Mickey Andrews - Velvet Dobro

Mickey Andrews, a Canadian dobro and steel guitar player, is from New Waterford, Nova Scotia. According to the Canadian Pop Encyclopedia, he recorded five albums in the 1970s and appeared regularly in Toronto with the local act Cabbage Towne.

Andrews recorded with the bands The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, Chalawa and Atlantic Union. But not much has been heard of him since then, although he later worked with fiddler Sandy MacIntyre's band Steeped In Tradition.

Velvet Dobro (1975) was the third of Andrews's five albums and you can listen to and download the track Beautiful Yesterdays from the link below. The MP3 is from a 45 single.

Beautiful Yesterdays

None of Andrews's solo recordings appear to have made it to the digital age, either on CD or downloads. Used copies of his LPs turn up occasionally on line. The Canadian eBay site is probably your best bet.

Various Artists - Golden Instrumentals, Vol. 3

If you're into European orchestras and instrumental soloists, this is a CD series you should keep an eye out for.

At least half a dozen volumes of Golden Instrumentals were released on the Pilz label from Germany in the early 1990s. They were sold, cheaply, in Canada (and possibly the U.S.) in discount stores (Wal-Mart, etc.). All have long since been deleted of course, but they still turn up in the bins at thrift and CD stores.

This is volume 3 of the series and spotlights trumpet players like Serbian Milo (Milorad) Pavlovic, who played with the Clarke-Boland Big Band, Kurt Edelhagen Orchestra and the SFB Big Band. He has several selections on Golden Instrumentals, including a version of Bert Kaempfert's Wonderland by Night.

Wonderland by Night

Many of the recordings from the Golden Instrumental series are available as downloads from iTunes and Amazon. Volume 3 appears on both services under the title Die Goldene Trompete (The Golden Trumpet).

If you go to this page on Myspace you can watch an excellent video of the Milo Pavlovic Big Band performing in Berlin in 1981.

Dick Meldonian and Sonny Igoe - Dick Meldonian and Sonny Igoe and Their Big Swing Jazz Band Plays Gene Roland Music

Early in his career saxophonist Dick Meldonian had stints with the likes of Freddie Slack, Stan Kenton and Charlie Barnett. In the 1950s he began settling in as a regular in New York's recording studios.

Meldonian also managed some sporadic recording sessions under his own name including with a big band he co-led with drummer Sonny Igoe beginning in the 1980s. The recording pictured above (the one with the 14-word title) was released on the Progressive label in 1981. Below you can listen to and download a sample track. The MP3 is from the vinyl LP.

Abscam

The Plays Gene Roland Music album was released on CD in 1999 and, believe it or not, is still available.

Dick Meldonian is now 82 years old and no longer appears to be active as a musician. Sonny Igoe died this past March at his Emerson, N.J., home. He was 88.

Here's a video of their great big band from a 2003 concert in Emerson.

The Krontjong Devils - Surfin' Sounds of the Krontjong Devils

Instrumental surf music truly has spread all over the world, especially since the revival of the genre that began in the 1980s. and continues today.

Case in point -- the Krontjong Devils, who hail from the Netherlands. The group -- consisting of Gerhard Rinsma on bass, Kees De Vries on organ and guitar, Nico Plantenga, drums and Hendrik Jan Hors, guitar -- began in 1993. They were influenced by 1960s bands like The Trashmen, The Astrounauts, The Bobby Fuller IV and The Pyramids and by more modern surf and hot rod groups like Untamed Youth and The Phantom Surfers.

Surfin' Sounds of the Krontjong Devils was released in 1996 and was a mixture of surf standards and originals. From it comes the South Pacific song Bali Ha'i, always a favorite of surfing bands.

Bali Ha'i

Surfin' Sounds of the Krontjong Devils is no longer available on CD but it and another album, The Krontjong Devils on Tour, are available as downloads. On Tour also can be purchased on CD from the Amazon Marketplace.

The Krontjong Devils still appear to be active (as of 2011), but the band's website is gone and there have been no new releases for several years.

Still there are plenty of videos on the web to keep fans happy. Here's one of them, Our Favorite Martian, from the Surfer Joe Summer Festival on June 17, 2011 in Livorno, Italy.

Hugo Strasser & His Orchestra - The Dance Record of the Year (1983)

Last month, I posted a selection from German dance band leader Hugo Strasser. You can read brief biographical details and general information on the availability of his recordings in the digital age in that earlier post.

Strasser's most famous series of recordings is The Dance Record of the Year, which began in 1966 and lasted more than 30 years. Each annual recording was eagerly awaited by ballroom dancers both amateur and professional.

The album pictured above was the 1983 edition (released in 1982) and from it comes the Latin standard Brazil. The MP3 is from a cassette copy of the album.

Brazil

The 1983 edition is the easiest of Strasser's Dance Record of the Year LPs to obtain as it was one of the few -- perhaps the only one -- to be released in the U.S. It's available from a variety of sources. You shouldn't be paying more than $5 or $6 for it.

Brazil is also available on the CD Das Beste von Hugo Strasser that was detailed in the April post on Strasser.

Bobby Darin - Beachcomber

Here's Beachcomber, the "A" side of that 1960 Bobby Darin instrumental single Autumn Blues that was posted a few weeks ago. Again, the arrangement is by jazz great Shorty Rogers with Darin at the piano. The MP3 is from the 45.

Beachcomber

Beachcomber was included on Darin's album Things & Other Things, which is available as a download. The album was also released on CD in 2004 but has been discontinued. Copies are still available, however, from the Amazon Marketplace.

From YouTube, here's the stereo version of Beachcomber. Great sound, but you may wish to ignore the accompanying goldfish visuals.

Larry Nelson - The "In" Harmonica

Larry Nelson was a pseudonym for Larry Knechtel, the multi-instrumentalist (keyboards, guitar, harmonica) most often remembered these days as a member of Bread and for playing the piano introduction to Simon and Garfunkel's 1970 hit A Bridge Over Troubled Water.

But his list of credits was far more extensive than that. The artists with whom Knechtel played included Elvis Presley, The Byrds, Duane Eddy, Neil Diamond and countless others.

With all that activity in the studio, he released very few albums of his own. There was The "In" Harmonica and Boss Baroque (credited to the Carmel Strings featuring Larry Knechtel), both recorded for World Pacific in 1965-66. Later in his career there were two new age albums -- Mountain Moods (1989) and Urban Gypsy (1990), released as part of MCA's Masters Series.

On The "In" Harmonica the band included such Los Angeles session stalwarts as Billy Preston (piano and organ), Al Casey (guitar), Jerry Cole (bass guitar) and Hal Blaine (drums). The album consists mainly of covers of folk-rock tunes of the day, including You Were on My Mind, written by Canadian folk singer Sylvia Tyson and recorded with her husband in the duo of Ian and Sylvia. The hit version, however, was by a U.S. group, The We Five. Listen to and download Larry "Nelson's" version below.

You Were on My Mind

The "In" Harmonica has never been released on CD and is not available as a (legal) download. Prices for used copies of the LP are all over the map -- anywhere from $5 to over $100. Most prices tend to be towards the higher end of the scale.

In the video below, Knechtel, who died in 2009, plays A Bridge Over Troubled Water with Vince Gill in 2007 at the Musicians Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Nashville for the group of L.A. session musicians known as The Wrecking Crew. The video was posted on YouTube with permission of the Musicians Hall of Fame.

George Mann Orchestra - Theme from the Motion Picture A Man & A Woman

OK, let's get one thing straight: There was probably never an orchestra leader named George Mann, despite the fact there was a plethora of albums under that name on the ultra-cheap Crown and Custom labels in the 1960s.

Using the word "orchestra" is also a bit of an overstatement. Many of the Mann recordings, like the one pictured above, used a small combo, probably made up of Los Angeles session musicians.

You usually considered yourself lucky if you got a Crown or Custom LP that was listenable. Many of the recordings used very low-grade vinyl and were often pressed off-centre. The resulting sound resembled a bunch of drunk musicians recording in a van with the windows open.

I got lucky, picking up a very good copy of Theme from the Motion Picture A Man and a Woman by the George Mann Orchestra. Here's a sample; something called A Woman to Have, which sounds like it was titled by someone whose first language was definitely not English.

A Woman to Have

If this kind of cocktail jazz appeals to you, there are more than a half dozen albums under the George Mann name available for download from various sources. The quality of most is excellent, considering the source, but preview before you buy.

Dave Pike - Manhattan Latin

This 1964 album for Decca marked a bit of a departure for vibraphonist Dave Pike, whose previous recordings had been straight-ahead jazz.

Obviously, this is a Latin album, but one that is composed mainly of Pike originals rather than Latin standards. And it's one that appeals to a wide audience -- to those listeners who fancied jazz, latin music, exotica (think Martin Denny) and easy listening. So-called "good music" stations of the day were probably -- or at least should have been -- all over this one.

Manhattan Latin benefits from the presence of flautist Joseph Grimaldi, Hubert Laws on piccolo and tenor sax, latin percussionist Willie Bobo, trumpeter Dave Burns and a young Chick Corea on piano. Listen to and download the leadoff track, Baby, from the link below. The MP3 is from vinyl.

Baby

Manhattan Latin is ready available on CD and as a download. I've seen used copies of the CD advertised recently for under $5. Amazon Marketplace is probably your best bet for a used CD.

Another sample from Manhattan Latin, via YouTube. La Playa was composed by Chick Corea. Accompanied by photo slide show.

Preston Reed - Border Towns

Preston Reed, says the biography on his official website, "has virtually reinvented how the acoustic guitar is played." He plays in "a flamboyant self-invented style, characterized by percussive techniques and simultaneous rhythm and melody lines that dance and ricochet around each other."

Well, there's certainly a lot going in Reed's peformances and recordings and his technique is amazing. You certainly won't be bored, but the intenseness of much of his music may not be to everyone's taste.

As well as gigs with the likes of Bonnie Raitt and Linda Ronstadt, Reed has found time to record 15 albums since 1979, including Border Towns, released by Capitol in 1993. The MP3 of the title song is taken from a cassette copy of the album.

Border Towns

If this album sounds as if it might appeal to you, a new or used copy of the CD can be had very cheaply -- for as little as $0.52! A half dozen of Preston Reed's albums are available as downloads, but Border Towns is not.

From YouTube here's Reed playing Border Towns at the Fox Theater in Redwood City, Calif., on Oct. 20, 2011. Great view of his technique but sound is predictably subpar.

Willie Mitchell - Bad Eye

We've already had one slice of great Memphis R&B from Willie Mitchell, so how about another.

Bad Eye (b/w Sugar T) was released as a single in 1966 and managed to sneak into the Billboard Hot 100 chart at No. 92. The song was also included on the LP It's What's Happenin'. The MP3 is taken from the 45.

Bad Eye

Bad Eye is available on several CD compilations, the best of which is Poppa Willie: The Hi Years 1962-74. As well, the 1966 LP It's What's Happenin' is also out on CD. You can view the full range of Willie Mitchell CDs at Amazon.

Bad Eye isn't available as a download.

From YouTube here's Mitchell's 1965 recording of The Champion accompanied by a superb photo slide show.

Pee Wee King - Swing West

Perhaps no western swing album better illustrates that its roots lie as much in the popular big bands of the 1940s as in country music.

Pee Wee King's Swing West was first issued as a 10-inch RCA Victor LP in 1955 and reissued with three additional tracks and this cover in 1977.

King is best remembered today as the composer of Tennessee Waltz, one of the most popular country songs of all time. His contributions as a songwriter, bandleader, musician and showman spanned four decades and helped increase the popularity and sophistication of country music.

King spent 10 years on the Grand Ole Opy, introducing horns, drums and electric guitars to its stage. He was also a pioneer in presenting country music on television.

King, who is of Polish extraction, grew up immersed in polkas and waltzes. And he took much inspiration from big bands like those of Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton and Woody Herman. Among the tunes on Swing West was Herman's early theme song, Woodchoppers Ball. The MP3 is taken from vinyl.

Woodchoppers Ball

As luck would have it, all 11 tracks from Swing West are available as digital downloads from several sources. There is Pee Wee King CD out there called Swing West, but it doesn't contain any of the selections from the RCA LP.

To close, a sampling of King from 1950, Birmingham Bounce. There's an interesting selection of visuals in this YouTube posting.

The Singing Saxophones - Singing Saxophones

It's time for another recording by that most prolific of recording artists -- anonymous.

The group in question is dubbed The Singing Saxophones and this self-titled album likely came out in the 1970s. The band, all real instruments by the way, is obviously European and quite listenable considering the limits within which the musicians had to work. The tunes seem to be mostly arrangements of songs in the public domain, to avoid paying licensing fees I assume.

There are strong echoes of Billy Vaughn here, but with some European touches -- sort of a cut- rate Max Greger, if you will.

This record is on the Sounds of Music label, released in Canada by Arc Records, infamous for its poor quality and often off-centre pressings. Arc released the 101 Strings recordings in Canada and Anne Murray made some of her pre-fame recordings for the company.

For Arc, Singing Saxophones is a pretty good sounding record, way above the quality of their usual product. From it you can listen to and download A Tavern in the Town.

A Tavern in the Town

Another LP titled Singing Saxophones, which pre-dates the Canadian release and containing some of the same tracks, was released in 1971 on the Monopole label in Belgium and was billed as by the Jimmy Lockwood Band. The arranger is listed as Jacky Sprangers. Interestingly there are a dozen tracks by Jacky Sprangers and His Famous Sound available for download from most of the major sources. The album is called Tribute to Glenn Miller and contains a track called Singing Saxophones.

Are all three albums by the same person? Seems likely, but who knows.

V.J. King, Jr. - Slipstream

Young Australian guitarist V.J. King, Jr. burst onto the instrumental music scene with the endorsement of that country's electric guitar great Phil Emmanuel. His debut album, Shadow of a Dream, was released in 2001 when he was just 10 years old.

There was a flurry of publicity, appearances with Phil Emmanuel and his brother Tommy and a subsequent EP, Slipstream. Then it all collapsed because of what his website called "a major family disruption, one that caused his world to fall apart and his confidence to crumble."

There were appearances in Australia in 2005 and some European dates the following year. But a proposed 2007 gig headlining a blues festival in the U.S. didn't happen and a third album, Ignition, first promised in '07, then in 2010, never appeared.

Basically King's career seems to have stopped at age 15, despite so much promise in those first recordings and spotlight appearances.

He was obviously heavily influenced by Hank Marvin, lead guitarist of the British instrumental group The Shadows, on his two privately-released CDs. Below you can listen to and download Aubrey, from the Slipstream EP. As far as I know, this recording is not commercially available.

Aubrey

It seems doubtful that we'll hear more from V.J. King, Jr. in the near future. His website hasn't been touched since late 2010 and there hasn't been any real news since 2006.

From YouTube comes an appearance at the Schools Spectacular at the Sydney Entertainment Centre on Nov. 17, 2000. V.J. King, Jr. was nine years old. The Rise and Fall of Flingel Bunt was a hit by The Shadows.

There a couple of other excellent V.J. King videos on YouTube in which he plays in a blues-rock style during appearances in 2006. Look them up.

Mike Britton & Jon Green - Standards, Vol. 2

OK, I know this isn't a picture of a record album or cassette. The guy you're looking at is British jazz guitarist Mike Britton.

And what I have for you to listen and download is a track from a cassette, Standards, Vol. 2, he and fellow guitarist Jon Green recorded when they were street musicians in Bath, England.

The following snippet is from the files of the Chicago Tribune, dated October 1988:

HEY YANK, I TAKE VISA. . . .
In England, two street musicians in Bath, the ancient Roman spa resort, now accept plastic, too. Jon Green and Mike Britton obtained traders` licenses and plastered their open guitar cases with American Express, MasterCard and VISA signs. Explained Green: ``We got the idea because American tourists were waving their credit cards at us as we played.``

I'm assuming the cassette is from the same period. It wasn't purchased in the U.K. but turned up in a thrift store in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada. Who knows how it got there. In any case, here's Body and Soul from Standards, Vol. 2 by Mike Britton and Jon Green.

Body and Soul

Britton is no mere street musician. He has a long history in British jazz and pop and in the 1960s worked with major U.K. performers like Matt Monro, Vince Hill and Frankie Vaughan. After sojourns in Europe, the U.S. and Canada, Britton returned to the U.K. to teach at Dartington College in Devon, in southwest England. In more recent years he performed on some of the last cruises of the QE2 and has been active with the Torfaen Jazz Club in South Wales.

You can read Britton's biography at The Jazz Place portal. There's also a link to buy a recent CD.

From YouTube, here's a 2010 performance by the Mike Britton Trio. There's some wonderful playing marred by an almost deafening level of crowd noise. Recorded at the Queen's Head community pub in Monmouth, Wales.

David T. Walker - Going Up

Guitarist David T. Walker was one of the go-to guys for recording sessions from the 1960s-80s. In fact, he estimates that he has appeared on over 2,500 albums, film soundtracks, TV and radio commercials since he first entered a studio in 1961.

The hundreds of artists he has worked with include Motown stars (Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross, The Temptations), jazz musicians (Cannonball Adderley, Jimmy Smith, Pharoah Sanders), pop singers (Carole King, Barbra Streisand) and disco artists (Barry White, Gene Page).

Along the way, Walker managed to find time to put out 15 albums of his own, beginning with The Sidewalk in 1968 and following it with Going Up! a year later. Both were decidedly in a funk vein and from Going Up, you can listen to and download the Motown standard, Baby I Need Your Loving. The MP3 is taken from a 45.

Baby, I Need Your Loving

Going Up was briefly available on CD from Japan's P-Vine label in 2003. It has been discontinued and is not available as a download. Several of Walker's other albums from the 1970s are available from iTunes (and other sources), as is his latest release from 2010, For All Time.

David T. Walker's official website is worth a visit. There's a biography, discography, photos and links to some recent videos. And while we're at it, here's another sampling of Going Up, from You Tube.

Oliver Nelson with Oily Rags - Oliver Edward Nelson in London with Oily Rags

Oliver Nelson was a talented jazz saxophonist whose playing skills were eventually overshadowed by what flowed from his pen.

In 1961, he recorded Blues and the Abstract Truth, an album now considered a jazz classic. Nelson composed all the tunes, with one of them, Stolen Moments, becoming a standard in the jazz repertoire. Freddie Hubbard, Eric Dolphy and Bill Evans were among the musicians on the date.

But Nelson soon became in greater demand for his arranging talents than for his playing. Jimmy Smith, Wes Montgomery and Billy Taylor were among those who benefited from his skills. Nelson also began writing for the movies and television.

But in 1974 (the year before his death at 43 from a heart attack), Nelson made one of his infrequent returns to playing when producer Bob Thiele put him together with Oily Rags, a British rock group fronted by Chas Hodges and Dave Peacock. The duo was soon to gain fame as Chas & Dave.

Oliver Edward Nelson in London with Oily Rags, the result of the transatlantic collaboration, wasn't much favoured by the critics, but it's a pleasant, laid-back, blues-based affair. From it, comes Working Man, a Hodges/Peacock composition. The MP3 is taken from the original LP.

Working Man

As far as I know this album has never turned up on CD. And none of the tracks appear to be available as legal downloads. Used copies of the LP, which turn up fairly frequently, tend to be expensive.

Here's another track from the album, via YouTube.

Billy Vaughn - Dance Music

In the last post, you were able to hear Benny Goodman's version of Glenn Miller's hit, A String of Pearls. This time around you can listen to a much more recent version of the tune, courtesy of Billy Vaughn.

Vaughn did record this song for Dot when he was churning out album after album, and it appeared in 1960 on the LP Great Golden Hits. But this is a later version that comes from a 1984 CD for Japanese Victor called simply Dance Music. Vaughn apparently recorded a bunch of tracks specifically for the Japanese label. Some of them appeared on a Dance Music LP in 1979 so that's probably pretty close to the time they were recorded. Vaughn is said to have used his original Dot arrangements on some of the selections.

In any case advances in recording technology, and some superb musicians, make this a more vibrant recording.

A String of Pearls

Great Golden Hits, including Vaughn's original version of A String of Pearls, is available as part of a three-CD set, Long Play Collection: The Top Ten Albums.

Downloads of Vaughn doing big band hits, including A String of Pearls, are available. I suspect these are the Dot recordings -- possibly sourced from vinyl -- so tread cautiously.

Vaughn's Japanese recordings do not appear to be readily available.

Benny Goodman - A String of Pearls

It certainly wasn't unusual for big band leaders to cover each other's hits during the swing era, but Glenn Miller's No. 1 hit A String of Pearls appears to have attracted more than the usual attention from his contemporaries.

Benny Goodman, Woody Herman and Harry James all recorded the tune. In fact, Goodman appears to have put out several versions over his lengthy career. The first came in 1942 (the same year Miller had his chart-topping hit) for Columbia's OKeh label.

This is the version you can listen to and download below. The MP3 is taken from a 1972 Reader's Digest box set called Million Dollar Memories.

A String of Pearls

While most Reader's Digest vinyl sets boasted superb sound quality, Million Dollar Memories was not one of them. An annoying and cheap sounding reverb was put on many of the monaural tracks, presumably to give them a "stereo" effect. But the result is a bit like listening to a speaker placed inside a trash can. Give this set a pass if you see it in your local thrift store.

Goodman completists will want Mosaic's seven-CD box set, The Columbia and OKeh Benny Goodman Orchestra Sessions, which of course includes A String of Pearls. It will set you back $119, a not unreasonable price for what you get.

A much cheaper two-CD selection of Goodman's Columbia recordings, The Essential Benny Goodman, is available from the usual suspects (including Amazon). However, A String of Pearls is not included. There is a Goodman version of A String of Pearls available for download at all of the major sources, but it sounds like a much later recording.

To close, here's a video dubbed from VHS of a Goodman-led band doing A String of Pearls. This lineup was assembled on April 10, 1959 for what appears to have been a TV broadcast.

More details of this video are available here.

Lawrence Welk - Apples & Bananas

He was derided by music critics, laughed at by those who thought they knew what was cool, but boy was he popular.

Bandleader Lawrence Welk (his instrument of choice was the accordion) had one of the most popular music shows on TV for decades and built up a vast music and real estate empire. When ABC cancelled The Lawrence Welk Show in the 1970s, Welk took the program into syndication for years, making a lot more money than he did with the network.

There were plenty of musical gems along the way, although admittedly you had to sift through a mountain of crap and hokum to find them. Most of those gems were due to the superb musicians that Welk hired -- people like clarinetist Pete Fountain, guitarist Buddy Merrill and ragtime pianists Big Tiny Little and JoAnn Castle all worked for him at one time or another.

By the time the LP Apples & Bananas came out in 1965, Welk was so busy running his businesses that he wasn't directly involved in many of the recording sessions. Dot Records churned out as many as three or four albums a year under the Welk name, with Welk's musical director George Cates handling the recording sessions. But many of the musicians from the TV show did appear on the LPs.

The title song from Apples & Bananas features guitarist Merrill, harpsichordist Frank Scott and Jerry Burke on organ. Listen and download below.

Apples & Bananas

Here's a YouTube clip of Merrill, Scott and Burke playing the tune on the TV show.

According to the excellent Welk Musical Family blog, this was one of the last appearances Burke made on the show before his death.

There are close to 400 Lawrence Welk selections available from iTunes and other sources, including tracks from some of the Dot LPs of the 1960s. Apples & Bananas is not among them. There are plenty of used copies for sale online, but most are overpriced. Welk LPs still turn up regularly in thrift stores and in the dollar bins at vinyl outlets. So, my advice is ... happy hunting!

Tutti Camarata - Tutti's Trombones

Arranger, composer, conductor, producer and music company executive Tutti Camarata had his hands full running Walt Disney's music labels, Disneyland and its successor Buena Vista, for more than 20 years.

Camarata's tenure with Disney began in the early 1950s when the studio head chose him to head up a label to release soundtracks of his films. He stayed until 1972 when he decided to devote himself full-time to his recording studio, Sunset Sound Recorders, which he had opened in 1960. It became one of the most successful independent studios in Hollywood, and many of rock's biggest stars, including the Rolling Stones and the Beach Boys, recorded there.

With all his duties at Disney, Camarata still found time to put out a couple of great big band albums under his own name on Disney's labels. In 1957 came Tutti's Trumpets. Tutti's Trombones followed in 1970. Both featured the cream of Hollywood session musicians. Dick Nash, Frank Rosolino and Hoyt Bohannon were among the trombonists on the 1970 session.

From Tutti's Trombones you can listen to and download Blueberry Hill. The MP3 is taken from a cassette version of the album.

Blueberry Hill



Both the trumpet and trombone LPs were released individually and in a combined version on CD. All are long out of print and command prices that most music lovers wouldn't even consider. Used vinyl copies also tend to be pricey. However, digital downloads of both albums are available from several sources, including eMusic.

From YouTube, here's another track from Tutti's Trombones.