jazzbo

Wow, getting paid to go to Church. . . I'd be a millionaire by twenty if that had been in place fifty years ago! I grew up in an integrated church, my dad the white preacher and a predominantly black church (and neighborhood.) Sure wasn't Baptist though. They'd have to pay me a lot. . . .

Looks as if Daedalus has finally sold out of Jazz on the Barbary Coast! That's a shame.

I saw this the day it came out and enjoyed it a lot. I haven't seen the original, maybe I will some day, but this was an intelligent film, so unlike the usual trash that gets good ratings. Maybe most don't want to think when they go to the movies, but I'm always delighted when I'm invited to.

I think it's your dirty imagination! This is just stylish beachwear!

A lot of the Ocium cds mix material that HAS been out on cd with material that hasn't, which is a frustrating thing! What I have of the Auld is really nice music, I'm an Auld fan. The only Ocium cd I have is the Cobb, and the sound quality is pretty good.

Hmmm. . . what is so obscure about that Fuller cover? I've seen it many many times over the years!

I don't think I misinterpreted your intentions at all. It's not my thing. I can sortof see how others would enjoy them, and that's cool.

I'll just be a small dissenting voice because personally I HATE blindfold tests.

Bill Harris, Denzil Best, Flip Phillips, Billy Bauer, Lennie Tristano, and Chubby Jackson, Pied Piper, New York, N.Y., ca. Sept. 194

Almost time for his birthday!

Jean Goldkette!

Shadow Wilson, and ?

Evan, thought for sure you would know that is Sarah Vaughn!

What makes me wonder "why do I gots to be dat way" is how much I dig those early photos of Doris Day, who I really recoil from as the big star she later became. . . .

Yeah I've been obsessive like that. . . One of my best friends here is the jazz buyer at Tower Austin, and I would call and make him call Columbia and. . . well we both would get obsessive about this, and we both almost always bought the first copies in the store, at the same time!

Good catch on that date. . . maybe the date is wrong. Maybe it's not Evans. And hell, that's no porkpie hat!

Portrait of Ray Bauduc, Herschel Evans, Bob Haggart, Eddie Miller, Lester Young, and Matty Matlock, Howard Theater, Washington, D.C., ca. 1941

Caption from Down Beat: Gene Williams and Fran Warren, singers with the Claude Thornhill band, are checked by a Columbia Pictures technician while the band was making a short here.