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Those Commodores are on the Chronogical Classics of Lion that span 1939 (may be on one disc or two, can't recall.) Great stuff. The later Commodores are wonderful as well. Well heck, I love Smith and love everything I've heard (not all of it stride). I love the Yancy that is on George Buck's "Solo Art" label. . . wonderful stuff; have to find more! Harold and I love the same cats, and I agree that Fats and Wellstood are worth seeking out anything and anything. James P. Johnson is definitely someone to study as well for stride and Harlem piano; the Smithsonian/Folkways cd is really incredible!

Thanks Mr. Swede; I missed that in the booklet last time I looked. Much much praise to Bob Arnold, Bruce Swedien and Wally Heider for their probable engineering, so ably brought to digital disc by Mr. Addey.

If you are familiar with the sound of the similar material that was produced for reissue on cd by the Japanese for Emarcy/Mercury/Keynote etc. (Dinah Washington, Sara Vaughn, Kirk, etc.) the sound of the Brownie box right there in kindred nature. Which is to say, pretty good. Fuller and darker than many subsequent Verve reissues.

I am a big fan of Maugham; I think he wrote some brilliant novels! I finished reading Sue Mingus' book, and then read Doc Cheatam's autobiography, and now I'm reading the Morganstern book.

MANY MORE HAPPY ONES DOC!

Mary Lou's Mass is due out in February from Folkways!

YEs!

Finally have heard "The Greatest Trumpet of All"---VERY nice lp! COME ON VERVE GET THE LEAD OUT!

Thanks for posting that! Scott: here it is: Golden Age of Jazz Photos

Yup! And Lester Young . . . I would have loved to have heard PRES!

Man I'd love to be right where Sonny is! Barney Bigard, Ben Webster, Otto Toby Hardwick(e), Harry Carney, Rex William Stewart, Sonny Greer, Wallace (Leon) Jones(?), and Ray Nance, Howard Theater(?), Washington, D.C., between 1938 and 1948

Charlie Rouse, Tadd Dameron, Fats Navarro, and Ernie Henry, New York, N.Y., between 1946 and 1948

Fats Navarro and Tadd Dameron, New York, N.Y., between 1946 and 1948

Art Hodes, Pops Foster, Cecil (Xavier) Scott, and George Luggi, Ole South, New York, N.Y., ca. Oct. 1946

Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker, Carnegie Hall, New York, N.Y., ca. Oct. 1947

Dizzy Gillespie, New York, N.Y., between 1946 and 1948

This would be something! Pee Wee Russell, Max Kaminsky, Wild Bill Davison, Jack Lesberg, George Brunis, Bud Freeman, and Freddie Ohms, Eddie Condon's, New York, N.Y., between 1946 and 1948

I would have loved to have been at this concert! Jack Teagarden, Dick Carey, Louis Armstrong, Bobby Hackett, Peanuts Hucko, Bob Haggart, and Sid Catlett, Town Hall, New York, N.Y., ca. July 1947

Hey folk, I hadn't been to "William P. Gottlieb - Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz" for a while, and they seem to have added some new Monk photos (or maybe they were there for some time and I didn't see them?) of Monk at Minton's that are really fun to look at! Monk at this time fascinates me! This may be my favorite:

Yes, it's on the Mosaic!

Wayne could definitely have been "deeply involved" and not caught galley proof errors, etc. because an artist or subject is rarely that involved in production minutiae. I think that the quote from Joe shows a lot about how Joe saw Wayne at the time and is enlightening of his outlook . . . .

DOH! VI REDD! Thank you Maren!

He was a generous man. I mean I am certain he profited from his sales to us, but he could have sold these to others for more, I'm also certain of that. One purchase that sticks out in my mind was four XRCDs in minilp format of Miles Davis Prestiges Workin', Steamin', Cookin' and Relaxin'. . . . Beautiful Japanese cds in both looks and sound, and at a price I could afford. And there are four Kenny Drew Trio cds that I purchased from him that I really enjoy. And I managed to get a copy of the Blue Train JRVG from him that I listened to just last night. Ken and I occasionally exchanged emails about the board and about music, and I wish we had done so more often!