[78-L] National Records

[Dan Van Landingham]

Eckstine was not a good valve trombonist in the least.His recording of "Blues" on National featured a boring vocal.Kenny "Pancho" Hagood was far worse judging from the recordings he made with Miles
on Capitol(The Birth of the Cool).I did like Eckstine's National recording of "My Silent Love" from late
1946.



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From: Julian Vein <julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk>
To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Mon, April 5, 2010 3:30:38 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] National Records

Geoffrey Wheeler wrote:
> An important Lp of live recordings by the Billy Eckstine band made in  
> February and March 1945 was issued in 1972 on 12-inch (E) Spotlite 100. 
> The original issue was 100 copies. Tony Williams, proprietor of 
> Spotlite, then pressed a general issue of the album as he began to 
> reissue Dial 78 recordings on LP i a 100 series. Savoy two-disc package 
> SLJ  2214 dubbed “Mr. B and the Band” was issued in 1976. If I recall 
> correctly, it includes some alternate takes of certain recordings but 
> not all of them. Also left out were certain breakdowns that Savoy had 
> but chose not to issue. 
>  
> _______________________________________________
I find Eckstine's singing tedious in the extreme. As I recall, he was no 
great shakes on valve-trombone. I had all the Emarcy 12" LP reissues at 
one time, and got rid of them. I have one Japanese Mercury LP of the 
better stuff. Savoy reissues of National sides were never as good as the 
12" Emarcys (e.g. Joe Turner and Charlie Ventura).

      Julian Vein


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