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Note from Journal Editor

May 01, 2008; Simons, Andy ... Dear Readers, The articles in this issue range from recent research to personal interest to the internal IAJRC news we all want. Next issue will unpack the 50-year career or German bandleader Dieter Antritter, serve up the story behind Capitol Records' renowned 'Criterion Series', and ...

Your Shouts from the Balcony

May 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Dear Editor, I am a member of the board of the Duke Ellington Society of Sweden and want to share a very comprehensive discography on Bubber Miley which has recently been presented on our website www.ellington.se. Previously, it was serialized in our own quarterly magazine, The ...

President's Message

May 01, 2008; Wheeler, Geoffrey ... Your Board addressed a number of issues during the first quarter of 2008. This is to recap. In past years, the first official Board Meeting was held during the annual Convention, which resulted in many months during which the Board could not conveniently confer. Following the precedent set by ...

Discographical Forum

May 01, 2008; Walker, Malcolm; Raichelson, Dick ... This column is designed to encourage the interest of members in the entire range of discographical jazz research. Dick will emphasize the earliest period of collecting, beginning in the 1920s, and Malcolm from the late 1930s and up. However, both of us will happily overlap. Apart from ...

Stereo Jazz Recording: Striving for Studio Session Realism

May 01, 2008; Hulme, George ... At the IAJRC-UK meeting at Reading in November 2007, there was a presentation about 'recreation' recordings that were made to take advantage of the improvements in recording methods over the years. It covered acoustic to electrical recording, electrical to hi-fi recording (largely associated ...

Radio Tribute to Glenn Miller: How Perry Como met Benny Goodman

May 01, 2008; Wheeler, Geoff ... Many who have written about the Red Norvo and His Selected Sextet session for Comet Records seem to assume seven otherwise unconnected musicians walked into a New York studio and cut four wondrous sides as if by magic. Norvo, Wilson, and Stewart were then currently playing in the Benny Goodman ...

Minutes of the Annual Membership Meeting

May 01, 2008; Miller, Eugene ... IAJRC Convention, Northbrook - Chicago, Illinois Saturday, August 11th, 2007 1. Meeting opened in the Northbrook Ballroom B, at the Radisson Hotel Northbrook, 2875 North Milwaukee Avenue, Northbrook, IL 60062 at 9:00 a.m. It was noted that a quorum was in attendance. There were ...

Eva Taylor's Tour in Scandinavia

May 01, 2008; Bøving, Michael ... I'm a Little Blackbird ...Looking for a Bluebird It was the late audio restoration expert and multi-instrumentalist John RT Davies who turned my attention to one female vocalist of the 1920s who certainly maintained her high performing chops into her senior days. Ol' John played with us ...

Vido Musso and the Trilon Recordings

May 01, 2008; Salemann, Dieter ... Vido Musso and the Trilon Recordings by Dieter Salemann Now that all the great problems in jazz research seem to have been solved, one is called to throw some light upon the lesser important ones. This is not only fun but, when you really get into it, no less important. So my ...

The Dorsey Brothers - Filmdom's Favorites

May 01, 2008; Stockdale, Robert L ... Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey are two of the top ten bandleaders in anybody's history. Their groups occupied the top rungs in the ladder of success longer than any other of the Big Band stars. They of course got there through talent, but also through successful recordings, radio broadcasts and ...

Remembering Duke

May 01, 2008; Jungheim, Ralph ... My recollections of this monumental man and his music span the years from about 1941, when I first heard my dad's Ellington 78s, to 1978, when I produced the recording For Duke. Jazz recordings heard at our house in Chicago ranged from Muggsy Spanier and Fats Waller to Duke Ellington and His ...

A Gramophonic Love Affair: The Heart and Soul of Jazz Collecting

May 01, 2008; Harris, Horrace Meunier ... I sometimes reflect upon whether the majority of our members who are domiciled in America ever wonder how those in other countries came to be involved in the jazz music phenomenon indigenous to the USA. I can only relate this question to my own experience. Such thoughts crystallised when I read ...

Jumpin' In Irigny, Volume 1/Jumpin' In Irigny, Volume 2

May 01, 2008; Clark, John ... The Review Corner Members' astute opinions edited by Herb Young French Preservation New Orleans Jazz Band with Big Bill Bissonette and Fred Vigorito Jumpin' In Irigny, Volume 1 Jazz Crusade JCCD 3110 Fred Vigorito (c), Big Bill Bissonette (tbn/v), ...

Cool, Hot & Swingin'

May 01, 2008; Clark, John ... Stan Kenton and His Orchestra Cool, Hot & Swingin' Tantara TCD 1123 Ed Leddy, Sam Noto, Vinnie Tanno, Lee Katzman, Phil Gilbert (tpt), Bob Fitzpatrick, Carl Fontana, Kent Larsen, Don Kelly (tbn), Lennie Niehaus (as), Bill Perkins, Spencer Sinatra (ts), Jack Nimitz ...

Like Basie

May 01, 2008; Young, Herb ... Paul Quinichette Like Basie Mighty Quinn MOP1112 Paul Quinichette (ts) Al Grey (tbn) Harry Sweets Edison, Snooky Young,Dick Vance,Shad Collins (tpts) Nat Pierce (pno) Freddie Green (gtr) Eddie Jones (bs) Jo Jones (dms) Recorded in NYC - March 20, 1959 Jump The ...

At the Trianon Ballroom - 1954

May 01, 2008; Clark, John ... Horace Henderson and His Orchestra At the Trianon Ballroom - 1954 IAJRC CD 1015 Herbert Dotson, Gail Brockman (tpt), Porter Kilbert, Goon Gardner (as), Jimmy Forrest, Moses Gant (ts), Eddie Williams (ts/v), Pat Patrick (bars), Horace Henderson (p), Eddie Calhoun (sb/v), ...

Petite Fleur

May 01, 2008; Young, Herb ... Edmond Hall Petite Fleur Mighty Quinn MQP 1106 Edmond Hall (cl) Vic Dickenson (tbn) Emmett Berry (tpt) Ellis Larkins (pno) Milt Hinton (bs) Jimmie Crawford (dms) Recorded NYC, December 1958 Petite Fleur/Ellington Medley: Prelude To A Kiss;Do Nothing 'Till You Hear ...

Live at the Kennedy Center - Volume One

May 01, 2008; Young, Herb ... Mulgrew Miller Trio Live at the Kennedy Center - Volume One MazzJazz MXJ 217 Mulgrew Miller (pno) Derrick Hodge (bs) Rodney Green (dms) Recorded at Washington, DC on September 5, 2002 If I Should Lose You/When I Get There/From Day To Day/Skylark/Relaxin' At ...

Tiger Rag ! & All That Jazz

May 01, 2008; Young, Herb ... Eddie Condon All-Stars Tiger Rag ! & All That Jazz Mighty Quinn MQP 1105 Eddie Condon (gtr) Rex Stewart (cnt) Cutty Cutshall (tbn) Bud Freeman (ts) Herb Hall (cl) Gene Schroeder (pno) Leonard Gaskin (bs) George Wettling (dms) Recorded at NYC 1958 Tiger ...

A Vancouver Concert - Live - 1951

May 01, 2008; Clark, John ... Louis Armstrong All-Stars A Vancouver Concert - Live - 1951 Jazz Crusade JCCD 3120 Louis Armstrong (tpt/v), Jack Teagarden (tbn/v), Barney Bigard (clt), Earl Hines (p), Arvell Shaw (sb), Cozy Cole (d), Velma Middleton (v) Royal Garden Blues/I Used To Love ...