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I just discovered a free app you can download to your iPhone that allows you to listen to a 100 or so public radio station via the 3G network. So this morning I was listening to a Jazz station from Phoenix and when they went to local news and interviews I switched to KCRW in Santa Monica. (And I'm in Toronto right now!)

IIRC Mole also produced a few records. I had an Lp they released of the parts of the Gil Evans Royal Albert Hall Concert that were left out of the RCA Lp from the concert. I did manage to visit the store a few times when I was in the UK in 2000. Has anything in London replaced it and Dobell's (sp?) Is Ray's gone too?

I just found this on the Smithsonian website re: Folkways (took some searching): "As a condition of the acquisition, the Smithsonian agreed that virtually all of the firm's 2,168 titles would remain "in print" forever--a condition that Smithsonian Folkways continues to honor through its custom order service. Whether it sells 8,000 copies each year or only one copy every five years, every Folkways title remains available for purchase." I'm not home to check whether the one I got was a CD-R but I see you can also download (even single tracks!) for about half the price of a cd. Wouldn't it be nice if every label had this policy.

IIRC The Folkways catalogue is available on demand from the Smithsonian. I got a cd with cuts by Gil Evans and Maryy-Lou Williams from them. It was originally a compilation Lp and they include the original liner notes. I'm not home so I can't check it for info right now.

Someone told me recently (Friday in fact) that George Avakian came up with the idea for the Columbia Record Club.

Getting back to the original post: I think that if you replace the term "hard bop" with "funk"-- a term that was used a lot at the time, you might have a different conversation. I do remember that after "Moanin" came out there seemed to be an attempt on the part of Blue Note to reproduce ti's success. (There were probably earlier examples of funk but I can't think if any right now.)

Port of Harlem Jazzmen is OOP.

A Drum is a Woman!

Yeah, that would be about the right timescale for Harriott & co. at the Marquee. Would have loved to have seen that ! Is it true that the band-room there had a pet rat? I saw the Harriot Quartet at the Marquee in the summer of '64.

Phil Schaap claimed that the originally released take wasn't in stereo and that's why it got left off. He also claimed he wasn't responsible.

Information on soloists would have been nice. Does Mosaic ever post things like that?

Enlighten me. Well the liner notes spend a lot of time discussing a famous take of "Up and Down" that they left off the cd. It can be found on a cd celebrating Ralph Ellison.

There's none in the booklet. Were there some for the original release?

I work in a business that is very unionized and most people are highly paid. And though I might complain about how it adds so much to cost of filmmaking I find most union crews to be terrific. And I like working in a business where I don't feel I'm exploiting anyone.

You're right! I'm talking about Saturday the 29th. Is Schneider Sunday or Saturday?

I have to decide whether to spend the Saturday after Thanksgiving in New York or Toronto. Anything special Jazz-wise going on in either place?

Depends on when the Great Depression ended in one's perception; many would say 1939 with the beginning of the war economy of World War II. The earliest tracks on the Mosaic date from August 1939, just before the war started in Europe. I recently heard someone say that in the US it didn't really end until 1942 when they finally entered the war. (OK DEc 1941). I certainly don't have the knowledge to argue.

I'd try to get Katanga. Ray Crawford accompanying Dupree Bolton & Curtis Amy. When I walked into a room and heard ray soloing I thought it was Out of the Cool.

I think that's the one I meant. The one with the off-mic solo for 29 choruses or whatever? No you were right. I think all (or at least most) of the original '58 was fake too.

As were parts of Ellington at Newport '56.

49!!!! A mere child. Happy B'day and many more!. Hope you get to be an old man like some of us here.

Funny: Just last week I was trying to find a copy on-line of his song "Thoughts on a Rainy Afternoon". It's the one that goes (IIRC) "Oh Jesus, don't let Toronto take my song from me." I probably haven't heard it in 30 years but it's one of those songs that haunts me. (There are many such songs.)

Is that "$10 for Liquor"?

There's a picture of Roscoe Mitchell surrounded by saxes on the cover of a Sackville record. I'm not sure whether the big one is a bass or contra-bass. Which is bigger? One of them needs a stand to be played. (I think.)

Just saw Haden and the Liberation Jazz Orchestra in Santa Barbara. Agree with the posting above, though I liked all the soloists. My only complaint is that the saxes weren't miked and couldn't compete with the brass. Small hall (600) only about 2/3 full but those who were there loved it. Me too. I was thinking of going without my wife (she's not a big jazz fan) but she came along and was knocked out.