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Just getting it in under the wire, aren't you? :) A source for that first song would be helpful. Off hand, I don't recognize the lyrics. It reminds me a lot of Tuxedo Junction in feel, but I didn't sit down to see whether the chords match. The vocalist has listened to Dizzy Gillespie and Joe Carroll...

I see several on Amazon from third party sellers right now:

https://smile.amazon.com/Jazz-Archives- ... 0792KWZ6Y/

The cheapest is $5 + shipping. Enjoy!

Editorial comments about the practice of speeding up recordings for performances aside, it's the 1945 V-Disc recording, indeed sped up some. NYC, 1945-05-14 Clayton, Edison, George, Killian, Lewis (tp), Donnelly, Johnson, Robinson, Wells (tb), Powell, Warren (as), Tate, Thompson (ts), Rutherford (bs...

Fascinating recording and article. Read and listen here:

http://www.wbgo.org/post/hear-earliest- ... -deep-dive

For the Lindy Hop Heaven CD, send Jesse (JesseMiner) a PM, and I think he can get you in touch with Peter Davis. As for whistling: Brother Bones' "Sweet Georgia Brown" is a classic. Do the short riffs in Louis Prima's recording of "Whistle Stop" count? That was a super popular tu...

I suggest contacting Jeff Kaufman, the producer of that Chick Webb documentary that was completed a few years ago and has still only been shown, like, twice. (I'm not annoyed.) Website: https://thesavoykingdocumentary.com/ (Oh! Hell! You can buy DVDs now! (I can't tell whether only if you live in Ca...

My set from Wednesday April 25th, 101 years after Ella's birth: all Ella, all the time. title—bpm—Ella, of course—year—album Jersey Bounce 133 Ella Fitzgerald 1961 Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie! 720 in the Books 140 Ella Fitzgerald 1958 Ella Swings Lightly Teardrops from My Eyes 140 Ella Fitzgerald...

Ella Fitzgerald would have turned 101 today.

(I wonder whether thread titles are unicode-safe?)

Edit: No, they're not. What about message bodies, though?
Edit: Nope, no love for emoji. Ah well. Imagine a birthday cake emoji here.

Sorry, I don't recognize it.

That MC waffles on for a full minute before the music starts. For future reference, you can make people's lives easier by including a timestamp in your YouTube URLs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVdeh09OTBU&t=0m51s

I suspect it's an edited track. My discography only shows one recording by Bechet of "Back Home," which is 7:20 long: Paris, 1956-05-06 Sidney Bechet with Sammy Price's Bluesicians: Emmett Berry (tp), George Stevenson (tb), Herbert Hall (cl), Sidney Bechet (sop), Sammy Price (p), George &q...

Neat!

NGNGNGNNNNgggnngngnngnfff.... I am humming along marvelously, but I can't place it. I think it's a thing Basie once recorded, too, or at least strongly reminiscent of a Basie thing, but that's not tremendously helpful, is it? Edit: I take it back. Now I'm just hearing a bit from Lunceford's "Fo...

The song is "Duck Trot". The Cab Calloway original is slower and...better.

Band looks like Naomi (Uyama) and Her Handsome Devils.

Artie Shaw, 1940. I have it on the Hep album "In Hollywood 1940-41 vol. 2"

The only two tracks I have with lyrics in Chinese, both in a mix of Mandarin and English, are two versions of "I Want You to Be My Baby" (translated as "我要你的爱"/"Wo yao ni de ai"/"I want your love"): one is the Grace Chang 1957 recording, the other is a 2000 co...