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I hadn't noticed this , but you're right ; Doug Ramsey credits Woods' solo on So What to Teddy Edwards (!) and his solo on Aram , to Joe Maini . Eliot Tiegel's original notes at least mention that Woods is a soloist ( without identifying on which tracks ) .

I wish !

Craft was president of Warwick , but his ownership stake was only 15% , with the rest being owned by a Canadian film studio . The Smith Warwick , Imagination , was also issued on MGM subsidiary , Arrow , as Have You Heard . Both issues are very rare indeed . Here are the covers :

He also recorded the tune in a duet with bassist Andy Simpkins on an MPS album called , The Many Facets Of George Shearing . This may well be it , but I don't have the album to confirm it .

Today is Jimmy's 75th birthday . Can anyone give us an update on his whereabouts and well-being ?

Meilleurs voeux à l'occasion de ton anniversaire Guy !

There are too many to list . Elvin Jones' first impression of Ginger Baker still brings a smile to my face : "Nothin' happenin' . Cat's got delusions of grandeur with no grounds . They should make him an astronaut and lose his ass" .

Don't really have anything to add to the literary recommendations in this thread , but as far as filmic depictions of Bukowski himself , I like Ben Gazzara's performance in Tales Of Ordinary Madness best . I thought Mickey Rourke gave a good performance , exaggerated speech patterns and all , in Barfly , and Faye Dunaway was creditable as well . On the other hand , Matt Dillon and Marisa Tomei were both badly miscast in Factotum ; that's one to skip . I think the best way to understand the man behind the words is to watch Barbet Schroeder's documentary The Charles Bukowski Tapes . It requires a time commitment of four hours , so you have to have more than a passing interest , but if you do , it's not to be missed .

Bohemia or Bohemia's Theme is not the same song as Bohemia After Dark .

But hanging out on a bulletin board with a bunch of fellow jazz obsessives is time well spent....

Nothing evokes , the 70s , Woolworth's , and late-night TV better than this :

Was that a takeoff of this? Yup . Sherman's LP , whose title parodies Jewish parents and their shepping nachas , was a huge hit , and inspired the Manne and this one too : "recorded at one of those very expensive Hollywood recording studios"

I have to say I'm a little leery both of autobiographies , and of biographies written by close kin , as they often lack the critical distance necessary to prevent their becoming insipidly hagiographic . One of the reviewers at Amazon feels very strongly that such is the case with this book , which of course only serves to further jaundice my predisposition . In view of this , I appreciate your countervailing input John . There's really no need to cop to a bias , as it's a given that most of the book's readers will be fans . It sounds as though the book can be enjoyed even by those who wouldn't consider themselves LaFaro fans , so long as they enjoy reading gig stories and anecdotes about a time when the 'scene' was keen .

I don't know of any other versions of Bohemia , either instrumental or vocal ; perhaps you're confusing it with the much better known Bohemia After Dark . If you're interested in hearing a vocal version of the latter , check out Mark Murphy's album , Some Time Ago . Paris' appearance at Newport was recorded by Voice Of America . The next time you're in D.C. you can pop in to the Library Of Congress and hear Jackie sing : Oh Look At Me Now , More Than You know , There Will Never Be Another You , Skylark and Indiana .

Has anyone here had a look at the new LaFaro biography , Jade Visions : The Life And Music Of Scott LaFaro ?

The use of the qualifier "conus" is ill-considered , given that it excludes Alaska , Hawaii and Puerto Rico , all of which can be posted to for the same rate as that within the lower 48 .

I think the on-location engineering is great , the music itself merely good , given the talent involved . Brock Peters I find simply dreadful . Coincidentally , I just noticed that today is the 50th anniversary of this recording .

Forgot to mention Curtis Fuller's The Magnificent Trombone Of Curtis Fuller on Epic , which is a whole album of trombone ballads .

Up , for the 2009 Fair.... Did anyone go tonight ? Anyone going this weekend ?

Speaking of Minny , what about Oar Folkjokeopus ?

That most lugubrious of ballads : Gloomy Sunday . You mentioned Bill Harris , so you may well have already heard his version , but I'd also suggest Bob Brookmeyer's version from his Verve album , Gloomy Sunday And Other Bright Moments .

I assume the non-jazz titles , the Sam Gary , the Russell Woollen and the Eleanor "Lovey" Powell have not been on CD either . The masters for these are listed as being held by Phoenix . However , according to an interview with Tom Wilson that appeared in the August 1956 issue of Metronome , Phoenix was to be a subsidiary label focusing largely on earlier jazz styles as opposed to folk or classical . The first issue was to be a recording by Wallerite trumpeter Herman Autrey .

Though just when you're thinking , "easy listening" , the strings recede and Wilson charges ahead with his characteristic headlong swing ! No more so than on the closing track , David Baker's Soft Summer Rain , which starts out impressionistically before the romp is on . Not a hidden gem by any means , but enough of Wilson's musical personality comes through , that fans of Wilson will want to check this out .

Well , digital certainly did come into it at the mastering of the recording stage ; DMM had to do with the mastering of the record . Back in the 80s you could rationalize the purchase of these LPs , since while costing substantially less than their over-priced CD counterparts , they didn't sound substantially worse than them , allowing you to expand your collection at a faster pace than digital early-adopters . Plus , the LPs , unlike the CDs , came with giant label posters

No , you're right , if there's a sequencing error on the original vinyl issue (New Jazz 8258) it differs from the sequencing error on the CD . I only wondered about the sequencing on the original , because I wondered why the track listing on it differs from both the CD reissue and the vinyl reissue (Prestige 7665) . However , looking at the CD booklet , I now understand why . The track sequence on Fantasy's CD reissue matches that of Prestige 7665 in order to , "improve upon the original by keeping the album's two sessions grouped together" . Whether the actual track order on that LP succeeded in doing that , and hence whether the sequencing error stems from that time , can only be answered by those who have Prestige 7665 . As to the how , well , since I didn't have Photoshop , I simply typed up a new inlay card with the correct sequence and recording dates . If I'd had a CD Burner back then I'd have just burnt a disc with a sequence matching the inlay and booklet listing . As to the why , I discovered the error exactly in the way you did , through familiarity with the tunes you cited . This was years ago , hence in my post from this past January I knew enough to double-check the AMG listing against my corrected one . Irrelevant today I know , but AMG did have it right at that time .