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Some notes on sources for some of the music featured on Hot Jazz Saturday Night. Click here to see a listing in general of some of the sources for the music featured on Hot Jazz Saturday Night.
We opened our stocking this night to find Nat King Cole and his Trio and an early October 1938 transcription version of "Jingle Bells," included in a four-CD set issued some years ago by Vintage Jazz Classics, VJC 1026/27/28/29.
"Gee Baby Ain't I Good To You?" by Hot Lips Page came from the original 78 on the Continental label.
Marilyn Monroe's dainty version of "After You Get What You Want You Don't Want It," is included in "Irving Berlin's Hollywood" on Rhino, R2 75614. Raymond Scott's "Christmas Night in Harlem" was issued on Stash ST-CD-543. "Rainbow Rhapsody" by Glenn Miller and his Orchestra is included in BMG 61015. Fats Waller and his Rhythm's "Bach Up To Me," based on the chord progression of "Christopher Columbus," is included in BMG 66747
We heard "Come Sunday" from Steve Hancoff's album, "Duke Ellington for Solo Guitar." It's DGM 9914, and is available from Steve at Out of Time Music, (301)-622-2058, FAX (301) 622-2382, or E-mail Steve at shancoff@aol.com. "Me and You" with Rose Clooney is part of the reissue of the "Blue Rose" LP and is on Columbia/Sony CK 65506.
Buddy DeFranco in live performance from 1982 is on the Live at E.J.'s label. We heard "In A Sentimental Mood" from JLR 103.610, and avilable directly from Qualiton Imports.
The Washboard Rhythm Kings and "Many Happy Returns Of The Day" is on Collectors Classics COCD-17. Jimmie Grier and his Orchestra's reducing advice, "Bend Down, Sister," is on Take Two TT 421.
Mosaic's reissue of the complete Capitol (commercial and transcription) recordings by Nat King Cole's Trio is no longer available, but the Classics label from France has started a reissue series of the commercial titles that extends now to four or more volumes, taking the story into the latter 1940s. I have not heard these reissues, but would be surprised if the selections included by Classics simply weren't copied from the Mosaic set. In general, there are loads of Nat King Cole reissues, well beyond my energy levels to sort through at present. I suggest using the search machines of the various Internet retailers to find specific titles.
During the program, I referred a number of times to Daniel Mark Epstein's new biography of Nat King Cole, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The book is filled with compelling and clarifying detail. He had the cooperation of Nat's widow and family, and Epstein sorts out myths that have sprung up around some of the songs most closely associated with Cole. I did have some difficulty, however, with Mr. Epstein's characterization in the opening chapters of the music scene of the 1930s and 1940s and its major players, particularly his description of Earl Hines as a "stride" pianist. I don't doubt Mr. Epstein's great admiration and pleasure at the music of Nat King Cole, but I don't think he has a real feel for the history of jazz piano and jazz piano styles and wish he had worked just a little harder at this piece of the context. Nor am I convinced that Nat King Cole really broke any barriers so far as blacks singing love songs for a white audience is concerned; seems to me that barrier was broken long before, but perhaps some case can be made on an order of magnitude. Mr. Epstein also commits a couple of errors of discography (not that I think this is SO bloody terrible, but if I don't note it, some pedant will come along to ask if I slept through those paragraphs). None of these caveats scuttles the value of the book by any means, but your eyebrows may go up a few times during the opening chapters. For information on the book, here's Amazon's cite on it: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0374219125/qid=947177431/sr=1-4/102-6604407-6176856.
We opened with Earl Hines and his Orchestra and "Good Little, Bad Little You" from Classics 545. (We still need a good reissue of the Hines Victors!) "Load of Cole" from Jelly Roll Morton has appeared on JSP CD 323. "You Ain't Quittin' Me Without Two Weeks'
Notice (To Get Someone To Take Your Place)" is on Document DOCD-5527. We played Benny Goodman and his Sextet doing the "Till Tom Special" from the Masters of Jazz MJCD 40, one of the volumes in their comprehensive reissue of the Complete Charlie Christian. "Keep An Eye On Your Heart" with singer Dorothy Claire and Glenn Miller's Orchestra is on Magic DAWE 91, a CD that includes most of the known Dorothy Claire airchecks during her tenure filling in for Marion Hutton in 1941. "You Got Me," by Artie Shaw's Orchestra, is on Phontastic PHON 7609.
The 1925 recording of "Say Arabella" by George Olsen and his Music was issued on an LP, Grannyphone 03310, long out-of-print; the new version by Bob Oliver's Hot Seven is on Stomp Off SOS 1312. "Among My Souvenirs" by The Revelers is from a collection of that group's recordings, on Living Era AJA 5278.
I'll post information on Tom Mitchell's album, "Double Scotch" shortly.
The Bing Crosby radio selections with Connee Boswell, Peggy Lee and Eugenie Baird are all on On the Air OTA 101978, available from Qualiton Imports.
Charlie Parker's rendition of "White Christmas" is most recently reissued on the four-CD set of Parker's live recordings that Savoy controls, it is SVY 17021.
In our second and third hour, we were featuring titles by Kid Ory, recorded for Verve Records, 1956-1961. These were drawn from an eight-CD box recently released by Mosaic Records. The catalogue number is MD8-189, and for information, go to their website, www.mosaicrecords.com, or click here for their phone number and address. We also included some historical selections, "Muskrat Ramble," with the Louis Armstrong Hot Five, is on JSP CD 312. The "New Wang Wang Blues" is on Decca Jazz GRP GRD 616. "Gate Mouth" and the "Brush Stomp" appear on JSP CD 319 (a collection devoted to Johnny Dodds), and "Steamboat Stomp," with Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers, is on JSP CD 321. Many of the JSP releases are out-of-print, but may still be available from Worlds Records or other on-line sources. Most of these titles have surfaced on other releases, though the sound quality may not be quite as good as on JSP. If you have trouble locating them, please send me an E-mail with your specific request, and I'll suggest another possibility.
The odd collection of transcription recordings made by Joe Venuti in late 1934 is available on IAJRC 1003. The version of "Just One Of Those Things" by the Benny Goodman Sextet is part of the series of alternate takes originally issued on twelve LPs on the Phontastic label, subsequently repackaged on five double-CD sets. This title is on Phontastic 8825. "I'm Going Away To Wear You Off My Mind" by Lloyd Smith's Gut-Bucketeers is on Frog DGF 7.
The very pleasant double-CD collection of title by the Dorsey Brothers (each bother's own band plus some selections by their combined orchestra of the mid-thirties) is Avid AMSC 680. We heard "The Spirit's Got Me," "I Never Knew," "Chicken Reel," "St. Louis Blues," and "Chloe." Lester Young's appearances on Jubilee with Nat King Cole and Buddy Rich in mid-March of 1946 are part of the Masters of Jazz series devoted to Young. We heard "These Foolish Things" and "Lester Leaps In" from Masters of Jazz MJCD 164.
The selection by Roger Wolfe Kahn and his Orchestra ("You Told Me To Go," "Baby," "Say Yes Today," and "Imagination") came from Swing Time 9910. For sources for this label and a couple of advisory comments, see my remarks on Swing Time's Bert Firman release, posted to the source note for January 1, 2000.
Then we turned to Jelly Roll Morton. Morton's piano solos for the Gennett record label all appear on Retrieval/Challenge RTR 79002 (along with the 1926 Vocalion titles). We heard orchestral versions of some of these titles, drawn from Morton reissues that appeared on the JSP label. These may be out-of-print, but the Masters of Jazz label has released eight volumes to date in its Morton reissue sequence. (I do not have these particular reissues at the moment, but imagine they are very, very good.) The version we heard of "Big Fat Ham" by Leon Oakley and Butch Thompson from 1979 came from an early Stomp Off LP, SOS 1013.
Jim Dapogny's piano treatment of the "Black Bottom Stomp" as "Queen of Spades," was issued by the Smithsonian on LP in the mid-seventies. A decent reissue of the New Orleans Rhythm Kings was last on the Swaggie label from Australia, and on the King Jazz CD label. All of these may be difficult to obtain at the moment. Milestone 47020 is a New Orleans Rhythm Kings reissue, but the sound on the Milestone LPs was always a little murky.
We may see other of the better European reissue labels tackle the Morton Victors at some later date. RCA/BMG, unfortunately, has never done it right.
Tonight's program opened with Don Byas and his Orchestra and "Riffin' and Jivin'" from 1944; it's on Classics 882. "Flamin' Mamie" by the Coon-Sanders Nighthawks comes from the one-volume collection of Nighthawks titles mentioned in a previous note, Retrieval RTR 79019. "Stowaway," one of Earl Hines' rare QRS piano solos from late 1928, is on Collectors Classics COCD-11. The Frankie Carle version of "I Was Here When You Left; I'll Be Here When You Get Back," is on Circle CCD-128. Hazel Myers' 1924 recording of "Don't Know and Don't Care Blues" is on Document DOCD-5430. "Night Wind," featuring Helen Ward with a Benny Goodman ensemble is on Living ASV AJA 5289, a first-rate collection of Helen Ward vocals from the 1930s and early 1940s.
We played some selections from Benny Goodman on the July 20, 1937 Camel Caravan. This was taken from the second release from a collectors "society" in Sweden devoted to Benny Goodman. (We featured titles from a prior release back in June 1998.) These releases are being pressed in very limited editions. For information, drop a note to: Thore A. Mattison, Kometvagen 9, S_183 33 TABY, SWEDEN.
The late Charlie Byrd recorded widely for Concord Records. "My Inspiration" appears on the Concord CD of the same title, Concord CCD-4850. "Rosetta" is on Concord CCD-4627. A visit to the Concord website should prove rewarding.
Charlie Byrd's important collaboration with Stan Getz for the Verve album, "Jazz Samba," is available on CD, Verve 3145214132. The version that was released as a 45 RPM single and which became such a hit was an edited version (the shorter running time making it more appealing for radio airplay), and one of the casualties of the editing was Charlie's solo! This explains, in part, why the record did more for Getz than it did for Byrd. "Some Other Spring" came from "Byrd At the Gate," originally released on Riverside. For a listing of Charlie Byrd's Riverside LPs available on compact disc, go to www.fantasyjazz.com/cat_byrdc.html.
Titles featured by Joe Venuti and his New Yorkers were largely drawn from LPs issued originally on The Old Masters and JSP labels. So far as I can tell, little of this material is currently available on compact disc. I'm sure that will be remedied in due course. Some of the earlier duet and Blue Four collaborations of Eddie Lang and Joe Venuti were gathered on two excellent CDs, JSP CD 309 and 310. They may still be available from through Worlds Records and other sources.
The program opened with Charlie Spivak and his Orchestra and "Sit Down, Bud!" from 1941. It is included in a survey of the Spivak's band commercial and V-Disc recordings from 1941-47 that has been issued on the Hep label. The catalogue number is Hep 64. Later in the evening, from the same collection, we also heard "Charlie Horse." "I Got Plenty O' Nothin,'" "Stranger in Town," and "Let's Go Home."
Don Albert's "Deep Blue Melody" and the Eddie Stone record of "Caravan" are both included in a three-CD set assembled by Michael Brooks and issued a few years ago by Columbia/Legacy, titled "Swing Time! The Fabulous Big Band Era (1925-1955)" It's Columbia/Legacy C3K 52862, and it cross-licenses selections from a number of different companies.
The Victor recording of "Black Beauty" is available on a number of different reissues, including BMG/RCA's mammoth Ellington centennial box! "Solitude" by Joe Sullivan and his Cafe Society Orchestra is on Classics 821. Chiaroscuro's re-teaming of Ellis Larkins and Ruby Braff in 1972, from which we heard "Things Ain't What They Used To Be," is on Chiaroscuro CRD 117. Chiaroscuro is also the source for the first release of the April 1973 concert by drummer Gene Krupa and his Quartet from which we heard "As Long As I Live." The catalogue number here is Chiaroscuro CRD 207. Click here to go to the Chiaroscuro website.
A selection of Lionel Hampton's Jazztone label recordings from 1956 is on Early Bird EBCS 1003. We heard "Loch Lomond." Qualiton Records carries this label.
We heard titles by Tony Martin, Dick Webster, Dick Robertson and Al Bowlly from "The First Crooners: Volume 3 (1935-1940)" on Take Two TT425. For complete catalogue information on this label, drop a note to producer Jim Bedoian at Take Two Records, P.O. Box 36729, Los Angeles, CA 90036, or phone Jim at 323-939-4419.
Volume 2 of Lang-Worth transcriptions by Jan Garber's 1944 swing orchestra is on Circle CCD-169. We heard "Make Me Know It," "Don't Sweetheart Me," and "My Blue Heaven."
The selections by Bubber Miley and his Mileage Makers were released on Frog DGF 11. "I Can't Say," by the New Orleans Bootblacks, appeared on JSP CD 319. Helen Ward with Benny Goodman and his Orchestra performing "She's A Latin From Manhattan" is on Circle CCD-50. "The Lady From Fifth Avenue" by Woody Herman's young bands is on Classics 1042. We played "Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum" by Art Shaw and his New Music from a 78 RPM pressing, but it has been issued on Hep 1046. The Count Basie aircheck of "Clap Hands! Here Come Charlie!" appeared on compact disc on Vintage Jazz Classics VJC-1033. See if Worlds Records can still provide this.
The complete Black and White label recordings of Lena Horne (ca. 1946) are now available on Simitar 56782. We heard "Beale Street Blues," "I Don't Want To Cry Anymore," and "Old-Fashioned Love."
Delmark Record's reissue of the February 1965 session by trumpeter Percy Humphrey's Crescent City Joymakers is Delmark DE-233. We heard "Climax Rag," "Old Spinning Wheel," and "San." Delmark has a website at www.idsonline.com/delmark. Trumpeter Gregg Stafford's session with trombonist Big Bill Bissonnette's Easy Riders Jazz Band in April 1999 is on Jazz Crusade JCCD-3048. We heard "In the Sweet Bye and Bye," and the "Savoy Blues." Click here to go the Jazz Crusade website!
The 1944 recordings by Jack Teagarden's big band from the Trianon Ballroom in 1944 are on Vernon VMCD-22799. These are carried by Worlds Records. For further information, drop a note to producer Joe Showler, Vernon Music, 2483 Queen Street East, Toronto, Ontario, CANADA M4E 1H9. Please tell Joe you heard Vernon featured on Hot Jazz Saturday Night.
The recording of the "Alabama Stomp" by Walter Anderson and his Golden Pheasant Orchestra was last on LP, Arcadia 2016. Bert Firman's recording of "Stampede" is on Swingtime 9902, available from Worlds Records. Duke Ellington and his Orchestra's "Old Man Blues" was taken from the soundtrack of the band's appearance in the 1930 movie, "Check and Double Check," and it is included in Volume 10 of the Ellington chronology from Masters of Jazz Records; it's MJCD 173.
Many selections featured tonight during our centennial celebration of Hoagy Carmichael are available on a number of different reissues. Some of the sources from which I worked are out-of-print, so I will invite your inquiries about specific titles if you cannot locate them on your own.
For the early recordings, I relied to some degree on a couple of CDs produced and annotated by Richard Sudhalter some years ago for the JSP label [JSP CD Hoagy 1 and JSP CD Hoagy 2]. I understand that Oxford Press will publish Mr. Sudhalter's biography of Hoagy Carmichael some months from now, and I would not be surprised if Mr. Sudhalter arranged for the reissue of these collections on the Retrieval/Challenge label.
In the meantime, the collection assembled by John Edward Hasse for the Indiana Historical Society is available on CD. It includes some of the titles played on HJSN, and many more good choices besides. It is availalbe for $35 in CD format. Order directly from: INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, PO Box 7700-4118 … Indianapolis, IN 46277-4118,Tel.: (800) 447-1830 … FAX: (317) 233-3109. For a description of the contents of the set, go to www.hoagy.com
The Memoir label has issued a very nice survey collection of original Carmichael recordings, spanning selections from the 1920s to some of the records of his own songs that Carmichael recorded for Decca in the 1940s. This is Memoir CDMOIR 524, available from Qualiton Imports, Worlds Records, among other sources.
John Eaton's version of "Lazybones" appears on his Chiaroscuro album of Cole Porter and Hoagy Carmichael titles; the release if Chiaroscuro CRD 304. The version of "Stardust" we played with Mel Torme and George Shearing is included in Concord's two-CD set of selections from Mel's many Concord albums from 1983 on; the catalogue on this set is Concord CCD2-4871.
The May 1931 recording of "Stardust" by the Boswell Sisters was last on Jass J-CD-622; Worlds Records has had some of the discontinued Jass catalogue at a special price; you might see if this Boswell Sisters release is still available. Bunny Berigan's version of "Small Fry" came from another Jass release, Jass J-CD-638, one of a couple of volumes of Bunny's Thesaurus transcription recordings from the late 1930s. Jasmine Records has issued a nice anthology devoted to Bob Hope, including some of his Decca recordings with Shirley Ross, such as "Two Sleepy People." It's Jasmine JASCD 358; a good source for Jasmine at a favorable price is Select Circles, Box 302, Riverside, CT 06878 (Proprietor, Chick Wilson, who can also be reached at (203) 661-8421).
The Larry Clinton band rendition of "Jubilee" with Bea Wain from 1937 is on Hep 1037; the Casa Loma Orchestra recording of "Thanksgivin'" is on Hep 1051. Louis Armstrong's Decca records are being thoroughly and masterfully reissued on the Ambassador label; "Lyin' to Myself" appears on Ambassador CLA 1902. Anita O'Day's vocal on "Skylark" with the Gene Krupa Orchestra is on Columbia/Legacy CK 65625.
The Tommy Dorsey/Jack Leonard treatment of "Blue Orchids" appeared on the Hoagy Carmichael volume in the Smithsonian American Songwriters series issued some years ago. You may find copies of this still in Smithsonian gift shops. From the same collection, we also heard Barbara Lea's version of "Baltimore Oriole," and Hoagy's version of "Winter Moon" originally recorded for the World Pacific Jazz label in 1956. Nancy Harrow's version of "I Get Along Without You Very Well" recorded in 1986 is on Baldwin Street Music BJC-203.
Chick Webb and his Orchestra with "Blue Skies" is on Tax 3706. "Better Luck Next Time," sung by Dinah Shore, is included in a good collection of her early Columbia recordings on a British label, Memoir; the catalogue number is CDMOIR 536. The Memoir label is distributed by Qualiton and is available through Worlds Records and other sources.
"Moments In the Moonlight," from Gene Krupa and his Orchestra with vocalist Howard DuLany is on Classics 859. We played "San" from the Bix reissue appearing on Origin Jazz Library/Sunbeam. Doris Day and Bob Hope having some fun with "Love Somebody" is included in a two-CD set on the Jasmine label devoted to Bob Hope. It includes some of Bob's Decca commercial recordings, some soundtrack recordings, and a number of radio spots. The catalogue Jasmine JASCD 358. Fats Waller's "E-Flat Blues" is on Buddha 99603. "Slat's Shuffle" by Jimmie Gunn and his Orchestra is on IAJRC 1002.
Kenny Davern's fine new CD for Arbors is ARCD 19207; we hear "That Da Da Strain," which also featured bassist Greg Cohen.
We heard some broadcast performances by Woody Herman's Second Herd with Stan Getz from Volume 3 in the Masters of Jazz label series devoted to Getz; this is Masters of Jazz MJCD 168. We also heard selections from another of the 13 volumes included in the Ellington anniversary box released by the same label. On this occasion, we heard titles from the volume titled "Dance." For a description of this collection, see the source note for May 1.
We heard selections from additional releases on the Baldwin Street Music label. The volume devoted to Teddi King's early recordings is BJH-307, from which we played "Goodbye Mr. Chops," "I Wished On The Moon,"
"Tell It To My Heart," "I Don't Know Why," "The Love Nest," and "Oh, You Crazy Moon." Titles by Maxine Sullivan are on Baldwin Street Music BJH-303, and included "Behavin' Myself For You," "Looking For A Boy," "Legalize My Name," "Loch Lomond," and "Cry, Little Buttercup, Cry." From a 1985 session with Maxine, we heard "I Got Lost In His Arms." This is on Baldwin Street Music BJC-201.
The label's Billie Holiday release is available only by mail order directly from Baldwin Street Music. It includes selections recorded at the Stratford Jazz Festival in Canada in August 1957. Some interview segments are also sequenced into the disc. This one may be largely for Billie completists, but it has a number of interesting moments. We heard versions of "Lady Sings the Blues," "The Man I Love," "Billie's Blues (I Love My Man)," and "You Gotta' Show Me." The catalogue number is BJH-308. The phone number for Baldwin Street Music is (416) 340-8899, FAX (416) 340-2813.
Rhino Records has released two CDs of albums singer Tony Bennett originally recorded for the Improv label. Tony Bennett and Bill Evans, from 1976, is Rhino R2 75837. Another volume, featuring Bennett with the George Barnes/Ruby Braff Quartet is on Rhino R2 75838.
The program closed with early selections of music composed by, or associated with, Jelly Roll Morton. Jelly Roll Morton's Gennett and Vocalion piano solos have been gathered together on Retrieval/Challenge RTR 79002, from which we heard the 1926 version of "The Pearls." The version of "King Porter Stomp" by Chas. Creath's Jazz-O-Maniacs is on Timeless CBC-036. "Chicago Breakdown" by Sonny Clay's Plantation Orchestra is on Timeless CBC-034. "Black Bottom Stomp" from Red and Miff's Stompers is on a CD from Jazz Oracle of Edison label recordings with Red Nichols, and it is Jazz Oracle BDW 8007.
A couple of notes and amendments by way of preface:
Addendum concerning Anita O'Day: Ted Ono's label, Baldwin Street Music, includes all ten of the Signature label titles on "Anita O'Day: The Complete Recordings (1949-1950)," Baldwin Street Music BJH-302. The set also includes titles from 1945, the five selections Anita recorded with the Nat King Cole Trio for MacGregor Transcriptions, and the four titles that were recorded for Capitol Records, but unissued at the time. As the MacGregors are otherwise available on a four-CD set referenced in the notes to last week's program, and the four Capitol titles were included in a 12-CD set from Mosaic Records (referenced below), the Baldwin Street Music CD plugs some discographic gaps for a minimum outlay of capital (especially the outlay of capital for the Capitols!). Get in touch with Baldwin Street Music by clicking here.
Lastly, there is currently one CD available on O'Day's Emily label. It is available from Cadence Music Sales.
I noted several months ago that Collectors Choice Music was carrying some Mosaic collections, but selling them at a premium price over and above Mosaic's mail-order price of $16/CD. Now, we're seeing that CCM is selling some Mosaic collections at reduced prices. Among them is the "The Complete Capitol Studio Recordings of Stan Kenton (1943-1947)," which CCM is selling for $89.95, a savings of more than twenty dollars. Mosaic's unlimited edition of the Dean Benedetti Charlie Parker recordings is available from CCM for the same price as is "The Complete Columbia J.J.Johnson Small Group Sessions." I don't know exactly what is behind this.
Now to the program of November 6th, which highlighted the reissue of the Benny Goodman January 16th, 1938 Carnegie Hall concert. The catalogue number of the new release is C2K 65143.
We opened with Zutty Singleton and the "Crawfish Blues," which has been included in Mosaic Records twelve-CD set of Capitol Jazz sessions, MD12-170. (This is the same anthology that includes the four selections mentioned above that Anita O'Day recorded for Capitol in 1945.)
The exciting session that trumpeter Kid Thomas Valentine recorded with the Easy Riders Jazz Band, is now available on CD from George H. Buck and the Jazzology Foundation; it's GHB BCD 189. We heard "Walk Through the Streets of the City." From the same source, you can get Hal Smith's Rhythmakers with Rebecca Kilgore; "Sittin' Up, Waitin' For You," is on Jazzology JCD-299. The 1947 recording of "At the Jazz Band Ball" with Albert Nicholas, Joe Sullivan and Wilb Bill Davison that opened the program's second hour is on Jazzology JCD-301 and has the title "World's Greatest Jazz Concert #1."
"Melancholy Charlie" with Red and Miff and the Six Hottentots is on Retrieval/Challenge RTR 79010.
We heard a number of entertaining selections from the Koch International Classics release devoted to songwriter Sammy Fain, "Sammy Sings Fain." This is Koch KIC 7461, and Collectors Choice Music is offering it at the favorable sale price of $13.88 in their most recent mail order catalogue.
Annette Hanshaw's version of Sammy Fain's "I've Got It (But It Don't Do
Me No Good" is not available on CD at this time. Joe Mooney and his Quartet with the "Do You Long for Oolong" version of "Tea For Two" is just out on Hep CD63, devoted in its entirety to Mooney's fascinating group and vocals. "Nobody But Baby" was included on Diamond Cut DCP-304, a collection of Edison masters made by veteran radio singer Vaughn DeLeath.
Concord Records two-CD retrospective of Mel Torme's recordings for that label (1983-1995) is Concord CCD2-4871.
We heard four titles from Hep's first volume in a reissue of Will Bgradley and Orchestra featuring Ray McKinley. The selections we played were "As Long As I Live," "Jimtown Blues," "So Far, So Good," and "(What Can I Say) After I Say I'm Sorry." It's all on Hep 1061.
"Lee Wiley: Collectors Items" is on Baldwin Street Music BJH-304. For catalogue information, go to the website, http://www.baldwinstreetmusic.com. Or, drop a note to David Baldwin Productions, Box 50, 552 Church Street, M4Y 2E6 Toronto, Ontario, CANADA, Phone: (416) 340-8899 or FAX (440) 416-340-2813. Baldwin Street Music CDs are $16 by direct purchase; they are also available from Worlds Records, among other sources. From the Lee Wiley release, we heard "A Woman Alone With the Blues," "Someone To Watch Over Me," "You're So Indifferent," and "(It's Only A) Paper Moon."
The records of the Coon-Sanders Nighthawks have been issued on four CDs from The Old Masters label. These releases are TOM mb 111/112/113/114. TOM releases are readily available for Worlds Records as well as directly from The Old Masters, P.O. Box 25358, San Mateo, CA, 94402. TOM also has a website, www.theoldmasters.com, but it is not, as yet, very helpful beyond the catalogue's earliest releases. As I mentioned on the air, there are alternate takes of some Coon-Sanders records (several of which were included more than thirty years ago on a release from RCA in its Vintage series, LPV-511).
There are also two CD anthologies of Coon-Sanders titles, featuring some of their best known records. One is on the ASV/Living Era label, "Everything is Hotsy-Totsy Now," AJA 5199. The other is Retrieval/Challenge RTR 79019, in significantly better sound, and the preferable of the two releases. There is some duplication between the AJA and RTR CDs, but not as much as I might have expected.
If you have queries on specific titles, you can E-mail me with your question.
Tonight's program opened with Nat King Cole and his Trio, recording for MacGregor transcriptions in May of 1944, with "After You've Gone." It appears on a four-CD set from Music&Arts, M&A CD-911. Included in the set are a number of vocal tracks with Anita Boyer, and a few selections that Anita O'Day recorded with Nat, supposedly to make an audition disk for Stan Kenton. (I don't believe this story because Kenton would have been more than familiar with her work, and the titles with Nat King Cole don't come off all that well!)
"Swing Along" by Herb Wiedoeft's Orchestra is another title from The Old Masters TOM mb 122, highlighted on the program of October 9. Roy Eldridge's version of "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You" is included on Hep CD 1030, a collection of Eldridge's early titles under his own name. "Twilight in Turkey" by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven is included in an anthology of Clambake Seven records on the Challenge/Retrieval label, RTR 79012. "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" from Judy Garland and Johnny Mercer is on Vintage Jazz Classics VJC-1043. The Casa Loma broadcast of "I Never Knew" was from an LP on the Fanfare label.
The titles by the Spirits of Rhythm are all from Challenge/Retrieval RTR 79004. We hear "How Deep Is the Ocean," "Dr. Watson and Mr. Holmes," "Exactly Like You (with Ella Logan)," and "Junk Man."
Karrin Allyson does "Social Call" on her second Concord album, "Sweet Home Cookin'," Concord CCD-4593. Hep Records has issued a collection of obscure Kay Starr commercial and transcription titles, from which we heard her with Wingy Manone on "If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight" from 1944. Lee Morse's divine treatment of "I Still Get A Thrill Thinking Of You" is on Take Two 420.
The commercial recordings of Teddy Wilson with his 1939/40 big band were available years ago on LP, but are now available from Hep Records on a new release, Hep 1064. We heard the title tune from the collection, "Jumpin' For Joy," as well as "Wham (Re Bop Boom Bam)."
Luis Russell inaugurated the program with the "Saratoga Shout" from JSP CD 308. We played Glenn Miller's studio recording from 1939 of the "Sliphorn Jive" from a collection on the Challenge/Retrieval label that gathers together some of the most prominent and less well-known Miller instrumental titles. It's RTR 79001.
"Is My Baby Blue Tonight?" came from a second volume on the Circle label of Lang-Worth transcription recordings by Jan Garber's mid-forties swing band. It's available from George H. Buck and it's on Circle CCD-169. Artie Shaw and his Orchestra played "It Had To Be You" from Jazz Unlimited JUCD 2018. The broadcast recording of "Ida, Sweet As Apple Cider" from Benny Goodman's Sextet with Charlie Christian appears on the eighth and final volume in the Charlie Christian chronology assembled by the Masters of Jazz label; this volume is MJCD 75. One of the first releases from the Jazz Oracle label was devoted to Albert Brunies and his Halfway House Orchestra. Hear "Tell Me Who" and all the rest of the often fascinating titles by this New Orleans band on Jazz Oracle BDW 8001.
Pianist John Sheridan's splendid new album on Arbors, "John Sheridan and his Dream Band: Dream Band, Make Me Dream Some More," with guest Becky Kilgore, is ARCD 19215. A great album; we heard "When My Dreamboat Comes Home," "I've Got a Pocketful Of Dreams," and "Please Keep Me In Your Dreams."
The selections we heard by Ella Mae Morse were all included in a Capitol collection devoted to her that was released some years ago and may still be available at a budget price in their Collectors Series; it is Capitol CDP 95288, and has excellent notes from Joseph Laredo. The releases in this series (just in general) were very nicely done, with carefully chosen graphics (reproductions of promotional material, record labels and sleeves) and very complete discographical information. Bear Family has issued a boxed set of Ella Mae Morse's complete recordings; if you're any sort of fan, you'll want to have it. To learn more about it, go to the Bear Family website right here!
"Ho Hum" by Bing Crosby with the Gus Arnheim Orchestra is on Jonzo JZCD-8; need we tell you to call Mr. Wiggins for information on the Jonzo series at 703-241-5608? Charlie Barnet's version of "Flying Home" is included in a fun anthology from BMG/RCA called "Wicked Swing." It's BMG/RCA 63342.
The recordings of Armand Piron's New Orleans Orchestra have been reissued on Azure AZ-CD-13. Azure is a British label and is available from Worlds Records. The Piron discography has rarely been reissued; if you have the remotest interest in this music, I urge you to acquire this release in the event that it simply becomes unavailable. No doubt, it has been pressed in a fairly limited number. The Azure release also includes titles featuring Piron pianist Steve Lewis accompanying Willie Jackson on a couple of salacious titles, as well as Piron orchestra accompaniments to Lela Bolden, Esther Bigeou and Ida G. Brown. (Azure also has an outstanding collection of early records by Seger Ellis; it is AZ-CD-22.)
We heard a number of versions of the Piron numbers played by repertory bands of the last twenty years or so. Many of these versions were taken from LP releases on the Stomp Off label that are likely to be unavailable. I'm listing them anyway just so you know what to look for if you were attracted to what you heard. The selections by the South Frisco Jazz Band are on a Stomp Off CD, SOS 1180.
The versions of "Do Doodle Oom" (1923) and "Ghost Of the Blues" (early 1924) by the Fletcher Henderson band are available on Classics 697 and 673, respectively. "Sud Bustin' Blues" is also on Classics 673. The Clarence Williams version of "Sister Kate" is on Classics 771.
Please see note for November 6th for an update and additional information.
Thankfully, Anita O'Day is well represented on compact disc. We've notes on the availability of an eighteen-track collection of her recordings with the Gene Krupa band in the 1940s; this is called "Let Me Off Uptown: Anita O'Day with Gene Krupa" and it is Columbia/Legacy CK65625. If you're interested in something more comprehensive, the Masters of Jazz label has issued three CDs that bring together all of Anita's studio and known broadcast recordings during her first tenure with Gene Krupa in 1941-42. These are masters of Jazz MJCD 122, 157 and 167. The Classics label has been issuing a chronology of Gene Krupa, and Anita's recordings will be scattered among the volumes covering the early 1940s (including Classics 960, 1006, and 1056).
Mosaic Records has issued a nine-CD set of Anita's many records and albums for Verve and Norman Granz from 1952 to 1962. It's Mosaic MD9-188, and for information click here for Mosaic's address and phone numbers, or simply go to the Mosaic website at www.mosaicrecords.com.
Anita's Capitol studio recordings with Stan Kenton have been scattered about on various reissues, and then were all included in a Mosaic set devoted to Kenton's early studio recordings that is still available, MD7-163, "The Complete Capitol Studio Recordings of Stan Kenton, 1943-47."
Some broadcast and transcribed recordings are available on Mister Music MMCD-7007, "Stan Kenton in Hollywood," and Music and Arts 883, "Stan Kenton: Broadcast Transcriptions." (Not quite half the latter release also includes some of Kenton's early transcriptions for MacGregor from 1941.)
Anita's ten titles recorded for the Signature record label in the mid-late 1940s were issued on Doctor Jazz FW 39418. It appears that all ten of the Signature label titles are included in a reissue on the Indigo label. There is also a Japanese limited edition CD that has just come out with the ten Signature records, but it's a lot of money to pay for ten selections.
Anita's obscure recordings from 1949 and 1950 were issued on LP on the Tono label. Producer Ted Ono has recently established a new label, Baldwin Street Music, and has reissued this material on Baldwin Street Music BJH-302. For information, drop a note to David Baldwin Productions, Box 80, 552 Church Street, Toronto, Ontario M4Y 2E3 CANADA, or call (416)-340-889, FAX (416)-340-2813. Baldwin Street Music should have a website soon.
We also heard a performance of "I Get A Kick Out Of You," recorded in late April of 1975, and released on the Evidence label, ECD ECD 22054.
Many of the Verve albums that are gathered in the Mosaic box have also been reissued singly by Polygram. Anita also established her own record label, Emily, for the release of some of her later performances, but I do not know about their availability.
Anita O'Day memoirs are "High Times Hard Times," of which a new edition has just landed. For information, see this description at Amazon.com.
In the meantime, here is the address where you can send a note, slightly belated birthday greetings or good wishes to Ms. Anita O'Day:
Anita O'Day
1745 N. Gramercy Place
Apt. 404
Los Angeles, CA 90028
"Thanks A Million" we say to you (for our great membership campaign totals), and so say it as well the Mound City Blue Blowers on Timeless CBC 018. The Lester Young reading of "On the Sunny Side Of the Street" came from a double-CD release a few years ago of his complete Aladdin label discography; it's on Blue Note CDP 32787. The second volume of early Ted Heath recordings from which we heard "Deep Forest" is on Memoir CDMOIR 532. Sidney Bechet at the Olympia Theater on October 19, 1955 ("Wild Man Blues") is on Trad Line 1346. This and the Memoir label are available through Qualiton Imports. Mart Britt and his Orchestra with "Sadness Will Be Gladness" comes from that dandy collection on Texas and Tennessee Territory Bands; it's Retrieval RTR 79006.
Qualiton Imports is also the source for the label "A Jazz Hour With" from which we heard titles with Les Paul, Stan Kenton and Oscar Pettiford drawn from some of the broadcasts from the 1940s by the Lamplighter. A very pleasant collection of informal music in the sort of setting in which jazz once thrived. This is JHR 73597.
Rhino Records release of "Mel Torme at the Movies" is Rhino R2 75481; Mel's Standard transcriptions, gathered complete, is on Soundies SCD 4110.
We heard pianist Eric Parkin playing Billy Mayerl transcriptions of "Love in Bloom" and "Darling, Not Without You." It's on Shellwood SWCD 3, a British label devoted to new and historic recordings of novelty and syncopated piano.
"Maniac's Ball" by the Casa Loma Orchestra comes from Hep 1051. Stuff Smith and "Crescendo in Drums" is on Classics 1054. Noel Coward"s "Twentieth Century Blues," performed by Al Bowlly with Ray Noble and his Orchestra is on Vocalion CDEA 6010.
Carol Sloan was joined by Benny Golson for "Day Dream" on her collection of Ellington ballads, DRG 8480. "Dirty, Dirty, Dirty" by Jelly Roll Morton's Hot Seven was issued on GRP CMD-403. "Ida, Sweet As Apple Cider" was performed by Milton Brown and his Musical Brownies with steel guitarist Bob Dunn; Brown's complete oeuvre is on a special five-CD boxed set available from the same folks who are doing one of the nicest series of Bix reissues.
Maxine Sullivan's version of "How About You?" is included in her late 1970s/early 1980s Swedish recordings produced by the Kenneth label and now appearing on compact disc with new titles; this is from Kenneth CKS 3402.
The Frog label from France has initiated a McKinney's Cotton Pickers reissue, with two volumes of the issued takes. The catalogue numbers are Frog DGF 25 and 26. "I'd Love It" appears on the first volume.
Bob Crosby's "Jezebel" and "You're An Education" were played from a Decca 78, but these titles have been issued in the Halcyon label chronological series of Bob Crosby. E-mail me for specific catalogue number if you are interested. In the meantime, we heard two titles from Volume 18 of Jonzo's chronology of Bob's brother, Bing. We heard "I Can't Escape From You" and "I'm An Old Cowhand." For information on Jonzo, call Wig Wiggins at 703-241-5608.
The early titles of the Ink Spots have appears on a couple of LPs; you'll find some of these selections on a CD, ASV/Living Era AJA 5082, but the echo on some of the transfers borders on the atrocious.
We heard five titles from a two-CD set on the Avid label called "The Classic Swing Collection." As I mentioned, it has 49 selections and is a thoughtful collection of big band titles that includes some familiar anthems as well as some less frequently-encountered titles by name bands. We heard these titles, by way of example: "Oh Beat Me Daddy Eight to the Bar" (Woody Herman); "The Spirit Is Willing," (Glenn Miller); "Blue Lou" (Chick Webb); "I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart," (Jimmy Dorsey); and "Slide, Hamp, Slide" (Lionel Hampton). The collection is Avid AMSC 676.
The collection of some of Jeri Southern's Decca titles from the 1950s is on GRP GRD-671.
Lastly, The Old Master's reissue of the Brunswick recordings by Herb Wiedoeft and the successor band led by Jesse Stafford is on TOM mb 122. "Sad Moments" is the stunning highlight. We also heard the "Cinderella Blues," "Glorianna," and "Rose Room," all from 1928.
WOW! What a total for our Fall Membership Campaign on Hot Jazz Saturday Night! When we left the air and finished the tally, we learned that pledges during the show totaled $21,438. You entitled us to $4550 in challenge money for a total earned for the campaign of $25,988 during HJSN. Kathy Merritt and I were elated, and we thank you for this wonderful expression of support for hot jazz, WAMU and public radio.
My thanks to Soundies, The Old Masters and Worlds Records, and Rhino Records for their support in helping to make it possible for us to offer some CD selections as thank-you gifts for higher pledges. Recapping the three titles we offered (in the event that you would like to seek these collections out yourself), they were:
In addition to selections from these three titles, we played a number of titles from LPs this particular evening. But, we can mention CD sources for a few titles. The Glenn Miller version of "The Rumba Jumps!" came from a collection of previously unreleased Glenn Miller broadcasts, most of the selections featuring the Andrews Sisters. We heard "Harlem Bound" from Stomp Off CD 1343, featuring the group known as "le petit jazzband de mr. morel."
Viola McCoy's version of the "Michigan Water Blues" is on Document DOCD- 5416; Jelly Roll Morton's stunning 1939 recording is on Commodore CMD-403. The version by Don Ewell and his Quartet has been reissued on CD, Audiophile ACD-66.
We opened with Eddie Miles and his Florentine Orchestra and "Is It Possible That She Loves Me?" from one of the reissues of obscure rarities produced by Jazz Oracle. This title comes from the collection of Gennett label rarities recorded mostly in Birmingham, Alabama; it's Jazz Oracle BDW 8009.
The (largely) musical portions of Jelly Roll Morton's Library of Congress recordings from 1938, including "Freakish," have been issued by Rounder on four CDs. "Freakish" is on Rounder CD 1094. "He's the Hottest Man in Town," from Fletcher Henderson in 1924 is on Classics 647. Pete Johnson's "Just For You" is on Classics 665. "Honeysuckle Rose" from Tony Almerico's Dixieland All-Stars was played from an old VIK LP.
The new packaging of Raymond Scott titles from Columbia/Legacy is CK 65672.
Violinist Johnny Frigo's version of "Isn't It Romantic" and other selections recorded in 1997 while the S.S. Norway was cruising the Caribbean is on Chiaroscuro CRD 358.
We heard three instrumental selections from Jimmy Dorsey's 1949 recordings with his Orchestra for Standard Transcriptions. These are on a new label called Soundies. We can also thank Soundies for a complete release of Duke Ellington's Standards (1941); their first issues also include transcription recordings of Doris Day and Mel Torme. The Jimmy Dorsey release should be available in October, but can be pre-ordered from sources on the Internet. The catalogue info is Soundies SCD 4111.
The rendition of "Some Of These Days" by the Benny Goodman Quartet comes from a 1938 broadcast released on Phontastic 8844, a label available from Worlds Records, " "They Say," featuring Helen Forrest with Artie Shaw was also from 1938, and included in a release of Shaw broadcasts on Jazz Unlimited JUCD 2018.
We spent the balance of the program surveying the earlier discography included in the recent release from Mosaic Records, "The Complete HRS Sessions," is Mosaic MD6-187. It's available directly from Mosaic. Like (virtually) all Mosaic sets, this release is a limited edition (7500 copies). Mosaic has been issuing several particularly valuable sets of late, and in months to come, we'll be hearing selections from their release of Anita O'Day's Verve recordings, and releases devoted to Kid Ory, Gene Krupa and Harry James. [During this segment, we included two selections recorded in Paris by Rex Stewart and his Feetwarmers for the Swing label. Steve Smith reissued these titles on his HRS label, but the Mosaic box only includes sessions original to HRS. The two selections by Rex Stewart, "Finesse" and "Montmartre" are available on ASV/Living Era's Stewart collection, "Rexatious," ASV/Living Era 5200.]
We inaugurated this evening's little cacophonous clambake of celestial clamor (you can tell I'm listening to a Crosby Kraft Music Hall while I write this) with Blue Steele and his Orchestra and "All Muggled Up" from my candidate for best hot dance reissue of 1999, "Texas and Tennessee Territorial Bands" on the Challenge/Retrieval label, RTR 79006.
Rex Stewart's economic manifesto, "All On Account Of You" appears on Classics 1057. Oscar Aleman's "Sentimental Journey" is part of the double-CD collection issued a few years ago on David Grisman's Acoustic Disc label, it's ACD- 29 [1-800-221-DISC, www.dawgnet.com].
If you want to hear all four takes recorded on March 21, 1941 of "Romance In the Dark," order Jazz Unlimited JUCD 2014 (and the companion JUCD 2015). Transfers of all takes and breakdown from 1940-42 sessions are gathered on these releases. "Why Doesn't Someone Tell Me These Things" comes from an excellent collection of Bunny Berigan's Victor records, it's Hep 1036. And the broadcast performance of "I'll Take Tallulah" with Tommy Dorsey and Frank Sinatra is on Buddha 96022.
We heard two versions of "How Do You Think I Feel?" Georgia White's 1939 recordings is Document DOCD-5304. Tex Wyndham's Rent Party Revelers is on GHB BCD-386. The volume of Lang-Worth transcriptions by the Teddy Powell Orchestra is on Circle CCD-132, available from the same source as for the GHB label. Peggy Mann and Tommy Taylor are the vocalists with Powell and we heard "Idaho," "Gobs Of Love," Blue Sentimental Mood," and "My Little Cousin."
Benny Water's "Zigin' and Zagin'" came from an LP on the Supraphon label; Ziggy Elman with Benny Goodman and "Zaggin' With Zig" was released on Columbia 40834, "Vol. II: Clarinet A La King," which may be out-of-print.
Frankie Trumbauer and his Orchestra and "My Sweeter Than Sweet" is on The Old Masters TOM mb 108. "Back Water Blues" by Bessie Smith is available on Columbia/Legacy C2K 47474. Doris Day's version of "September In the Rain" was released on Hindsight HSR-226. (This transcription material has been issued on CD in Europe, but I can't vouch for the sound quality of any particular label.) The Larry Eanet Quartet with Ron Hockett did "Rain" for us, and that is on Arbors ARCD 19220. We can be well pleased that Larry is a local artist because the choice of repertoire and the arrangements are exceptional. For details on this specific album, see http://www.arborsjazz.com/19220.html.
Volume 3 in the Masters of Jazz series devoted to Anita O'Day is MJCD 167. The Chronological Bing Crosby, Volume 8, JZCD-8 is available exclusively from Mr. F.B. "Wig" Wiggins, 5608 N. 34th St., Arlington VA 22207, or 703-241-5608. We heard "I'm Gonna Get You," "Them There Eyes," "Just a Gigolo," and "One More Time."
And another Volume 3 is one from Take Two Records devoted to female torch singers. Volume 3 covers the period 1935-40, from which we heard Dixie Lee Crosby, Connee Boswell, Una Mae Carlisle, Mildred Bailey, and Adelaide Hall. The catalogue number is Take Two TT424, and a companion Volume 3 devoted to male crooners has also been released. It is TT 425 and we'll hear titles from it on a future program. For information on Take Two, drop producer Jim Bedoian a note and request for catalogue at 6105 Barrows Drive, Los Angeles, California, 90048. (Take Two CDs are $15.98 each, postpaid, when ordered directly from Jim.)
The titles we heard by Kid Ory and his Band from the Club Hangover in the mid-fifties are on Storyville STCD 6035. Trombonist Mike Owen and his Woodland Band, in the Ory tradition, are on GHB BCD-390.
We closed with a couple of performances by Oscar Peterson on the occasion of his American debut fifty years ago, September 18, 1949, at a Jazz at the Philharmonic concert in Carnegie Hall. Oscar played three titles on this occasion, "Fine And Dandy, "I Only Have Eyes For You," and "Carnegie Blues." (We heard the first and third.) All three are included in the ten-CD Verve box set, "The Complete Jazz at the Philharmonic (1944-1949). "Fine and Dandy" is included in a two-CD retrospective summary of Peterson's Verve recordings that was titled "The Will To Swing;" the catalogue number here is Verve 847 203. I regret that I can find no currently available issue with the other two titles. If someone can advise me of something I have overlooked, please let me know at hotjazz@wamu.org.
The program opened with "Doug the Jitterbug," taken from the now out-of-print JSP CD 330. Then we were into clarinetists: "Blue Piano Stomp" from Johnny Dodds and his Trio is part of an essential reissue on Frog, Frog DGF 3. Benny Goodman and his Sextet and "Ain't Misbehavin'" is own the two-CD set, The Alternate Goodman, Vol. 5, Phontastic Phon 8825. "The Old Spinning Wheel" featured clarinetist Sammy Rimmington and the Return of the The Mouldy Five on Jazz Crusade JCCD-3045. Be sure to tell Big Bill you heard it on Hot Jazz Saturday Night! Closing the set, from the Timeless label's reissue of recordings of Boyd Senter, we heard his Senterpedes and "Copenhagen" from Timeless CBC-032.
The selections by Maxine Sullivan, recorded in Sweden in the early 1980s came from Volume 2 of the series, "Maxine Sullivan--The Queen" on the Kenneth label. The title of this volume is "I Only Have Eyes For You" and it is Kenneth CKS 3403. Volumes 1, 2 and 5 are currently available. The Kenneth label is available from Worlds Records. The producer of this label is also responsible for the Ambassador reissue series devoted to Louis Armstrong.
The series devoted to the HMV recordings of Ray Noble with vocalist Al Bowlly is appearing on the Vocalion label. We heard three selections from Volume 3, which is Vocalion CDEA 6017, "Sailin' On the Robert E. Lee," "With All My Love and Kisses," and "It's Great To Be In Love." One source for Vocalion is Select Circles, Box 302, Riverside, CT 06878 (Proprietor, Chick Wilson, who can also be reached at (203) 661-8421). Select Circles sells Vocalion releases for $10, plus nominal shipping. Chick is widely regarded as a source for Bing Crosby CDs, including many from abroad.
"Too Marvelous for Words" by Chu Berry and his Stompy Stevedores is available on Classics 784. Teddy Wilson's lovely Keynote transcriptions from 1939 and 1940, including the version played of "Love Is the Sweetest Thing," is available on Storyville STCD 8258.
"Washing Dishes With My Sweetie" from 1930 and the Ted Weems Orchestra was released on the out-of-print LP, Grannyphone 03315. Anita Boyer singing "There I Go" with Artie Shaw and his Orchestra comes from a wonderful collection of Shaw airchecks released by the Hep label on Hep 19.
"Everybody Loves My Baby" was a four-hands-at-two-piano duet by Neville Dickie and Louis Mazetier from Stomp Off SOS 1302. The title of the album is "Harlem Strut." Drop a note to producer Bob Erdos at 549 Fairview Terrace, York, PA 17403, or simply check out the Stomp Off website at www.stompoffrecords.com.
We heard several selections from Volume 4 of the "Anthology of Jazz Drumming," programmed and annotated by Philippe Beaudoin. It's Masters of Jazz MJCD 807.
The balance of the program highlighted selections from the 4-CD boxed set, CENTRAL AVENUE SOUNDS: JAZZ IN LOS ANGELES (1921-1956), Rhino R2 75872. The set is essentially a soundtrack accompaniment to the book of the same title published last year by the University of California Press, now available in paper (for details, see http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/8087.html). The Rhino package comes with a nice booklet with well done, but not overly-long essays by Floyd Levin, Ken Poston, Steven Isoardi and others. The photos are quite decent as well.
Selections we sampled were: "Central Avenue Breakdown" (Lionel Hampton); "Blues on Central Avenue" (Joe Turner w/Freddie Slack Trio); "These Foolish Things (Lester Young); "Dissonance in Blues" (Gerald Wilson and his Orchestra); "California Swing" (Paul Howard's Quality Serenaders); "Ory's Creole Trombone (Ory's Sunshine Orchestra); "Creole Song" and "Get Out Of Here" (Ory's Creole Jazz Band); "Someday Sweetheart," "Mamanita," and "The Pearls" (Jelly Roll Morton); "Dixie Rhythm" (Four Blackbirds); "Jump for Joy Medley" (Duke Ellington/Herb Jeffries/Joe Turner/.Ivie Anderson/Jump for Joy Choir); "Body And Soul" (Art Tatum and his Swingsters); "Body and Soul" (Nat King Cole Trio); "Smooth Sailing" (Lucky Thompson Quartet); "Bedspread" (Baron Mingus and his Octet) "Collette" (Buddy Collette Quartet); "The Chase" (Dexter Gordon and Wardell Gray); "Jump Call" (Benny Carter); "Bugle Call Rag" (Wilbert Baranco).
Before turning to the music from this particular night, let me acknowledge a nice note from F.Parvin Sharpless of the Chamber Jazz Society of Baltimore, advising me of their 1999-2000 season and lineup: November 7, 1999, pianist Mike Longo; January 16, 2000, trumpeter Byron Stripling, February 27, 2000, pianist Junior Mance; and April 9, 2000, saxophonist Gary Bartz. A season subscription is available by mail for $72 from The Chamber Jazz Society, P.O. Box 10421, Baltimore, MD 21209. Performances are at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Sunday evenings at 5:00 P.M.
We opened with Ted Lewis and his Orchestra from 1930 with "The Yellow Dog Blues," included in a good collection called "The Jazzworthy Ted Lewis" on the Challenge/Retrieval label; this is RTR 79014. This release has liner notes by Mark Berresford, one of the real Ted Lewis scholars. "I'm All In" from Amborse and his Orchestra with vocalist Evelyn Dall is on Vocalion CDEA 6002. Woody Herman and "Double Or Nothing" from 1937 is on Classics 1042. "I Simply Adore You" by Fats Waller is on Buddha 99603.
Then we had two versions of "How Ya' Baby?" The version by Fats Waller and his Rhythm is on BMG 66083. ianist John Sheridan's fine rendition is on a recent release from Arbors ARCD 19214, from which we also heard "Sweet Eloise" and the "Sensation Rag."
The second volume from Classics devoted to Johnny Guarnieri is Classics 1063. The reissue of "Jazz Spectacular" with Frankie Laine and Buck Clayton is Columbia/Legacy CK 65507.
Benny Carter's 1937 version of "Somebody Loves Me," recorded in the Hague, is included in Volume 8 in the Masters of Jazz label series devoted to Carter; it's MJCD 103 and includes some previously unissued alternate takes.
Then we compared three different treatments of tenor saxophonists working the changes on "Honeysuckle Rose," following the three examples transcribed in Richard Sudhalter's LOST CHORDS (Oxford University Press, 1999). We heard Lester Young from the Benny Goodman Carnegie Hall Concert. The new transfer is not out yet; see if you can find Columbia C2K 40244. Eddie Miller on "Call Me A Taxi" with Four of the Bobcats is on Halcyon DHDL 126, available from Worlds Records. Bud Freeman's Keynote label version of "Honeysuckle Rose" is on Classics 942.
Rhino Records' reissue of bassist Red Mitchell's 1955 Bethlehem session is Rhino R2 75823. We heard "I'll Never Be the Same," which led us into a consideration of Frank Signorelli. His 1926 recording of "Blues Serenade" was issued on the Broadway-Intermission label [LP] BR 120. Glenn Miller's 1935 version of this song was released on Columbia CK 48831.
"Anything" by [Phil] Napoleon's Emperors from 1929 is on the grand collection, Timeless CBC-049. The same song by Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra with Frank Sinatra in 1940 is included in the complete multi-CD collection of Sinatra's Dorsey collaborations, it's BMG 66353. [This may be available on some single compilations; E-mail me if you need me to smoke it out for you.]
"Stairway to the Stars" from Glenn Miller is on Jazz Hour JH 1012. "Shufflin' Mose" and "The Great White Way Blues" by Frank Signorelli with the Original Memphis Five from 1923 have been issued on the valuable collection of very early OM5 records, Collectors Classics COCD-16. "Margie," recorded for the Joe Davis label in 1946, was from LP, Harlequin HQ 2043, though it may have appeared on CD. Tommy Dorsey on trumpet (yes, trumpet!), Tom Dorsey and his Novelty Orchestra from 1929 doing "You Can't Cheat A Cheater" is on the second of three volumes to date from Jazz Oracle devoted to early Dorsey Brothers studio material. Outstanding series!
Trumpeter Avery "Kid" Howard's recordings with his Olympia Band and the Same Morgan Re-Visited sessions from August 1962 have been reissued on American Music AMCD-58, available from George H. Buck. The 1943 George Lewis selections that originally appeared on the Climax label have been reissued complete on AMCD-100 and AMCD-101. (The two selections we played, "Milneburg Joys" and "Closer Walk With Thee," came from the second of these volumes. These titles were available at one time from Mosaic Records, but that set has been out-of-print for a long time. The sound quality on the AMCD releases is probably better in most instances because Bill Russell made his original acetates available for fresh transfers.)
The above are among the very best examples of this sort of "new old New Orleans" sound. Admittedly not for all tastes and not to be played as background to your weekly bridge game, but I recommend them highly. The original Columbia titles recorded by Sam Morgan's Jazz Ban in New Orleans in 1927 are all on Jazz Oracle BDW 8002.
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