paul secor

Saw that one on PBS a month or so ago. I agree.

P.D. was also the one who provided me with a copy of this item. I had not asked for anything but I mentioned in one of the early O. threads that 'A Documentary' was one album I was really looking for. P.D. asked me for my adress and a few days later an envelope arrived at home with the copy. I emailed him with profuse thanks and asked him if there was anything I could get him in return? No reply... PD was also the person who provided me with a copy of this. So three of us owe him our thanks. Incidentally, Riverside also issued as single LP, Satchmo and Me: Lil Armstrong's Own Story - A Jazz Doumentary. Have an LP copy of that one.

Gave a very quick skim through of some of the later tracks last night. Immediately recognized #12 because I have it in my collection. (Should give a thanks to Chuck on this one. I picked it up because of a mention he made.) Don't want to give it away this early, but it's (I believe) the only time that two great tenor saxes recorded together.

Blind Lemon Jefferson Woodrow Adams Blind Roosevelt Graves

Frankie "Half Pint" Jaxon Tampa Red "Georgia Tom" Dorsey

Let me know how the Six and Seven-Eights compares to the American Music double CD. Will do when I get a chance to listen to it.

Johnny Horton Billie Jean Jones Hank Williams

In the mail today: Ives Plays Ives - The Complete Recordings of Charles Ives at the Piano, 1933-1943 (New World) The Six and Seven-Eighths String Band of New Orleans (Smithsonian Folkways)

George Wallington's Sept. 1953 trio session from The Be-Bop Keyboard Masters (Vogue)

Happy Birthday, Marty!

George Wallington's 1951 trio tracks with Curly Russell and Max Roach (Savoy) are well worth seeking out and listening to.

My sincere condolences. It may be too soon right now, but I hope you'll be able to reflect and treasure the memories of the time you spent with your mother.

Little Nemo Krazy Kat The Katzenjammer Kids

Good to hear that Mr. Smith is recovering, playing, and traveling. Great photo of Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Thanks for posting, brownie.

Under the heading of It Had To Happen Eventually: Guns in an NBA locker room: http://msn.foxsports.com/nba/story/report-arenas-teammate-had-gun-standoff?GT1=39002

Watched The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance on TCM this afternoon - an all time favorite. Tho I have to say that Wayne's line about "my boy Pompey" is always hard to listen to.

Fats Waller: Complete Recorded Works Vol. 5 - disc B

Have that one on a Paramount piano compilation. Just set it aside for a relisten tomorrow. Thanks for the reminder.

Read a short blurb in The NY Times today about an exhibition called "Portraits of Poets, 1910 -2010" at the National Arts Club in NYC. The exhibition includes several of Jonathan Williams' photographs, so I spent part of the afternoon looking at his words and photographs in the book Portrait Photographs. The portraits include poets, painters, photographers, composers, and writers - William Carlos Williams, Basil Bunting, Aaron Siskind, Carl Ruggles, R. B. Kitaj, and Guy Davenport among them.

I have only one recording he plays on - a Charles Earland on High Note. From that, he sounds like an ok player. There are probably 100-200 other trumpeters I'd rather listen to. That's not a knock on him. There just didn't seem to be much personality in his playing on the Earland recording. That one was recorded close to 13 years ago, so perhaps his playing has changed since then.

Auntie Mame Mamie Eisenhower Reverend Ike

Fats Waller: Complete Recordings Vol. 5 - disc 1 A bit too much organ for my tastes, but "Complete Recordings" means just that.

I have a lot of Django in my collection. Does anyone have thoughts or opinions about the JSP/Ted Kendall Django on the Radio set? I know I don't need it, but .... (Most of you know how that goes.)

Frank Culley Vin Scully Gulley Jimson

Tribute in today's Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/arts/design/31levine.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=david%20levine&st=cse