medjuck

So was microgrove 33 1/3 recording superior 78 recording?

I have a vague memory that that records weren't described as "hi-fi" until a few years after Lps were introduced. Was there actually a change in recording or playback techniques or was this just a sales pitch? (Remember "Stan Kenton in HiFi".)

I used to have the Lilith soundtrack. I once interviewed Warren Beatty and much to my surprise he didn't like the film.

I finally read the article and have a couple of comments KOB wasn't always the best selling jazz recording of all time. IIRC it wasn't even the best selling Miles Davis record (that was Bitch's Brew). But it just kept selling for 50 years. And I don't know how old the writer of that column is but IIRC he's wrong about the amount of promotion it got. We were being flooded with Miles Lps around that time. The Prestige albums were still being released. And IIRC (I could get up and check) Giant Steps was recorded after KOB. And Jazztrack was much more readily available than the Elevator sound track. Those '58 sessions got a lot of airplay and recognition. Green Dolphin Street and Stella by Starlight each became as much of a jazz standard as So What. Every local and visiting group I heard in the early '60s had them in their repertoire.

One of the few cds I've traded after listening to it was a Lou Donaldson. I can't remember which one. I really like his playing as a sideman with Blakey and Brownie but just don't get him in his his funk mode.

I bought it when it was first released. I owned about 10 Lps at the time and only 2 or 3 that could in any way be described as jazz. I loved it and didn't know there was anything radical about it. I thought all contemporary jazz would sound like that . As a result I was very disappointed in the next few records I bought.

there are in fact real live tracks by the frankie newton orchestra from cafe society from january/february 1939! three tracks are on the "document records docd-1003" "rare live cuts": i´m gonna lock my heart (with billie holiday!), on the sunny side of the street and honeysuckle rose. the remastering from this original privat acetates was done by the one and only r.t. davies in 1997. keep boppin´ marcel Is this readily available?

It says Lucky Miillander Band. Is he just fronting it?

My bad. I must be doing something wrong with the search function.

I couldn't find one. Here's an obit: http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/20..._birth_of_rock/ I first read about his death on the Huffington Post! I usually find out things like this on Organissimo.

I saw a comic opera by Shostakovich in London a few years ago. It was about finding an apartment in Moscow!! Honest. I liked it so much I saw it twice. I think he did it to show he was a man of the people and not just an intellectual. IIRC he also did he music for the Russian film of Hamlet in the mid '60s. (You can see that my interest in classical music is usually about its peripheries.)

Of course e don't know what other people who didn't record were playing at the time of the ODJB but whatever you think of the ODJB, they were playing jazz (jass?). I wouldn't say that about Arthur Collins. Nevertheless thanks for posting this. It's fascinating. I'm going to try to drop in to see the archive as it's here in Santa Barbara.

I find ALL this very depressing. Do you know that only a small percentage of all the silent film ever made are still extant? There were probably masters lost (eg alternate takes) for which there are no copies.

PM sent on Ellington alternates and which ever Tubby Hayes you think is best.

I've never been to one and I'm a bit of a skeptic about them. But my wife goes to one and swears by her.

Heard from Garth. He's ok. Had some damage to some trees but not his house. (Most important his cds and Lps weren't damaged. http://www.organissimo.org/forum/style_ima...cons/icon1.gif) This was an attempt to add a smiley emoticon. I just dragged it up to here. What else should I have done?

Hawkins' recording career was so long that I think nobody's dared try to compile a complete discography. I've been listening to a few cuts from the early recordings he did with Red Allen but have had trouble finding more. Did they do many together and is there on good cd that contains some of them?

Had you ever heard Neil Young? He sure doesn't sound like Thunderclap Newman. BTW didn't Pete Townsend produce that record?

Wow. Where do they find these shows?

I think they go Fletch, Confess Fletch, Fletch's Fortune,Fletch's Moxie, Fletch and the Widow Bradley, Fletch and the Man Who, Carioca Fletch, Fletch Won, Fletch Too and Son of Fletch. Even the early ones are out of chronology which was confusing. Fletch and the Widow Bradley takes place before Fletch. Carioca Fetch takes place immediately after Fletch. IIRC the charcter Flynn is introduced in Confess Fletch and then went on to have his own series.

Ganja and Hess was a favorite of the critic/writer Jim Monaco. I think we published Jim's review of it in Take One, a film magazine I used to help edit. Jim mentions Gunn several times in his book American Film Now. (It was published many years ago so should probably be referred to as American Film Then.)

To answer my own question (at least in part) the Nontet was recorded playing Godchild at the Royal Roost on September 4, 1948 but didn't do an official studio recording until January 21 of 1949. Meanwhile the Thornhill band did a transcription in October of '48. Mulligan did similar charts for each of the bands.

He did a rather clever thing: putting Fletch's adventures in chronological order after he began the series so that the ones that took place earliest were published 4th or 5th and called: Fletch Won and Fletch Too.

Sure this wasn't earlier? He began to claim his name was Dylan by '61.

Glad you've picked a picture that looks like you, Niko. I always find it a bit disconcerting not to know whether or not I'm looking at an image or near-image of the poster. I mean, does Allen Lowe really look like one of Richard Nixon's seedier henchmen? Or does medjuck look like Clarence Williams - or is that a photo of someone else? Tiny Parham actually. I'll try to attach a picture. If it works, I'm the old guy. The others are my family. I do have a beard though only for the last 35 years.