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I like Django's version on Django Reinhardt and His American Friends. Or with. Whichever's the 4-disc set.

*Edit: God, my avatar photo's old. I'd change it if I were at home.

I'm still looking for the Three Peppers on Classics, that's some holy grail shit right there... If you're interested to know, I found that a few years ago in the department store Ludwig Beck in Munich (though I think the store is a chain). It was €18 or so, which is certainly better than that $70 p...

djstarr wrote:I've been playing "Ain't Misbehavin'" a lot lately, Sidney Bechet, Blues in Thirds (recorded 1940ish). Nice mid-tempo (140) version.

That's such a great recording.

You (brotherswing) would probably like the Glenn Miller CD The Spirit is Willing.

Oh. So they are. My mistake.

Huh. Weird. When I search for "McKinney's Cotton Pickers," I get fourteen albums consisting solely of MCP material.

Allmusic.com has a bunch of their CDs listed.

Sweet. Nice info, man.

One year and four months later, I finally did. Haha.

Jonas wrote: It's the 3CD-set...

Oh okay, right on.

"The Darktown Strutters' Ball" has a 20-bar chorus.

Matthew wrote: 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert - Benny Goodman

I couldn't access the link, but if this is the set I'm thinking of (the 2-disc 1938 Carnegie Hall concert set), it doesn't have "Oomph Fah Fah."

There's an outstanding Charlie Barnet version on a disc called Radio Days.

I think the official story was something like both of yours, but apparently some people think that the KC mob had Moten's surgeon kill him.

I have this CD called "Washboard Story" that has at least one song with an awesome kazoo solo. I even played it at a dance one time, and it went over really well.