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There's quite a bit about them in this article (which had a thread devoted to it.) http://www.JazzWax.com/2009/11/how-remasters-are-made.html

Who originally did After Hours?

Ray Nance's A Train solo.

Well I guess that means that they weren't previously unreleased, but I've only been able to find one Philology disc. (Fortunately it was the one I really wanted-- Bird with Dizzy's big band.)

In his autobiography he complains that the didn't get to play jazz often enough!

That's the one. Some of the other material on it isn't that readily available either.

I was browsing Freakbeat Records on Ventura Blvd while my wife looked in the lamp store next door and came across a cd entitled Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie: Complete Live at Birdland. Of the 19 tracks 10 are "bonus tracks" not from Birdland including 3 from Billy Berg's December 17, 1945 which they claim are previously unreleased. Peter Losin's Bird discography lists all 3 and says one of them is on a Philology cd but the other 2 do seem to be previously unreleased. The sound is not great but the performances are. The rest of the cd has better sound and more great music. Warning: Amazon lists a cd with this title but it seems to be a different disc. I couldn't find this one on-line but it's RLR Records 88642.

Thanks for coming out Joe. Sorry I couldn't yak more with ya', but I had a bunch of people there that I hadn't seen in a while as well as the president of the Santa Barbara Jazz Society that wanted to talk biz. I hope you and your friends had a good time. Playing that high up in the air was a bit bizarre, not to mention the passive/aggressive staff that couldn't make up their mind on whether they wanted us to play inside or outside...but I thought the show was lotsa fun. Our workshop at CalArts the following day went VERY well too. Everyone had a great time. Sorry we couldn't stay for the 2nd set but 10:30 on a Sunday night is late in Santa Barbara. Hope it went as well as the first.

I used to have a 4 sided Lazer Disc of it. (What was that format with random access called-- only 1/2hr a side?--CAV?) and my daughter was so frightened of the monkeys that we used to show it skipping the side they were on, because otherwise she loved it.

I once watched it in a theater after eating a bunch of hash brownies. Thought it was one of the most brilliant movies of all time. When it went to colour: Wow!

Is that a great cover or what?! I'm also reading the new Monk biography and have finished 4 of the 5 books of Bolano's 2666. (only took me 10 months).

I just got a 2 cd re-issue of Mike Westbrook's Marching Song Vols 1&2. Great record but for some reason the notes only list the soloists on vol 2. Did the original release of vol 1 list them? Anyone have it?

Hope your feeling better. Are the blood thinners working?

I'm really liking this cd!

Well if you're going to get picky: the footnotes go awry for a while in chapter 7 but who except a pedant like me is going to refer to every footnote anyway.

Tonight? Reptet!

And since I've re-upped this thread let me add that my (fairly shallow) research on early critical reaction to Bird (verses how musicians claim they first reacted) has certainly not convinced me to rethink my position: even though critics liked Bird they don't seem to have understood his importance. (eg. The Downbeat review of Koko gave it a B-- which was a higher rating than most of Bird's records got, even though those reviews I've read are by critics who were sympathetic to Bop. )

I have never heard of this. Please site sources - even if you need to quote a critic. Page 150 of the Robin D.G. Kelley bio. I couldn't find where I originally heard/read this. Kelley cites Monk family interviews and says it was also mentioned in a bio by Leslie Gourse but I've never read that. Could it have been told in the Straight No Chaser film?

I'd barely heard of Annette Henshaw until a couple of weeks ago when a friend gave me a CDRom full of 78s he'd transferred. It included about 25 performances by Henshaw from the '20s and '30s. Listening to Black Bottom right now. Pretty good stuff.

I really enjoyed this. Didn't know a lot of it (e.g. that he was a fairly popular singer.) Loved the many interview clips with him.

Allen: Sure hope you get better man!

I did buy the Woideck book and really can't find any early references to Bird's importance. Dizzy seems to be accepted as the most important bopper. Leonard FEather does refer to him as the best new alto player somewhere around '45 (I'll check the date later). By '49 in Feather's Be-bop book he does make clear that Bird is the most important person in modern jazz but even in this book Dizzy gets more attention. (There's a picture of him as the frontispiece and he writes the introduction.)

When the Criterion Collection group was still in a big loft in Santa Monica I used to hang out there and one day noted that they were playing Coltrane for all to hear. When I mentioned it someone said, yes they'd decided to play only non-controversial music! (Admittedly I think they were playing The Gentle Side of cd.)

Night Float!!! What's that? It's not on my copy of the original release which would more properly be labeled a Mike Zwerin record.

Thomas Pynchon cribs from this in the epigraph to Against the Day though he makes it a bit more poetic: "It's always night or they wouldn't need light.-- Thelonious Monk"