who's jane fielding?

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

no, um, im pretty sure shes still hot. cause last week her and chewy went digging for tungston and all we found was some coal. jane was dissapointed. then we made sweet music together in the coal pile. in all seriousness though, it pertrubs chewy that middle aged beadrded record collectors get to have her sexy record but I am, sadly, without a copy.

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

i can field that one: jane was secretly working on a new kind of incidecedent lightbulb, that every time you turn it on, it sings: "stairway to the stars"

[JSngry]

Y'all sound like you were a couple of, ahem, free-spirited women.

[JSngry]

That's exactly how I meant it.

No regrets, right?

[JSngry]

Tungsten.

Anybody who gets a bug to go prospecting for tungsten is somebody I would have enjoyed knowing. Not exactly, "Hey, Bonnie. Whatcha' say we go look at shoes?"

Interesting people make my life, and y'all certainly sound like that.

Again -

[JSngry]

And speaking of interesting people...

i can field that one: jane was secretly working on a new kind of incidecedent lightbulb, that every time you turn it on, it sings: "stairway to the stars"

No more calls for most humorous post of 2007. I think we have a winner!

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

really though, whats up with the tungsteon! besides lightbulbs, what is it good for?

[Guy Berger]

really though, whats up with the tungsteon! besides lightbulbs, what is it good for?

From wikipedia:

Tungsten is a metal with a wide range of uses, the largest of which is as tungsten carbide (W2C, WC) in cemented carbides. Cemented carbides (also called hardmetals) are wear-resistant materials used by the metalworking, mining, petroleum and construction industries. Tungsten is widely used in light bulb and vacuum tube filaments, as well as electrodes, because it can be drawn into very thin metal wires that have a high melting point. Other uses:

Closeup of a tungsten filament inside a halogen lamp.

Closeup of a tungsten filament inside a halogen lamp.

* A high melting point also makes tungsten suitable for space-oriented and high temperature uses which include electrical, heating, and welding applications, notably in the GTAW process (also called TIG welding).

* Hardness and density properties make this metal ideal for making heavy metal alloys that are used in armaments, heat sinks, and high-density applications, such as weights, counterweights, ballast keels for yachts and tail ballast for commercial aircraft.

* The high density makes it an ideal ingredient for darts, normally 80% and sometimes up to 97 %.

* High speed steel contains tungsten and some tungsten steels contain as much as 18 % tungsten.

* Superalloys containing tungsten are used in turbine blades and wear-resistant parts and coatings. Examples are Hastelloy and Stellite.

* Tungsten powder is used as a filler material in thermoplastic composites which are used as a nontoxic substitute for lead, in bullets, shot, and radiation shields.

* Tungsten chemical compounds are used in catalysts, inorganic pigments, and tungsten disulfide high-temperature lubricants which are stable to 500 °C (930 °F).

* Since this element's thermal expansion is similar to borosilicate glass, it is used for making glass-to-metal seals.

* It is used in kinetic energy penetrators, usually alloyed with nickel and iron or cobalt to form tungsten heavy alloys, as an alternative to depleted uranium.

* Tungsten is used as an interconnect material in integrated circuits. Contact holes are etched in silicon dioxide dielectric material, filled with tungsten and polished to form connections to transistors. Typical contact holes can be as small as 65 nm.

* Tungsten carbide is one of the hardest substances in existence and is used in, among other things, machine tools such as milling cutters. Tungsten carbide is the most common material used to make milling and turning tools, and used together with cobalt and carbon is often the best choice for such applications.

* Used extensively for shielding in the Radiopharmaceutical industry. It is often employed when transporting individual FDG doses (called 'pigs') - the high energy of Fluorine-18 makes lead much less effective.

* Tungsten is used in the emitters of focused ion beam and electron microscopes.

* Tungsten is also beginning to see uses in jewelry. Its hardness makes it ideal for rings that will never scratch, and will in turn not need polishing (this is especially good for brushed designs).

Miscellaneous: Oxides are used in ceramic glazes and calcium/magnesium tungstates are used widely in fluorescent lighting. Crystal tungstates are used as scintillation detectors in nuclear physics and nuclear medicine. The metal is also used in X-ray targets and heating elements for electrical furnaces. Salts that contain tungsten are used in the chemical and tanning industries. Tungsten 'bronzes' (so-called due to the colour of the tungsten oxides) along with other compounds are used in paints. Tungsten Carbide has recently been used in the fashioning of jewelry due to its hypoallergenic nature and the fact that due to its extreme hardness it is not apt to lose its luster like other polished metals. Some types of strings for musical instruments are wound with tungsten wire.

[bertrand]

I tracked down Ted Efantis, so now I need to find out how to get his contact info out to Bonnie.

If only we had an e-mail and/or a website.

Bertrand.

Edited August 23, 2008 by bertrand

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

how did u track down/ did u do what i did and call him up like i did w/ lou?

[bertrand]

He started playing with Butch Warren on Fridays a few months ago. His daughter had shown him this thread, so he knew what this was all about.

Bertrand.

[bertrand]

Bonnie,

Good to hear from you. I'm not a huge RTF fan, I admit, but I did see Lennie White in NYC last week at a Lee Morgan tribute. His playing was great.

I will send you a PM with Ted's number. He definitely wants to get in touch again!

Take care,

Bertrand.

[clifford_thornton]

I find this thread eminently fascinating and am glad it was revived.

Now I need to get those Jane Fielding reissues.

[CatchyD]

Hi I'm new and came accross this site while searching for Jane Fielding. So did you guys ever track her down? D

[CatchyD]

I have both her albums and was thinking of re-issuing them on my new label Catchy Records. I would want to interview her and get some photos for the booklet as well.

[epistrophy007]

Ted Elefantis = Teddy Edwards

Not sure if it is all ready mentioned before but, as the linernotes of the Lonehill Jazz reissue 'Joe Maini, The Small Group Sessions' stated;

"Embers' Glow [...] is a delightful recording featuring [...] Teddy Edwards on tenor (listed as "Ted Elefantis" on the original LP back cover for contractual reasons).

The Fielding session is good with nice arrangements. There are a few up tempo numbers, and she sings more in the higher register of her voice than on her previous recording.

j.

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

is this really true? there IS no ted effantis? but its really T. Edwards?!? is this true?

[bertrand]

This is how discographical errors get propagated and copied as if they were gospel into such alleged 'definitive' reference sources as Lord's discography.

Ted Efantis is a real person and plays every Friday at Columbia Station in D.C. with Butch Warren. He used to date Miss Fielding, and is on the recording in question, which both he and Bonnie have confirmed. There is no logical reason to dispute this claim.

Bertrand.

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

ooo he had a lil sumthin sumthin with her?

[bertrand]

Also, Ted remembers that Leroy Vinegar is on some of this session, not just P.C. This needs to be independently verified, of course.

Bertrand.

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

Leroy would be good for that date, def. sounds plausible, woudntya say, bertrand?

[AllenLowe]

on that album cover she looks like David Ferrie - nice eyebrows -

[epistrophy007]

QUOTE (chewy @ Dec 4 2008, 10:04 PM)

is this really true? there IS no ted effantis? but its really T. Edwards?!? is this true?

I'm not saying there isn't no Ted Efantis, Because according to Tom Lord's site (I only used the musician's index) there is a tenor player/ vocalist with this name. He only contributed on three sessions between 1957 and 1976.

The Jane Fielding album was recorded on two separate sessions. The first one in December 1955 (with Paul Chambers), the second in March 1956 (with Leroy Vinnegar.

So I think it should be clear now that Ted Efantis didn't play with Fielding, but that it's Teddy Edwards instead using the name Ted Elefantis (maybe Edwards knew Efantis and mixed his name a little bit?) for contractual reasons. (as I before quoted from Morton James' linernotes from the Joe Maini, small group recordings, issued a few months ago on Lonehill Jazz)

j.

[bertrand]

'So I think it should be clear now that Ted Efantis didn't play with Fielding'

Not at all - you've proven nothing. Ted told me he's on the record, Bonnie (who knew them both) has stated in this very thread that it is Ted, and your only evidence is the liner notes on a Spanish bootleg?

Bertrand.

[Chas]

So I think it should be clear now that Ted Efantis didn't play with Fielding, but that it's Teddy Edwards instead using the name Ted Elefantis (maybe Edwards knew Efantis and mixed his name a little bit?) for contractual reasons.

The personnel is right on the original record label , and the tenor player is credited as 'Ted Efantis' ( not 'Ted Elefantis' ) . Teddy Edwards didn't do any recording in 1955 or 1956 , so he likely wasn't under contract with anybody , and even if he were , your theory that he knew Efantis and used a corrupted version of his name as a pseudonym is........ :wacko: