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It's Canada. Laws are not enforced by lawsuit there as much as they are in the US.

I have a memory (perhaps false) of being at a taping of shows for Mose Allison and Jimmy Witherspoon in the summer of 1964.

I'm seeing them in Santa Barbara. My wife figured it was as close as she was going to get to ever seeing Led Zepplin. Now she's really excited because we saw Buddy Miller with Clem's favorite Emmy-Lou Harris and as a result she bought one of Buddy's cds and just loves it. I saw T-Bone with his own band and thought much of it was great, though I was disappointed in the cd with the same material. (That happens to me a lot-- I think many pop/rock/folk records are over-produced. True of some jazz cds too.)

I just became a patron. Thought this was an old thread for some reason. Didn't realize otherwise until I saw the "patron" thread. BTW Jim, it seems to me you should offer free shipping with the more expensive patronages. It may just be me but find it irritating to have shipping costs added when I've paid a premium price for something. I know it sounds crazy but I would rather be charged more originally than have new costs come up when I'm checking out. (It probably is just me.)

I got 2 responses from writing about this to the Duke-lym list serve: 1)The new DESOR lists the singer's name as Marguerite Lee rather than Long and indicates that neither song was released. DESOR shows only one take for each title. The missing matrix (E6785/6) is "Gone But Not Forgotten" sung by "Walter Richardson with the Ellington Trio." Again, DESOR shows only one, unissued, take. (86). 2) As mentioned by Leland Farley, the name was Lee not Long. She was Arthur Whetsel's second wife (noted sometime in DEMS, courtesy Sjef). The songs mentioned are part of the large number of commemorative items recorded by various people at the time of Florence Mills's death. The Lee items were never issued (despite the catalogue numbers) and presumed destroyed, as also was Fats Waller's original composition, though his accompaniments to other people's tributes have survived. Some years ago I posted the following info: Steven [Lasker ] tells me that Hardwicke and Braud were not on that session but instead some unnamed violin and cello players. My original information re Hardwicke and Braud was from Rust's "Jazz Records" but I am now inclined to accept Steven's view. Bill in Australia And then the bad news: Brad Kay's posted to 78-l (the 78 maillist of which, I think, several LYMers are also members) saying that he and Steven were at the "vault" (space apparently rented from the movie company by the music one) a couple of years back and that many 78 metal parts were there then including from Gennett, Vocalion and Paramount. His view is that if Universal Music/Vivendi hadn't moved the stuff (for instance to space they have in Iron Mountain's underground setup in PA), it would most likely have been lost, along with whatever else was there of course. Steven's view is also that the loss is likely to be very significant. Despite "reassuring" comments which have emerged unattributed suggesting that what was there was (a) only a small amount of what had been there, (b) further that that had been only a small amount of their total holdings (no doubt true overall but likely irrelevant), and © it wasn't stuff by major artists anyhow (again not really relevant even if considered true!), one view is that this way largely a repository of material acquired though acquisition of small labels, and that most likely noone knew all of what was there. My understanding (nothing more) is that - up to a couple of weeks ago at least! - a very great deal of metal existed for American Decca and some for Gennett and the original Vocalion and Brunswick labels too - all owned by what one could casually call MCA, now UMG - but that it wasn't all stored in one location, nor was it all in the best condition. Apart from at Uni and possibly in the above mentioned mountain facility, I do not know where else it is housed, however. I'd be grateful for any further information. Incidentally, I also understand that Sony (Columbia/ARC/CBS/etc. and now Victor/RCA) stores metal at (in?) Iron Mountain, but I do not know if they currently have any anywhere else. As a side issue, on Brunswick in particular, quite a number of what one could call "jazz classics" (including by Ellington) were still to be found, pressed from master, available to buy new in Britain on shellac in the '50s. Anyone any idea what happened to this metal as the microgroove era progressed? When I asked similarly of the EMI archive here some years ago they told me that "popular" (including jazz) masters has been destroyed at the end of the 78 era, but that they counted their "classical" 78 metals (negatives and positives) in the tens of thousands - I don't know if either statement was accurate. They list 78 metals for various labels amongst their inventory today. (Indeed, one can buy new pressings of some of these on the Historic Masters label, all classical vocal.) I wonder as, obviously, a good condition mother part would be as useful as the father (negative) original in practical terms... I know that some (a very small number) of mothers have emerged recently from Germany. I "won" two such on eBay - both Goodmans with Teagarden singing in 1933 - these are the only 78 parts I have seen, although apparently parts for the OKeh Mooche and Sweet Chariot and at least one or two other Ellingtons and a couple of Armstrongs have also come onto the market. All commonly issued material. Best, A

Is the "Steven" who visited the vaults Steven Lasker?

Happy B'Day and many more!!!!

Do you mean that that's not Prez we're hearing when we see him on screen?

... and the LP *Bird Is Free* is incredible ... unbelievable saxophone playing (Lester Leaps In - My Little Suede Shoes etc.) ... Davey was in school for that, too... Q Is the Bird is Free material from the Rockland Palace sessions?

Amazon claims they will have DETS 13 and New York, New York available in July 8. They're selling each of them for $16.

Happy B'day and many more!!!!!

I will get these of course but they have been available before (at least they're listed in Lewis Porter's book). But when I first read this this subject line I was hoping for some new discoveries. Maybe a transcription of the band when Hot Lips page or Claude Williams was still with them.

ii I used to own a copy of this. I think the material on it is available on various cds.

Wow that was scary for a moment. It didn't make sense for the Universal Music Group stuff to even be at Universal Studios since the music group is owned by Vivendi and the studio is owned by GE. At least I think so-- these companies have changed hands so often that I can't keep up any more. And I used to have an office on that lot quite near to where the fire was. (It's like trying to follow the explanations as to who owns the Brunswick recordings from the '30s.)

Why aren't the Canadians here standing up for Tim Horton's? Coffee and Tim Bits?

Jeremy Bentham! John Locke! Somebody on the show studied philosophy.

The closest thing to jazz they ever played on the only radio station where i grew up was Earl Bostic's version of Harlem Nocturne. I admit it's theonly thing I've ever heard by Bostic, though I once heard an interview with Benny Golson in which he cited Bostic as the best altoist he'd ever heard.

Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. Not why I happened to be there but it would have been worth the trip. One of the best concerts I've ever been to. An 800 seat theater and a largely Francophone audience that went crazy for the concert.

Actually you not only have to pay the actors, you have to get their permission to use the clips. Even for old movies. There's about to be an actors' strike over this very issue (amongst other things). The studios want to be able to sell clips without the actor's permissions, though they're offering to continue to pay for that right.

Happy Birthday Jim! You da man!

Part One: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.p...toryId=89852381 Part Two http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.p...toryId=90049515 ___________________________________________________________ Great interviews with Jackie McLean, Max Roach, Buddy Collett and Mingus's therapist.

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Austin, Texas. But it's really not in Texas culturally. There's a university and I read somewhere that housing prices are falling there. Every place on the West Coast seems to have become insanely expensive.

Ysabel's Table Dance from Tijuana Moods.

In his book "This is Your Brain on Music" Daniel Levitin points out "No known human culture now or anytime in the recorded past lacked music." Good book btw.