... From: "Mike Meddings" <mike@...> To: "Nick Flynn" <nicflynn@...> Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 10:33 PM Subject: Jelly Roll...
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yves francois
aprestitine
Sep 5, 2009 3:59 pm
To my friends here at RedHotJazz I have spoken to Koester this week on a couple of different issues, one was regarding Boyd Atkins. Koester feels that...
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robertgreenwood_54uk
robertgreenw...
Sep 5, 2009 5:17 pm
... Yves: Very many thanks for this. I don't know about Oliver Alcorn playing in Celestin's band alongside Kelly (they certainly did not record together) but...
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vntager8io
Sep 10, 2009 10:03 pm
On a trip this afternoon to a local record shop, I picked up (among others) a record called "Let's Charleston" by a group billed as "Lou Arbuckle and the...
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Howard Rye
howardrye
Sep 11, 2009 11:03 am
Seeing that the matter was discussed on this list, I'd like to congratulate Robert Greenwood on the masterly way he has handled the poisoned chalice of ...
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robertgreenwood_54uk
robertgreenw...
Sep 11, 2009 12:25 pm
Yes, I agree. Wolfe's is an absurdly reductionist view, and not one that I hold, but one, I think, Mezzrow himself invites us to entertain when reading the...
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armstark2000
Sep 11, 2009 1:38 pm
Yesterday, I received my copy of the latest Frog release, DGF 71, "Frog Spawn - the First Batch". My first opinion is contained below. Just in case, I'd like...
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Howard Rye
howardrye
Sep 11, 2009 2:45 pm
No dissent, but, two supplementary questions. Is ³Baby, Are You Satisfied² by Dickie Wells¹ Shim Shammers the only reference to birth control in vintage...
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Michael Rader
armstark2000
Sep 11, 2009 4:03 pm
... Nick might be able to answer this, depending what Frog gave him to work on. The previous reissue on Harrison B gives Champion 16524 as its source, but...
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aclassicjazzfan
Sep 11, 2009 5:39 pm
Michael: Thank you very much for the immensely informative and insightful review of "Frog Spawn." I wasn't sure about this release, but based upon your...
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Nick Dellow
nick.dellow
Sep 11, 2009 6:58 pm
Firstly, many thanks to Michael for his in-depth review. As Howard correctly surmised, the Paul Davis transfer was taken from Champion 40038. And Michael is...
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Michael Rader
armstark2000
Sep 11, 2009 8:22 pm
Gerard, Although I must admit to being puzzled by a track called "Solilognoy" (at a guess a typo for Rube Bloom's "Soliloquy") listed both on the Challenge...
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Michael Rader
armstark2000
Sep 12, 2009 7:22 am
Gerard and anyone else interested, Worlds Records has a complete track list and blurb on this CD:...
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Howard Rye
howardrye
Sep 12, 2009 7:58 am
I love the description "the first cacophonous jazz recording". Most felicitous. Is it World's or Retrieval's? I assume it's from the notes. ... Howard Rye, 20...
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aclassicjazzfan
Sep 12, 2009 9:07 pm
Michael: Thanks. I've seen the WorldsRecords site. Sound clips are available at Allmusic.com: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:fzfpxzealdke To...
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aclassicjazzfan
Sep 12, 2009 9:20 pm
Howard: The text at WorldsRecords repeats verbatim the text at the Retrieval site: http://www.challenge.nl/index.php?group=product&serial=1240234910 Gerard...
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serapion@...
serapion...
Sep 13, 2009 12:35 am
A very welcome review altogether, for which much thanks. The utility and value of Gap-filling selections is of course a question of where the gaps are, and...
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Howard Rye
howardrye
Sep 13, 2009 1:33 pm
Okay, I know the provence of the modern belief that Arthur Ray is playing an accordion. But does anyone know of any other record in or out of jazz on which an...
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Nick Dellow
nick.dellow
Sep 13, 2009 3:02 pm
Howard, I don't think you are going potty; I also hear "ain't" rather than "weren't". Incidentally, the timbre of the sax heard under Punch's solo and vocal in...
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Michael Rader
armstark2000
Sep 13, 2009 3:31 pm
You're right about this, although the Frog comes from Perect 14341 - my memory is no longer as good as it was and I was writing from what is left of it. The...
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yves francois
aprestitine
Sep 13, 2009 3:59 pm
Michael and everyone else I will have to purchase this CD ASAP, sounds like i will finally hear the Bailey sessions in good sound quality (considering...
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Howard Rye
howardrye
Sep 13, 2009 4:41 pm
Thank you for that reassurance, Nick. Sometimes comparing takes can make you doubt your sanity. According to Index to Jazz the Franko personnel was supplied by...
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coneyislandtodd
Sep 14, 2009 2:24 am
James P. Johnson, the father of stride piano, the composer of "The Charleston" and "Carolina Shout," and one of the founders of modern jazz piano lies,...
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Michael Rader
armstark2000
Sep 14, 2009 6:36 am
Yves, A very comprehensive and enthusiastic posting from you as always. The easy points first: 1. the Frog CD is definitely worth getting for the Bailey - much...
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armstark2000
Sep 14, 2009 7:02 am
For Yves, Dave and the others of you in quest of the clarinet soloist on the Eva Taylor "Red Hot Flo from Kokomo", A while back, Chris Hillman interestingly...
Any one with a lead sheet of this wonderfull song? That would be very welcome. Wouter M. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Nick Dellow
nick.dellow
Sep 14, 2009 9:21 am
Dear Michael and Yves, Many thanks for your comments about the CD. Let me first address the point about the sound quality of the Jackson and his Southern...
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Howard Rye
howardrye
Sep 14, 2009 9:56 am
I have them on a John R.T. Davies 10-incher from 1970: Big Band Jazz¹, Audubon ABE, which I assume was the first reissue. This gives an essentially unknown...
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Gilber M. Erskine
ethbert_the_...
Sep 14, 2009 9:57 am
Thanks much for your post and the news that James P. Johnson does not have a gravestone. I certainly will be contirubuting. On high school vacation in August...
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David Brown
dvd.brown
Sep 14, 2009 10:13 am
Michael Nice to have 'Flo' back. I recently alighted upon the Clarence sides of 27 April 1927 with Katherine Henderson, recorded 11 days after 'Flo'. Can there...
