Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Jazz Week: Art Hodes and Benny Goodman - no apparent connection

I've paired up these two records, by Art Hodes and the other by Benny Goodman, because their respective covers are in matching yellow.  My guess is - these are classic recordings by some all-time greats.  They were in my dad's (1913-2008) jazz record collection, of which I am now caretaker.  He got to see both Art Hodes and Benny Goodman (and many others) perform live.  Wow - click on this post's title for a little gem of Art sitting in with Bud Freeman.  And speaking of Bud - one of his records is coming right up in my next post this week.  I have this feeling that among all the thousands of vinyl records I own and post about (mainly '60's - '80's rock and roll records) this relatively small sub-set of great and unplayed (by me) jazz records (perhaps 50) is a pretty smokin' collection in it's own right.

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