[78-L] Deluxe, was TW Musicraft N7 set

[Taylor Bowie]

Jeff,  I've read/been told that Budd wrote some charts for the Gus Arnheim 
band in 1937...do you have any details?  Some of those Brunswicks are real 
swingers,  e.g. "So Rare"  and "Have You Got Any Castles."

Taylor




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Sultanof" <jeffsultanof at gmail.com>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 6:19 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Deluxe, was TW Musicraft N7 set


> Precisely why I treasure the Jubilee broadcasts of the Eckstine band. They
> are beautiful and swing like crazy. Budd Johnson was delighted when I told
> him I had them; he wrote the arrangement for "Air Mail Special."
>
> Jeff Sultanof
>
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> Is there anything worse in the 40s (for record quality)  than the Billy
>> Eckstine Orch sides on Deluxe?  I have stuff on every crap-ola label from
>> the 20s on....but not even the worst Grey Gulls drive me as bat-shit as 
>> do
>> those Deluxe sides.
>>
>> I've never been able to decide which is worse...the recording quality or
>> the
>> surfaces.   What kind of ground-up crud were those things pressed
>> from!?!?!?
>>
>> Of course I love the music on the damn things,  but not even tweaked-up
>> reissues sound any good.
>>
>>
>>
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