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Can’t recall the original contents of the album from the concert, but, besides a CD reissue of the album, several of the tracks have shown up as extra tracks on other issues (John Coltrane, Albert Ayler, Archie Shepp). Are the Charles Tolliver and Grachan Moncur tracks available anywhere else? Does the CD reissue duplicate the original LP?

What about Curtis Amy’s Verve LP “Mustang,” with Jimmy Owens, Kenny Baron and (on one track, if I remember correctly) his wife Merry Clayton.

The “live” Cannonball (from the Manne Hole, with Charles Lloyd) is excellent. Some bad edits, though. Michael Cuscuna told me once he was hoping to do something with this material, but then the bottom fell out of the business.

Thanks to the Columbia Record Club, many of my generation grew up listening to Miles’ “Porgy & Bess.” And I think, like me, they knew nothing of the play or story - that music stood alone. Probably the same for all those wonderful Broadway original cast albums that were a part of many households - we knew all the scores, but nothing much about the actual shows. (When I finally did see the plays, I was often disappointed - should have stuck with the LP.)

“Benny Goodman in Moscow.” (I remember there was some criticism at the time (1962) that Goodman was hardly representative of where Jazz was at, why not send someone more modern - I always bought into that and avoided the LP - but listening now for the first time I have a different view. Plenty of room for Joe Newman, Phil Woods, Zoot Sims and others, Mel Lewis is the drummer, the band includes Victor Feldman, Jimmy Knepper, there are a couple of Tadd Dameron arrangements... Goodman - who sounds good - almost takes a back seat.)

Saw him several times, but 2 stand out: at the Village Gate, maybe 1965, the band was Jimmy Owens, Charles McPherson, Julius Watkins, Howard Johnson and Danny Richmond - memorable, Jimmy Owens’ lip is probably still sore; and 1972, at one of those midnight Radio City extravaganzas which were part of the Newport Festival for a couple of years - a bunch of people - Cat Anderson, Buddy Tate, Owens and McPherson, Milt Buckner....Mingus played a long solo at the end of this slow blues number, unbelievable, George Wein ran onto the stage and hugged him. (The performance was recorded, it showed up on one of those Cobblestone albums from that year’s festival.)

Very good, but typical of the Verve productions of the day, mixing straight-ahead quartet material with big band tracks. (A big band version of “Chitlins Con Carne” was apparently left on the “Asphalt” cutting room floor.)Burrell was recording for Verve, Cadet and even Prestige at the same time! I’ve always thought “Tender Gender” was as good as anything he recorded in that period.

There won’t be careers like his in the 21st century. One of the villains on the old Blue Note board (along with Norah Jones and a few others), which seems pretty ridiculous now.

From the mid-‘90’s - the Estrada Brothers, “Get Out Of My Way” (Milestone).

Jazz Crusaders, “Talk That Talk” (the small group tracks showed up on the Mosaic box), Ernie Watts first album (“Planet Earth,” World Pacific - one track showed up on one of those Blue Note anthologies ) and Hank Marr’s “Live at Club 502,” King, with Rusty Bryant and Wilbert Longmire (‘Greasy Spoon” occasionally shows up on one of those “jazz ‘45/hits” anthologies).

That’s it. The Mosaic Jazz Crusaders box turned up an alternate take.

“The Thing” seems to me as close to Sidewinder as anything by the Jazz Crusaders.

Shirley Scott’s “Everybody Loves a Lover” (Impulse), although a several of the tracks showed up on the CD issue of Stanley Turrentine, “Let It Go.” Recorded around the same time (and with pretty much the same personnel) as “Blue Flames” and Turrentine’s “Hustlin’”.

I’ve always been disappointed that Michael Cuscuna omitted the “obligatory funky first tune” (David Burn’s “Buster Brown”) from the second Blue Note Frank Foster session (the rest issued with “Manhattan Fever”) - those tunes were often the reason anyone bought the album. (And, of course, Foster supplied maybe one of the only such tunes ever on Impulse - “Raunchy Rita,” also on a Prestige session.)

Anything new in this earlier discussion? Does it still come down to the Columbia box and JSP?

My head is spinning.

It seems you have your list under control! Hope you’ll share it someday. (It might be interesting to come up with a list of “Sidewinder” clones on OTHER labels - things like “Greasy Kid’s Stuff,” “Mean Greens,” “Money in the Pocket”...).

Thanks! Just what I’m looking for. (Any opinions on the band?)

Has Dick Grove’s “Little Bird Suite “ (Pacific Jazz) ever resurfaced? I recall being underwhelmed at the time, but think maybe I underestimated it.

I recently read high praise for Norvo’s band of this period, comparing them favorably to Ellington, Basie and Goodman. I’m not at all familiar with this part of Norvo’s career. Can someone point out a good introduction? (I’m assuming Mildred Bailey is heavily featured, which is fine, but I’d be more curious about strict instrumentals.)

From 2000, on Blue Note (or, in this case, “Blue Note”), from Karl Denson’s ‘Dance Lesson #2,’ “Rumpwinder” - if only for that title.

Ha! But I was thinking more like ironic.

How do you have “Record Store Day” when there aren’t any record stores?

I think “Cast...” was the ‘B’ side of the single. “Samba de Orfeu” was the song that was originally being pushed, an attempt to cash in early on the emerging appetite for Brazilian music.