Ted O'Reilly

Just to be pedantic, the spelling is actually "Delores" Parker. And that tune is the last one she ever recorded with the band. Where did you get that spelling? The album notes and Ellington's Music Is My Mistress both list her as "Dolores." You're right -- "Dolores". The misspelling of "I Could Get A Man" is on Chronogical Classics 1119, the version I was listening to on your suggestion. Their mistake, and I wrongly passed it on. Sorry. :blush2: And you were wondering about the song itself: Klaus Stratemann's book Duke Ellington Day By Day and Film by Film (p. 282) offers the names of Hee and Cottrell in this way (using DownBeat as a source)-- "...Ellington was already reported to be at work on a new stage show "backed by movie money" and tentatively titled "Cole Black And The Seven Dwarfs" [DB 15.1.46]. The show was mentioned again during Ellington's 1948 tour of Europe, when Ernest Borneman was told that "it was going to have a book and lyrics by T. Hee and William Cottrell", and that William Hertz Jr. wanted to produce it [DB 25.8.48]." That would seem to tell that "I Could Get A Man" was proof that Hee/Cottrell/Ellington indeed were at work on the aborted show, but Duke was not someone to waste a song... (T. Hee, indeed!!! )

Thieves, those Beatles. Imagine, stealing from Manfred Mann...

Just to be pedantic, the spelling is actually "Delores" Parker. And that tune is the last one she ever recorded with the band. EDIT to correct... DP later recorded one more -- "A Woman And A Man" on December 30/47, the last DE session for 10 months. (I think that track was originally released only in Switzerland).

I have a factory-sealed copy of Gil Evans' Svengali (Atlantic QD 1643) noted as in CD-4 Channel Discrete. The cover notes "This Four-Channel Discrete QUADRADISC is fully compatible. All rear channel information will sound in the front speakers when played in stereo." Whether this is true or not, I don't know, as I also had a stereo version that I actually listened to. I recall there were Discrete and Matrix version of 4-channel discs, though I always stuck with just stereo. (Discuss: Discreet vs. Matrix -- a bigger shoot-in-the-foot than Beta vs. VHS?) Wikipedia may answer your question: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadraphonic_sound

Hmmm...I thought these devices were used to listen to MUSIC. This seems more like stamp collecting.

So Chris, now that you're past 78, was it better than 45, or even 33 1/3?

Here's a background story to the NKC disc, about David Lennick's role in it. http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/music/article/873786--music-buff-unearths-nat-king-cole-show David's done dozens and dozens of things for Naxos, most of which are not available in the US. A good example of his work is the Ellington 1946 Musicraft material -- the best transfers of that stuff I've ever heard. (Duke Ellington "Jam-a-ditty" Naxos Jazz Legends 8.120813)

There's the story of Flip Phillips joining Woody Herman's band... Woody says "Flip Phillips? But you're Italian...say something in Italian". Flip says "Vito Musso".

...and I'll add my best wishes, too: Happy Birthday, John!

Hmmm.... "Sticking Drawbar". He was a foreign student from Germany in my first year university politics class. Thanks for reminding me about him. I haven't thought of him for years.

I wonder why other record companies didn't adopt this process, or did they? It must have been a universal thing, as I recall disc-cutting facilities in Toronto doing it. I think there was an extra tape head used, before the signal got to the cutter, "warning" that extra space would be needed for an upcoming loud passage. I was at the direct-to-disc sessions for the Rob McConnell Boss Brass sessions, and there was verbal cuing from the Producer-with-score, to the Mastering Engineer, so he could manually control the cutter for more or less groove-space needed for upcoming passages. Even so, there were occasions when 15 minutes in, a whole side had to be aborted because the cutter blew it... The sides maxed out at about 16-17 minutes. I don't have it at hand, but there was a Monk-in-Europe twofer from Riverside that had about 30 minutes per side.

I think it was Dennis Mackrel, wasn't it? I'm very fond of Shearing as a person, and as a pianist. Just take a look at some of the great musicians who have worked with him, to see how well he's regarded.

It is. Paul, I've just noticed your huge number of profiles...almost 11 thousand! That's about 4 a day for the 7 years, 7 months since you came aboard. Do you ever take a vacation?

Greatest....website....ever.... It is, isn't it? ...and I'm glad to hear the disc's okay.

"So in essence, this problem will happen again and again every year your card expires." BruceW EVERY year? Don't you mean "each occasion"? My CCs seem to be for 5 year renewals...

List of screw drives... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_screw_drives Andthe greatest of them is the Robertson...

Right...printied in black on navy blue (!), I see it now: "DOUBLE CD SET, LIMITED EDITION FROM 0001 TO 1000"...and mine is #0036.

Excellent.

150!? How did I get #0177? And Mike, what would DM140 have been in dollars, do you think?

The current band is sans what I think was its signature voice, David Clayton Thomas. He is currently trying to convince people he's a jazz singer. He isn't.

Originally, maybe more than that, Tom. I have them both -- the first was in a metal longbox, the second's longbox is chintzy cardboard! They were numbered, indicating a limited issue, though I have no idea how many were to be made. My "Historically Speaking" is #0036, and "Blowing The Cobwebs Out" is #0177, so I'd guess a minimum of 1000, a maximum of 9999. (Some Limited!) My "Blowing..." has a pre-Euro price sticker from LUDWIG BECK am Rathauseck (Munich, I think) indicating DM140.00, but I don't know what the conversion rate was then.

I got my copy today (from amazon.co.uk) and have listened to it twice. Every bit as good as I remembered it from the LP. Years ago I asked Kenny about a possible CD release of it, and he said that he had been told the original tapes had disappeared, or gone astray. But the back of the CD says "Digitally remastered from the original tapes", and the booklet says "Remastered in 2010 at Sound Performance, London by Andrew Thompson". Sounds just fine to me.

Naw...it's best heard, and heard in that particular English accent.

They contacted me for materials and when I asked about budget they said something like "If you don't want to cooperate, we will drop the inclusions. We don't really need you". Hmmm. Bad. I guess the money was spent on the researcher's fees, and long distance calls. (And, yes, Allen, Driggs...)

If you have the "Volcano/Rue Chaptal" (Live at Ronnie Scott's) release, listen closely to the first few seconds as the applause fades up on Box 703. Kill the right channel, or stick your head in front of the left channel. Be amazed at the comment from an audience member... :blush2: