Harold_Z

I came in through the bathroom window.

...what's wrong with go go girls??? Not a thing !! I worked at the Metropole during the summer of 1968 and I remember the girl that's in the opening shot.

Look, America was in the war and was there to win it. Unlike anything since. Get it. Cops or military will tell you the key to winning or diffusing a situation is overwhelming force. We did what we had to do. Nothing to be ashamed of. I haven seen the film yet, but going from Alexander's desription, a film that shows the humanity and situation of the enemy "grunt" or foot soldier and does so accurately.........HEY..nothing to complain about here. My guess is it points out that the people fighting these wars are NOT the people that cause these wars. Just regular people, doing what thier governemnt asks of them. And people die.......but not the pricks that start the shit.

What are some of the tunes? Lon or I could probably ID the PeeWee sides. Assuming the Dizzy sides are more identifiable.

The opening scene also has a shot in The Metropole, a one time well known jazz joint, but by the time of "the Odd Couple" the had cut the jazz policy and had bar bands and go go girls.

YEAH ! I've noticed the same thing. I'll give your "fix" a shot.

Lord Buckley. Very hip !!

Yes. I know that room was still extant under that name (Cafe Rouge) into the late 70s or early 80s. It may have lasted even longer. The Hotel itself changed hands and names a few times. If I remember correctly it was a Hilton for a time and another name or two that I can't recall. Also afaik it kept the Pennsylvania 6-5000 telephone number throughout.

Durium - Same here. I haven't participated in a BF test for a while. Please send me the link also.

I can think of a few guys who ought to put ot a record by The Jazz Consti-Pators ! !

Weighing in a bit late. The two tracks I heard of Percussion Madness are totally smokin'. Good stuff is still happenin' and that's encouraging. As Jim has pointed out - It's out there but you have to look for it.

HBO always has more than one showing, so Rome will repeat 3 or 4 times this coming week. I guess that means I'll watch 24and catch Rome later on. I don't want to miss either.

Best of Luck, Joel. I really enjoyed the playing on My Space.

Happy Birthday !

Been reading it for years. Since the early 80s at least.

Back from my gig. Jim Beam on the rocks. Pedestrian but GOOOD !

I guess Nick got the copyright in first. I (more than) suspect that's what happened with a lot of early jazz tunes. W.C. Handy is another guy who was smart enough to be fast on the copyright draw. Same thing on the blues scene.

Thanks Durium, That ODJB clip is priceless. I had read about that, but had given up hope of ever seeing it. A lot of tunes use the chord changes. Duke Ellington, for one, used the Tiger Rag chord changes often. Also not to be missed is Jelly Roll Morton's lengthy demonstration in the Library of Congress recordings.

Just sent Paypal now. I had to wait for that charge to revolve !

Happy New Year Chris and also to all.

No box, but it was the "RCA Encyclopedia of Recorded Jazz". A great set. With a box? I guess the Billie Columbia "The Golden Years".

Isn't it for situations such as this that charge card were invented?

The reason I find this premise so distasteful is the assumption of the author and, obviously, others by their lists, to associate fame and celebrity with importance. Maybe some people ought to find out about the contributions of people like Benjamin Banaker, Garrett Morgan, Louis Lattimer, Hannibal, Elijah McCoy, Madam Walker, Nefertiti and other great queens and kings of Egypt, Timbuktu and other African nations, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anwar Sadat, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Marcus Garvey, Jomo Kenyatta, Kwame Nkrumah, Madam Walker, Marshall "Major" Taylor and too many more to list. I don't think Nasser and Sadat were black -- they were north African Arabs. Guy Both of them said they were. Sadat addressed the Black Caucus and affirmed this and even promised financial contributions to the caucus shortly before he was killed. Regardless of what they said, if they were black there are a whole lot of black people around the Mediterranean and Middle East. Guy Interesting exchange. imho it demonstrates that "race" (and racism) is in the eye of the beholder. It is a matter of perceptions and pre-conceived perceptions.

No. The term Black was in common usage by the time JB recorded "Black and Proud".

Not "well done" according to a number of people who have extensive prior knowwledge of the subject -- Dan Morgenstern of The Institute of Jazz Studies, for one, John Litweiler, for another. A very good recent book on Morton is Phil Pastras's "Dead Man Blues: Jelly Roll Morton Way Out West" (U. of California Press, 2001), which focuses on the two periods (1917-22 and 1940-1) that Morton spent on the West Coast. Egg on my face. "Dead Man Blues" is the one I read.