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Happy, ah, um, birthday Mingus

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Jimmy Knepper or  Willie Dennis (tb) John Handy (as, cl) Booker Ervin (ts) Curtis Porter (ts, as) Horace Parlan (p) Charles Mingus (b) Dannie Richmond (d) recorded NYC, May 5 & 12 1959   UK first pressing (1959) on Philips black labels of Columbia CS 8171

(56 votes, average: 4.57 out of 5)

TGIF

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Weekend in Musica!!  (Italy)

(32 votes, average: 3.41 out of 5)

Calypso maniac!

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(43 votes, average: 3.86 out of 5)

Bass humor

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New Chamber Jazz  Epic Records  (1955)  Various artists, including The Harry Lookofsky Strings, The Lou Stein Quartet , The Harris-Leigh Quartet and The Sven von Berg Quintet.

(35 votes, average: 3.63 out of 5)

Slaves to the ritmo

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“Ritmo Fascinador”   A compilation from Columbia Records (Argentina) of Latin American and American artists doing all kinds of dance songs from Fox Trots to “Rock”    One by Johnnie Ray.  Les Elgart, Sammy Kaye .. you get the picture.  This cover illustration is very similar, if not the same, as other U.S. releases.  Who can show us one?

(31 votes, average: 3.55 out of 5)

Love Jones

loverKen Jones “I’m in the Mood for Love”  Embassy Records (UK) 1958

(27 votes, average: 2.89 out of 5)

Divorce Italian style

“Terroni e Polentoni Divorciano”  Franco Trincale  Fonola Records (Italy)  (We need a little help describing this one.  Anyone?)

(41 votes, average: 4.20 out of 5)

Finger food

“Something’s Cookin’ ”  The fired up Howard Roberts Quartet with Brass  Capitol Records (1965)  Cover illustration by Virgil Partch (signed VIP).  Bluesette (Thielmann-Gimbel), Hard Day’s Night (Lennon-McCartney), The Lonesome Cowboy (Sheldon-Marshall), Frankie And What’s His Name (Marshall-H. Roberts), Blues In The Night (Arlen-Mercer), Cute (Hefti), In A Mellow Tune (Ellington), Charade (Mancini-Mercer), Maniac (Rogers), Recado Bossa Nova (Antonio-Ferreira), Somethin’s Cookin’ (H. Roberts), People (Styne-Merrill).  With Charles Kynard – Organ, Chuck Berghofer – Bass, Earl Palmer- Drums, John Audino, Al Porcino, Jack Sheldon, Ray Triscari, Bob Bryant, Shorty Rogers – Trumpets, Bob Enevoldsen, Frank Rosolino, Ken Shroyer, Gilbert Falco – Trombones, Vic Feldman – Percussion.

(40 votes, average: 3.85 out of 5)

Redniks

DOSTAVNIK on Supraphon Records (Czechoslovakia).  A compilation of country music.

(33 votes, average: 3.55 out of 5)

The eiffel truth

L’humour de Paris  Jean Poiret et Michel Serrault with Claude Vega RCA Victor Records (France)

(34 votes, average: 3.35 out of 5)