paul secor

Jimmy Rushing: Mr. Five by Five (Montage)

Thanks. I feel a little better about my fading memory (re: Kamuca) My memory faded too. For some reason I remembered a Richie Kamuca track or two on this, but the final two tracks are Ellington piano solos. (I think that Montage was a Boris Rose label & he just filled out the LP with a couple of extra Ellington tracks he had laying around.) Richie Kamuca was evidently sitting in with Al & Zoot, tho the notes make little mention of anything about the music on the LP. Thought I detected him on "I Can't Believe...", but I'll have to listen more. Perhaps the notes on the High Note will clear some of this up, including the date of recording - the Montage notes do say mid sixties. Anyway, some very good Rushing - he sounded better to me the more I listened - and the band's blowing makes a very nice addition to the vocals.

Hope it's a great one!

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It's the next day in Germany, but still the 9th here, so - Happy Birthday!!

First couple of shows from the first season of In Treatment. Hadn't seen it before - seems like pretty simplistic stuff.

I'm sure that this thread will still be running a couple of months from now. We won't run out of things to say about you.

Chuck interviewed by Lazaro Vega: http://www.allaboutjazz.com/iviews/cnessa.htm

Just Air Time. Shouldn't say "just" Air Time, as it's a great record. Air Time is the only Nessa record by Air, &, I believe, the only Air title that Chuck produced.

Listened to a side of the Montage. Good Rushing & the added attraction is some nice blowing by Al & Zoot. Sound on the Montage is below average, but listenable - the High Note may have a better source.

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This appears to be the same material as the Montage LP, except there are one or two tracks by Richie Kamuca on the Montage. Haven't played it in a long while but, as I remember, the Montage stuff was good - not great - Rushing. I'll have to listen again and report back.

Trying to hear what's written on your computer screen doesn't work, Mark.

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Good guy. Someone who's always willing to share his knowledge.

Little known classic!

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Deaf Sentence - a novel by David Lodge. Plot concerns a retired professor who is slowly going deaf, then explores several other tangents. Reading it made me more aware of taking care of my hearing.

By the way - is it Curley or Curly? I've seen both spellings.

Curly Russell did have great time. Listen to Introducing Johnny Griffin - a seriously wailing session. Chops and facility aren't everything.

Why would anyone want an Erroll Garner 78 signed by Wynton Marsalis or a Coleman Hawkins 78 signed by Wynton Marsalis? And for $325 and $250?

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New episode of House

We could call it the Nessa Thread, but people might think it's about your record label, and nobody wants to talk music around here.