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A nice heartfelt tribute by John Batiste on last night's Colbert show:

How about the Trident in Sausalito, CA --

"Meet The Flintstones" by Hoyt Curtin, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera.

Ralph Sutton recorded several times at Sunnie's Rendezvous in Aspen, CO Are there more performers who have recorded at the Regattabar in Cambridge, MA?

I'm not sure if this venue counts as a jazz club, but Recorded in concert in The Sculpture Garden of The Museum of Modern Art, New York City

Sadie Vimmerstedt! She sent the idea for and what eventually turned out to be the first line for "I Wanna Be Around" to Johnny Mercer. He gave her co-composer credit and 1/3 of the royalties.

A couple of Bay Area club dates from Mose In Your Ear in Palo Alto, CA 19 Broadway in Fairfax, CA Carmen McRae recorded 2 volumes at at Ratso's in Chicago and one at Bubba's in Ft. Lauderdale, FL (it looks like a few people recorded at Bubba's including Ahmad Jamal, Sonny Stitt and Art Blakey) Dick Hyman at Chung's Chinese Restaurant Marian McPartland at Shanghai Jazz in Madison, NJ I would really be interested to know if there were any other recordings made at Dinkler's Motor Inn in Syracuse, NY

Yes. I only just found out about this one. I guess I edited my previous post before you replied. Know of any others from there?

How about a venue called Jazz at the Bistro in St. Louis -- there was this one and I just discovered this one as well

Most of the teams are still in position to win a Marble League Championship medal, but it all comes down to this, the final contest -- Event # 16, The Marblocross. Congratulations to today's winners and to the new Marble League champions!

Strangely enough, I do indeed have the Batman Viewmaster reels. That was actually the first time I got to see that show in COLOR as a kid! Continuing my Password binge and my ongoing love affair with Elizabeth Montgomery. This moment just made me love her more: That one clue demonstrates what a smart, graceful, classy woman she was. First, I love the little look she gives Allen Ludden after she sees what the word is and considers her options. Mr. Ludden rashly assumes he knows what barnyard term Ms. Montgomery is going to offer up as a clue -- he even gives her special TV dispensation to do so --, but she is having none of it. "That's not a word I would ever use on my own program and I certainly won't use it as a guest on some one else's program, either", she seems to think. I love the way she says "eye-ther". I'm an "eee-ther" pronouncer myself and I usually think "eye-ther" pronouncers are pretentious jerks. But the way Ms. Montgomery says it sounds so natural, so effortlessly natural, for her. Then she comes up with her alternate word clue so she can avoid saying that other crass word, Mr. Ludden (and the folks at home now) was expecting. Myself, I'da said "mule", but she goes for "burro" Now also flashing through her mind in all this, she realizes if she just says "burro", the other player might hear "burrow" and say "dig" or "excavate" or something. So she goes hard for the "boorrro" pronunciation. She's all in, because either he is gonna get the password from this clue or he's not, but she is giving it her best line reading to make clear exactly what she means -- "boorrro" And it worked! And then Allen Ludden tells it like it is -- and like she was!

I assume the conclusion of your question was "other than the Carnegie Hall concert?" The above boxed set is terrific. I stumbled across one back in the 1990's and consider myself lucky to have found it. They are radio broadcasts, so there will be a number of vocals and a number of forgettable pop tunes of the day and sometimes the two are one and the same, but the Liltin' Miss Tilton is generally always pleasant company. This set gives you a nice selection of both big band and small group sides. Columbia put out a collection of radio broadcast odds and ends -- no complete broadcasts included. It's called On The Air (1937 - 1938). I think this version of "Roll 'Em", from this 2 CD set, presents the band in good form, plus it gives you an idea of the audio quality. Most of the selections are listenable, but it is not pristine audio.

As a kid, the Batman episode that features Leslie Gore singing "California Nights" was one of my favorites, also with Julie Newmar _- I almost said "as" but we all know Julie Newmar IS Catwoman. In my ongoing Password addiction, I just loved the way Lena Horne says the secret word here: I suppose Goodson & Todman deserve some credit for doing their part by airing a racially integrated game like this. In 1963, I would guess this episode did not air in some television markets, since it presents a black woman as the equal partner ( if any one could equal Lena Horne) of the white contestants.

Disc 4 of 6.

Disc 1 of 2. The ticket stub I found tucked inside this box reminds me I saw him at Davies Symphony Hall in SF on Oct. 23, 1997

Last night I watched either or depending ow which poster you prefer, but anyway it was the Cinematic Titanic riffed version of this flick called The (bad) film's (bad) score was by Charles Earland. As one riffer mentioned, "It sounds like some one dragging a wet dish rag across the keyboard".

The teams rolled out onto the stadium field today for Event # 15 -- Football (don't get too excited, Americans -- it's only soccer )

This has been an "ear worm" of mine for all day, so I had to give a listen to the full song: One thing led to another and another Those are some pretty tight and powerful horn arrangements. How were the Grass Roots regarded back in the day? As just another pop band? I never have seen them mentioned in the same regard that bands like BS & T and early Chicago received. Were The Grass Roots playing any "jazz" festivals back in the day? Did they even tour with any horns? Each of those songs was a hit when I was a lad and I loved the sound that band had. I wonder if it had an impact on my future musical development. To me, it isn't such a leap from The Grass Roots to Stan Kenton, who I really discovered only a few years later. In fact, screw that Chicago album -- what I really would have loved to hear would have been a Stan Kenton Plays The Grass Roots ("Yeah, to a nothing - nothing draw", I can hear you nay-sayers say). I could really hear that 70's Kenton band, and especially the Kenton bones section, bringing this music to life. There would be no market for it today, but I bet some one could make a kick-ass big band album of Grass Roots songs.

Well, call me old school (but hey, my friends just call me "old"), but if you can't march with it, then you don't get to include it in your "marching" band. That's what brought my (admittedly mediocre) music career to a screeching halt. I played drums in our school band from 5th thru 8th grades. But when I moved on to high school, you couldn't play in the stage band unless you also played in the marching band. Being a 115 pound weakling at the time, I said "Eff that". Had I been allowed to stay on the sidelines and bang away on stuff, I coulda been a contender, Charlie. Instead of a bum . . which is what I am . . . But really, some one needs to make "The Jackie-ing March" happen one day.

Has "Jackie-ing" ever been performed by a college marching band.? The version heard here makes a strong case for it (and I'd be kinda curious to see/hear it now).

May he Rest in Peace. Oddly, I just got this in the mail yesterday. The second album on this disc is Oliver Nelson's arrangements of music composed by Mr. Theodorakis. I'll have to give it a listen today.

Steamboat Willie Nelson Eddy Albert Einstein

Congrats, sgcim! That sounds like a very worthwhile project. I hope there might be a way for those of us not in NYC to hear some of the music you select & perform for this concert