AllenLowe

well, it's on a BMG Metronome All Stars Reissue LP - BUT - reading the notes (in like 6 point type) they do indicate it was simply called The All Star Band, and put together by Metronome in response to a reader poll- so you are correct -

Yes, I remember Al Haig, as a matter of fact he was a good friend - there actually was some kind of jazz joke a long time ago; Bird comes back and is told, "can you believe it, Ronald Reagan is president?" And Bird answers, "yeah, but that ain't the craziest thing- Al Haig is Secretary of State!"

Here it is: Metronome All Starts, 1/11/39, with: Sonny Dunham, Bunny Berigan, Benny Goodman, Jack Teagarden - nice band.

Somewhere there's a spectacular 1940s Metronome All Stars version - I'll have to do some research -

1.000-3000 - a broad range I would say - and to think I've only written about 76 -

not a great book, but intersting pics and the commentary is also worthwhile, as a contemporary witness -

I hope she has some tongue depressers -

I also didn't know "sophisticate" was a verb -

that may be true, but it's really an absolute journalistic no-no about reviewing someone's book in that case -

Now that Clementine's on the road it might be safe to wade in here and take myself more and less seriously - I like Signals to Noise, and coinsider it to be the best contemporary jazz mag - sure, not everybody who writes for it knows a lot, but they try and there's a lot of good info in it - HOWEVER - that review of the Bailey book was a SERIOUS breach of journalistic ethics - note that the writer points out, toward the end of the review, that he is criticized by the author of the Bailey book, in the Bailey book - this should have disqualified him immediately as a reviewer of said book -

"Into the face of death Duke Ellington wrote music until the end, and we are all the better for it." In addition to his other problems Stanley can't write - this is redundant and/or makes no sense as language.

I gotta make an appointment to see that nurse -

Just to add a postscript, when I interviewed Jordan back in the 1970s he informed me that the song was no longer his, lost in a sleazy publishing deal - and I do remember, on one of his later recordings, hearing the song under a different title -

"Blakey not paying his band on time" - this is just the tip of the iceberg. If anybody ever gets Blakey's sidemen to speak candidly, it'll be a major event of National Enguirer proportions -

The Marsh CD is Live In Los Vegas - for detail on this see my post in the Warne Marsh/artists controversy thread -

PERSONSALLY I PREFER B7 -

"But what are people called who live on Uranus?" Hemorroids?

THAT'S OK I UNDERSTAND

or if Martians think of themselves as Martians -

Yeah, I always wondered if people fighting World War 1 thought, "hey, this is World War 1" -

THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION; YOU WILL HAVE TO ASK TOSHI. OR MAYBE HERB ALPERT. THE MAIN POINT HERE IS THAT GERALDYNE AGREED TO THE TERMS THAT I PROPOSED, AND SHE WAS PAID A ROYALTY. I DID NOT SEE ANYONE MENTION THAT IN THE THREAD -

Actually I think the whole thing is a hoax - come on Chuck, fess up -

yeah, my problem with Wynton is how damned middle class he is - this idea that if you listen to good music and educate yourself in the right way (shades of the Great Books curriculum, Chicago readers) you will become a good person because this is all so good for you - and good is, after all good - my feeling is that you listen to the stuff because it's great music, the hell with personal betterment. And as George Steiner pointed out some time ago, culture does not make one cultured, hence the Germans and their development of Mozart, Beethoven, Heine, etc - I'm sure Adolf and Eva spent many a quiet evening together listening to the Victrola -

How about all those records with Freddie Green?

"As it is, however, to dwell on what isn't at the expense of what is there would be too typical of the time we live in now." I agree - so where's the six minutes?