Michael Fitzgerald

Time signatures? Note values? Not having ever heard this college band, dare I ask whether there's anything out of 4/4 in their repertoire? I know it's all fun, but like a few other things that colleges do, this kind of stuff is demeaning to the people who are there for education. Too bad those folks can't get their moment in the spotlight. Mike

Never mind, answered my own question here: http://www.plosin.com/milesahead/Sessions.aspx?s=581101 Mike

That letter is from when Evans was in Florida (or perhaps Louisiana - does it give a return address?) visiting family. Books like Ken Vail's "Miles' Diary" and the Chris Sheridan Cannonball book are not aware of this, but the Pettinger bio of Evans does mention this absence from the scene. I'll try to find out exactly when Evans left the Davis band because Vail and Sheridan list him all the way up to the Village Vanguard in November. There are some broadcasts of MD during this period - who is playing piano on them??? Specifically, the Spotlite Lounge, Washington, DC on November 1, 1958. Can anyone who's heard that one comment? Is it Red Garland? The other broadcast is the Show Boat in Philadelphia on September 20, 1958 - but I guess that's still Evans at that point. Mike

What time? He's not even playing! Mike

No, that look (in that context) says, "Where's 'one'?" Mike

Until Getz is caught holding up a drugstore? Mike

Look, it's a "Dear John" letter - aren't those all pretty much the same? Mike

Yes, saw this in N&N. I see no possibility that Uptown or Mosaic will handle this. Coltrane is too valuable a commodity to Impulse. Well, at least I'll feel better when Impulse sells me another "complete" set - between the various 2-disc reissues they've already done and this stuff, it will be more worthwhile. I propose that the presence of "Skylark" on the Blakey tape would make Workman, not Merritt the bassist. I will also propose that the date of this Blakey tape is almost certainly early March (possibly very late February) 1963 when Blakey and Coltrane were playing opposite each other at Birdland. Mike

No, it's stupidity. If people need to be told there's no real restaurant where you eat off the floor, they're stupid. Now, why there isn't a similar note for the fancy restaurant that serves nothing but Cheerios, I have no idea. Maybe that is a real restaurant. Mike

David Letterman said when Brooke Shields was at Princeton that was one of her term paper titles: "A Chemical Reaction in Three Stages: Lather, Rinse, Repeat." I figure they do that trying to get people to use (and therefore buy) twice as much - REPEAT! Mike

OK, so I know I shouldn't have high expectations when I'm watching TV, but I just saw a commercial for a vacuum cleaner that uses the interesting scenario of a restaurant called "Flor" where people sit and eat off the floor. Clever, amusing - based on that old saying, "clean enough you could eat off it". However, there is a small type legal disclaimer "not a real restaurant". Oh really? I was hoping to book reservations. We now have to have "closed course, professional driver" for every auto commercial, etc. How stupid can people get? Can we look forward to constant disclaimers during every movie we watch? "this is a fictional character. Mr. Bogart has never owned a cafe in Morocco."? I'm all for truth in advertising but - really, now. Mike

I'm forgetting where exactly he got the info, whether he had access to medical records, but Pullman definitely has MUCH material on the hospitalization and the treatments. Mike

You forgot the part about how the radio program is archived online (or how you're going to reformat the show for an upcoming Night Lights). Mike

The Rolling Stones haven't been British since 1971 when they moved to the south of France as "tax exiles" because the UK Inland Revenue was hunting them down for back taxes. Mike

Actually, I've never even seen a copy. It's disappointing that there are still errors. I'll try to get a look soon. Mike

I can't call it opportunism - the illegal ones have been around so long it's amazing it took so much time before the legit one happened. It's a beat-the-boots situation and (ideally) the composers are now getting some money. Other thread here: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...56&hl=real+book Mike

FWIW, here's a 1969 sighting of Eddie Khan from db 4/3/69 p.40: "Two recent emigres from the East Coast, drummer Billy Higgins and bassist Eddie Khan, have found themselves a comfortable niche in the Harold Land-Bobby Hutcherson Quintet. The quintet was recently featured at Shelly's Manne-Hole and rounding out the combo was pianist Joe Sample." but it didn't last long because here is from db 4/17/69 p.40: "Another recent emigre: Larry Gales, former Thelonious Monk bassist (replaced by Walter Booker). One of his first gigs was with the Harold Land-Bobby Hutcherson Quintet, along with Joe Sample, piano, and Billy Higgins, drums. The rhythm section changes as frequently as the name of the front line. For the past six weeks, Hutcherson has been "leader" on a special gig. The musicians have small parts (some speaking, some playing) in the Warner Bros.-Seven Arts film They Shoot Horses, Don't They? Others in the production include Teddy Edwards, Joe Harris, Teddy Buckner, Ike Isaacs, Ronnell Bright, Hadley Caliman, Lester Robertson, Thurman Green and Hugh Bell. The film deals with the dance marathons of the Depression era." Mike Mike

I guess you mean "again" - because I have it on CD (EmArcy 822 471-2) - another one of my first batch of seven CDs. Mike

And then, the elation turned to uncomfortable melancholy when he realized his dad's LP was still sealed in its shrink wrap? Mike

Beloved and worshipped all over the world but virtually unknown in his native USA?

When I was teaching high school I was astonished to find that kids did not know the sequence (reverse) of recent US presidents - they could get maybe 3. MAYBE. Not even with hints like, "well, what happened in the 1960s" or "OK, so you know WWII was in the 1940s - well, who usually gets elected president after a war"? BTW, 1066 was indelibly etched in my memory when I was in the *fourth* grade, studying the Bayeux tapestry. Mike

Sorry, no, this was in 1983, issued on Columbia. Piscopo-as-Sinatra did an extended medley of: I Love Rock 'n' Roll [Joan Jett] Cold As Ice [Foreigner] Under My Thumb [The Rolling Stones] Hit Me With Your Best Shot [Pat Benatar] Born To Run [bruce Springsteen] I Know What Boys Like [The Waitresses] Smoke On The Water [Deep Purple] Life During Wartime [Talking Heads] The rock-as-big-band thing is what I meant. Mike

This was done 20-some years ago by Joe Piscopo as "The Chairman of the Board" - and at least then you knew it was *supposed* to be funny. Mike

All right, so I lied - I can help. Here is the cover (in b&w) of Touching, Fontana 688 608: Mike

I still don't understand the confusion described in the initial question, but here is the cover of Blood, Fontana 883 991 JCY, artwork by Marte Röling. I own Touching as part of the Arista/Freedom 2fer and as a Black Lion CD, so I can't help with the Fontana LP issue of that. Mike