Again: Youtube

[mmilovan]

Just found this on Youtube:

What session could it be, ever issued as record?

Oh, and how sad is that story about Dickie Wells - poor, poor man, totally forgotten then. He worked as post office clerk... I almost cried having known about him...

[Chuck Nessa]

Oh, and how sad is that story about Dickie Wells - poor, poor man, totally forgotten then. He worked as post office clerk... I almost cried having known about him...

Had a couple of very emotional (for me) experiences with Mr. Wells. I've tried typing the story a few times and failed. Great musician mistreated, indeed.

[mmilovan]

Most tragicall of them sure was Wells, but, Earle Warren and Jo Jones wasn't that far from the very same situation.

Edited June 5, 2008 by mmilovan

[flat5]

Seems like a Humphrey Lyttleton BBC documentary to me.

[mmilovan]

I think I've noteced Milt Gabler somewhere in the middle section, but I'm not quite sure. Also, there was part of saying from a person totally unknown to me.

[Don Brown]

These clips on YouTube come from John Jeremy's Born to Swing. The film was made in the early 70s with voice over by Humphrey Lyttelton. I'll have to check the exact date. Jeremy followed the fortunes of some of the veterans of the original Count Basie orchestra - Buddy Tate, Dicky Wells, Buck Clayton, Earle Warren, Joe Newman and Jo Jones among them. It's an excellent film that was once available on VHS but, as far as I know, has not been issued on DVD.

[Don Brown]

Just checked - John Jeremy's Born to Swing was made in 1973.

[mmilovan]

Are those sessions they played in ever issued on record/CD?

[Don Brown]

Yes, there was a series of RCA albums recorded in 1973 produced by Albert McCarthy, the editor of the British magazine Jazz Monthly. If memory serves there were about half a dozen LPs in total. Some of the filming of Born to Swing comes from the actual RCA recording sessions featuring musicians such as Snub Mosley, Buddy Tate and Earle Warren.