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December, 2008

Put on your red dress baby

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A hard bop

“The Hard Swing”   The Sonny Stitt Quartet   Verve Records (1959)   Recorded in Los Angeles with a band Stitt had picked up and worked with for a week at a club in Watts.     On alto for the the first seven tunes, then on tenor for the final four. Stitt is backed by the obscure and rarely recorded pianist Amos Trice.   George Morrow, who had just left Max Roach’s band is on bass and drummer Lenny McBrowne keeps the fires burning.   Stitt is in inspired form on this date and the ideas pour out of his horns.

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We’re not in Jellystone anymore

“Yogi Bear and The Three Stooges Meet The Mad, Mad, Dr. No-No”   Featuring the song “Yogi Bear”.   Hanna-Barbera Records Cartoon Series.

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Good naked

“Jazz for Relaxation”   Full Range High Fidelity   Tampa Records   Marty Paich, Larry Bunker, Joe Mondragon.   Courtesy Lp cover lover, Retrohound.

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Border patrol

Ary Lobo “On the Moon”   RCA Victor

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Smokey bare

From Japan.

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Little girl blue

“Party Time” with Jak Parti   “Sophisticate Nonsense for the ‘Spice’ of the Party!”   Rivoli Records   Racey songs and blue humor for adults only.

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Rocket jockey

“Thunderbirds & Captain Scarlet”   On One Record!   Presented by Gerry Anderson on Hallmark Records London.   Two BBC TV series from the mid-sixties that were big hits using puppetry and scale-model special effects.

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Sinter’s Alves

Ataulfo Alves “suas pastoras e seus sucessos”   Sinter Records Brazil

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Bird’s tale

“The Charlie Parker Story”   Savoy Records Released in 1956.   Recorded at WOR Studios, Broadway, NYC, November 26, 1945   Features a famous take of “Ko-Ko”

Miles Davis (tp -2/13) Charlie Parker (as) Sadik Hakim (p -11/13) Dizzy Gillespie (p -1/10,16, tp, p -14,15) Curly Russell (b) Max Roach (d)

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