[78-L] Basie's Li'l Darlin' ^

[Taylor Bowie]

Kristjan,  I am no expert on Basie or anything else except maybe Sid Gary 
and Orville Knapp,  but I do recall the liner notes from a 1968 live album 
of Basie which has a fantastic version of Lil' Darlin,  and the notes say 
that the solo was "originally" played by Culley.

Hope that helps...I still don't have my speakers up and running so have been 
reduced to playing records rather than listening to things on the computer.

Taylor


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kristjan Saag" <saag at telia.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 3:24 PM
Subject: [78-L] Basie's Li'l Darlin' ^


> Any Basie experts out there?
> There is a live recording, originally issued by Echo Jazz on LP and CD
> (EJLP 03 and EJCD 03), that has popped up as a digital album - part of
> something called "Broadway Music Hall - Count Basie" (Orphee).
> I've been trying to find references to the recording but the closest
> I've got is this:
> http://jazzrealities.blogspot.com/2009/12/this-is-start-to-eddie-lockjaw-davis_20.html
> - a rather amateurish Eddie Lockjaw Discography which dates it to
> "probably 1957" and has a suggested line-up as follows:
> Wendell Culley, Snooky Young, Thad Jones, Joe Newman (tp) Henry Coker,
> Al Grey, Benny Powell (tb) Marshall Royal (as,cl) Frank Wess (ts,as,fl)
> Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Frank Foster (ts) Charlie Fowlkes (bar) Count
> Basie (p) Freddy Green (g) Eddie Jones (b) Sonny Payne (dr) Dave Lambert
> (voc) Jon Hendricks (voc) Annie Ross (voc)
>
> Does anyone have the correct data for this recording?
> I also wonder if someone can identify the trumpet soloist on "Li'l
> Darlin'".
> This and all other tracks on the "Broadway Music Hall" digital album can
> be heard in their entirety at
> http://www.musicme.com/
> Write
> Broadway Music Hall Basie
> and enjoy! The site is free for all.
>
> For those of you who have access to Spotify the album can be found by
> typing
> broadway music hall basie
> Of course i-tunes and other web-shops also have it, but mostly with 30
> sec excerpts only.
> Thanks,
> Kristjan
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