Pete C

I order a lot of stuff from Amazon UK. There's an option to charge you in your local currency, which will save you on conversion fees. I think the first time I used the site it found my Amazon cookie and asked if I wanted to import my info.

Ernie Wilkins did a lot of projects like this. He was the arranger on McPherson's Today's Man, and parts of Big Bags. I figured Manny Albam probably did some projects with featured soloists for Solid State, and I found this, new to me:

I was trying to remember the title of that Dexter album, which I had on lp years ago. I didn't remember the tracks with Eddie Jefferson. Thanks for all the suggestions so far. Was the Hodges/Welk album the one that Yuri Andropov liked?

Durium mentioned the set on his blog in 2007, but at that time it was 10 discs and only went up to 1955. The current set is 13 discs. I guess they updated when more went out of EU copyright. http://keepswinging.blogspot.com/2007/04/miles-davis-complete-live-recordings.html

I'm looking for recommendations and memory tweakers of albums where a featured soloist is backed by a big band in a one-off, for a Spotify playlist I'm putting together. So far I have Milt Jackson's Big Bags, Sonny Stitt and the Top Brass, tracks from Freddie Hubbard's The Body & Soul, Joe Henderson big band, Africa Brass, and the session of Bird with a big band (Night & Day & 3 other tracks). Two other favorites of mine, Charles McPherson's Today's Man and James Moody and the Brass Figures aren't available. I'm probably missing some obvious ones... And of course Miles & Gil. And maybe I'll also extend it to noted single-soloist features with working bands, like Christian/Goodman Solo Flight, and with Ellington, Lawrence Brown on Rose of the Rio Grande and Johnny Hodges on All of Me.

Pete Cherches Charlotte Church (Hush, Hush) Sweet Charlotte

Mrs. Trumbull Carolyn Appleby Marian Strong

Vido Musso Michael Musto A.J. Muste

Upton Sinclair Sinclair Lewis Lewis Mumford Paulette Goddard Charlie Chaplin Geraldine Chaplin

Teena Marie Sheena Easton Lena Horne

James Blood Ulmer Edgar G. Ulmer J. Edgar Hoover

Alice Liddell Lewis Carroll Grace Slick

Babs Gonzales Alice Babs Alice Coltrane

Frank Sinatra, Jr. Junior Wells (from the ridiculous to the sublime) Junior Mance

Wow, my singing teacher makes it to Name Three People! Art Van Damme Blaster Bates Bugge Wesseltoft Bugsy Siegel Bugs Bunny John Bunny

Storm Field Strom Thurmond Nate Thurmond

Bad link format.

Fred Friendly An Enemy of the People Henrik Ibsen

Frances Fox Piven Vicente Fox Fox Butterfield

Miss Otis Clyde Otis Clyde McPhatter

I guess not To put it another way, it's sort of like a milder second cousin to Threadgill's voicings in that there's a hint of dissonance in the harmony, and the sound is a unique signature, but everything fits. As a layperson, however, I don't know how they get those effects.

Hey Michael, I had no idea you were with the VJO. Are you a regular sub for McNeeley?

Huey Piano Smith Huey P. Newton Baby Huey

Small change?

Many years ago I heard this played on WBAI and taped it (reel-to-reel). Carnovsky only recorded the first part of the book, and they played the remainder as read by Stacy Keach, which may have been done specifically for the radio station. I can't remember the last time I skipped barefoot through the heather, however.