Steve Gray

It was on this tour that Louis recorded an episode of 'Desert Island Discs' for the BBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p009y1rb

This BBC film about Hifi in the UK in the 50s is hilarious all the way through and is well worth watching but it also contains a scene in HMV in Oxford Street of a row of booths with different music coming from each booth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9o_eZGaaMk The Hitchcock film was "Strangers On A Train"

Volume 8 is available. now, on Amazon music at least and I assume another platforms I am so glad that the series hasn't been abandoned

Unfortunately definitely the latter!

Nope

I well remember the review of Ole in Jazz Journal in, I guess, 1962 The reviewer unfavourably compared the playing of "George Lane" to Boyce Brown. Of course in those days we didn't know definitively who "George Lane" was and I am not sure that the reviewer had heard any of Eric's records.

Basie next please

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/feb/02/a-man-cannot-learn-without-discipline-jazz-guru-marshall-allen-on-life-with-sun-ra-and-turning-100

We should have had 7 AND 8 by now! I do hope this series hasn't died a death

Looking on streaming sites, it is claimed that 6/8 is on the 1953-1954 "Dizzy Gillespie in Chronology" CD. Manteca Theme / Contraste / Jungla / Rhumba-Finale / 6/8 (05-24-54) is shown as lasting 16:29 which implies 6/8 is not really there given the discogs timings. I can't listen to it to confirm

If you look at the "other images" on that discogs link you will see that there is a shot of side 2 which does indeed include Contraste/Jungla/Rhumba Finale https://www.discogs.com/release/12735433-Dizzy-Gillespie-And-His-Orchestra-Afro/image/SW1hZ2U6MzY4ODg4MDc= It appears you can get 12 minutes on an EP. Surprises me. There are also shots of the liners which for me are illegible unfortunately

Also the timing given for "6/8" (4:47) is very close to the timing of "Rumba-Finale", the third part of the suite. Sure looks as if you are right

I don't think that's right either, it was recorded in mono so any stereo issues are fake. "Pres and Teddy" was, as it happens, the first jazz LP I bought, in 1961

The sleeve notes, which can be seen on Discogs, clearly state that it is unreleased 🙂 It's by the larger group that appears on MDM and Lock Em Up

Hah. Me too but it was Leo Wright, not James Moody. Same night that I saw Coltrane and Dolphy. I'm old now but I was young then.

I have read through the explanation given here but I still do not understand why some tracks on "The OKEH Ellington" are not available for this series. What has happened since 1991, when "The OKEH Ellington" was issued, to bring about their unavailability? The changes of ownership seem to have been over by 1940. I don't see how the sale of EMI in 2012 is relevant.

Volume 2 now on Amazon and presumably other streaming services

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-66121572

Just google jazz joke cartoon 🙂

Twenty years on, here it is. It was issued years ago but I have only just discovered it. Available on streaming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTkEIBgayng

Just a general note about the Music app... It's terrible compared to iTunes!. They really screwed up in the transition from iTunes to Music. If you just want to play your music I guess it's ok (although there are some weird peculiarities to do with the 'up next' queue) I suspect most users just download music from Apple Music and play it. They will probably be satisfied. If, like me though, you transferred music from iTunes and do a lot of metadata and playlist editing, it is truly awful. It is as slow as molasses and full of bugs.

You are probably trying to output analog to your speakers. If you are, I can only agree with rostasi. check your settings. However it is possible you are trying to output digitally via a dac to your speakers. The minijack socket on Macs used to be combined digital/analog. Now they are just analog so digital output will not work.

I only saw him once, about 20 years ago Playing in a duo with a pianist (on a very out of tune piano) in a pub in Holborn. Big fan of Wally and Humph here. RIP Wally

It is actually a combination of Columbia and RCA tracks. Apart from the 2 previously unissued tracks, 'Daybreak Express' is an RCA cut.