Storyville cds on sale for $5.98 at daedalus music!

[Jazztropic]

Anyone want to try some great cds for a great price.$5.95 flat rate shipping.Some great titles and artists......

Tubby Hayes, Budd Johnson,Jimmy Forrest,about 50 titles. too many to list.Grab them .Many of these titles are on amazon for $50 -$99 .

[Free For All]

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Thanks for the heads up, we've been talking about this. I just got an email that my order shipped.

[Larry Kart]

Hope it's not too late, but I now know from experience that the previous warning to avoid the Tubby Hayes should have been followed. By that time in his life he sadly had very little left, had a hard time getting enough air through the horn. Also to be avoided is the Howard McGhee-Teddy Edwards. Goodish Edwards, but McGhee is in horrible shape -- every phrase is fumbled, intonation is shocking, and you haven't lived until you've heard an out-of-tune trumpet. It borders on a date that should never have been released or allowed to go forward.

[Chuck Nessa]

It borders on a date that should never have been released or allowed to go forward.

This date was recorded by JazzCraft and was left in the can. When the catalog was sold to Storyville, Knudsen exploited every inch of tape.

[Dan Gould]

Well thanks for tugging my shirt toward this sale ... no jazz purchased, but six blues CDs including a Magic Slim disc that I once saw offered for like $29. $5.95 flat rate shipping sounds pretty good, too.

[Larry Kart]

Definitely on the plus side are the Goodman and the Mildred Bailey. That 1946 Goodman band was excellent, especially the bass-drum team of Harry Babisin and Louis Bellson. The groove that Bellson gets into behind BG and then the ensemble at the end of "Rattle and Roll" is something else. He sounds different than he would later on -- earthy and guttural, not so smooth. His final break there ... I'd like to to know what other drummers think of it. It's like he's whirling in two contrary directions at once; may or may not be awesome in pure drum terms, but it sure works musically. Reminds me of Shadow Wilson's famous vertigo-inducing break on Basie's "Queer Street."

Bailey -- what a soulful, creative, swinging singer. And I love her speaking voice too, that drawling accent, like she's humming inside every word. And her radio show band was pretty impressive, with Red Norvo, Teddy Wilson, Charlie Shavers, Remo Palmieri, Al Hall, and Specs Powell at its core (virtually the combo that would make "Congo Blues," et al. that year, 1945, with Bird and Diz), and the full orchestra's string section was uncommonly good and unsoupy.

[RDK]

Hope it's not too late, but I now know from experience that the previous warning to avoid the Tubby Hayes should have been followed. By that time in his life he sadly had very little left, had a hard time getting enough air through the horn. Also to be avoided is the Howard McGhee-Teddy Edwards. Goodish Edwards, but McGhee is in horrible shape -- every phrase is fumbled, intonation is shocking, and you haven't lived until you've heard an out-of-tune trumpet. It borders on a date that should never have been released or allowed to go forward.

Too late, Larry, I ordered both! But if those are the only two bad ones I'll still be battling over .800.

Edited February 11, 2008 by RDK

[T.D.]

I only ordered six, considered the Hayes and (especially) Edwards/McGhee but passed. Only disappointment was Duke Jordan One for the Library solo piano; much as I like his playing in groups, this does nothing for me. But it's not nearly as bad as the discs Larry panned. Most pleasant surprise was Don Ewell Denver Concert. Ewell is in outstanding form.

[Larry Kart]

Only disappointment was Duke Jordan One for the Library solo piano; much as I like his playing in groups, this does nothing for me. But it's not nearly as bad as the discs Larry panned.

I've been disappointed by the little I've heard of that one so far; just perfunctory statements of themes, a chorus of embellishment, theme and out.

[Guest Bill Barton]

It borders on a date that should never have been released or allowed to go forward.

This date was recorded by JazzCraft and was left in the can. When the catalog was sold to Storyville, Knudsen exploited every inch of tape.

I thought that Johanssen had issued this although I never saw a copy. Not so, eh? And I agree that both of the Jazzcraft McGhee/Edwards albums should probably have never seen the light of day.

[AllenLowe]

about the Jordan - there's an old solo LP on one of the Euro labels - can't remember the one - in which he does a beautiful solo recital - gentle but effective left hand.

just an interesting piece of Duke Jordan trivia - he and Bill Evans used to get together and do duets - too bad they were never recorded -

[felser]

BTW, Daedelus also has the Joe Henderson Milestone Box (8 CD's) for $60. Amazing set, great price.

[trane_fanatic]

BTW, Daedelus also has the Joe Henderson Milestone Box (8 CD's) for $60. Amazing set, great price.

That's not that great of a deal compared to Amazon Marketplace right now.

[Larry Kart]

Second thoughts on the Duke Jordan Storyville. Having listened to it all now, it's very nice, though not quite at the level of the solo albums he did for Steeplechase in the 1980s.

[Free For All]

BTW, Daedelus also has the Joe Henderson Milestone Box (8 CD's) for $60. Amazing set, great price.

Da Bastids have it for $35.99.

[Ron S]

BTW, Daedelus also has the Joe Henderson Milestone Box (8 CD's) for $60. Amazing set, great price.

Da Bastids have it for $35.99.

Newbury Comics has it on Amazon Marketplace for $19.99.

(Dude, stick to teachin' tram-bone to the young'uns, and leave the bargain huntin' to the pros. )

[Larry Kart]

The Muggsy Spanier-Bud Freeman V-Disc sessions on Storyville is a gem. Some fine Lou McGarity, and this is the most inventive Peanuts Hucko I've heard (eventually he became, or seemed to me, something of a routiner). Multiple takes of some tunes, for those who don't like that, but I found a lot of freshness on, for one, the three takes of "You Took Advantage of Me," especially from Bud. V-Disc lengths (typically close to five minutes/track) are a plus. On the Bud date, Yank Lawson sounds like he's wielding a blowtorch at times. Nice to hear tenorman Boomie Richmond on the first date, with Pee Wee also in the front line there and taking some bizarre chances (even by his own standards). On "Pat Blues," I think, Pee Wee does what sounds like a slap-toned thing that is just nutty and not like any slap-toned playing I've ever heard from anyone (if in fact it is slap-toned; if not, I give up).

[Larry Kart]

Sorry -- that should be Boomie Richman.

[Larry Kart]

So far, Roy Haynes' "My Shining Hour" -- all live material with the 1994 Jazzpar Prize group (tenorman Tomas Franck, pianist Thomas Clausen, and NHOP) -- is very good. They'd played enough to sound like a working group yet are fresh and edgy/excited-to-be-together too; I probably prefer this to any of the albums I know by Haynes own good quartet(s) of the '90s. Didn't know Franck except for some solo spots on Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra albums; he's a real player (muscular a la Brecker to some extent but a good deal more melodically inclined than most Trane-influenced tenorman of his vintage [b. 1958] and with an attractive, personal "throatiness" to his tone); Clausen's a real player too.

[RDK]

Agree on "My Shining Hour." Very good set.

I'm also really digging Al Grey's "Night Train Revisited," but the sleeper of the bunch afaic is Budd Johnson's "JPJ Quartet."

The Tubby Hayes is indeed dull, but the Howard McGhee/Teddy Edwards disc isn't quite that bad.

Also highly recommended is the Dizzy Gillespie 1957 Orchestra date, which makes a terrific companion to the Verve Newport set recorded, iirc, only a few weeks later.

[kh1958]

Also highly recommended is the Dizzy Gillespie 1957 Orchestra date, which makes a terrific companion to the Verve Newport set recorded, iirc, only a few weeks later.

The Dizzy is not only a good performance, but it is very well recorded.