Well, I for one am not interested in paying Amazon, iTunes or anyone else for that matter $0.99 each for their lousy, lossey, thin sounding, and otherwise...
Buddy is right. The Jazz Store had the actual CDs at $24.95 plus $3.94 shipping. Larry in Dallas ... From: buddymcpeters To: CharlieChristian@yahoogroups.com ...
Flying Home and Star Dust, from a 15 Jan 1940 NBC broadcast to Scandinavia, are indeed newly released tracks. These two alone are well worth the $30 cost for...
The July issue of DownBeat should be out shortly with a photo of Charlie Christian, Count Basie, Basie's road manager and his wife, Goodman, and bandleader...
In the middle of the early 1941 rehearsal (Waiting for Benny/Blues In B/A Smoooth One) one of the players (the drummer?) shouts "mop! mop!" at one point. I...
... There is also "Moppin and Boppin" (Waller - Carter - Kirkeby) (recorded in 1935 by Fats Waller with Bennie Carter,Slim Moore, Gene Porter, Irving Ashby,...
On the master take of Smooooth One, there's a "Mop!" (one mop) at the end of Charles' guitar break on the out chorus. To me, it sounds like more than one...
Rag Mop was written by western swing artist Johnnie Lee Wills (brother of Bob Wills) and according to one source it was not recorded by his group until 1950...
Esquire All Stars with Coleman Hawkins, Oscar Pettiford, Al Casey and others - also Cootie williams as far as I remember - recorded a melody called Mop Mop in...
My basic premise was that the rehearsal recordings (called Waiting For Benny, etc. etc.) show the band minus Benny gradually working A Smoooth One into shape,...
Hi To me it doesn't sound at all that they are working "A Smo-o-oth One" into shape but rather that when CC starts this tune in the middle of some collective...
By my way of thinking, the eventual finished form of this song and the master takes are definitely influenced by the earlier rehearsal and jam session. In...
Hi David By my way of thinking there's no doubt that the jam session method of working out tunes and arrangements (head arrangements!) was the most common at...
Yes, I am sure that there were previous rehearsals since all the players knew the tune already. Since the band took the tune at a much faster tempo, we can...
I like it too. To: CharlieChristian@yahoogroups.com From: dsadowski@... Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:31:13 -0500 Subject: Re: [CharlieChristian] Re: Mop...
A couple of months ago I let my cousin borrow my CD copy of the Columbia CL652 lp to listen to while driving from Austin to a steel guitar convention (I think...
Interesting that whatever the work process (and CCs riffs are clearly the base of the piece) BGs name is firmly in place as composer! ... [Non-text portions of...
Today's notions of intellectual property are different than the norm 50-75 years ago. Back then, it was common practice for a bandleader to take composer...
Mop (common), an habitual drun- kard. From an obvious meta- phor. On the mop, continu- ally drinking. It may be inte- resting to remark that mop in its proper...
Why is Willie Mae's maiden name given as Booker on Charlie's birth certificate and Jones on his death certificate? Willie Mae's maiden name was neither Booker...
... Peter, Get back to me whenever you can understand Apartheid, USA. ..... The question is valid and I propose to raise quite a few more! By the way.... I...
I'm not being facetious. I think you could use a dose or two of Black History in America from 1865 to 1965. Or, you're welcome to rent a place here in South...
There are two statements by Clarence Jr that simply do not check out. 1. Edward rode his bike in the Armistice Day Parade in Bonham. Perusal of the local...
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