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Who's the "they"? The Jazz Heritage Society? Do they have many exclusives? On iTunes it says it's from MusicMasters.

Bix played piano licks too. . . There's a documentary about him where one of his ex-band-mates plays an unrecorded Bix piano piece. He discusses it first, then says to the interviewer "Should I play it for you?". At that point the audience I saw it with all yelled out "Yes!".

So then it wouldn't be OOP. Were the others all out of print?

So ol' Bob knows what he's talking about. (Actually I don't think he writes the shows-- though they do reflect his taste in music.)

No "Koln Concert"? They probably sell enough of those at the regular price. (I'm presuming that it's their biggest seller-- though I've never read that anywhere.)

One of the Gil Evans biographies suggests that Gil could have sued The Doors over Light My Fire because of its resemblance to his own Jambangle. But I think I remember hearing a Basie number that ended with that same riff. (The one that goes "Come along and light my fire" in the Doors' version.) Anyone know what I'm talking about or is this just another of my acid flashbacks?

I was listening to one of the Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Shows the other day (the theme was "Birds") and he claimed that Hoagy Carmichael based Skylark on a Bix solo. If this is true, what solo is it. Ooops I just realized that it may not have been a recorded solo. (I've also heard the Stardust was very influenced by Bix.)

When I was in college I could always get people to leave my dorm room by putting on some Ornette or Trane records.

I don't have many duplicate cds (it's easy to trade them in LA) but I have a lot of duplicates of single tracks. e.g. I must have Hawk's Body and Soul on about a dozen different cds.

A sentence in the new Mosaic catalogue re: their new OP box set reads: "Norman Granz' vision of the "Songbook" album, was perfected by the trio and the series of "Oscar Peterson Meets…" have long been unavailable and are finally in one package." I know there area no "OP Meets....." in this set. Does this mean they're planning another box in the future? Or did a line of type get dropped? BTW They mention that there were several masters missing from the Universal Music vaults. After the infamous fire there maya be several more missing.

I no longer have my SACD set -up (had to get new amp for HDTV) but my memory is that they'd changed the placement of the bass on the SACD. Not that the original was necessarily more "correct"-- just what i was used to hearing for more than 30 years. I was thinking about this the other day and realized that I've been listening to KOB for nearly 50 years, not 30. Got it from the Columbia record club when it first came out. I guess I'm older than I think.

wtf??!!! WHO IS THIS GUY? Someone too chickenshit to give his real name.

Not for the Parker. Just for the Dizzy.

And Chuck gets a "thank-you" in the notes.

Jelly Roll Morton: Mamie's Blues.

I'm more interested in the pre-65 stuff controlled by the first wife. I wonder what is its status.

I no longer have my SACD set -up (had to get new amp for HDTV) but my memory is that they'd changed the placement of the bass on the SACD. Not that the original was necessarily more "correct"-- just what i was used to hearing for more than 30 years.

Yes there version of the 2nd Mili film is almost unedited footage. There is an official release with some other interesting stuff on it IIRC.

It's available on an amazing 2 DVD set that also includes Jammin' the Blues, the Dizzy/Bird tv appearance, the 2nd Norman Granz film "Improvisation" with Bird, Bean and Prez and The Sound of Jazz. It's rightfuly called " The Greatets Jazz Films Ever." However it is possible that the Sony release will look better. They may have access to the original materials since the show was not shown live. That would suggest that CBS would have made sure that they had good film materials for later broadcast. I believe that The Sound of Jazz was broadcast live and the best extant prints are Kines. Unfortunately that may also be true of The Sound of Miles Davis-- I'm not sure what the technology was for recording multiple camera tv shows at the time. I believe it was before video tape was commonly used .

Let's see: how many iterations of KOB have I owned: 1) Lp 2) Original cd. 3) Gold Disc (still the best sounding) 4) SACD 5)Miles/Trane box 6) Duo disc with DVD included. I still own the last 4. And since I also have cds of the 2 European concerts and Ashley what's-his-name's book, I think I'll pass on the new one.

And what's all this cost?

The new Uptown Dizzy at the Spotlite cd booklet contains several photos from the film "Jivin' in Bebop". I'e seen segments of it but never the whole film. I notice that it's available from . Is it worth getting?

What was the 3rd Lp not included?

Now there's a blast from the past. I used to have the score from Lilith on Lp. IIRC Phil and Quill played on it. Was it on Verve?

I didn't know this existed. Was it released in France?