SEPTEMBER 2020 NEWS by JAY and CHRISTOPHER POPA

THE BIGGEST EDDY

DUCHIN SET EVER!

THE EDDY DUCHIN HITS COLLECTION

ACROBAT (UK) ACTRCD9099

It’s been 18 years since Columbia, now part of Sony-BMG

Music Entertainment, released anything “official” by Eddy

Duchin - and that was a single CD, “Dancing With Duchin,”

licensed by Collectables from the Sony Music Custom

Marketing Group, and, before that, a single CD in 1990 from

Columbia’s “Best Of Big Bands” series. Of course, there were

other Duchin CDs during that period, from Vocalion, Jasmine,

Take Two, and Diamond Cut Productions.

This new Acrobat release, with 71 selections on 3 CDs,

gathers Duchin discs from a 10-year period, 1932 to 1942.

The songs include Snuggled On Your Shoulder (Cuddled in

Your Arms), Night and Day, Ol’ Man Mose, Get Out of Town,

and Down Argentine Way.

It’s nice that Acrobat has released this big Duchin set and

so many other sweet bands on CD lately, but we hope they will

watch the sound quality more closely, because it is

disappointing in places. We also think that the print size of the

text in their CD booklets is usually very tiny (too tiny).

BIG BAND Alliance

MORE NEW CDS

FRANKIE CARLE, HIS PIANO AND ORCHESTRA

“San Francisco: Gold Mine In The Sky”

Sounds of YesterYear (UK) SOY 2208

STAN KENTON AND HIS ORCHESTRA

“In a Lighter Vein: Music From The NBC Radio Series

All Star Parade Of Bands”

Sounds of YesterYear (UK) SOY 2204

DUKE ELLINGTON AND HIS ORCHESTRA

“Blowing Up A Storm:

Two ‘Live’ Performances From The Hurricane Restaurant”

Sounds of YesterYear (UK) SOY 2203

COUNT BASIE AND HIS ORCHESTRA

“Smooth Sailing:

‘Live’ At Birdland January 6 / 7 / 8, 1953”

Sounds of YesterYear (UK) SOY 2203

[ followup to Basie “Lullaby Of Birdland” SOY 2198

in August “Monthly News” ]

FROM THE FILES

JOHNNY LONG

SEPTEMBER 1941 METRONOME

DINAH SHORE

SEPTEMBER 1942 METRONOME

COUNT BASIE

SEPTEMBER 18, 1958 DOWN BEAT

LOUIS ARMSTRONG

SEPTEMBER 16, 1971 DOWN BEAT

NECROLOGY

JOE SEGAL, 94, d.8/10/2020. Owner of the Chicago Jazz

Showcase club, 1947-2020. Guest performers included Basie,

Gillespie.

HAVE YOU SEEN?

Recently, we’ve added several items to our website, and we

hope that you have taken a look and enjoyed them.

They include:

• fresh “Bandleader Biographies” of Desi Arnaz, Georgie Auld,

and Bob Strong

• a comprehensive “Ready Reference” list of vocalists with the

big bands, then until now

• “Topics” of “Dining with the Bands” and “The Sports Section”

• “Collectors’ Checklists” of unusual 4-track tapes and a

selection of photographs from the Hugh Turner collection

• The first of a new series, “Diggin’ the Discs with Jay” about

the “Glenn Miller Limited Edition Volume1” and “Volume 2”

• lists of some of our personal favorite bands, vocalists, and

songwriters

• “Image Galleries” of “Bandleaders and Smoking,”

“Illustrators: Albert Fisher,” and “Publicity Photographs: Bert

Parry”

We’ve been busy!

And there’s much, much more on the way!

As always, you can give us some “Feedback and Follow-Up”

using the handy form. We would appreciate hearing from you!