Comments on: Infidels, Excess, and Howe: More Recollections from the Record Collection

By: Glancing Backward, Musically Speaking, in Order to Look Ahead « Scribbleskiff

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:09:56 +0000

[...] my greatest musical power — the ability to play my vinyl LPs at will again (and again and [...]

By: Danica Ulshafer

Danica Ulshafer — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 21:28:47 +0000

I miss Memphis, and your post reminded me of some of the reasons why I miss it. I'm planning a trip there in the spring of next year. I am so excited about it.

By: A Sackful of Ideas for Last-Minute Gift-Giving the Scribbleskiff Way « Scribbleskiff

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:40:38 +0000

[...] I still have an affinity for phonographs, as I have mentioned several times in the past. I have a large collection of LP records that I can’t bear to and won’t [...]

By: Jim King

Jim King — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:29:25 +0000

Hi, Henry
The Jack T. CD is called A Teagarden Party, part of a series titled Dance Hall Days on a Canadian label called Point. There are no liner notes, just an ad for other CDs in the series, which seems to have come out around 1993. I`m guessing the recordings were from the early to mid-1930s.
jim

By: Henry Mortimer

Henry Mortimer — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 01:27:55 +0000

It’s never too late for a comment! (You kidding?) Thanks so much for the note. I’d love to know which Teagarden CD you found, as I’m always on the prowl for his recordings. I recently picked up a French import LP with JT’s Big Eight and Pee Wee Russell’s Rhythmakers on the other side that’s pretty good. My most favorite album is “The Sound of Jazz,” from a CBS television program recorded in the mid 1950s. It’s an amazing collection, with 1930s-era luminaries like Lester Young and Billie Holiday, Basie and band, Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins, playing together with Vic Dickenson and Red Allen, as well as up-and-comers like Thelonius Monk, Jimmy Giuffre, and Gerry Mulligan. Incredible. I bought the LP used, at least 20 years ago, and then found it later on CD so I could play it in my car. It’s still in print and is my must-have suggestion for any jazz fan. Thanks for reading. I’ll be delving back into the stacks soon, so please check back.

By: Jim King

Jim King — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 13:30:53 +0000

It may be a bit late to comment on your months-old blog entry, but I have to endorse your praise of The Vintage Goodman. I picked up a wonderful Jack Teagarden compilation on CD for a buck yesterday at the Sally Ann thrift store. It reminded me of that great Goodman album, which I inherited from my dad. I found this blog by Googling the album title. Although I own hundreds of LPs and CDs and a bushel basket full of cassettes in all pop genres, including many, many five-star classics, I think The Vintage Goodman is the very best album I own. The players are legendary, the recording very good, the performances sublime. Jazz had never been better than in that era, and it had yet to begin the steady decline that has reduced it to the pretentious mess it is today. My favorite album ever.

By: Staying Put in Port, for the Moment « Scribbleskiff

Staying Put in Port, for the Moment « Scribbleskiff — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:06:00 +0000

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By: Laughin’ and Tumblin’, Dazed and Wicked: More Musings on Music and Record Collecting « Scribbleskiff

Wed, 13 May 2009 14:23:25 +0000

[...] I was doing, or who I was with. I have written several times about my experiences so far (here and here, for [...]

By: Diane

Diane — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:31:20 +0000

Researching in a library with a stack of books in front of me, and books scattered open in front of me, and my fingers marking 4 places at once, is the same–the computer deprives me of the senses of touch and smell, and somehow research done that way seems incomplete and less certain. To fully understand the topic is to see it and hold it and smell it and feel its heft and see what is next to it and around it. And for those of us who soar to color more than sound, consider the intensity of the tome’s full color plates or the 12×12 cover.

By: Janet

Janet — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:48:53 +0000

Oh we’ll be in touch my friend…Just wait til Dave Luksik gets back from his golf outing in Arizona…he has big plans for his album collection…he is going to love reading this! Nice job…