bound to find some great stuff there, I'm sure! And make sure you also check the displayed discs, some Classics are in there, they just stock up whenever some other discs are sold and the have more space in their display shelves. Thanks very much. I appreciate your unselfish attitude. you'll have to do burns of all the discs I won't be able to get now because you're wealthier than me... that was int eh fine-print in the previous post, didn't you see? The fine-print was too fine-printed, thus it did not appear on my computer screen. Just out of curiosity: Why do you assume that I am wealthier than you?

Is this used store in Zurich? If so, would you mind to disclose the name and location of this store? Thanks. He he, should I? As I won't be able to buy all I want anyway, yes of course! It's Silverdisc (Limmatstrasse, Tramhaltestelle Dammweg, eins vor Escher-Wyss-Platz). Most of the discs are not displayed but the guy there let me check them myself in their backoffice. Cost is 14 CHF per disc - not that cheap, but good enough, considering they're new or almost new (one had some writing in the CD list inside the booklet, though... doesn't bother me too much, but if it bothers you you might want to check thoroughly. The earlier 6 Basie discs are by the way still available from Abeillemusique for 25 euro... just sent in an order there, myself, though I have all of that music already on various CDs and CDRs... now I miss said 1941 volume plus the Neatworks. Just in case: what I remember is: large chunks of Ellington, Calloway, Krupa, Fats Waller, Teddy Wilson (I think I'll rather go for the Heps there, if I ever get them all... I have the Billie Holiday box, so I have many of those sides already). It's pure overkill, but you're bound to find some great stuff there, I'm sure! And make sure you also check the displayed discs, some Classics are in there, they just stock up whenever some other discs are sold and the have more space in their display shelves. Thanks very much. I appreciate your unselfish attitude.

Is this used store in Zurich? If so, would you mind to disclose the name and location of this store? Thanks.

There's also The Jo Jones Special on Vanguard with Emmett Berry, Benny Green, Lucky Thompson, Nat Pierce, Freddie Greene, Walter Page and Count Basie as guest star. Thanks Bill, forgot that one. Jo Jones also played on most of the early-to-mid-50's Buck Clayton Jam Sessions.

Here are some more 50's sessions which benefit from Jo Jones' presence: Buck Clayton: The Essential Buck Clayton (Vanguard) Vic Dickenson: The Essential Vic Dickenson (Vanguard) Zoot Sims / Bob Brookmeyer: Morning Fun (Black Lion) Sonny Stitt: New York Jazz (Verve) Nat Pierce: Kansas City Memories (Coral; recently reissued by Fresh Sound on a twofer together with other Nat Pierce sessions) Johnny Hodges: Smooth One (Verve; included in the Mosaic Box Set) Jimmy Rushing: Rushing Lullabies (Columbia)

The Gibbs Contemporary albums are superb big band jazz. I have six, three on vinyl and three on CD. The last, One More Time was issued after the others and consists of tapes discovered in 1994 by Gibbs and is possibly less indispensable than the others. Joe Maini has some solo space on every one of these albums. I very much agree, this indeed is superb big band jazz. The Dream Band was an exciting, hard swinging aggregation with great soloists: among others Conte Candoli, Stu Williamson, Frank Rosolino, Med Flory, Bill Perkins, Bill Holman and of course Terry Gibbs himself. The rhythm section was driven by the one and only Mel 'The Tailor' Lewis. And with arrangements by Bill Holman, Bob Brookmeyer, Al Cohn, Marty Paich and Manny Albam you can't go wrong either. IMHO all five volumes are indispensable.

René Thomas / Bobby Jaspar: Thomas Jaspar Quintet (RCA) Mel Lewis: Got 'Cha (Fresh Sound) Lou Levy Trio: A Most Musical Fella (RCA) Illinois Jacquet: 'The Kid' And 'The Brute' (Verve) Bud Freeman: Chicago / Austin High School Jazz In Hi-Fi (Mosaic) Carl Perkins: Introducing... Carl Perkins (Boplicity) Muggsy Spanier: 1944 (Classics) Martial Solal: The Complete Vogue Recordings Vol. 3 (Vogue) Jess Stacy: 1951 - 1956 (Classics)

Sent you a PM re some of the Jazz Tribune twofers.

Ernie Caceres IMHO is one of the few top baritone players, displaying a beautiful tone and logic and fluent lines when improvising. He can be heard on innumerable Condon sessions of the 40's. I particularly like him on "Jazz Ultimate" by Bobby Hackett / Jack Teagarden (Capitol, 1957). He plays fine on "Complete Live At the Voyager Room" by the Bobby Hackett-Bob Wilber Sextet (a Lonehill twofer) and is part of the All Star cast assembled as "Big 18" for the two RCA albums "Live Echoes Of The Swinging Bands" and "More Live Echoes Of The Swinging Bands", taking a few solos.