[78-L] David Stone Martin on Asch/Stinson/Disc

simmonssomer simmonssomer at comcast.net
Sat Nov 14 09:48:57 PST 2009


I have the Stella Brooks 78 rpm set....I never was exactly blown away by her 
voice or her art,  on these discs anyway.
As far as Greta Keller was concerned....she had been known to make 
scurrilous racist comments.

Al Simmons

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Austin" <jaustin214 at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2009 11:46 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] David Stone Martin on Asch/Stinson/Disc


> That the Stella Brooks records were made at all is a wonder.  I became 
> acquainted with Stella at the end of her long (too long, from her point of 
> view) life.  She probably was a more gifted singer than even these very 
> interesting records attest.  Stella, alas, disdained the idea of making 
> records, doing radio, and just about every other convention in music and 
> normal life.  She was, in a way, the "Zelig" of jazz (and actually used to 
> cut Woody Allen's hair in his Hungry I days, although she disdained Woody 
> Allen).  The Disc side were long available appended to some Greta Keller 
> material (disdain!) on a Folkways LP, and are still (I believe) available 
> through the Smithsonian on CD.
>
> I first ran across the Disc set at a garage sale in the suburban Columbus, 
> OH neighborhood of my adolescence.  What in the world it was doing there, 
> I will never know.  But then, I never knew what I was doing there, either.
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Fri, November 13, 2009 9:58:27 PM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] David Stone Martin on Asch/Stinson/Disc
>
> I think the Stella Brooks is one instance where I have the album but not 
> the
> records.
>
> dl
>
> Jeff Austin wrote:
>> One further addition, the great Stella Brooks, whose 1946 set was on Disc 
>> 620, w. Joe Sullivan, Frankie Newton, Sidney Bechet, George Brunies, Jack 
>> Lesberb and George Wetling.
>>
>> J.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: Glenn Longwell <glongwell at snet.net>
>> To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Sent: Fri, November 13, 2009 6:41:25 PM
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] David Stone Martin on Asch/Stinson/Disc
>>
>> Not on your list - I have Disc 706, Midnight Piano, Cliff Jackson  Don 
>> Frye (still looking for a copy of the booklet that was supposed to come 
>> with it)
>>
>> I also have A 345 with the alternate cover.
>>
>> Glenn
>>
>> --- On Fri, 11/13/09, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>>
>>
>> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] David Stone Martin on Asch/Stinson/Disc
>> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Date: Friday, November 13, 2009, 6:09 PM
>>
>>
>> I have 754, 801, 802, 804 (never seen 803) and 4020, but I don't remember 
>> that
>> one as being DSM. And we'd have to be really nice to someone with a 
>> 12-inch
>> scanner.
>>
>> A345 turns up everywhere but I've never seen it without the DSM cover. 
>> I've
>> seen it in different colors though (brown vs black, I think).
>>
>> dl
>>
>> Thomas Stern wrote:
>>> below is the list, reported so far, of David Stone Martin cover art on 
>>> Asch/Stinson, Disc.
>>>
>>> I'd like to obtain scans of Disc 633, 754,  801-804, Disc 4020.  Thanks!
>>>
>>> Please send additions and corrections!
>>> Best wishes, Thomas.
>>>
>>>
>>> ASCH/STINSON
>>>       A 200    Ballad for FDR.
>>>       S 200    Ballad of Franklin D.
>>>
>>>       A-345    BURL IVES - The Wayfaring Stranger        litho, 
>>> alternate cover
>>>
>>>       A-348    Songs by Josh White
>>>
>>>         351    Mary Lou Williams Trio
>>>
>>>         355    Coleman Hawkins and Orch
>>>         356    Art Tatum
>>>         357    JOHN KIRBY AND HIS JAZZ ORCH SEVEN MEN AND AN IDEA
>>>         358    Folk Songs  Josh White
>>>
>>>       A-370    Roll The Union On  Almanac Singers
>>>
>>>         432    American Folksay Ballads and Dances
>>>
>>>         452    Art Tatum Trio
>>>         453    Jazz at the Philharmonic
>>>       A 454    LANGSTON HUGHES
>>>       A 455    STRICTLY G.I.
>>>
>>>       A 550    BLUES
>>>         551    New York Jazz  James P Johnson
>>>
>>>       DM102    Erno Balogh  BACH:
>>>       DM 103   GABY CASADESUS (PIANIST) "DEBUSSY."
>>>
>>>       S xxx    Cantorials
>>>
>>>
>>> DISC
>>>        104     NORMAN GRANZ JAZZ AT THE PHILHARMONIC VOL.4
>>>
>>>        141 etc Disc Ethnic Series - Harold Courlander  GENERIC COVER by 
>>> DSM
>>>        142 161
>>>        501     Norman Granz'  JAZZ AT THE PHILHARMONIC VOL 2
>>>        502     BOOGIE WOOGIE AT THE PHILHARMONIC  Meade Lux Lewis
>>>
>>>
>>>        505     Opera in Vout  Groove Juice Symphony  Slim Gaillard
>>>        506     KING COLE QUINTET
>>>
>>>        607     America's Favorite Songs - Pete Seeger, Bess Lomax, Butch 
>>> Hawes, Tom Glazer
>>>        608     Cisco Houston "Cowboy Songs"
>>>        609     Love Songs  Richard Dyer-Bennet
>>>        610     Woody Guthrie Sings "Ballads from the Dust Bowl"
>>>        611     Hudson Valley Songs - Frank Warner
>>>        612     MARY LOU WILLIAMS, Piano Solos
>>>
>>>        623     A WALK IN THE SUN  Earl Robinson
>>>
>>>        629     Creole Songs  Adelaide Van Wey
>>>        630     Square Dances - Ralph Page
>>>        631     Square Dances - Ralph Page
>>>        632     PEE WEE RUSSELL
>>>        633     America's Favorite Songs Vol.2   Cornelius Greenway's 
>>> Smokey Mountaineers
>>>
>>>        657     Spirituals Vol.2
>>>        658     SPIRITUALS, Deep South Songs
>>>
>>>        661     WOMEN BLUES-JOSH WHITE
>>>
>>>        701     Joe Sullivan Quartet
>>>
>>>        708     OMER SIMEON Trio
>>>        709     BABY DODDS DRUM SOLOS
>>>
>>>        711     MUGGSY SPANIER And His Orchestra
>>>        712     Ernestine Washington with Bunk Johnson Band
>>>
>>>        715     Doc Evans' Dixieland Five, Vol.2 New Orleans Rhythm Kings 
>>> Classics
>>>
>>>        721     FLAMENCO  by Soledad Miralles, accompanied by Carlos 
>>> Montoya
>>>
>>>        725     Elie Siegmeister's American Legends
>>>        725     Midnight Special  Leadbelly Guthrie Cisco Houston
>>>
>>>        732     Early American Carols John Jacob Niles
>>>
>>>        754     PROKOFIEFF'S  ROMEO AND JULIET, Op.64. Suite No.2
>>>
>>>        770     J.S.BACH: Three Part Inventions   Erno Balogh, piano
>>>
>>>        800     KHATCHATURIAN "Masquerade Suite"
>>>                Kabalevsky "Fete Populaire from opera Colas Breugnon
>>>                Jacques Rachmilovich  Santa Monica Symphone Orchestra
>>>        801     TCHAIKOVSKY-FIRST SYMPHONY
>>>                Jacques Rachmilovich  Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra
>>>        802     TCHAIKOVSKY-SECOND SYMPHONY
>>>                Jacques Rachmilovich  Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra
>>>        803     PROKOFIEFF Summer Day Suite, Piano Toccata
>>>                Jacques Rachmilovich  Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra
>>>                Lilian Steuber at the piano
>>>        804     RACHMANINOFF THE BELLS
>>>                CHOIR OF THE FIRST METHODIST CHURCH OF HOLLYWOOD
>>>                SANTA MONICA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA   JACQUES RACHMILOVICH.
>>>
>>>        932     My Fathers House - film soundtrack
>>>
>>>        937     Jewish and Palestinian Folksongs  -  Ruth Rubin with 
>>> Chorus
>>>
>>>
>>>       4020     PROKOFIEFF:Sextet on HEBREW THEMES, Op.34 Parts 1 and 2 
>>> (DSM envelope)
>>>
>>>
>>> ___________________________
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