Sharp, funny, sometimes hits [sadly] too close to home. "A Ladiesman" is my personal fav followed by "Walk Away", "Gang Bang" and "No Place To Be Somebody". But the album rocks all the way! Especially with that bad-ass band backing him up so strongly. C'ya round campus...
The Moneywasters Social Club had sold 557 tickets (50 cents in advance, 65 at the door) to its dance at the Rhythm Club in Natchez, Mississippi, on April 23, 1940. Tiny Bradshaw's orchestra, originally scheduled to play, had cancelled when a booking came through at the Apollo Theater in Harlem for the same night. The replacement was Walter Barnes 'Sophisticated Swing Orchestra, but nobody in Natchez's black community of about 9600 people was complaining. Clarinetist… more »
