What Are You Listening To?

[Music Head]

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