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Benny's close friend Ira Nepus just sent me this https://paw.princeton.edu/article/glenn-dryfoos-83-just-released-jazz-great-benny-carters-princeton-recordings

My apologies for forgetting. I was a bit overwhelmed at that conference.

I love this record. IIRC the rest of the concert was recorded but it's never been released. And I believe this Lp has never been on cd.

Nobody here has mentioned his work with either Billie Holiday or Harry Belafonte. Thats a pretty good band on the Matilda single https://www.discogs.com/release/1088176-Harry-Belafonte-With-Tony-Scott-And-His-Orchestra-Matilda-Matilda

Wow Tony Scott and Pee Wee Russell! I gotta get that.

I've met up with Jim (our fearless leader) a couple of times. Had a drink with Shawn Dudley (I forget his handle here) when he moved to LA. Feels like I've met Ghost of Miles, but haven't. Been at concerts where I later discovered others were there (in one case even interacting with them) and seen David Weiss with the Cookers.

Perhaps because of his association with Bird, Miles was also the best known of the group. Mulligan (who seems to have done more charts than anyone else), was only known as an arranger at the time.

Is there a compilation that contains most of his pre-1971 recordings? I've got Bald Headed Woman on that Mercury box set that looks like a radio but is there someplace I can find the original recordings of Go to the Mardi Gras, Tipitina, Big Chief etc.?

I was listening to some new (fine) Charles Lloyd on Spotify and when the record was over, Spotify, as is their wont, began to play supposedly similar things, including an interesting mournful muted trombone-keyboard duet that I realized was JJ Johnson and Miles from this set. I really liked it in this context. I also liked hearing Miles and JJ playing some funky blues though I would gladly give it all up to hear the apparently unrecorded sextet with JJ from the '60s. Despite a couple of clinkers (What's Love Got to do With It) I was surprised how much I like this set. I heard Miles at the Hollywood Bowl in 1983 and didn't get it. (He was double billed with the Gil Evans band and I foolishly thought he might sit in.) Listening to the Montreal concert makes me realize that it often takes me a few hearings/viewings to catch up to where the artists I like are going e.g. Jean-Luc Godard, Coltrane, even Gil. (Though I've never had a problem with Dylan's many mutations.)

I agree but IIRC the music works as a film score. BTW This film is presumably why Beatty chose Penn for Bonnie and Clyde.

When my friend Mike Goodwin died in Nola there was a brass band and we all became a second line.

"Louis Armstrong's Black and Blues". No new information for most people on this site, but some great performance footage and interviews that I've never seen/heard before.

No.

The Last Man Standing has fallen.

Happy Birthday young man!

For several summers in the late '70s I lived down the street from the Alcazar. Passed it everyday. Didn't know that it had any jazz nevermind Duke.

I got this when it first came out on cd so for better or for worse I tend to think of sessions rather than records.

Yes. It's on the original release. Is it on that Lp?

I've always liked "Musings" perhaps because it seemed a precursor to the quintet recordings. And I've always wondered why there was never a single cd release of the December 24,'54 Monk session complete with dialogue.

I remember thinking it sounded like bad Santana. I like it now.

Lord lists Don Byas and Lucky Thompson both on tenor on "Let's Go" (I got Rhythm). Losin lists the first Bird and Dizzy recording of Dizzy Atmosphere as early 1945. (February 28) And who knows if it was new then.

Has anyone done a breakdown of the all the shots from different films? But as good as the visual montage is, the sound montage is even more spectacular it seems to me. this must have required a lot of work. Anyone know who did it?

Thanks.

How do you add a thumbs up emoji because I want to and I'm digitally illiterate? You go to edit and the emoji roster shows up.

Aren't live versions of everything always faster? (Anyone have suggestions for tunes that got slower when played live? And I'm not just talking about Miles here.)