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I don't know if any one has mentioned these before, but I was listening to some Alberta Hunter and got to thinking about her 1970's albums on Columbia. I think only Amtrak Blues and the soundtrack album to Remember My Name have ever been reissued on CD. I don't think either The Glory of or Look For The Silver Lining have ever been reissued on CD (maybe in Japan?) You would think Sony could knock out a 4 disc Complete Columbia Albums Collection for Ms. Hunter. The albums are very good and do deserve to be preserved.

You know the way the people (and you know who you are) who like/love the Lady In Satin album (an album which, despite occasional attempted listenings throughout the years, I still find to be godawful garbage -- I'd rather listen to The Chipmunks Sing "Strange Fruit" and other Lady Day Favorites than ever listen to Lady In Satin again!), well that's the way I feel about this album. A glorious late career masterpiece!

I found this at the library. There are liner notes which may help to explain the album title or Mr. Young's demented ramblings about having seen Judy Garland in the audience (this some 7 years after her demise) which go on and on and on as he even describes what she was wearing! The liner notes may even describe where/when this music was recorded other than "November 1976" as stated on the back of the CD case. However, the liner notes by Cameron Crowe and some other dude are all in a white, very stern font on a black background. This may rate highly somehow in hipster cred, but it rates very poorly as far as actual usability goes; my eyestrain easily defeated my level of curiosity, so it will be up to some one else to try to wade through that muck and see if there are any answers there. The music is okay. Solo Neil Young. If you like that sort of thing, this is the sort of thing you'll like.

Just missed the 50th anniversary of this music: Recorded at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, June 2, 1969 Don Patterson (org) Virgil Jones (tp) Houston Person (ts) George Coleman (ts) tracks: A2, B1, B2 Frankie Jones (dr)

First time watching this version and I gotta admit, I was not impressed. If the name "Alfred Hitchcock" (or the immortal "Nova Pilbeam") were not attached to this film, I think it would have been utterly forgotten by now.

An interesting, recently posted interview with Gary Burton:

I love the statement on his website: I remember that first appearance on SNL too. It's amazing that he must have been only around 25 then. I would have guessed he was in his late-30's or early 40's. Yet even at that young age, his persona and musical style was fully and audaciously formed. I loved his music throughout his career. Just a couple of weeks ago I was thinking it would be great if there were a complete Warner Bros. album collection of Leon Redbone's albums, including any alternate takes or bonus tracks that might exist. He had some really classic veteran jazz musicians on those early albums and it would be great to hear them in action to on whatever alternate takes may exist.

Singer-songwriter Leon Redbone, who specialized in old-school vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley-style music, died Thursday, his family confirmed. He was 69. Though, in characteristically whimsical fashion, the official statement announcing his death gave his age as 127 https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/singer-leon-redbone-dies-69-152419129.html

I had not heard this before. Was there an alleged reason why he would object to that album being reissued? It's pretty good and every one was doing bossa nova albums at that time (even Sinatra) so no need to be ashamed about having jumped on that particular bandwagon

That's so right about Dave McKenna being big and powerful. What's nice about the second video posted above is being able to watch his hands as he plays and seeing just how nimble he was and what a terrific left hand he had. It's also nice to be reminded of what a good songwriter Harry Warren was. He seems to get short shrift when it comes to remembering the composers of the Great American Songbook Now, another favorite pianist, Art Hodes:

I go hot and cold regarding Tony Bennett. Some times he is just too over the top and self-indulgent for my taste. I like him better in a small group format and perhaps best of all in a setting like this -- just the singer and a pianist. It's a good set including one of Duke Ellington's less well known tunes, "Love Scene", and a tribute to Bobby Hackett. On to more Dave McKenna, or at least the hands of Dave McKenna He really goes to town of "Nagasaki".