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.
ALICE SPENCER KNOWS JUST WHAT TO DO (with DUKE ROBILLARD, MARC CAPARONE,
JACOB ZIMMERMAN, RILEY BAKER, JAKE SANDERS, SAM ROCHA, CHRIS DAWSON, JOSH
COLLAZO: Redwood Coast Music Festival, October 5, 2025)
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Alice Spencer wants to make sure we feel what she and the song do. She is
not about Pretending, but about Being. Her energy as a storyteller is based
in he...
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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!"