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4 hours ago, mikeweil said:

Tiny Grimes, Callin' The Blues - Swingville/OJC LP reissue

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Hope this helps me overcome an almost sleepless night - too hot and damp - it's music of good spirit with inspired playing by all participants. Packing day, we'll be off tomorrow for three weeks in the North East of Germany.

"Good spirit" says it. A favorite of mine.

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Jug Band Blues - Jim Kweskin & the Jug Band with Sippie Wallace and Otis Spann (Mountain Railroad)

Despite the billing on the cover, this is a Sippie Wallace record, with fine backing by Jim Kweskin's Jug Band and Otis Spann (on four tracks). Spann plays some magnificent piano.

On the CD reissue on Drive, Mark Humphrey's notes tell the story that Vanguard, the Kweskin Band's label at the time, rejected this record. Given some of the music that they did release, it's hard to understand where their ears were at. This is a wonderful record. The CD notes also contain an interesting anecdote of Louis Armstrong telling Ms. Wallace's manager in 1967: "This lady was a star. And don't you ever forget it." Louis told it like it was.

edit - just checked a discography because I was curious about the recording date - November, 1967 - and it turns out that the label that rejected this record was Reprise, not Vanguard. Apologies to Vanguard. If it had been Vanguard, perhaps they might have issued it.

 

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Jackie McLean "new soil" (Blue Note, stereo 47 w 63rd DG ear). Not sure why, maybe an early stamper, but this is one of my best sounding original blue notes.  I have a fairly good amount of originals and they all sound great but for whatever reason this one just leaps out of the speakers!!  

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Jazz at the Philharmonic, volume 13 (Embraceable You and the Closer) (Mercury ten inch), Dizzy Gillespie, Dizzy Over Paris (Royal Roost ten inch), and Sam Rivers, Contours (Blue Note, NY USA mono).

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Masahiko Sato "palladium" (express, japan red vinyl orig)

Masahiko Sato "transformation 69/71" (express, Japan...my copy is the same copy pictured in Julian Cope's "japanrocksampler" book with the Sato and Togashi autographs.  Guess he copied the JPEG from whatever online place I bought it from??)

Masahiko Sato "deformation" (express, japan red vinyl)

yes I confess I'm in a Japanese jazz mood tonight...

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12 hours ago, medjuck said:

Wasn't that the name of his first Sackville record? 

I believe so.

11 hours ago, clifford_thornton said:

Whenever I think of Muskogee I think of the Katy Railroad.

 

I've never been there, so it's Merle Haggard for me.

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