Stereojack

I remember Teddy & the Pandas. They were a teen band from a town north of Boston, Wilmington, I think. They had a couple of singles out on a local label, and then were signed to Tower (a subsidiary of Capitol), on which they released one LP. AMG has a pretty good entry about them. There were any number of Boston bands in the 60's that got to record. The best ones were Barry & the Remains (Epic) & The Lost (Capitol). In 1967, MGM records signed several Boston bands and created a marketing scheme around the "Boss-town Sound". The hype included Ultimate Spinach, The Beacon Street Union, and Orpheus. Other Boston bands who made records at the time were Phluph (Verve), Earth Opera (Elektra), Ill Wind (ABC), Eden's Children (ABC), Ford Theater (ABC), Timothy Clover (Tower), Steve Colt & the 45's (RCA, Vanguard), Listening (Vanguard), Orphan(s) (Epic, London), Bagatelle (ABC), Mason & Dixon (Tower), and a number of others I can't recall at the moment.

Gee, how do you really feel?

Rowe, Patricia Vee, Bobby Wade Walton

Baby Dodds Jimmie Dodd Annette Funicello

Norman Fell Audra Lindley Richard Roeper

It's Norman Granz. I believe this comes from Nat's network TV show. One week, the "guests" were the JATP entourage.

Uncle Meat Suzy Creamcheese Henry Creamer

Sublime! The queen of Sassonia!

Hosea Sapp Jose Feliciano Felicity Huffman

There are two ways in Photoshop to solve the problem of the slight color difference between the two scans. The color difference usually occurs at the edge of the scan, probably because some light leaked into the scanner. 1. When you stitch two images together, there is considerable overlap. The edge of the "top" image will be visible when you have combined them. Sometimes if you trim a portion of the "top" image away, the new edge will match what's under it more closely. 2. Take a color sample of the area around the line with the eyedropper tool. Switch to the brush tool and paint over the area. I find that this works really well. You'll have to adjust the size of the brush a few times to get into the nooks and crannies, but with a little practice, you can make covers that are pretty close to flawless, especially since they are smaller than the original LP image. Larger bed scanners are available, btw, but they are expensive.

Ford, Whitey Chevy Chase Packard, Vance

Maggie & Jiggs Jiggs Whigham Kristen Wiig

Ziggy Stardust Ziggy Marley Jacob Marley

Clifton Webb Webb Pierce Pierce Arrow

Ricardo Montalban Montel Williams Jill Kinmont

Booker Little Little Walter Walter Booker

And he's on the Dizzy Gillespie Verve albums: Have Trumpet, Will Excite The Ebullient Mr Gillespie Did anyone mention that he had his own record on Riverside? Gemini, available on OJC

Rogers Hornsby Shirley Horn Jimmy Shirley

Della Reese Mason Reese Reese Witherspoon

I can't say I know the whole story, but I remember hearing that Miles was not willing to allow himself to be portrayed in the film - I guess portraying a living person in a film requires getting the permission of said person. Perhaps this is the case with Max, as well. I do know that Chan and Red Rodney were involved as advisors (or more), and this is why they figure so prominently in the film.

Skeets McDonald Ronald McDonald Willard Scott

Flip Phillips Phillip Wilson Wilson Phillips

I found the film highly entertaining, but as Chris has said, the film relies too much on the foggy recollections of Chan, and plays very loosely with the facts. Furthermore, while I think Whitaker is a fine actor, he's miscast in this film. Of course I didn't know Bird, but my impression is that he was an outgoing and gregarious person, not the brooding and morose character as portrayed by Whitaker. The overdubbing of Bird's solos is controversial, but I believe that had Eastwood used original Bird recordings without overdubbing, the low-fi nature of the recordings would not have matched the film sonically. Apparently the owners of Bird's studio recordings were unwilling to allow them to be overdubbed, so he got some live recordings and overdubbed them to suit the film's needs. Within the context of the film, the overdubbing is hardly noticeable, although it's really obvious (and annoying) on the soundtrack album. Frankly, the only alternative would have been to hire a studio musician to imitate Bird, and that would have been worse, in my opinion. Actually, I believe they did get Charles McPherson for a few passages, if I'm not mistaken. My one gripe about the film is that Bird's brilliance and innovations are not empahsized enough, and the film focuses a little too much on the personal details, and not enough on why the film was made in the first place.

Mal Evans Evan Hunter Hunter Thompson

Great session. Four great tenor players blowin'. What more do you need to know? Pick it up. How does it compare to "Tenor Conclave"? Well, the front line is the same instrumentation, so there are some similarities there, but the orientation of TC is a little more boppish, where VS has much more bluesy, swingy feel, due in part to the inclinations of the four (older) tenor players and the presence of Shirley Scott on organ. The blowing on both is top notch.