C. Shavers' "Serenade To a Pair of Nylons"

[Larry Kart]

A Vogue picture disc:

http://www.nme.com/video/id/KZ_E5LeAqvA/search

Wonder who the rest of the group is, especially the clarinetist.

[Chuck Nessa]

A Vogue picture disc:

http://www.nme.com/video/id/KZ_E5LeAqvA/search

Wonder who the rest of the group is, especially the clarinetist.

Buddy DeFranco, John Potaker, Sid Block and Alvin Stoller - NYC, late '45.

I have a copy somewhere, left by a neighbor who exited via shotgun.

[Larry Kart]

Thanks. That's pretty early Buddy, age 23. I thought that guy might go somewhere.

[Neal Pomea]

Thanks for sharing! Wonderful playing, beautiful record.

[Don Brown]

This selection is on Baldwin Street Music BJG-502 which contains several other hard-to-find Charlie Shavers recordings.

[JSngry]

Yeah, when that record spins around, it's pretty nasty.

[Chuck Nessa]

It (and the 5 other tracks from the session) are on Classics 944.

[Brownian Motion]

John Potaker was an interesting pianist. I don't know of any other sessions he appears on.

[Chuck Nessa]

John Potaker was an interesting pianist. I don't know of any other sessions he appears on.

Sessions with Tommy Dorsey '45-47, Ray McKinley '47, McKinley again '57-60, Mundell Lowe '54 and Bobby Byrne '59.

Name sometimes spelled Potoker.

[jazztrain]

The entire session also was on an Onyx LP: Onyx 209 (Tootin' Through the Roof, Vol. 1).

It (and the 5 other tracks from the session) are on Classics 944.

[chazzer95]

Hello,

it's here for listening to it online:

Serenade To A Pair Of Nylons as an audio-stream here:

Small Band Version

Big Band Version

Wow, Charlie had chops! It's always amazing how he attacks those notes. He had one of the best sounds on the cup-mute. The big band rendition sounds like "Bebop", the Dizzy-Gillespie composition.

Anyway, closer listening proves that these are different tunes with the same title.

[chazzer95]

A Vogue picture disc:

http://www.nme.com/video/id/KZ_E5LeAqvA/search

Wonder who the rest of the group is, especially the clarinetist.

Buddy DeFranco, John Potaker, Sid Block and Alvin Stoller - NYC, late '45.

I have a copy somewhere, left by a neighbor who exited via shotgun.

I've learned that it's Abe Most on clarinet.

[Ted O'Reilly]

I wonder who wrote that tune? Someone named Hanes? Or maybe Joe Namath?

[Larry Kart]

A Vogue picture disc:

http://www.nme.com/video/id/KZ_E5LeAqvA/search

Wonder who the rest of the group is, especially the clarinetist.

Buddy DeFranco, John Potaker, Sid Block and Alvin Stoller - NYC, late '45.

I have a copy somewhere, left by a neighbor who exited via shotgun.

I've learned that it's Abe Most on clarinet.

What is your source for the Abe Most ID? Remember, we're talking about the Vogue quintet recording, clarinet credited to DeFranco by several sources, not the later Tommy Dorsey big-band recording.

[Harold_Z]

Charlie sure was staying hip - when he comes in around 2:57 he sounds a hell of a lot like Diz.

Nice side - Now I have to hunt down that Chrono.l