Charlie Hunter's Bing Bing Bing

Although Blue Note records are my favorites, some will be surprised thatI enjoyed the Charlie Hunter "Bing Bing Bing" CD. My favorite Blue Notes normally were released in the 1950s and - 60s, but this one was recorded in the mid 1990s, when Blue Note had made a restart. Charlie Hunter, however, is a very giften guitar player, performing the 8-string guitar. This type of guitar gives a kind of hammond like sound, so typically for the 1960s Blue Note records. The style of the CD is funky, but always swinging with a heavy bass played by Charlie Hunter on his extra strings.

I like it ! Enjoy it.

To Have or Not To Have

Jerry pointed me to an eBay item which shows an EP with two Hit of the week recordings. It contains the two Harlem Hot Chocolate recordings; the only Ellington recordings he made for Durium.

Should it be part of my collection? As a fact I do have these tunes in my collection several times. As an original of course, but also on LP ( 2 times), cassette ( 5 times), on CD or CDR ( 12 times ).

Wil je hem nog steeds niet? Jerry asked. No I guess I don't need this item.

My website re-styled

After three month of re-arranging and re-styling I finished my web sites with a new menu and a new address. ( http://keepswinging.opweb.nl ). The major reason was that I became sick of the ads that pop-upped and slowed the pages down. Now the major sites, like my discographies are free of pop-up ads.

Mind that the durium (GB) discography is still under construction and will grow to completeness during the coming months.

Enjoy it and feel free to give your opinion and advices.

Keep swinging web site
Oscar Aleman discography
Hit of the week-Durium discographies

Keep swinging

Tyrone's Record and Phonograph Links

A great web site is Ty Settlemier's link sites. It contains hundreds of links indispensable to every serious record collector. And if you want discographical information don't hesitate to visit his Online Discographical Project

It's worth a visit.


Ty lives in Albany-Or (USA) and collects records as long as he can remember, he says on his web site. The first thing I crawled to was my parents stereo system. At age 2, I didn't take a blankie or teddy bear to bed with me, but a stack of 45rpm records. I was given a stack of 78rpm records at age 6, and began seriously collecting them at 10.

It is nice to learn his motivation as I find some elements I recognize in my own. I'm a glutton for punishment I guess. What started out as a half-hour episode of "I wonder what would happen if" has turned into a project that seems to eat up what little spare time I have. I guess I've always enjoyed sharing my records, and this is a way to reach a broader audience. It nicely combines two of my interest, records and computers.

A Little Twist - New Jazz Composers Octet-2

Thanks to the information I gave on this web log yesterday Matt McCabe searched for more information and found the tune "A Little Twist" played by the New Jazz Composers Octet.

You can hear a fragment here

There are some more fragments on David Weiss' web site.

Enjoy it !!

Durium

A Little Twist - New Jazz Composers Octet

A few days ago I posted the question: Who can help me to date this recording?: A Little Twist - New Jazz Composers Octet

I heard this tune and I liked the harmonic structure and solo's as played by the trumpet and piano player. A great song !!

This tune was released on the Fresh Sound Walkin' The Line CD. The musicians on this record are David Weiss tp, Xavier Davis p, Myron Walden as, Nasheet Waits dm, Dwayne Burno b and Steve Davis on trombone, featuring also some guest musicians.
The CD was recorded December 2000 as the information says, but thanks to David Weiss, the leader and trumpet player of the band, who responded the tune could be dated earlier:



New Jazz Composers Octet A Little Twist is October 18, 2000, I'm pretty sure of this, I don't have a copy of my own CD but I think we recorded this tune separate from the rest of the record while recording part of the album we did wih Freddie Hubbard. We had a little extra studio time and Joe Chambers in the studio who played the tune with us on the road so we went for it. The Freddie CD says the recording date is October 18, 2000 and I think this isn't even mentioned on the octet CD but I don't know for sure because like I said, I don't have a copy at the moment. ( David Weiss )

Thank you David
Originally posted on Organissimo Jazz Forums

Brasileirinho

I'm still anxious to see the documentary Brasilierinho of Mike Kaurismäki. I read a pre-announcement in Jazz Nu, a Dutch jazz magazine and found it on the internet. It should have been released in Belgium, but my Belgian friend Patrick can't find it in the "record" shop.

Anyone who can help me?

Choro ..... also in Holland

ChoroBrasilScandinavia

Last summer I visited Copenhagen together with Theo and Jørgen for a presentation about Oscar Aleman, the Argentinean jazz guitar player and at the first evening Jørgen brought us to a concert of the Danish-Swedish-Brasilian group ChoroBrasilScandinavia, in the knowledge that Oscar Aleman also played and recorded several Choros tunes. It was a great musical surprise for me. div align="center

ChoroBrasilScandinavia in concert

Back in Holland I wondered if we had Choros music too and I posted a message on my web site. Today I received a message from Mariângela Guimarães who wrote me:

Hoi Hans,

I just saw a message you posted on an internet site about choro and the film Brasileirinho. I am Brazilian and I have been living in Amsterdam for a couple of years and I make a website about Brazilian cultural events in the Netherlands ( http://www.brazilie.net ). You wanted to know if there are groups that play choro here and there are a couple. One of them is Choramundo, that will be playing on March 7th at the Roode Bioscoop in Amsterdam.


They are really good. I highly recommend!

I couldn't find an image of that band Choramundo, but you'll find their web site with a lot of info under the title http://fakhouri.sites.uol.com.br/ .

Thanks for the info Mariângela !!

Take Your Pick

"Take Your Pick" by Arie Lighthart - Bob van Oven and Wim Kolstee ( Hilversum 9 June 1959 )


Isn't that cute? This morning I found a message in the Hot Jazz Guild from Joe Gordon. He wrote:

I'm hoping that out there is another 'Banjoist' who started after hearing Arie playing 'TAKE YOUR PICK' with the Dutch Swing College Band......why? Well, in one of our many house moves (well, you have to move often when you play banjo!)....I lost my record of Arie's version of that tune. It was a kind of talisman for me,....I can STILL remember the excitement I felt when I heard it LIVE in Glasgow..... and..... it was one of the proudest moments in my life when I could play MY VERSION of 'Take your pick'! Does anyone still have an LP or cassette of DSCB with that title on it? I'd be happy to pay whatever....or, if you wanted to have the LP or Cassette copied to computer...and 'cleaned'.....Clicks and noise removed etc. and then burned to CD....I'd be happy to do that in return. Regards, JOE GORDON.

Last year I bought some EP's at a junk market for our local sport club and one of it had a beautiful 1950s cover. I bought it, but .... back home the record was missing ..... So: sorry Joe. I really miss that record too !!

Hans

Sons of the Desert - The Big Bamboo

Some days ago I received a cd of the so-called Sons of the Desert, a Munich (Germany) based group that plays blues, swing and Hawaiian music. It's already their third cd and it sounds great and reminds me to the music of bands like the Dutch Gangbusters ( Frenk van Meeteren - Ton van Bergeyk - Gert-Jan Blom and Roland Brunt )or the 1930s Roy Smeck recordings. Listen to two music files I found on their web site: Na Moku Eha and the delicious out-of-tune version of Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me.
I'm anxious to hear their first two records.

Thank you Leopold for this musical surprise.

Keep Swinging: Dutch Swing College Band

Keep Swinging: Dutch Swing College Band
Historic movies are on our site: www.dscband.nl & click on photo/movie. Also check the DVD: "The Story, 60 years". For specific questions contact our archive-manager Adrie Braat at info@dscband.nl

Ton van Bergeyk

Dutch Swing College Band

Tom Bengtsson from Pleasanton - CA (USA) sent me the following request. Maybe someone can help him.


Hello Hans,
Over the past fifty years I have seen and heard almost all of the major trad bands---exception being--Dutch College Swing Band. To my knowledge they have never appeared in the USA but I have them in my LP collection. Over the past thirty years I have attended most of the dixieland festivals in the USA where I have often video taped the music for my personal library. I like to think of myself as a major traditional jazz historian but have nothing of the Dutch College group. I would like to attend the Breda function but it happens the same week as the Sacramento Jubilee. This coming year will make the 33rd consecutive for my visit. Do you know anyone that has a substantial video collection that includes the Dutch College band who would be interested in trading videos? There are very few major trad jazz bands that are not in my collection which includes much of the defunct Heritage library. I have no commercial interest, just a hobby. Here in the States we are on the NTSC system and I know that much of Europe is on the various PALS and SECAMs. I would appreciate any direction that you might offer.
Tom Bengtsson in Pleasanton, Ca. (close to San Francisco)

If you can help Tom, please send me a message.

BTW Tom, I heard the Dutch Swing College several times. I remember it was one of the first jazz bands that I heard as a 15 years old student in a school concert. It fascinated me. Some years ago I heard the band again and now it disappointed me. You can find some info about these concerts under my concert log link at your right hand. ( Just insert the band name in the search window and ... bingo !!)

Keep swinging

Hans

Fats and more ......

That's me, somewhere in the 1960s, playing the piano - trying to imitate the boogie woogie masters (like Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis) or playing stride ( like Fats Waller, James P. or Eubie Blake). The old masters would have smiled.

Fats Waller was my first idol. Together with Hans van der Veer I collected all RCA Black & White""The Complete Fats Waller Recordings". We started to make a Fats Waller discography, unknown that Laurie Wright should publish his ""Fats" in Fact" in 1992. Thanks to the fact that Hans van der Veer worked at Philips in Eindhoven ( The Netherlands) he could buy cheap reel-to-reel tapes for my Akai taperecorder, and due to the fact he earned some money he could buy most of the Black & Whites and tape it for me. So my first "complete" collection was the Fats Waller musical heritage.

Nice detail: Some years ago I found the two RCA Fats Waller Memorial LP sets at a reasonable price at a record fair and bought both boxes. In the 1970s these boxes were inaccesible for me - now I have it !! (although I have the music in the boxes already on cassettes and CDs).

Record collectors are weird !!

Keep Swinging

Welcome on my web log. I will use it to share my admiration for jazz music, for my record collection and other jazz projects. I hope to meet other people who have the same passion.

Keep swinging

Hans