Getting back to my series on old record advertisements from vintage jazz magazines, here's a new installment. Clef magazine (April to July 1946) is the source and labels are West Coast Recordings, Excelsior and Cadet.
STRINGIN’ THE BLISS: THE ALCATRAZ ISLANDERS (Part One): MIKIYA MATSUDA,
JOHN S. REYNOLDS, CASEY MacGILL, DENNIS LICHTMAN, MATT WEINER, RILEY BAKER
(Redwood Coast Music Festival, October 4, 2024)
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This Bay Area group of brilliant lyrical individualists is led by Mikiya
Matsuda on lap steel guitar. For this occasion, the “superband” included
the inimi...
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From Donald Clarke:
ResponderEliminar"Interesting. Mingus had 78s on Excelsior too, I think."
Yes, Donald. The Mingus Sextet (1945) and Mingus & his Orchestra (1946) sessions, both included in the Uptown CD "Charles Baron Mingus - West Coast 1945-1949".
ResponderEliminarFrom Donald Clarke:
ResponderEliminar"That Uptown release was very exciting; I remember Chuck Nessa showing me the booklet before the CD came out. We were at the Chicago Jazz Festival, must have been 2000. I thought the booklet alone was almost worth the price!"