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The BMI online database shows two entries for "Teddy's Dream": one by a Theodore Reig (who has quite a few more registered tunes) and one by a Teddy Von Seele (whose only listed tune is this "Teddy's Dream"). Both tune entries have consecutive BMI#Work numbers (BMI Work #1464485 & #1464486) and share publisher (SCREEN GEMS-EMI MUSIC INC).

This comes from Fats Waller discographer Stephen Taylor:

From today's Independent:

George Cables Healing Fund Just received this email from the official Dexter Gordon website: This is from George Cables' website [News section]: And on the upper right side of his website, there's a "Healing Fund" link that leads you to this message:

Duke Ellington - Duke's Mixture/At The Ball Masque (Collectables), for EUR 6,00 at amazon.fr marketplace.

Sad news indeed! Here's a nice picture by Spanish photographer Esther Cidoncha (her website + her blog), taken in 1992:

Then to top things off, this earth-shaking band... Brötz on tenor (beginning & encore), alto (most of the time in between) and clarinet (for just one "track"), he was in his loudest mode, what with this earth-shattering band (they even managed to kill a beer glass standing next to me and my friend... the vibrations made it fall off a table and break in hundred pieces...). Wertmüller was astonishing... definitely not from any jazz drumming tradition, rather influenced I assume by hard rock or heavy metal. And Pliakas is playing very fast stuff that you can't actually hear, just feel, paired with Wertmüller's speedy bass drum. Pretty extreme! And on top of that add Brötz in his screaming mode... on alto, he really did hurt the ears... I'm not sure what this was, nor if it was anything much... but it was definitely an experience! Somehow it all felt very static to me, the only big difference being in some rather beautiful alto sax solo passages, or some slow build-ups by Wertmüller with Pliakas laying out. Other than that, nuance and development is not part of this music... Caught this Full Blast Trio ten days ago, at the CMU San Juan Evangelista. IMHO it was disgustingly noisy, boring & uncouth, to say the least. Wertmüller sounded like a German metal drummer, absolutely repetitive and without any idea or sublety (maybe this is his role in this trio). As for Brötmann, without being any expert at all, I have heard several other projects and this is the worst I've heard from him ever. He played four tunes here (tarogato, tenor, metal B flat clarinet and alto) and one encore (alto). He sounded like the same noise the whole 75 minutes. I gotta recognize, though, that I have NEVER heard THAT huge stream of sound coming from a tenor saxophone. It was absolutely impressive (I was at the second row and almost could "touch" that sound... and feel the entrails coming out of the horn). Just my two cents.

On Friday, at the CMU San Juan Evangelista: -Tri-ez (Agustín Fernández (p); Baldo Martínez (b); Ramón López (d)) On Saturday, double program at the Centro Cultural de la Villa: -Gilson Peranzetta (p) -Lee Konitz New Nonet

In fact he would have been 103. .... and very angry with you, as he was always trying to look younger than he was. His mates, like Roy Eldridge, were always teasing him with jokes on his age.

Larry: The BMI online database shows two different entries for "Slan": one by John Zorn (alternative title "Zorn-Slan") and one by Charlie Mariano.

I'll order it elsewhere now...

I ordered the Ellington from Jazz Messengers a few weeks ago... and it was backordered (or better I'm afraid that "they still haven't received it but they're showing it as if it was in stock")

This was reissued on a 1996 Verve "threefer" called Swing Trumpet Kings This double CD may look like a compilation, but actually contains three complete Verve albums, in addition to the Allen also Harry Edison Swings Buck Clayton And Vice Versa (Verve MGV 8293) from 1958 and Roy Eldridge's Swing Goes Dixie (Verve MGV 1010) from 1956. Je, je, je... just found (and bought!) a NEW copy at amazon.co.uk marketplace for the very reasonable price of GBP 15... thanks again, SwSu!

Thanks, Swinging Swede and Tommy T! The "Swing Trumpet Kings" compilation I didn't know about, but the "Hot Trumpets...." CD containing "Mr. Allen" I knew... and in fact it's currently on its way to my place! My mistake.