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I may be able to answer my own question by asking another: How many minutes could you get on a 12 inch 78?
I was checking out V-Disc 760 (Billie Holliday and Louis Armstrong singing "Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans" and noticed that it's 6:34 . V-Discs were 12 inchers usually with the music from 2 10 inch discs per side. (Or were they perhaps one-sided only?)
I had a cd of Billie Holiday V-Discs and was listening because of a question that had been brought up about the Pops/Lady Day "Do you know...." when I noticed how long it was. Actually reading the liner notes for that cd I infer that the V-Discs were one sided. If so a 12 inch 78 could obviously hold 6 minutes +.
Anyone here know much about V-discs? Or about 12 inch 78s in genereal?
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(I thought I posted this already but can't find it. If it's a duplicate I apologise.)
I've been listening to a European semi-bootleg collection of early Serge Chaloff ("The Serge Chaloff Memorial-- We the People Bop". It starts with 2 studio recordings of Blue Serge done
for Dial in 1946. One of them is 6 minutes long! Was it originally issued on 2 sides of of a 78? Also what method of recording was used in the studio to cut a number at this length? And if Ross Russell could do this for Chaloff why did he never do it for Bird?
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. Bird and Diz were both really "ON."
To rephrase a question I asked earlier in this thread: Were they this good every night around then? This may be the best live performace I've heard by them. Anyone suggest any they think are better? I'm still befuddled by the lack of enthusiasm from the contemporary reviewers quoted in the liner notes.
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I'm a little disappointed in some of the "Columbia Small Group Swing Sessions" and I hated the liner notes. But that unreleased Ruby Breaff session with Pee Wee Russell is so good that it's worth the price of the set. (Well maybe not.) I'm also not nuts about all of the HRS sessions but I'd probably be one of the people complaining if the set wasn't complete.
And though this may be heresy I probably could have survived with a 2 disc best of Bix/Tram or
Venuti/Lang.
In terms of other sets people have listed: I love every little bit of the Candid Mingus and even the Benedetti/Bird.
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Hey I was at the taping too! I interviewed Wilie the Lion but to be honest didn't know enough about him at the time to do a decent interview. (Billy Crystal once told me that The Lion named him "Face"-- hence Crystals' company "Face Productions".)
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Already have the Criterion Cocteau Orphic Trilogy
and am really looking forward to this release.
Should be out on the 26th.
Anyone else?
Wow!!! Me too!
And me. Entr'acte is already on one of the Rene Clair Criterion discs, but it will be very nice to have the Leger & Dulac. A nice DVD of all of Germaine Dulac's films would be a marverlous thing.
Do either of the releases of Entr'acte use the Ertic Satie music from Parade that was written for the original screenings (which were part of a theatrical presentation-- the film was the "entr'acte")?
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Ted: You might know about this: Do you remember a show Bill Evans did for CBC TV? The director was Paddy Sampson and Eddie Gomez was on bass. A friend invited me into the booth during the taping (I think there was no audience.) I've inquired of CBC Archives about it but they don't have it. I thnk it's an example of the tapes being erased.
Also do you know if the CBC show of Wilie the Lion Smith and Don Ewell is extant?
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Is she also responsible for Sony's inability to release an extended version of Concert by the Sea?
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Hey, thanks for posting this.
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If you go let me know how he is. He's playing the nearby Chumash Casino later this summer. It's a horrible venue but James Brown is also going to play there so I may have to make the treck a couple of times.
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I've always loved this record. Especially Desmond's solo on Le Souk. Sound is ok.
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I was just listening to this and it didn't seem very dynamic (the sound, not the music which is very dynamic.) I have what I think is the first cd version of it. Has it been remixed for later releases? Is it in stereo?
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In the reviews of the concert printed in the booklet none of the critics seem particularly impressed. Are they jaded because they could hear this caliber of music every night on 52nd Street? They are very impressed by Erroll Garner. Chuck or anyone else who's heard these tapes: Was he that good that night?
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Got mine today. Not only great music (already played it twice) but great service! Ordered it on the 7th. Arrived the same day as the Jim Hall from Artists Share I ordered on the 1st.
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And Jane just posted the following :
According to my research DE never recorded Merrie Mending but unless
someone can dig up a tape of the Sister Kenny radio appeal no definite
conclusions can be made.
Merrie Mending by DE cc 1954
Merrie mending, Merrie Mending
May your convalescence be fun
As you chat about prevention.
Forget about your pills,
For get about your ills
Forget get about your bills.
Get up, get out, get well again.
Merrie Mending with health and happiness blending.
Merrie Mending to you.
(There another verse)
Are these the lyrics Simone sings? (I haven't been able to find the cd yet.)
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I think I read somewhere that his appearance at the very first JATP concert was as a sub for Oscar Moore. Also he tells a funny story about Charlie Christian in the Sony Christian box set.
(Makes fun of the weight of his early guitars, not of Christian.)
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And many, many more!
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Jane Volmer on the Duke-Lym list (and I did send your request again) writes:
Merrie (Merry) Mending was written during the polio epidemic for the
Sister Kenny Institute. Heard on radio for the Sister Kenny Appeal 1952.
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My number 2295 came in 2 cases.
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The the entry for the manuscript at the Smithsonian says
"6. Merrie Mending
Merrily Rolling Along see ANATOMY OF A MURDER"
Merrily Rolling is on the Anatomy cd and in the liner notes Phil Schaap states that Merrily Rolling that it is really "Hero to Zero". (At least I think that's what he means.) Does Simone's Merrie Mending sound like anything on the Anatomy cd?
BTW Simone sings Ellington is also the only place you'll find a vocal version of "The Gal from Joe's". I wonder if Simone wrote these lyrics.
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#3031 just landed on my doorstep today.Got mine today!
Number 3025.Sounds like the license is expiring significantly short of the 5000 limit.
Anyone remember when it first went on sale? Since they're talking about the number they havae left, it could be that they don't "press" ("burn"?"print"?) 5000 copies at once and if they're getting low just before their license expires they don't bother to manufacture more.
Just guessing.
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I've got Vol One of the original cd release and remember really hating the liner notes for taking those gratuitous swipes at Sheldon. I've been fond of Sheldon's playing since I first heard him on a Hi-Los (Hi-Lo's?) record. But I'm always made uncomfortable by liner notes that tell you how bad the music is (eg. the Complete Studio Lester Young on Verve). It's especially weird with Mosaics since their catalogues are so overly effusive about the music. I suspect that if they'd used Richard Sudhalter's notes for the Columbia Small Group Swing Sessions as their advertising material they wouldn't sell many copies. Though I have to admit I'm not thrilled by all the music in that set, he seems to have been in a pretty bad mood when he wrote the notes and spends almost as much time in personal attacks on John Hammond and Illinois Jacquet as he does on the music.
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Marx Bros
Try watching Keaton while listening to Jazz
I did this the other day with an AEC disc
It was great!
Bill Frissell recorded a soundtrack for Go West. I played it along with the film and only had to pause a couple of times to keep it in sync. Fun to do.
when in iwas in college I used to create soundtracks for silent film screenings. I still rmember using Charlie Mingus to accompany a chase scene Chaplin's The Kid. Everybodys seemed to like it but I caught Hell for using Delarue's music from Jules and Jim for the sentimental parts of the film.
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It's nice to hear the band in an informal setting but I must admit I don't enjoy this as much as most of my other Ellington recordings. It does give you a sense of how loose they could be in person. And it is ( or they are) a bargain. Also I think this is one of the sets where they play Ornithology as part of How High the Moon.
NEW, NEVER HEARD, DIZZY & BIRD FROM UPTOWN
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BTW Chuck: Is the Garner material as good as the critics say? And is it very different from his later work?