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The new reissue of "Ring-A-Ding Ding" sounds good, and has (surprisingly, to me, at least) interesting and well-informed notes by Frank, Jr. There's a long track at the end, Sinatra working through an arrangement of "Have You Met Miss Jones." I've always thought this was one of his best albums, and wind up buying it every time it's reissued.

A big day here - "The Artistry of Freddie Hubbard" on SACD, Sonny Stitt, "Move On Over" and "The Last Sessions," Chet Baker, "The Last Great Concert" and the newest reissue of Sinatra's "Ring-A-Ding Ding" (which I buy every time it's reissued); and, in the mail, Bobby Hackett "Plays the Great Music of Henry Mancini/Burt Kaemphert" (!!@!) and Dizzy Gillespie, "Dizzy's Party."

Stan Kenton, Easy Go."

Bobby Hackett, "1938-1940"(Classics), and Hank Mobley, "Thinking of Home" - about time for both!

Since my last post on this I've purchased the Tom Lord on-line discography (or "rented" is probably the right word), and the first thing I did was to sort out my McDuff CD's. Some of the individual sessions were spread out over 4 CD's (and maybe even more LP's?), it really is a mess. Anyway, between Lord and this, I've almost sorted it out, but there are a couple of tracks (maybe "Redwood City?") that appear out of nowhere. Anyway, nice to see someone devote this kind of effort to McDuff!

Thanks to all! I have the '38 version on a budget Hackett set ("Quadromania," recommended by someone here last year), and just sent for a used "Classics" CD that (I think) has the '39 version. Hackett-mania!

I once saw a reference to the many versions of "Embracable You," and the author said that the 2 best versions (now THERE'S an argument!) were by Charlie Parker and Bobby Hackett... Which Hackett version was he referring to? And is there any agreement on this?

Shaft's recommendations are good ones! "Gone With the Wind," in particular, is one to get - more "swinging" than most of Brubeck's Columbia albums. The Carnegie Hall concert is strong, and a good overview of the group's material of the period.

Right! And there might have been something like that in the Kirk box, too. With that kind of foresight, I can't see why Polygram didn't survive.

By the time I got there, my store had already sold out of the limited edition vinyl 45 of John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman. Maybe next year.

I signed up for the Lord on-line discography, and am pleased with it. Of course I've found errors and omissions, but there's a lot of information there, and it's very handy. My main concern has to do with the "cataloging your collection" feature. A good idea, but it would require a big investment of time to really use it - not sure I want take that time for something I don't actually "own" (and apparently can't even buy - only rent) - is it going to be around and available in (say) 10 years? Picked out a few manageable artists in my collection (Gene Ammons, Joe Pass, a couple others) to try it out on, took some effort, but the results have been intersting and even helpful.

Just caught up with this - a really nice job! I gave up trying to sort this out long ago, so thanks for putting this together. Another issue with his Prestige output is the recording locations - the "live" stuff apparently isn't, as most of you probably know. Anyway, this is very helpful.

Most of us know about Tom's classical piano playing, but I forgot how good he was as a jazz player, in a sort-of swing style.

Thanks to both of you! Think I'll spring for it.

Any comments on the Lord on-line discography? Anyone try it?

Right, the flip side was "Easy As You Go," both studio tracks. I wasn't aware they turned up on that "live" album, presumably the one jazzbo mentions. Ahh, the days of jazz singles!

I used to have a 45 of Brubeck and McRae doing "Take 5." Wonder what happened to that track?

The Steig mentioned above appeared briefly as an "upcoming" title on Collectables, but never appeared. (But they did get around to the first couple of Columbia Paul Horn's about the same time.) It's very good, with a terrific selection of songs. The Verve Teagarden pictured above - with Bobby Hackett - is an obvious one - how did that get missed? And "Maynard, '62" - buried in that Mosaic box - is one of his best - the band with Jacki Byard and Joe Farrell.

A couple of years after it's release, Atlantic issued an Ayers LP with many of the "Daddy Bug" tracks minus the over-dubbing. (Think it was called "Daddy Bug & Friends.")

It's pretty good in EVERY edition!

Don't have any opinion on him, but I did spring the 99 cents on iTunes for the song with Freddie Hubbard.

Ha!

I have a CD that includes the Ella tracks - it's on something called "Black Label," whatever that is. (By the way, is that beer still around?)

Shorty Rogers, that's right. Anyway, it's not bad! But like many Pacific Jazz/World Pacific albums of that period (like Ernie Watts' "Love Dance," Freddie Robinson's "The Coming Atlantis," Wilton Felder's "Bullitt," Bryant's "Earth Dance") - except for a stray track here or there - it's apparently long gone.

Has anyone mentioned Bobby Bryant's "Hair" (Bob Brookmeyer did the arrangements, I think)? Not bad! (That, and his other World Pacific LP, "Earth Dance," seem to have disappeared in the CD age.)