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Picked up a stack of LPs today, including several cool ten-inchers. Among those were the two volumes of Jamming at Rudi's on Rudi Blesh's Circle label. They were both recorded in 1951 at jazz parties at his apartment. Volume 1 is a New Oreans-style jam built around Conrad Janis's amateurish trombone, but also including Danny Barker, Bob Wilber, Pops Foster, Ralph Sutton, and Eubie Blake. Volume 2 is Kansas City-flavored, and has some great Hot Lips Page.

Jazzology owns this material now, and has issued a CD with some previously unreleased tracks, but that CD is missing some of the tracks on these albums.

Find the right idiot and you could pay off your mortgage. <_<

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Recently picked up a whole bunch of those Bluebird big-band two-fers LPs, filling in some gaps I had there with Goodman, T. Dorsey, Shaw, and Barnet. Working through things, I'm pleasantly reminded of how fine the Dorsey band was -- not always as jazz-oriented as one might wish but the quality of the playing and the (frequent) subtlety/sophistication of the arranging (Weston, Stordahl, et al.) was quite something, in general and even more so in the context of the time.

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The Georgians, Vol. 2 (VJM). 1923 recordings by an interesting early jazz band. I'm particularly fascinated by the trumpeter, Frank Guarente, who was maybe the first significant jazz musician not born in the U.S. He was Italian, but moved to New Orleans as a young man. He and King Oliver became friends and exchanged trumpet lessons, and Oliver's band played Guarente's 21st birthday party in 1914.

Edit: This band is not anywhere as hip as Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, but it's obvious on several tracks that part of the old man's tutelage of Guarente involved the use of the mute.

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