“Sucessos Em Desfile” Sammy Kaye and his Orchestra   Columbia Records

(49 votes, average: 4.27 out of 5)

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The Vampires   Satellite Records   Singapore   Two from a cool website called Mod-ified Check it out to read more and listen too.

“Go Go West” with Rocky Wong and The Dick Day Group   Orchard Records

(56 votes, average: 4.34 out of 5)

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“Gorilla in the Garden” (and Bryon Melcher)   Replica Records

(51 votes, average: 3.86 out of 5)

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Antony Villa   “Superstar from the Far East Sings a Special Tribute to Elvis”

(36 votes, average: 2.81 out of 5)

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“Ternura”   Phil Green and his Orchestra   Coral Records     (Her hand looks messed up and she has bad skin)

(37 votes, average: 3.14 out of 5)

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“Mad Thad”   Leonard Feather presents Thad Jones   Period Records   NYC, January 6, 1957

Thad Jones (tp) Henry Coker (tb -2,3) Frank Wess (ts, fl) Tommy Flanagan (p) Eddie Jones (b) Elvin Jones (d) with Frank Foster, Jimmy Jones, Doug Watkins, Jo Jones,   Quincy Jones

Bird Song, Cat Meets Chick, Quiet Sip

Late 1956 and early 1957 found Thad Jones in the midst of a rewarding flurry of recording activity.   During time off from Basie, however, Jones poured his energy into composing, arranging, and playing with fires of creativity that led Charles Mingus to call him “the greatest trumpet that I’ve heard in this life.” For Mad Thad, Jones recruited a few of his favorite Basie colleagues and a Basie veteran, drummer Jo Jones. For one session, he brought in his brother Elvin on drums and another fellow Detroiter, pianist Tommy Flanagan. Fully justifying Mingus’s enthusiasm, Jones played at the top of his game of melodic and harmonic invention. His compositions included a blues line that quickly became a jazz standard, “Bird Song.” – Concord Records

(43 votes, average: 4.16 out of 5)

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‘Homemade Band” by Hap Palmer   Teaching generations of toddlers how to keep rhythm.   (Courtesy of Way Back Now! Let’s Go)

(41 votes, average: 3.80 out of 5)

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“Pinky Chicks”

(93 votes, average: 4.57 out of 5)

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Illustration by New Yorker cartoonist William Steig who did others in the Epic In Jazz Series.   Here’s “Lester Leaps In” and other swing classics by The Count Basie Orchestra with “the Pres” Lester Young.

(51 votes, average: 4.08 out of 5)

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The World Beyond Death   A Sermon by Harold Henniger

(49 votes, average: 3.71 out of 5)

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