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I look forward to hearing this!

Great excuse to pull this one out again.

One of my Mom's all time fav's! Somehow, the film lost something like $800,000 when it was first released! In fact, is one of the films that led to Hepburn being labeled "box office poison." She didn't come back until The Philadelphia Story a few years later, a film that was specifically written to take her snooty character down a few pegs.

It's funny that this thread should pop up again, as I've been on a Harold Land kick recently. The Hear Ye! co-leader date with Red Mitchell in particular has been logging serious time in my player. There's something so engaging about this album; sort of hard bop with a smile, appropriate to the L.A. climate, I suppose. And Carmell Jones is on this record, too, along with Frank Strazzeri and Leon Petties. As an Elmo Hope fan, The Fox is a longtime favorite, of course.

Does anyone know if Sonny and Melba were related? It doesn't seem like that common a name.

The box pictured above is the Columbia Pictures stuff (now Sony). Grant was an independent under contract to several studios. Baby is in the Warner's box.

Throw in The Philadelphia Story, Notorious, and North By Northwest and you've really got a box there. The Philadelphia Story is available in a two-disc Special Edition as part of another bargain DVD box, Classic Comedies Collection(Warner Home Video) along with Howard Hawks's Bringing Up Baby also with Grant and Hepburn, Gregory La Cava's Stage Door with Hepburn and Ginger Rogers, Libeled Lady, with Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy, and Walter Connolly, George Cukor's Dinner at Eight, starring Harlow, Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery, and John and Lionel Barrymore, and Ernst Lubitsch's amazing To Be or Not To Be with Jack Benny and Carole Lombard. Not bad. There's a nice Criterion of Notorious, and North by Northwest is available as both a single disc and as part of the recent mammoth Paramount Hitchcock set. But you probably knew that.

True, but the world around it does, so it's really like drinking from The Fountain of Youth. How very true, good sir. The derivation of the word whisky is "water of life." As is the Scandinavian akvavit/aquavit, the French Eau de vie, Latin aqua vitae, etc.

About meeting Randy, all I can suggest is being patient and waiting for the right moment. In Minneapolis, at the Dakota an Artist Quarter, the band members will hang out in the restaurant between sets and usually leave the club the same way the patrons do, so it's pretty easy to meet people. I have met Weston, James Moody, Roy Haynes, and Charles Lloyd that way. You may be right about Liston's contributions to the Ellingtonian elemements. I think that I can blur their contributions to the music together as one. What I'm really hoping is that my editor will agree to let me interview Randy.

Randy Weston can make me dig electric piano in a jazz context, which is something of a feat. I picked up the CD of Tanjah recently and I really like it overall. I even enjoy about half of Blue Moses, even though CTI stuff usually turns me off. I can understand why Weston's not a fan of the date himself.

Thanks for posting that cover, Chas. Not to mention the links to the previous Weston Select threads!

Congratulations! Obviously, Mitchell's good taste extends beyond just movies. I'd imagine he's one of the only black guys ever to be named "Elvis." I always wondered if his mama gave him that name or if he assumed it himself as a kind of ironic thing.

Just based on the lyric "hey buddy, can you paradigm?" I'd say the man's still got it. I'm definitely going to get this, despite my informal personal record-buying moratorium. (And maybe sneak in the new Andrew Hill while I'm at it...)

Then in your case, that's more like FIFTY-year-old shit.

So you're just another "disconforme-ist"?

LIVING WITH MUSIC, I think. It's a companion to the Modern Library collection of Ellison's writings on jazz and blues. On Columbia/Legacy, I presume? How is it?

at least!

Always nice to see this thread resurface. A reminder that I need to get going on checking out the recommendations here!

I'm hoping to meet Weston soon, myself. He's coming to Boston in a few months. I too e-mailed Mr. Cuscuna about a Mosaic Weston set in the late 90s. I knew that Blue Note had put out the United Artists stuff in their "paper bag" two-fer series in the 70s, so I figured Mosaic might go for it. I'm happy they did. Great music! That Little Niles date is amazing. I love Melba Liston's arrangements on that. She's even co-credited with Weston on the more recent Volcano Blues. The cover photo nicely acknowledges her role: there she is, in silhouette, literally backing Weston up. Nice record. I like the string arrangements she did on Earth Birth as well. (I'm pretty much a sucker for everything Weston's done, at least the stuff I've heard, which is a good chunk of it.) I like your take on Weston's music, HolyStitt. Glad to have you aboard. But perhaps that Ellingtonian ability to set up soloists is Liston's contribution.

I guess I'm a little late to the party, but I'm in the beverage business and I get this kind of question all the time. It should be perfectly fine, as you found out akanalog.

Thanks for the input, all. I'm definitely going to get this one.

As I was typing that previous post, I honestly thought to myself "with the possible exception of Nat Cole."

It did really sound good in the context of the movie. Though it also seemed odd that this one band was always broadcasting throughout the course of the film. Was there ever a jazz vocalist who had a daily TV gig?

Thanks! I'll definitely check this out.

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