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I once asked a personal source what the chances were of the "entire concert" becoming available and was told that the odds were good that Ellis was either the opening act or an earlier part of a package concert for that evening and as such were probably allocated 30 minutes or so. Factoring in for introductions and announcements and such, what's come out might be all there is. Too bad. OTOH, this source was not speaking definitely, as he only had access to the Columbia vaults, not the Ellis or Stanford archives. So who knows for sure? Either way, that's got to be one of the most explosive consecutive 30 minutes in big band history. If that's all there is, then we've been "blessed with a miracle" that it got recorded like it did.

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That video is kinda small. Which one is Brooke Shields?

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I got aan email from Live 365 talking about the same thing.

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Listened to this today. The less it sounds like a Tommy Dorsey band (which is more than often enough), the more I like it. At times, as on "Piccadilly Dilly" (sp?), I find myself asking what universe Bill Finegan was from to have been writing like this in 1949. Just...amazing writing, like some heretofore unexpected/unpredicted missing link between Ellington & Thad Jones...I always thought the link was explicit (and essentially direct), and no doubt it is, but somewhere in between, this! And the RCA version was previously unreleased!

That makes enough sense to be believable.

No, this is wrong. Not at all on the PJ album. That's wrong, so fuck me.

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Singles are the only way I can really engage Joe Houston, one or two at a time, but for those few moments, damn...when you got tone and time like that, what you do with them is between your conscience and your bills. This is one of the very few Joe Houston records of that "golden era" that shows that he got that tone and that time by practicing more than what he played on his records. All I can say is...if you don't at some level let "All Night Long" into your heart and let it move you to Do Right (Whatever That Means To You), then...may god have mercy on your "soul", especially if you are a tenor "player". RIP, and thanks for knowing how that shit works, really works. We ignore it at our peril.

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Ok, here's the narrative as provided by Michael Cuscuna in the first Mosaic box. It starts with Hillleaving Chicago with Dinah Washington and leaving her to settle in New York when her tour hit there, upon which he found sideman work with several people, including Kirk. You can make your own odds about meeting Laverne being the reason why he didn't leave town with Kirk. Who knows? It's as likely as it is coincidental. Chuck Berg's liners to the From California With Love LP tell it thusly: Cuscuna's chronology makes more sense. The Mercury LP shows Domino as being recorded in NYC, but the insert on the CS I have indicates split between there and Chicago.

There's some correlation with Hill being in L.A. and playing the Rahsaan gig, but I'm not clear exactly what it is...whether he was already out there and then got the gig, whether he got the gig and then went out there, or if he was already on the gig and the band got booked there...it's probably on record somewhere, just can't recall it. One thing for sure, though, that's where he met Laverne.

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My son goes to work earlier than I do, and he said it was snow-flurrying at 6:30 this AM. It wasn't quite cold enough to stick or accumulate, but sill...81 on Saturday, snow on Monday.

This is to jazz video what that photo of Tina Brooks at the Coronet in the Mosaic set is to still photography. If there was ever a time to listen through your eyes, this is it.

Ok, brain fart...I was thinking of "We'll Be Together Again" from Straight Up. Masterful tenor playing.. I find it interesting that Vick got signed to RCA in the first place..was that Brad McKuen? The guy obviously had business skills and was not afraid to make commercial records...but how many people can be said to have leader dates for Lion/Wolff-era Blue Note, RCA, and Strata-East as well as a pseudonymious LP AND a Sonny Rollins tune dedicated to them to their name? Harold Vick, there's got to be a story there of a man who knew how to navigate skillfully and honorably. Either that or else the guy was a total asshole. But I think probably not?

If the worse thing I do in this life is to risk pissing somebody off by telling them they're wrong about Chu Berry, hey, clear conscience! I have a burn of that Vick LP somewhere...is the title tune done as a ballad with just the quartet? I seem to remember it as being one of those things that can pass for a "straight" version, but only if you don't pay attention to the tenor playing, which is just full of colorations and tonal manipulations, in other words, typically Harold Vick, which is to say, the sound of a master at work. Eddie 'Harris would do shit like that too, sound like he's "just" playing the melody, but, pshaw, right, yeah, sure.

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