[78-L] The TIME-LIFE sets (was) Alvino Rey and The Kings

[Jeff Sultanof]

May made one album for Shad called Billy May '70 in spite of the fact that
it was recorded in 1961. I would love it if somebody reissued it; there are
some great things on it.

Jeff Sultanof

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Dan Van Landingham <
danvanlandingham at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I've got a copy of that May-Lunceford album on Capitol.My late friend Al
> Hendrickson was on it.It was
> another one of those that I got at some thrift store here in the Coos
> Bay-North Bend,Oregon area.It's not
> in very good shape as it was stored out in a shed and the jacket got
> mildewed.I'd heard that story before
> about the charts being in Thomas' garage.Al never told me about that
> session he did and I still keep comi-
> ng up with albums he played on with just about everybody.I've got some
> stuff he did with Gordon Jenkins
> on the TIME label of which I know little about other than Bob Shad is
> credited as being a producer.Of
> Skeets Herfurt,I've got another one on TIME and Skeets,Al and trumpeter
> John Best were all on the same album.May did a few for that label as I
> recall.Lunceford died up here on the northern Oregon coast
> in July of 1947 of an alleged heart attack.It was up in Seaside,Oregon.He
> was outside of some record
> store signing autographs.I don't know who he was recording for at the
> time;it may have been Majestic.
> The copy of "Cement Mixer" backed with "Just Once Too Often",an Eddie
> Wilcox tune,is in pretty bad
> shape.It's a red label Majestic like the copy of "Margie" I had a number of
> years ago.
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Jeff Sultanof <jeffsultanof at gmail.com>
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>
> The story is true, and it is about the Lunceford album Billy made in 1957.
> He tried to get as many ex-Lunceford musicians as he could, and he was told
> that Joe Thomas was an undertaker in St. Louis (I believe that was the
> city), but that he still played. Joe was flown out to L.A. and had a ball.
> May told him about having to transcribe the arrangements, and Joe casually
> told him, "You should have asked me. I have a lot of them in my basement."
> According to my information, Joe and pianist Ed Wilcox tried to keep the
> band going after Jimmie died, couldn't do it, and then split the book in
> half and went their separate ways. I've always wondered what happened to
> all
> that music when Joe died.
>
> Jeff Sultanof
>
>
> There's a famous story of
> > Billy May who transcribed many of the scores from the original rcordings:
> > he
> > was telling a felow musician what a problem and how time-consuming  it
> was
> > to transcribe one of the charts and how relieved he was when completed.
> To
> > which the musician replied something like, " Oh, man, you should have
> told
> > me, I've got the parts in my garage.
> > Jack Daney
> >        Big bands are definitely coming back.      How do I know? I read
> it
> > in DownBeat in 1952
> >
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