[78-L] National Records

[simmonssomer]

If you're interested in  Eckstine band material I know a guy who has a good 
deal of that live stuff. He told me that he has a complete Jubilee from 
March 9, 1945...some March 1945 air checks from The Club Plantation, some 
early 1945 Jubilees with Sarah Vaughn, . Further, he sez that he owns all of 
the studio stuff  from the DeLuxe and National labels.(except National 9030 
and 9123.)
He's a busy chap and has to be treated with some care and planning..
Further he tells me that he owns almost all of Fats Navarrro's recordings.
What a be-bop nut cake eh?

Al Simmons

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Van Landingham" <danvanlandingham at yahoo.com>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2010 2:56 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] National Records


> The best sounding Nationals I heard were the ones that Billy Eckstine cut 
> in 1946 with a string section.I
> wondered if they were cut at Radio Recorders.I have them somewhere on a 
> Savoy LP called "Mr.B and
> the Band".I should replace it with a CD copy as I gave the LP alot of hard 
> use.I bought it new back in
> 1978.Prior to that I had a bootleg LP of Eckstine on Alamac I bought new 
> in Denver back in 1975.It was
> said to be the only album of the Eckstine band live.I recently found a CD 
> copy of that same album.I got it
> off of ebay a couple of years ago.It had a great version of the 1928 song 
> "Together" which had a good tr-
> umpet solo by Fats Navarro who was one of my favourites.I was listening to 
> an album of Miles Davis which is a German import.It has no personnel and 
> Davis was in relatively good form but he was no Fats
> Navarro in my opinion.I'm also a trumpet player myself although I 
> eventually switched into saxophone se-
> ction playing tenor then baritone sax.Navarro,from what I remember via an 
> article in Downbeat in the early
> '70s,started out playing tenor in some big band in Key West,Florida.He 
> struck me as a no nonsense kind of
> player who didn't clown around the way Dizzy did.Ray Linn was in the 
> orchestra that backed Eckstine on
> those late 1946 dates which were cut in the L.A. area as I recall.
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Geoffrey Wheeler <dialjazz at verizon.net>
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Sent: Sun, April 4, 2010 11:35:05 AM
> Subject: [78-L] National Records
>
> Dan Van Landingham comments: “I was paraphrasing a writer named Charlie
> Gillette who wrote a book on the history of Atlantic Records and he
> alluded to National Records and its
> founder Al Green.He described National's records as being a mixture of
> manure and gravel.”
>
> I was told years ago, that the owner of National Records had another
> business that produced some kind of material  he decided to use for
> pressing his records. I forget what the material was said to be but
> everyone acknowledged it resulted in quite inferior playing surfaces. I
> have quite a few Nationals; some play better than others.
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