SwingDJs

When we buy a band's CDs, again, there are usually only 1 or 2 good songs.
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Wonder what the criteria are

Maybe there are just a lot of lousy Salsa bands.

JS :

In the context of which you are speaking - how about Paul Lines?

Bird's "BOP" is based o the changes to "ATTYA." It is now a standard jazz convention to put that intro on "ATTYA." It's the kind of common parlance that wouldn't make it into a book. You have to be in the know - its sort a of sibboleth. Ahhhhhhhh. Totally understand now.

The album concept was not around then. -Kevin Actually, the album concept and reality was around back then....it's why they call them "albums". 78 rpm records would often be issued in albums that contains between (usually) 3 - 5 records, oftimes new recordings; sometimes reissues. The art...

ISofR - there is also a very good video documentary on the band with archival footage and interviews with some of the surviving women. The video I have also has a documentary on Tiny Davis, one of the trumpet players in the band.

I think I have that LP around here. Rosetta Records, I recall.

He could tell we didn't know the song well, and clearly did not have a proper vernacular understanding of the conventions of the tune. The intro to "ATTYA" is taken from Bird's "Bird of Paradise." I had never even heard the intro. I don't understand. How is the intro from ATTYAr...

"Red Garter"
"Red Shoes"
"Red Carpet"
"Ready, Go!"

That's the order they are in on the LP with "Ready, Go!" being the longest single band on the disc itself.

That's all I gots w/o listening to the LP itself.

I'm looking at the original Columbia LP label. On side 1, there are 5 song titles listed, but looking at the bands on the disc itself, there are 7 seperate bands. (The first track is not in the Toot Suite.) Why? The liner notes tell the story - "Red Carpet" is divided into three sections. ...

Thank you, JSO.

I must have confused the 2 bands.

...i mean, who talks about what arrangers wrote for Chick anyway? : ) Interview with Van Alexander Good link and interview. Thanks. one thing - Van A. said that BG was carrying 8 brass 'later'. Goodman only carried 5 brass 3 tpts and 2 tbns until about 1944 when he bulked up to eight brass. All tho...

Most CD liner notes (albeit sometimes surprisingly great resources) really don't do a good job of talking about the arrangers for the artists...they usually concentrate on the artists themselves...Alex CD liner notes may suck, by LP liner notes writen by guys who were on the scene are another story...

Do people on the forum here own standard jazz discographies? Arranger credit is often given in New Hot Discography and the Brian Rust discographies, plus many of the 'newer' reference books. Happy to look in mine. BTW - Has any heard the Edgar Sampson LP that he did in the 50s? Originally Decca or C...

Kind of...... Before Les Brown went all kind of bland a lot of the time, he had himself a really good swing band from about 1938 to 1939 or so.....and it sounded a lot like the Shaw band of the period. Good charts, good band that had come out of Duke University and Les Brown played really good clari...

Barnet was yet another band that did a lot of studio recordings for the NBC Thesaurus Rhythmakers series that were leased to radio stations, but were not sold to the public. Goodman, Berigan, Shaw, Barnet, Les Brown and numerous others all did them. Superb sound quailty. Quite a few have been bootle...

For sound quality, check out the 1958 album Cherokee on the Bluebird label ... It has some slower numbers you might like. I usued to have that LP and it was on the old Everest label...which now may have been acquired by RCA. Honestly, I didn't like it even for listening. It was very '50s' and just ...