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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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Hold it like that

“Festival Bailable con Anibal Velasquez”   Artilleria Records

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She was the new girl.

Calixto Ochoa y sus Conjuntos   “Penaranda”   Fuentes Monofonico

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Gym dandies

Gatti di Vicolo Miracoli   “L’Aerobica e chic

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Horned frogman

“Jazz West Coast Volume 3”   Another cool cover photo by William Claxton on this Pacific Jazz Records compilation.

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At the hop

Bailable   “Odeon Mercury”   Odeon Records

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Teen spirit

Again with the Christians in space?!   “Youth for Christ”   (YFC, don’t cha know).   On Word.

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Hot pants and hollow heels

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Who’s imagining whom?

“The Esquire Album of Music for the Continental Host”   Guy Lupar and his Orchestra   RCA Victor

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