Music Head Wrote:from my library (vinyl)



Picked up this set of 13 big-band era multi-disc compilations a few years back, at the annual library sale. Well
worth the $5 for the set. Most never opened. It's one of those Time/Life series things. This particular album is
for Duke Ellingtons Cotton Club years (1927-1930). Time travel is possible. I'll take my Nobel now. I rolled me up
a big doobie, laid back in the recliner in my room, put this on, under the headphones, eyes closed, and I was
there. Love this kind of stuff. This 2 record set covers those early years of the Dukes association with NYC's
Cotton Club. A whites only club in those years, except for the performers of course. Duke had just made a deal with
promoter Irving Mills to handle his gigs. A regular here was part of it. Radio started broadcasting gigs from the
club and Duke Ellington became a household name. Duke's peak years were the forty's, so these recordings could be
considered very early. A few tracks have vocals, but mostly instrumental. I do not have a best and worst track on
albums like this. I love it all, just the fact that something done 84 years ago still exists today. Before the nice job of doctoring up by Time-Life, I'm sure these tracks sounded terrible, but they would have still been music to my ears. All of these albums are treasures.

I LOVE THIS ALBUM

1) A Nite at The Cotton Club
2) Washington Wobble
3) The Blues I Love To Sing
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRUlLhOab8I
4) Blue Bubbles
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XCgSBCJC10
5) Harlem River Quiver
6) Jungle Nights In Harlem
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGYCmXrafeI
7) No, Papa, No
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayBcUhcg_ec - check out that 78
8) Bandanna Babies
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fbPqdSoXaA
9) Sloppy Joe
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG7s3v-w1Qk
10) High Life
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK_SIbzOFsA
11) I Can't Give You Anything But Love
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EABoe5msqFk
12) The Dirty Glide
13) Diga Diga Doo
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2O0F28tc5s
14) Arabian Lover
15) Stevedore Stomp
16) The Duke Steps Out
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KHnyBmbrxs
17) Japanese Dream
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVqdhYbHQX0
18) Mississippi
19) Breakfast Dance
20) Sweet Jazz o' Mine
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaSKL1iqpf8
21) Harlemania
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy-gPuxGZAM

so many albums, so little time

mtthwibrahim Wrote:Mingus Ah Um

I don't need to tell you about this album. I don't need to tell how many classics lay inside this masterpiece. This is Mingus's second greatest accomplishment, only behind "The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady" (which is also the greatest album ever made btw)

mtthwibrahim Wrote:^ I have "Cumbia..." downloaded and will be listening to it soon

as of now, I'm digging Coltrane's Olatunji concert. You don't know crazy until you hear this. Enough to make Albert Ayler say "dam"