Steve Gray

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.

Walkin' by Miles. Over 13 minutes

He's cool

Sweet Emma Barrett in The Cincinatti Kid. Cab Calloway is also in it.

I only saw Mingus once, on a European tour in 1974 at the Hammersmith Odeon, London. Cannonball Adderley was also on the bill. The only member of the band that I am absolutely certain was there is Hamiet Bluiett, but I guess Richmond, Pullen and Adams were there as well. I would love to know the exact lineup on that tour. If anyone knows please let me know. Sorry to say but my recollections are that the band sounded very tired and I was very disappointed. I was about 10 years too late I guess.

It was Humphrey Lyttelton and Chris Barber who first got me interested in Jazz (and Acker to an extent but not Kenny Ball) I quickly moved on to the real thing but I still enjoy all the records I used to enjoy, including my Chris Barber disks. I only saw him once, on a tour with Louis Armstrong. RIP