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Wonderful, laid back rhythm and instrumental playing. Never came across it before.

Do any of you serious jazz fans out there know anything about the tenor player on this jazz classic, Ray McKinstry? He sounds awfully like Eddie Miller! Could it have been Eddie Miller using an assumed name for contract reasons, or was there a Ray McKinstry? As someone who shares his surname, I'...

Harry - yes that would be good and would act as someone else's Christmas present to me. Can you email me details, please?

Thanks Harry. Amazingly clear compared with previous versions. The harmonic variations in Bix's breaks are outstanding, as is is muted playing.

@harryoakley There's plenty of McKinstry DNA in the US! Ray McKinstry played tenor on Muggsy's 'Big Butter and Egg Man', and Union Army Chief Quartermaster Justus McKinstry was court-martialled during the Civil War for allegedly fiddling money while supplying the St Louis area armies! Not to ment...

@harryoakley Wow! That's one impressive library! You are more than a serious collector! Thanks for the information.

A charming period piece low in musical innovation but high in atmosphere, beautifully restored. Loved the Johnny Saba/Al Bowlly style vocal. Did this kind of singing become a fashion, or is the vocal resemblance just a coincidence, I wonder? Thanks, Harry.

Delightful surprise! Great section work and a non-corny vocal to make the toes tap. Thanks, Harry, from Scotland!

Wonderful stuff! Yes, Johnny would have heard Bix when he visited New Orleans with Whiteman, we assume. Strange for New Orleans to be influenced, rather than to influence, but there y'are! we need more of Johnny Wiggs, if anyone out there can do us a big favour, and Raymond Burke as well as the r...

Wonderful arrangement and performance of a Fud Livingston number with a quotation from the (as yet unrecorded ) 'In a Mist' by Bix Beiderbeckeat 44 seconds.

Great disciplned playing and a recording as clear as a bell! Couldn't have been bettered by the Yanks, I think.

Bix's four solos on this are incredibly interesting and innovative, harmonically. Pity about the dated Kaufman vocal, although it was pretty much of its time: no Mick Jagger then.

Bix's sense of harmony opened a new world for jazz musicians.

Beautiful musical Christmas card with great images - thank you!

Let's remember Elmer Schoebel...composer of many great tunes, pianist and bandleader of the 20's and on...

...And the inimitable and uplifting Eddie Miller on tenor sax... .

Spirit of the Book of Revelation! Who else but Messiaen and his fine interpreters can conjure it up!

Sheridan magic again! Listen to those rolling chords!

Great recording. Exciting swing and great precision in the playing...was that Hutchenrider on clarinet?

Super, exciting band. Great to see the legendary Bob Helm on clarinet with his wonderful quirky style, great complement to Bob Schultz' crisp cornet and Turk's blatts!! But the rest are amazing too.