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BTW, is there any recording date information on the LP? All they say in the CD liners is "summer of 1957"

Sorry I forgot to get back... The full title is The Big Reunion: Fletcher Henderson All-Stars in Hi-Fi Under the Direction of Rex Stewart. Jazztone FSR-CD 44, released by Fresh Sound Records. I got it from CDNow when they were still around, you may be able to pick it up from Amazon now, but I think ...

The Big Reunion is available on CD, but it's rather rare... I had to pay $25 for it when I got it. I'll post more info about it when I get home.

I did get ten of them, and yes, they are as cool as they sound :) The top as far as I can tell is actually vinyl, and the assorted retro colors they come in are great. The physical grooves in the top are concentric circles rather than a spiral, but I am assuming this was done so that the spinning of...

*drool*

Yeah Sanford and Son is a fun little track I like to segue in or out of funk tunes with. That album is a great listen too, not quite as much in the way of danceable tunes as I'd like but still worth getting.

I think that video was shot sometime after Hellzapoppin'. It's definitely cool to see, especially with the closeups of all of the dancers groovin' to D.E.'s band before they have at it. It is funny that they had to slow down the dancing for the music in this one. It's pretty apparent since the ladie...

Sweet--- I've always wondered if we could somehow get a digital copy of the print that George Eastman House owns... But if this one is good enough, that's good enough for me.

A search for 'hellzapoppin' on CDNow shows one result by Slim, on Complete Columbia Master Takes [Definitive Classics]. This was just released last month. It lists the authors as Gene DePaul and Don Raye, who wrote "Cow Cow Boogie", "Mr. Five by Five", and "Milkman, Keep Tho...

I love the new interface. I only occasionally read discussions from the email group since there were usually many topics that didn't interest me, but now everything is partitioned.... Also I opted for the digest emails so scrolling thru and finding actual content within all the >>quoted text was alw...

My current favorite is the Ben Webster version that's on Impulsively Ellington... Not sure if it's the same one you're referring to but it really kicks!