Mad men of jazz
Compendium of Jazz #1 Verve Records (1957) A compilation of Verve jazz artists including Count Basie, Stan Getz, Charlie Parker and others. (This guy is Freddy Morgan!)
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“I Love Listening to Buddy Bregman” (1957) RCA Records (UK) Verve Series (issued in the States as “Swinging Kicks”) Music composed by Bregman for the “B” movie “Wild Party,” (Anthony Quinn as an over-the-hill football star that holds a thrill-seeking couple captive in a sleazy nightspot for a night of terror ), A great example of West Coast Cool Jazz with an all-star session featuring the Buddy Bregman All-Star Big Band: Buddy Bregman (conductor, arranger); Herb Geller, Bud Shank (alto saxophone); Georgie Auld, Bob Cooper, Stan Getz, Ben Webster (tenor saxophone); Jimmy Giuffre (baritone saxophone); Conte Candoli, Pete Candoli, Maynard Ferguson, Conrad Gozzo, Ray Linn (trumpet); Milt Berhnart, Frank Rosolino, George Roberts, Lloyd Ulyate (trombone); Andre Previn, Paul Smith (piano); Al Hendrickson (guitar); Joe Mondragon (bass); Stan Levey, Alvin Stoller (drums).
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“Don’t Pity Me” Chris Miskelly and Betty Baker
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Frank Pourcel “Chanson Mood” Angel Records (Japan)
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Ouvindo Sulino e Marrueiro Chanticleer Records (Brazil) Click on the cover to make it bigger. Check out her cool mod 50’s turntable.
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“Monsieur” Jo Sony CBS Records (France) Just hanging out around the house with the dogs. Enjoying a cigar between songs on the old squeeze box.
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Art Carney “Music for Men Working” A Columbia Records EP (1955) Sidekick and neighbor Ed Norton to Jackie Gleason’s Ralph Kramden on the Honeymooners. Seen here popping out of a manhole cover and singing “Song of the Sewer” (on the Honeymooner’s he worked in the sewers and called himself “an unground sanitation expert”). Carney died in 2002. He won a Best Actor Academy Award for his performance in 1974’s “Harry and Tonto”. Here he is teaching Ralph to dance the “Hucklebuck”!
(36 votes, average: 3.53 out of 5) Loading ...Oh Vickie, you’re so fine
Vickie on Upper Room Records, “Too Much To Gain To Lose” We’re flipping over Vickie here. I think we’ll be seeing this reproduced across the webisphere. An instant LP Cover Lover Hall of Famer. Happy Holidays.
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Bench press
Bubi, Bubi Max Stadlmayr und Sein Ensemble Philips Records (Germany) For Jennifer, my love!
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