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In some ways it's too bad that CTI overshadows his earlier work as a producer: Genius + Jazz = Soul, Blues and the Abstract Truth, Out of the Cool, Africa Brass, Jazz Samba....

Benny Goodman Trio.

I suspect it's out of print but how about Port of Harlem Jazzmen?

Saw him last night. He gave a long solo to his sax player in the very first number; a baritone sax-- the way rock n roll is supposed to sound.

Just finished both "From Swing to Bop" by Gitler and "Tonight at Noon" by Sue Mingus. I recommend both. And I'd like to thank all those here who recommended the Gitler. It's terrific.

Sinatra tried to buy Verve Records! ? And I didn't realize that Ostin had been mentored by GRanz.

It does capture his graciousness.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/08/the-saxophonist-charles-lloyd-still-stirring-the-soup-at-eighty-four Nice to see him getting noticed even if this is short and superficial. (And btw he lives a long way from Oprah and whoever the royals are. It's like saying you live down the street from Trump if you live in Miami.)

Isn't Marshal Royal playing clarinet rather than alto on some of the McVea cuts or has my hearing deteriorated even more than thought? The personnel listings only show him on alto.

This is great. Are there places where one can find Roney's reminiscences of Miles? All more interesting to me than his "bio".

I wonder if they do much market research? I always thought this forum (for better or for worse) was a representative sampling of the jazz cd buying public and they're doesn't seem to be much enthusiasm for this set here. I've never been on the Hoffman forum; do they display much different taste?

Resistance is futile.

Well I've now read it and quite enjoyed it. Book is divided into 4 parts each built around a jazz musician: Jo Jones, Fats Waller, Pops and Duke. He tells other, probably apocryphal, stories about gigs he implies he attended: he may have seen Trane with Monk but I doubt if he was present at an encounter between Buddy Rich and Big Sid Catlett. (Big Sid died when Appel was 15). I don't buy many of his interpretations of works of art (for him a cigar is never just a cigar) but his close reading jazz recordings is really interesting and his writing on Joyce's Ulysses is terrific.

Ted Gioia started this: https://www.change.org/p/give-duke-ellington-the-pulitzer-prize-he-was-denied-in-1965?utm_content=cl_sharecopy_33959600_en-US%3A3&recruiter=1109027729&recruited_by_id=e91caf70-a6c9-11ea-881e-2d025b4bf7df&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_message&utm_term=psf_combo_share_initial&share_bandit_exp=message-33959600-en-US

They've organized the sessions by theme or style rather than chronologically e.g Disc 4 is all women singers. Works for me but have they ever done this before?

Yeh.

Arrived in Santa Barbara. Given that you can't get much further away on this continent from where it began its journey, everybody should have theirs soon.

I've read both books and like the way they contradict each other at least in terms of their evaluations of individual songs. Marcus's chapter on the Harry Smith anthology is really good but as a Canadian of a certain age I was offended by his condescension to Ian and Sylvia.

One of the first jazz Lps I ever bought --some 60 years ago. When I got more into jazz I learned it was frowned upon by hipsters.

Right. I read (too) fast.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogie_Woogie_(album) Has this ever been released as a cd (or even as an Lp)? And were they 10" or 12" 78s?

Me too. I can barely believe that it's the same guy on his own recordings.

I don't think this is true.

My copy of Jazz Modernism finally arrived. I may never get around to reading it but it's a beautiful book with many great illustrations: photos of musicians and colour reproductions of art works. Even the spine of the book is illustrated.

Just reading "From Swing to Bop" -a great book btw- and Ira Gitler explains that he was originally called "Kinney, short for McKinley".