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.
WHEN BEAUTY VISITS, YOU DARE NOT IGNORE IT: BARBARA ROSENE SINGS (Danny
Tobias, John Allred, Harry Allen, Steve Ash, Felix Lemerle, Jen Hodge,
Kevin Dorn: Winnie’s Jazz Bar, 66 West 38th Street, New York, October 10,
2025)
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When beauty stops by unannounced, wise people invite it in. Barbara Rosene,
heartfelt unaffected singer, scholar, and sterling mortal, paid a visit to
Winn...
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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!"