[78-L] Unidentified jazz group

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Fri Jun 10 13:32:45 PDT 2011


Okay, it's Illinois Jacquet..I tracked down the guy who recorded the disc. 
Evidently Fantasy Farm in Toronto WAS a jazz venue at times. I only know it 
from incredibly tacky Christmas parties (sparkling ceiling lights, lawn jockeys 
etc).

dl

On 6/10/2011 12:06 PM, David Lennick wrote:
> I love it when people don't identify what's on their nicely recorded
> transcription discs. Here's one labelled "Fantasy Farm, January 19, 1947" and
> containing extended versions of "Sweet Georgia Brown" and "You Can Depend on
> Me", a female vocalist doing "Embraceable You" and "Between the Devil and the
> Deep Blue Sea", an incomplete (7.5 minutes) "Body and Soul"..and not a clue as
> to the performers. Tracks were evidently dubbed from another source,
> announcements omitted. Nuttin'.
>
> Anyone have suggestions? Good tenor sax, trumpet and rhythm. This was in the
> same collection that yielded up a complete Illinois Jacquet concert.
>
> dl


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