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I have a 3 inch Sting cd because it includes a long cut with the Gil Evans Orchestra which is not available elsewhere. (Yes I have the Johnny Mathis record with Gil arrangements too.)

He is fine but I missed Dannie Richmond. (Would I have known it wasn't him if I hadn't been told? I dunno. Lacked a bit of his snap.) BTW Why don't they list Jones as playing soprano as well as tenor and clarinet? Brian Priestly mentions it in his essay but I hadn't read that when I first listened to "Orange Was..." and I didn't know what was going on when I heard the soprano. (Thought maybe he was sounding like Bechet whose clarinet is sometimes hard to distinguish from his soprano.) Well said. (But I could live without the vocals.)

Got the Criterion version of Round Midnight. Watched the film and all of the supplemental material. Never liked the film when it first was released. Like it better now but I can't get past Dexter's playing. It does remind me of the last few Prez dates. Interestingly everyone interviewed in the extra material (Cuscuna, Gary Giddens, Maxine Gordon) admits that Dexter isn't playing very well but that it's ok in the context of the film. However everyone in the film keeps saying how great he is, not how great he was. One of the extras is a filmed performance of him playing "Fried Bananas" where you can see and hear how good he had been.

Discogs has more than 100 both cd and Lps cheap. The film seems to be available for rent in 16mm from the Filmmakers co-op

I saw Charles Brown during his "comeback" period. A great evening at The Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood. I once left a Charles Brown tape playing when I had my car valet parked. When I came to get the car the valet wanted to know who it was and where he could get it.

You should start a Canadian section; you could add the soundtrack to Michael Snow's "New York Eye and Ear Control": Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Roswell Rudd, Sunny Murray, John Tichcai and Gary Peacock. .

Does anyone know how this record came about? And on Jubilee? I looked in a Mingus bio but it didn't say much about it. For what it's worth I find the added material more interesting than the first cd.

According to this article in Nature. Sweden had 10 times the death rate as Norway in 2020 a country that is more comparable in that (according to this article) both countries are sparsely inhabited (compared to, I guess other rich European countries such as Germany. ) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-022-01097-5

I guess the two people I saw whom you'd have to be just about as old as me to have seen were Coltrane and Wes Montgomery.

I'm old enough to have seen them when I was a teenager but they weren't likely to have shown up in the small town I Iived in.

I can read it but for some reason I can't copy it. It's only a couple of sentences in which he says it's being released. and that even though he produced it he can't even remember who plays on it. (It may not really be being released if he got the two records mixed up.)

yes. Who he?

wow thanks so much for this. I don't think the last two exist in material form. They include everything that's only in the "complete" box. And it looks like the box is in chronological order of performance. With a bit (actually a lot) of effort one could recreate that order.

I was watching the new Criterion edition of The Girl Can't Help It last night and in an "extra" about the music in the film they show the 45 of Cry Me A River. Much to my surprise the label gives credit to the bass and guitar accompanists. The guitar player was Barney Kessel. I suspect he didn't get royalties.

Ira answered as follows (though he also says it good to go with your ears too). I worked with Benny and Jamey Abersold on this before Benny passed. The first chord of the bridge in this key of Eflat starts on: A flat minor going to G flat major in the next bar. Then B minor to A major to Dminor to C major, to Cminor to Fminor and then back to the top.

Under Hentoff did they make any bad ones?

I'll ask Ira Nepus who was a friend of Benny's and often played with him. Miles famously didn't know the bridge.

IIRC (and I often don't) the go-to East Coast rhythm section was Jones, Johnson, Galbraith and Milt Hinton. I think of Richard Davis as being from the next generation (maybe because he played on Astral Weeks) but I see he was born in 1930. And is still alive!

Howabout Elmer Bernstein? Man with the Gold Arm, Sweet Smell of Success and tv show Staccato.

Rose of the Rio Grand was always one of his specials.

Maybe even specify that they should be the same musicians-- I think no two recording sessions of the Miles nontet had exactly the same musicians.

I think it's great. One of the best Evans concerts I've heard on disc-- and I think I've heard almost all of them. (Though nothing surpasses the thrill of hearing them live.)

Well that may give me 10 or so years. I'm only 79.

Is there any way to get a digital version of Mark Murphy's original "I'l Be Seeing You" from "Rah!"? IIRC the song's composers made him redo it with the original words for all releases after the first one. (Same thing happened with "My Favorite Things".) I remember "I'll be seeing you /in all the old familiar faces/of the horses at the races/I'll see you." But I don't remember the rest and would love to hear it again.

I always thought I was only missing a couple of cuts because I own 5 cds of this material. But checking out Discogs I see that this set is 8 cds! I'd like to hear it before I die. https://www.discogs.com/sell/release/7998220?ev=rb