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If you rip all your albums to a hard drive (and have a fairly extensive collection) it's a snap to do this with any reasonably good music player application, such as itunes. I often check out all the versions I have of a song. Not all album metadata contains all the participants but it often does, so I can often search and find sideman appearances too. Many years back I wrote to allmusic asking them to expose an interface which would allow you create queries connected by 'and' and 'or' to allow search for two musicians on the same album, etc. They never replied and the site has gone downhill so badly I no longer use it.

Is there any knowledge about why Alfred Lion rarely recorded vocalists? I only know the 45's by Bill Henderson and the two albums by Dodo Greene and Sheila Jordan. There even was a new numers series started for the latter. So what?

A number of times I’ve pulled up a few favorites — mostly semi-standards, or “almost standards” (primarily written in the 1960’s & 70’s) — to try and find as many different versions of those tunes. Like who the heck has recorded anything of the better known tunes by Charles Tolliver, or Joe Henderson beyond “Recorda Me” and such. So not ‘standards’ per se — but the best-known tunes by some of the post 1963 greats. Or I’ll look up every single tune from a favorite slightly-lesser-known album — like from Speak Like A Child or The Prisoner — to see which (if any) have been covered. Shame that has to be done song-title-by-song-title — and that there’s not an easier way (on the streaming platforms directly) to, say, give me every song written by Andrew Hill that doesn’t have him as the recording artist. Fortunately you can sorta get to some of that thru Discogs — but it’s very tedious, and relies on composer-credits having been entered (which isn’t done nearly enough). And then you gotta go digging for an online version to stream (if you even can), or maybe it’ll be on YouTube — but then maybe in an entire album or album-side upload (and not just the one track as its own video). A major pain in the ass, but still light years more to be found online than 10 or especially 20 years ago.

I was allergic to Aebi for a long time, but I've come around and now think of her as another texture, not a singer or even a voice. Besides, there's so many excellent Lacy records with her on them that even before I "got" her, I decided not to cut off my nose to spite my face,

No, not really ... but many years ago I compiled my own cassette chock full of all the versions of "Jumping At The Woodside" that I was able to come up with from my records. Played it over and over again without tiring of it ... Many versions by Count Basie, of course, but amazingly different anyway through the years, and then there were Lester Young, Bob Wills, Lambert Hendricks & Ross and others ... By now I would have even more versions in my collection. Re- "Summertime:" Two suggestions (off the beaten tracks of the usual): Dave Phillips & The Hot Rod Gang ("Wild Youth" LP, obviously modeled on the 1958 version by Gene Vincent ) The Slingshots ("Big Noise From Northwood" V.A. LP) (both from the early 80s)

So that settles it. (Or back to the starting grid? ) However, if all the names mentioned by Leonard Feather were in the lineup(s), though apparently never all of them at the same time, and if these weren't all the musicians present (according to your post he did not mention Wynton Kelly and Aaron Bell present on 25/04/52), then the "different dates" must include the one from 4 August 1951 because that is the only one that has Earl Knight in the lineup (with "Neenah" and "Lester Leaps In" recorded at both possible dates indicated above). And as you have seen in the "Lestorian Notes", several more Birdland Broadcasts exist from April/May 1952 with the same lineup as on 25/04/52. But none of the tunes recorded at these subsequent dates match those of 25/04/52.

Just finished reading Jonathon Grasse"s "Jazz Revolutionary", which I got through interlibrary loan. The Amazon review is pretty much on target. After 50 pages of family history and discussion of Eric's early musical experiences, Grasse's approach is to methodically track and analyze Eric's recording and major concerts. That said, I found it informative but not great reading.

I saw Dersu Uzala back in the early '80s, not knowing what to expect, and was blown away (cinema, big screen). Much later watched a DVD and it didn't have the same magic. The Spike Lee remake of AK's High and Low, one of my all-time favorites, is coming soon. But I don't think I could stand to watch it.

Has anyone else gone onto one of the streaming services and selected one standard and listened to all the different recordings of that tune? Today I did this today for two, "Moon River" and "Summertime." I wanted to see how many sounded different than others. Very few stray from the original version.

I'm also sparse on Lacy. Irene Aebi's vocals are an absolute deal breaker for me, and I don't need multiple CD's of him doing Monk, so that leaves me quartets with Waldron and groups with Steve Potts but without Aebi as my sweet spots.

Absolute bargain. Recommended !

Op.18/3 and Op.18/4

Anyone seen Eddington? Might see tomorrow but it seems to have mixed reviews. Someone raving about it on the radio this morning but only 2 stars in the Guardian.

Branford Marsalis Quartet, Belonging

Thanks. Those are the 2 discographies I was working with. I'm pretty sure Feather wasn't present and I suspect that the cuts broadcast are from 2 or three different dates.

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Excellent!

Yeah, if he's doing all that work, he should get paid

My thoughts exactly.

You guys are way ahead of me. I maybe have a dozen Lacy cd's I've picked up all over the place, but I am waaay back here: Have hardly got to it all.

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