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I just received a 2003 Blue Note CD, and it is "Copy Controlled". I remember that this drew a lot of ire when these CDs first appeared, and I was angry when I saw the CD.
Just what does this "control" control? I don't want to burn a copy of this CD, but I went through the motions on my computer, and it worked fine. The disk plays on my CD player.
It seems to be the same as a normal CD.
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Joe Henderson (tenor sax), Kenny Drew (piano), Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen (bass), Albert "Tootie" Heath (drums) is a good lineup. I'd like to hear that.
A favorite Henderson track is "Lazy Afternoon" on the "Power To The People" album. Great mood, and Herbie Hancock plays a superb riff on it.
Joe's playing on Miroslav Vitous's "Infinite Search" is excellent.
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A few weeks ago, I got a download of all the original Perry Masons.
Apart from the cars etc., they have not really dated. I enjoy watching them. They made a very large number of them each season - well over 30. It must have been hard work.
The first season is 1957, and there is a great collection of Batmobile cars. Great fun to watch. Their suspension was lousy and the cars bounce a lot when they come to a halt.
The police and the D.A. are portrayed as morons who just use shallow circumstantial evidence, such as the murder weapon planted in the defendant's car's glove compartment.
Some of the plots are quite complex.
No annoying canned laughter, of course. The music is awful, and I wish I could remove it.
Check it out.
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Stay tuned for the next Greek letter.
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Wonderful alto saxophone player. Never played badly. And he was always in tune - not a given with that instrument; some of the alto players on Blue Note sessions were way off.
I love the Savoy and Riverside sessions on which he appeared. My favorite of his groups is the sextet with Yusef Lateef, who added some needed spark to the sessions.
And though Cannonball was not an innovator like Trane, he didn't fall apart in anguish like Rollins, who was a mental case in my opinion.
Five stars for Cannonball. Sad that he died so young.
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I got this one out again a couple of days ago. I had the LP of it in the 1970s, but now I use a CD.
This is a superb session, with Harold Land, Chick Corea, Reggie Johnson and Joe Chambers. It occurred during a three-week time together.
It was not recorded by Rudy, but the sound is good, and the CD, from 1988, by Malcolm Addey, is excellent. No need for a Japanese upgrade, though there is a recent Japanese CD.
Five stars all round.
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Today, and for the last couple of days, Wikipedia has been nagging for a donation.
Take a hike, Charlie.
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Ha ha. E natural.
When I was 16, a friend and I used to have a blow at lunchtime at school. He had a Fender guitar and was into rock. I played the alto saxophone then. Rock musicians play everything in E, so I had to play in the alto's C#. Good practice.
That whizzbang thing that Jimmy Dorsey used to play (it's on Youtube) is in concert E. What a technician he was.
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Well, Db is extra work on a tenor saxophone: more keys to press.
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The Benny Goodman movie music has at last arrived on CD
https://www.jazzmessengers.com/en/70441/benny-goodman/the-benny-goodman-story-complete-soundtrack
Highly recommended, because of its cast. That says that "Sometimes I'm Happy" is being released for the first time, but it is on Vol. 2 of the 2 LP set.
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I once corrected an article on Wikipedia and they deleted it and sent me the same rude message that Chuck got, so I'm not going to do it again.
Their website is very handy for "neutral" topics, but I strongly dislike them, for reasons I won't go into on this site.
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That is one tune that I would never play, even at a blowing session. Add "There Will Never Be Another You" to that list.
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My error about the key in which Miles played "Green Dolphin Street" (for which I apologize) has led to some interesting posts, so I'm glad I started the thread.
Yes, Db was a popular swing era key. On the session with Oscar Peterson, you can hear Prez asking to play in "five flats". The original "One O'Clock Jump" starts in F on the piano and goes to Db for the main part. The Benny Goodman version, for the movie, follows the same pattern. The Goodman version, with its excellent cast (including Buck Clayton, whose name couldn't be listed) is way better than the original. If you want the two albums from that movie, you will have to go to vinyl. Jimmy Smith and Stanley Turrentine recorded the tune in C (with no key modulation at the start}.
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Everyone knows that Miles Davis recorded Green Dolphin Street in C. But The Three Sounds recorded in in Eb.
I wondered what the "official" key is. An online search yielded nothing.
Miles was not a reliable source for keys. He recorded Straight No Chaser in F, but Monk wrote it and played it in Bb. There is no advantage in changing it to F.
Anyway, I checked the trailer for the movie, and the orchestra plays in in Bb.
It doesn't matter very much.
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I'm very sorry to hear this.
I lived in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 1972 to 1976, and I frequently played with Barney. I was teaching Math at Wits University, and soon after I arrived there, I discovered that there were blows every Sunday afternoon in the Student Union building.
Barney was often there. We were good friends.
Kippie Moeketsi was there from time to time, and we played together.
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I can now add to my listing at the start of the thread.
The following very lengthy article has a lot of information about the Parrot label
https://campber.people.clemson.edu/parrot.html
They issued a lot of singles, some in 78 format, and others as 45s. Among them are two singles by Ahmad Jamal, with Richard Davis on bass and Ray Crawford on guitar. A fifth track was recorded, but not issued.
Some kind souls have uploaded these two singles (both sides) to Youtube
"But Not For Me"/"Seleritus"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk9rCemgHmY
and "Excerpts From the Blues"/"It Could Happen To You"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySgFnPAon34
I was surprised to find these rare items.
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I call them yapperanians. I like most dogs, but not those.
It is hilarious that the guy used that dog to lampoon that horrible piece of music, which, sadly, is heard a lot.
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I have just replayed the 1960s Monk piano solos. Does a 2 CD set count as a "box"? The set is called "Monk Alone" and is a delight to hear. Plenty of stride, and plenty of originals.
Track 3 on CD 2 is erroneously titled. Its name is "Blessed Assurance".
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Wonderful to hear your news, Pim, and best wishes.
I don't know what to suggest for a newborn. Just pick quality, melodic material.
I can add my experience at a very young age. From about 4 onward, I was allowed to play my Dad's 78s on our clockwork phonograph. I enjoyed Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Jack Teagarden and others. He had some Django Reinhardt/Stephane Grappelli disks, which I couldn't stand because the playing sounded violent to my young ears and the phrases they played sounded unpleasant.
Later came Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Louis Armstrong and, on the radio a lot, Nat Cole singing.
Of course, that was a different era, far removed from today.
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Here it is
This is not the entire cartoon, but you can hear the bass saxophone in the intro.
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I, also, like Adrian Rollini's bass saxophone solos. As I recall, they are few and far between, and short, too.
I bought my current soprano saxophone from a guy who plays a bass saxophone in a dixieland-type quartet. He IS the bass for that group. We met for the transaction at a town halfway between his and mine, so I never got to see the bass. He showed me a photo of the quartet.
Saxophones having a conical tube, the bass is ridiculously large, and it only goes a fourth lower than the baritone (a third lower if the baritone has the low A), so it's not worth bothering about really. After its early oompah days in jazz, it and the sousaphone were replaced by the much nicer-sounding string bass, of course.
Many will have seen the cover of a Bud Powell album showing a bass saxophone. Apparently, Stan Kenton's ridiculous orchestra was at the same gig.
The Warner Brothers' cartoons had superb orchestral scores. A new score was composed for each cartoon. Talk about quality. The orchestra was large, and you would get a variety of instruments. I was watching the cartoon where Elmer Fudd checks into a hotel room, very tired and crabby. The clerk puts a drunken and blabbermouth Daffy Duck in the same room. The opening score has a very clear bass saxophone phrase. I checked, to see if it was a baritone, but it went lower. I might try to find a link to that cartoon, which is a classic in any case.
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Thanks for letting us know about this, Brad.
I watched it. I have known some things about Bix since the early 1960s, when I was given a copy of Orrin Keepnews's "Pictorial History Of Jazz" and later got to talk briefly with Eddie Condon about Bix. This documentary gives many more details and includes far more than the two or three photos that are always shown.
What a depressing life the man had, touring around so much to ugly cities and playing that two-beat music to dancers. That destroyed him. There is nothing to envy. Playing a 16-measure solo in some tunes in Paul Whiteman's bloated orchestra is not my idea of enjoyment. If only Bix had lived in, say, the 1950s, when jazz was much better developed, with lots of solo room, good material to play, and excellent sound engineering. With his talent, he would really have flourished, and might have lived a long life.
Quite disturbing to watch.
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Thanks.
Anyway, the CD sounds fine. It makes what Flanders and Swann would call "a cheerful sound".
If there are embedded whatevers, I am blissfully unaware of them.