What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[JSngry]

Buck Caton came dressed to play!

[sidewinder]

5 hours ago, JSngry said:

Buck Caton came dressed to play!

The cover shot is an absolute classic - so many great swing era players from a variety of backgrounds.

[BillF]

Those guys got around in the late 50s. Here in the UK I saw Lawrence Brown (with Duke), Peanuts Hucko (with Hines and Teagarden) and Dickie Wells (in a Buck Clayton group).

[kh1958]

Sonny Rollins and Coleman Hawkins, Sonny Meets Hawk! (RCA)

The 3 Sounds, Out of This World (Blue Note)

[sidewinder]

1 hour ago, BillF said:

Those guys got around in the late 50s. Here in the UK I saw Lawrence Brown (with Duke), Peanuts Hucko (with Hines and Teagarden) and Dickie Wells (in a Buck Clayton group).

I have a feeling that I saw Peanuts Hucko guesting with the Dutch Swing College Band circa 1977.

[HutchFan]

[BillF]

2 hours ago, sidewinder said:

I have a feeling that I saw Peanuts Hucko guesting with the Dutch Swing College Band circa 1977.

i saw him exactly 20 years before that at the St George's Hall, Bradford with Jack Teagarden, Earl Hines, Cozy Cole, Max Kaminsky and Jack Lesberg.

Some of them were obviously well established as a team. Here are Lesberg, Kaminsky and Hucko ten years before I saw them:

[Chuck Nessa]

[Larry Kart]

1 hour ago, Chuck Nessa said:

A gem indeed.

[Chuck Nessa]

Now listening to my favorite Mahler 5. It is a shame this hasn't made the transition to digital.

I got to know the sessions intimately while preparing the lp masters for the HNH issue. The tapes 'felt' compressed to me and we complained to the Stockholm Philharmonic ( the source of the tapes ) and they said they did that because the hall was built over some rail tracks and 'rumble' intruded at some points. We requested unadulterated tapes and proceeded to make a more honest representation of the music.

[jazzcorner]

 

[kh1958]

Don Patterson, Satisfaction (Prestige)

Bluebird Blues (RCA Vintage)

[HutchFan]

First spin of a new-to-me LP:

My buddy Ken Dryden had an extra copy of this LP, and he was kind enough to give it to me.

Thanks Ken! 

[HutchFan]

[Gheorghe]

On 28.1.2020 at 3:54 AM, HutchFan said:

Jay McShann played the piano very well. Of Course  he´s  best known for his big bands in the 40´s, but I like his small group stuff also. I saw him live once, don´t remember the year but it must have been in the early 1980´s . I remember it very well, because in the second set a very young female blues singer from Sicilia sat in and sang some with Jay McShann and  here name is  Etta Scollo and she became quite famous after that…..good singer really…...

[soulpope]

24 minutes ago, Gheorghe said:

Jay McShann played the piano very well. Of Course  he´s  best known for his big bands in the 40´s, but I like his small group stuff also. I saw him live once, don´t remember the year but it must have been in the early 1980´s . I remember it very well, because in the second set a very young female blues singer from Sicilia sat in and sang some with Jay McShann and  here name is  Etta Scollo and she became quite famous after that…..good singer really…...

Etta Scollo .... lang ist's her ....

[Pim]

First some: 

 

Then some:

 

And finally:

 

 

[mikeweil]

[HutchFan]

[soulpope]

14 hours ago, Pim said:

First some: 

Then some:

And finally:

Very nice line-up ....

[Gheorghe]

15 hours ago, mikeweil said:

Wonderful ! I love that record and if I want to hear original bop tunes with a better recording sound than the original Savoy´s or Dial´s , THIS is my first choice. It´s a real Allstar session, I think I like it even more than the "Giants of Jazz". 

One think I noticed About during that time, when I just had started to listen to jazz: Of Course I knew Dizzy , but it was the first time I saw Sonny Stitt and if you look at them, Dizzy Looks much younger than Sonny, though he is 7 years older. And when I saw them playing, I thought "who is that old man who Plays so Wonderful sax, who Looks like someone who might have been close to Charlie Parker...….? Incredible, but true. 

[mikeweil]

Stitt plays some wonderful sax on that album! Roach is a better choice than Blakey in the Giants of Jazz, IMHO.

3 minutes ago, Gheorghe said:

Wonderful ! I love that record and if I want to hear original bop tunes with a better recording sound than the original Savoy´s or Dial´s , THIS is my first choice. It´s a real Allstar session, I think I like it even more than the "Giants of Jazz". 

One think I noticed About during that time, when I just had started to listen to jazz: Of Course I knew Dizzy , but it was the first time I saw Sonny Stitt and if you look at them, Dizzy Looks much younger than Sonny, though he is 7 years older. And when I saw them playing, I thought "who is that old man who Plays so Wonderful sax, who Looks like someone who might have been close to Charlie Parker...….? Incredible, but true. 

 

[Gheorghe]

43 minutes ago, mikeweil said:

Stitt plays some wonderful sax on that album! Roach is a better choice than Blakey in the Giants of Jazz, IMHO.

 

Agreed ! 

A few years later Dizzy played a great concert in NY, with an Allstar Bigband, and with a small Group (Dizzy, Gerry Mulligan, John Lewis, a bass Player, and Max Roach). I have the DVD and you can hear and see, how well Max fits in that set of vintage bop (they did HotHouse, and Tin Tin Deo). On the larger part, the Big Band tunes it´s Grady Tate on drums, but that sounds a bit rougher than Max, but that´s only my own Impression. 

To see Max in Action on that Video set of Music was also a nice experience for my wife, who doesn´t necessarly listen to jazz but said "that´s really a good Drummer"......

[Pim]

6 hours ago, soulpope said:

Very nice line-up ....

It was a good day

[HutchFan]

11 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

One think I noticed About during that time, when I just had started to listen to jazz: Of Course I knew Dizzy , but it was the first time I saw Sonny Stitt and if you look at them, Dizzy Looks much younger than Sonny, though he is 7 years older. And when I saw them playing, I thought "who is that old man who Plays so Wonderful sax, who Looks like someone who might have been close to Charlie Parker...….? Incredible, but true. 

Dizzy does indeed look much younger.