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And last night.. “The Glenn Miller Story” AND “The Gene Krupa Story,” followed by something with Benny Goodman and later, Kay Kyser. And commentary with Christian Sands! Surreal.

3 tracks from “Cleopatra” show up on a compilation of Columbia material on a CD called “The Jazz Years,” on the Black Sun label. (His first 2 Columbia albums were out on Collectables, one of that labels more sensible efforts.) A stray track from the “Profile” sessions - “We Three Kings” - was on the original “Jingle Bell Jazz” LP - that, and Chico Hamilton’s “Winter Wonderland” (with Charles Lloyd) never made it to the altered CD version.

And, as we type, “Anatomy of a Murder” is on.

Thanks! But what exactly is Glady’s role?

Is that anything like the Bob Thiele Collective? Or maybe Jackie Gleason?

I caught Mann many times, in several configurations, and 2 of these occasions stand out as memorable as anything I’ve ever heard. The first, maybe late 1969, he bought in a small group to the staid Carnegie Music Hall in Pittsburgh - Roy Ayers had just left, so it was Sonny Sharrock, Miroslav and Bruno Carr. Sharrock soloed on every number, the place shook, I don’t think there’s a record that captures what he sounded like live. Not sure that the audience was prepared for it (how could they be?) - unbelievable. The second was at Yankee Stadium, summer of ‘72, part of the Newport Festival. Sharrock was still there, Pat Rebillot and David Newman. The audience was huge, diverse, pumped up, and Mann had them even before he played - I’ve never been in a more enthusiastic crowd. (Pity the group that had to follow - which was the Giants of Jazz!) You can hear it for yourself, the album “Hold On I’m Comin” is mostly from that performance. Sonny Sharrock at Yankee Stadium! (And one of the least memorable concerts I’ve been to was during his disco phase, where he threw frisbees out to the audience.)

I rarely watch TCM, although (like Rooster) I do scroll through the listings. But since we’re stuck at home it’s been on more often, catching up with stuff I should have seen (“Gaslight,” “Laura,” “Strangers on a Train,” that era), so hopefully Comcast will leave it alone here. Anyway, Stan Kenton - as with most of those short films, pretty hokey - lots of June Christy, a male vocalist I never heard of (Gene Howard), a female dancer the focus of “Artistry in Rhythm,” a cliched narration... Good band, though. (The Lord discography has it as December, 1945.). Couldn’t have been more than 10 minutes.

I see this listed for this afternoon at 3:00 (EDT), I’ll be tuning in. TCL has been playing music related titles the past day or so - “All Night Long” yesterday, “Beast With Five Fingers” and “Shoot The Piano Player” later today. (Now THERE’S a juxtaposition!)

Bossa nova? That would have to be Laurindo Almeida & the Bossa Nova All Stars. Brazilian classics like “Ramblin’ Rose” and “Hava Negila.”

I think I once read that A & M tried to sign him, he could have gone the Wes Montgomery route.

I prefer Chet Baker & the Mariachi Brass for my dinner music.

Known as “Sonny” in the jazz world, with his brief run on Cadet, but better known in the world of basketball - his Chicago high school teams are legendary. An interesting guy, to say the least.

The Ron Jefferson Pacific Jazz LP is available on Fresh Sounds, paired with Tricky Lofton’s “Brass Bag.” (The Lofton is also on the Carmell Jones Mosaic Select.)

Hank Marr was the opening act at a Cannonball Adderley & Nancy Wilson concert in Cleveland I went to back in the early ‘60’s. I never heard of the guy, knew nothing about him, I’m there for Cannonball (Charles Lloyd had just replaced Yusef Lateef). Anyway, turns out Marr is an organist, he had a quartet with Rusty Bryant and Wilber Longmire - they were the highlight of the show! Marr apparently had a minor, regional “hit” - “Greasy Spoon” (it shows up now and then on compilations) - which a lot of the crowd was familiar with - they played that and maybe 4 or 5 more numbers, and made way for the main attraction. A tight group, wish they could have played more. Most of what I heard turned up on an LP called something like “Live at the Club 502,” on the King label, not exactly known for jazz. Marr’s group was easily the equal of the organ groups I heard back then, and, of course, Bryant and Longmire would make any group special. Wish I could have caught them in a club.

The only time I heard him live was at the Vanguard, either late June/early July, 1977, with Art Pepper. (It was the group referenced above - Gene Perla and Joe LaBabera.) This was Pepper’s first appearance as a leader in a NYC club (he played a few weeks earlier in NY as part of the Newport Festival.) Gumbs was apparently a last minute replacement for a pianist that wasn’t fitting in (probably Jaki Byard). Of course, the place was packed, the atmosphere was almost electric, the group was terrific, really playing for the leader, and Pepper was knocked out by them. Gumbs was a revelation! The recordings from the club a few weeks later have the better reputation (and what a lineup!), but I’ve always thought what I heard was superior, the group more simpatico.

The three tunes with Henderson are on that box of his “complete” Milestone material. (Besides all the Henderson LPs, there are several stray cuts from other leaders - J.J.Johnson, for one, comes to mind.)

Gerald Wilson was in an episode of “The Lineup” (the later, hour long ones, I think). And Jack Sheldon, of course.

And Calvin Jackson’s trio album of movie themes, on Reprise. “Jazz Variations on Movie Themes.”

Stan Getz is also in that “Get Yourself a College Girl,” as well as some grade c vigilante/revenge thing, the title was something like “The Exterminator” - embarrassing, poor Stan. And, of course, Cal Tjader in “For Singles Only.”

Just pulled out my “Who’s Who In The Swinging Sixties” - the ‘Asphalt Jungle Twist’ is dated July 30, 1961. It fades out around the 2:40 mark. Except for that title, doesn’t have anything to do with the twist - it’s a shuffle beat, as the post above describes. By the way - is anyone familiar with that LP? Some interesting stuff - among others, Chico Hamilton ‘Brazil’ (with Charles Lloyd), J.J. Johnson’s ‘Bloozineff’ (Sam Jones, Lewis Hayes, and Victor Feldman on organ), and a version of ‘Green Dolphin Street’ by Miles - mostly a Wynton Kelly solo, that I’ve never quite figured out. (When I brought this up here several years ago, people assumed it was from the Blackhawk - the April 4, ‘61 would confirm this, but no sign of an audience, and guess it could have the other solos shortened.) Anyway, Columbia put out some terrific anthologies back in the day!

Well, that was quick! Thanks to all!

The LP was probably in a lot of homes in the late ‘50’s, thanks to the Columbia Record Club. (Miles Davis along with Turk Murphy, one of those deals.) One track that doesn’t seem to have ever surfaced since is Duke Ellington’s “Cop-Out” - my introduction to Ellington. The have been several live versions, but whatever happened to the 1957 original? (Other numbers from the session have shown up.) And, now that I think of it, whatever happened to “Asphalt Jungle Twist,” from “Who’s Who In The Swinging Sixties, another Columbia anthology?

Years ago he was in town (Pittsburgh) for a concert with Woody Shaw and Eric Kloss, sort-of a pick-up affair. They were planning to do “Maiden Voyage” the second half, I encountered him in the hall at intermission, struck up a conversation, nice guy, unassuming, he asked me to hum the song so he could figure out the structure. Don’t think I was any help, but he figured it out.

“Messiah” is all over the place, kudos to Adderley to being open to all of it. I heard that edition of the quintet a few times, in more “formal” settings, and they were much more focused, delivering their usual set (“Oh Babe,” “Mercy”) - they always opened with “Black Messiah,” though, and, and between that tune and Adderley’s monologues, took up most of the set!

A couple years ago I was to introduce Jimmy Cobb at an informal talk/lecture, and he told me to specifically mention that he was especially proud of his association with Kelly. And, of course, he had stories!