[78-L] EFHJREM

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On seeing this thread, I pulled out James's Capitol recordings from the mid-1950s, which are amazingly good. Beautiful sound, a lot of the same musicians as in the earlier Columbia sides (Allen Reuss, Willie Smith, Buddy Rich) and great arrangements.

Cary Ginell


-----Original Message-----
From: David Lewis <uncledavelewis at hotmail.com>
To: 78 78 <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Mon, Jun 22, 2009 8:34 am
Subject: Re: [78-L] EFHJREM




ike Biel wrote:
 
> Last night at the Jazz Bash I saw a rather unusual sight. One of the> dealers 
ad a large amount of 78s unsold, including some that were still> in about a 
alf dozen boxes under the table. He bequeathed them to> Scott Wenzel of Mosaic 
ecords who at first said they would be 50 cents> apiece until he looked at 
hem. In those boxes were EFHJREM -- Every> Freaking Harry James Record Ever 
ade. HUNDREDS of them. MANY hundreds> of them. Including sleeves with three or 
ive records in them -- all of> the same record. A few did find other homes, 
ven Dan Morgenstern took> a couple of 'em. I picked up his Eli Eli, always 
ondered what that> sounded like. But when I left there were still a table full 
f 'em. But> I think we can be well assured that there will not be a Harry James 
ox> set coming out of Mosaic.>> Mike (I wonder if the two Black cleaning guys 
re interested in Harry> James) Biel mbiel at mbiel.com

>>
 
Indeed, when the College Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati ejected their 78 
pm collection in 1988 th
ere was another large instance of EFHJREM. And it's a 
ity they are so prevalent, as they are really very good records, but they 
urvive in such high numbers that makes them undesirable. I also tend towards 
is later LP albums from "The New James" on -- no one suspected he would become 
uch an outstanding bop player; moreover he retained the same measure of 
xpressiveness and bravura that makes his early work so exceptional. I can do 
ithout the string section he had in the early 40s; indeed, so could have James 
s he once noted, but it was there for commercial purposes.

ncle Dave Lewis uncledavelewis at hotmail.com

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