Tag: Jess Stacy

From the Record Shelves #314 – I Know That You Know – The opening chorus of the first tune on the LP reminds me of Cotton Club Stomp with Duke Ellington’s Orchestra. It may partly be due to the recording quality of the transcription because this is in the early forties about ten years later and played by (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #202 – Rose of Washington Square – Milt Gabler had a record shop since 1926 in Manhattan, across the street from the Commodore Hotel. In the thirties, he sold mostly reissues of the jazz classics from the 1920s, and one day he said to (…) read more and listenread more and listen