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A very late addition. Not all that much to add, but Getz' solos on P'ra Machucar Meu Coracao, So Danco Samba, O Grande Amor, and Vivo Sohando have always seemed to me like some of his best.
It's always puzzled me why Tommy Williams wasn't mentioned in the original liner notes.
Thanks for choosing this, Ed. I bought it when it was originally released, and it's always seemed to be a perfect record. I hadn't played it in many years, but when I played it the other night it sounded as good as the first time I listened to it - probably better, because I hear more in it now.
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Berrigan,
It seems like you've gotten a lot of advice here. All I can add is take what you and your family feel comfortable with and go from there.
Last month I lost a very good friend to cancer. However, I'm not posting this in a negative way. She loved life and was the strongest person I've ever known. For seven years, she underwent various treatments between remissions - chemo, radiation, laser surgery, steroids, even drinking poison ivy tea (which her doctor recommended, and which seemed to do her some good). In May of 2001, her doctors said her cancer had spread to her brain and gave her a month to six months to live. She lived for over two more years, and was able to enjoy her life and spend it with her family and friends. Try and give your mother all the support and love that you can, and help her to enjoy life as much as she can. It sounds like she's already gone through more than anyone should have to. She must be a very strong person. My prayers are with her.
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DeFord Bailey: Country Music's First Black Star (Tennessee Folklore Society)
Skip James: Rare and Unreleased (Vanguard)
Lazy Lester: I'm a Lover Not a Fighter (Ace)
Various Artists: Jazz the World Forgot Vol. 2 (Yazoo)
Zoot Sims/Bob Brookmeyer: Morning Fun (Black Lion)
The Best of Eboa Lotin: Vol. 2 (T.J.R. Music)
Various Artists: Sax Appeal (VeeJay)
Louis Myers: I'm a Southern Man (Hightone)
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I tend to agree with Jazzmoose - I think you said it pretty well. However, I have a friend who is into one genre of music - blues/r&b. He may be missing something by not listening to a wider variety of musics, but he knows that genre and his collection better than I know mine, simply by virtue of having less to listen to. My way is mine and his is his, and I make no judgements on either. People do things in their own ways.
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I still have a copy of Bobby Rydell Salutes the Great Ones that I bought when I was about 15. I keep it to remind me of my roots, so to speak.
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Chris McGregor/Archie Shepp - En concert (52e Rue Est CD)
Brownie - Is this a recent issue? What's it like? Thanks in advance.
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To me, Fred Below playing a shuffle behind Little Walter is pretty damn close to Philly Joe doing the same behind Tina Brooks.
Freddie was always trying to get me to use him on a jazz date. I heard him a few times in jazz based groups he led on the south side and he sounded more like Sid Catlett or Cozy Cole than PJJ. Damn fine drummer and good spirit anyway.
By coincidence I used his old partner Louis Myers on a Wadada Leo Smith date later.
Not to get off track from the main topic, but a friend of mine and I had a chance to speak with Louis Myers during his break at a club date. He was playing very well and seemed to be a truly nice guy, but he was very tired (it was just a few years before he died). However, his face lit up and he seemed to come to life when I asked him about Earl Phillips. He spoke very highly of Earl Phillips, but said that he hadn't seen him for a while, and thought that he was in a nursing home. Earl Phillips is my favorite blues drummer of all time. He recorded a number of sessions for the VeeJay label with Snooky Pryor, Eddie Taylor, Billy Boy Arnold, and on many of Jimmy Reed's records. He also played on some of Howlin' Wolf's Chess recordings. He was a great drummer - could really drive a band. His trademark was that he loved to throw in some cymbal accents here and there. I believe I read somewhere that he played with big bands at some point in his career. He also had one 45 issued on VeeJay, but I've never heard it.
Back to Louis Myers, another wonderful musician - check him out on Little Walter's and Junior Wells' early recordings, on his his own date, I'm a Southern Man (Advent, reissued on CD by Hightone), and solo on an anthology, Chicago Blues at Home (also Advent, Hightone). I've wondered how he came to record with Wadada Leo Smith on Procession of the Great Ancestry. If Chuck wants to give some background and details, I bet it's an interesting story.
And to answer the question posted, I don't have as many blues recordings as jazz recordings in my collection, but it's damn close.
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Some of my favorite Pablos have already been mentioned, but I'd like to add:
Benny Carter & Dizzy Gillespie: Carter, Gillespie, Inc.
Oscar Peterson & Clark Terry
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Not to forget the N.Y. Contemporary 5.
Of the three listed, I voted for Ben.
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I'm an Archie Shepp fan, and there's no way I'd call this "Prime Shepp". I bought the Sackville LP when it was released, and sold it shortly thereafter.
There's plenty of great to good Shepp out there, but to my tastes this doesn't fall within those assessments. I'm somewhat surprised that Hatology is reissuing this.
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Harp of a Thousand Strings - All Day Singing from the Sacred Harp (Rounder)
Times Ain't Like They Used To Be Vol. 3 (Yazoo)
Warne Marsh - Sal Mosca Quartet Vol. 2 (Zinnia)
Paul Plummer - Ron Enyard: Trio & Quartet (Quixotic)
Michael Hurley: Snockgrass (Rounder)
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Recently finished reading Drew's Blues by Drew Page. The subtitle is A Sideman's Life with the Big Bands, which is an apt if too concise description of this book. Drew Page was born in 1905, began playing professionally at 18, and continued to play professionally into the mid 1970's when he retired temporarily to write this book. He played primarily with big bands, among them Harry James, Ben Pollack, and Phil Harris, and with many territory bands. He led a fascinating life, coming into contact with literally hundreds of performers (some well known, some not) over the course of his career. One of the problems with the book, to my mind, is that too many people are mentioned, and it's difficult to keep track of everyone. I realize that as a history, these names are necessary. It's only as a reader that they tended to annoy me. Over the course of the years covered in the book, jazz giants (Art Tatum, Jack Teagarden, Ben Webster, Roy Eldridge), jazz legends (Hix Blewett, Jack Purvis, Peck Kelley), and show biz performers (Lili St. Cyr, Lord Buckley, Amos and Andy (Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll), and Rita Hayworth (when she was Margarita Cansino) all pass through.
Drew's Blues is a fascinating book in many ways. For example, Page writes about changing his playing style from being a pop- dance musician to becoming a jazz (or at least jazz influenced) musician during the 1920's. I also received an education as to what the music business (Page's part of it, anyway) was like over the course of 50 years - in some ways it didn't seem to change all that much. It was especially interesting to me since I once worked with a man who had a similar musical career to Drew Page's. He played in territory bands, big bands, pit bands, did studio work, and ended up playing lounges and shows in Nevada (in his case it was Reno, in Page's case Las Vegas). My friend grew tired of the music business after 30 years or so and left it for other fields. He never went into details when he spoke about his life in music, except to hint that he wasn't enthralled with music as business, and this book gives me a sense of what he might have experienced. If my friend was still living, I'd send him my copy of Drew's Blues. I feel sure that he'd be able to identify with it and would enjoy it.
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It's been years since I've seen it, but to the best of my memory, there was a scene in the film Bird where Chan and Charlie Parker are listening to the radio and King Pleasure's version of "Parker's Mood" comes on. Chan's character hates the fact that words have been added to Bird's music. Bird's character says he doesn't mind the words. I have a musician friend who can't stand the lyrics that Jon Hendricks added to "In Walked Bud" on the Underground Monk record, though he likes the rest of the record.
I'm sort of in between. I don't mind the lyrics when I hear them, but I get annoyed when I hear an instrumental version of a tune and also hear the lyrics in my head. I can't listen to an instrumental version of the above tunes, "Sister Sadie", or "Song for My Father", to name a few offhand, without hearing the lyrics.
Anyone else here have any feelings or thoughts about this?
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Ahhhhhh... consensus. An awesome set, one of the very best. Capitol Records is also a fascinating story in and of itself, if ya' listen to hillbilly music at all, you can run in parallel worlds with various Bear Family single artist sets. (I am not aware of a top notch Capitol '40s & '50s country anthology. Anyone?)
We need look no further than "Cow Cow Boogie!" The whole Ella Mae Morse saga is an interesting study in and of itself.
Clem, I have a friend who does a great 40s-60s radio show called "Rhythm Ranch," devoted to country, r & b, and pop from that period. (He writes for AMG, too, and did the review of the Bear Family Morse set.) If anybody knows of a good Capitol set, it would be him. I'll drop him a line and report back.
I'm not a fanatic country collector or any kind of expert in that genre, but I have a Charly LP, Boogie Woogie Fever (Charly 30215), with Capitol recordings from the likes of Tennessee Ernie Ford (early stuff - not his pop TV-type material), Gene O'Quinn, Ramblin' Jimmy Dolan, The Milo Twins, Jess Willard, Merle Travis, etc., which is a good listen if you like country boogie. I don't know if all of it was originally recorded by Capitol, or if some was purchased by them from other labels.
I also have a CD, Hillbilly Music - Thank God! (Capitol CDP 7 91346 2), issued in 1989, which is a compilation of Capitol artists (Gene O'Quinn, The Farmer Boys, The Louvin Brothers, Hank Thompson, Rose Maddox, Merle Travis, Jimmy Bryant & Speedy West, Skeets McDonald, etc.). I don't know if it's still in print.
Gene O'Quinn and the Farmer Boys, who recorded country music with a beat, for want of a better description, both have single Cd's issued by Bear Family, and both are truly fine, if you like this kind of thing.
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Sal Mosca-Warne Marsh Quartet Vols. 1&2 (Zinnia)
John Fahey: Red Cross (Revenant)
Harp of a Thousand Strings - All Day Singing from the Sacred Harp (Rounder)
Michael Hurley: Snockgrass - expanded CD (Rounder)
Skip James: Rare and Unreleased (Vanguard)
Roscoe Holcomb: An Untamed Sense of Control (Smithsonian Folkways)
O Gospel, Where Art Thou (Morada) - 1949-52 sessions from Bob Shad's archives, remastered by Steve Hoffman
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That brings to mind the very fine tenorman who took Young's place with Russell, Paul Plummer, who became an even more striking and individual player in later years. I know of three recordings of his work besides what the two albums he did with Russell ("The Stratus Seekers" and "The Outer View") -- a 1986 LP, "Detroit Opium Den" (Resound), with drummer Ron Enyard, guitarist Tony Byrne, and organist Steve Corn, and two Cadence CDs, rec. 4/3/97 at a gig in Indianapolis, "Driving Music Vols. 1 &2," with Al Kiger, Enyard, pianist Charles Wilson, and bassist Lou Lausche. (All these musicians were based in Indianapolis and/or Cincinnati.) Unfortunately, per a phone conversation I had with Enyard a couple of years back, Plummer began to suffer from severe dental problems, at some point after the '97 recording had to have all or most of his teeth removed, and is no longer able to play very much if at all. He was special, though -- perhaps comparable stylistically to the Rollins of the Cherry-Grimes-Higgins-band era but his own man really. And if you only know his work with Russell, he did continue to grow.
Sorry to hear about Paul Plummer's dental problems. I hope that he's able to play again at some point. The Detroit Opium Den LP has been reissued along with a second LP, Acoustic Jazz Trio (Plummer, Enyard, and Lausche) on a CD, Paul Plummer - Ron Enyard: Trio & Quartet (Quixotic 5005) - available from Cadence. He was a very good tenor player, and I do hope he can return to playing his instrument.
I believe that Dave Baker had a problem with his jaw and had to stop playing trombone back in the 60's. I thought that I read somewhere that he had begun playing trombone again recently. Does anyone know if this is so?
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Actually, John Kennedy Toole did write another novel. It's called the Neon Bible. It's good but not a comedy."
Sorry to sound pedantic here, but I believe Neon Bible was published whilst he was still alive (as opposed to the posthumous Dunces). I might have reworded that, but it seemed to make sense!
The Neon Bible was published in 1989, twenty years after John Kennedy Toole's death in 1969.
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Robert Johnson: The Complete Recordings (disc one)
Duke Ellington 1930-1931 (Classics)
Ry-Co Jazz: Rhumba 'Round Africa (RetroAfric)
Red Rodney Quintet: Modern Music from Chicago - Roy Haynes!
Joseph Spence: The Complete 1958 Folkways Recordings
Charlie Rouse: Unsung Hero
Otis Clay: Got To Find a Way
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Have a great birthday, Lon. I hope all the good things you've sent out come back to you a thousand times.
Happy birthday, guy!
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There were also two Percy Mayfield LPs. I have one of them, My Jug and I, and it's always sounded to me like Ray Charles plays organ on some tracks.
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Yeah! You've "said" it all, Lon.
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Oscar Aleman: Swing Guitar Masterpieces 1938-1957 (Acoustic Disc CD)
Ragtime Blues Guitar 1928-30 - The Complete Recordings of William Moore, Tarter & Gay, Bayless Rose, & Willie Walker (Matchbox LP)
Bluesmen and Songsters - 1926-1936 (Blues Documents LP)
Eddie Lang and Lonnie Johnson Volume One (Swaggie LP)
Bobby Henderson:Handful of Keys (Vanguard CD)
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Lester Bowie: The Great Pretender
"Cool", "Philadelphia", and "Steel & Breath" from The Phillip Wilson Project (Jazz Door CD)
- Needed reminders (for me) of what a fine musician Lester Bowie was and how well he and Phillip Wilson fit together.
The Southern Sons: Deep South Gospel (Trumpet/ Alligator CD)
An Unsung Cat - The Life and Music of Warne Marsh (Storyville CD)
Pee Wee Russell Quartet: New Groove
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Thanks for the feedback and info. I knew the price was steep - that's why I wanted to get some opinions before I had to pay for it. (I tried to order a copy through my library, but was told that there were no copies available in the NY state libarary system.) Anyway, thanks, Chuck, Jim, and Lawrence. I'm going to order a copy today.
I got the TA gig this semester for jazz history!
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