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.
“PENTHOUSE SERENADE (When We’re Alone)”: MARTY GROSZ and ANDY STEIN (Jazz
at Chautauqua, Friday, September 14, 2001)
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We need beautiful music. Here’s a brief rhapsodic example, a song from
1931, played and sung with great tenderness by Marty Grosz, guitar and
voice; Andy S...
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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!"