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If you guys are at the Roscoe and Tyshawn I'll be the old guy with the white baseball hat featuring a Moose. Come say hello. I first saw Roscoe more than 50 years ago, then again a few years ago at the Ojai Music Festival.

IIRC (and I often don't) he posted here that his wife had had him involuntarily hospitalized. but that he's managed to escape?

Sometime late in the last century I accompanied Benny Carter to a concert given by the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band under the direction of Jon Faddis. Before the concert began word of Benny's presence reached the musicians and they began jumping off the stage to come over to pay homage to him. It was like going to a film festival with Orson Welles. For some reason the band had a conductor. After a couple of numbers Benny turned to me and whispered, " They don't need no fuckin' conductor."

He recently cancelled a concert in Santa Barbara.

How is the music? And what is the recording date? I'm looking at an Armstrong discography which is rather dismissive of the project but can't find this particular line-up. Doesn't mean it's not there just that I couldn't find it.

https://storyvillerecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-musical-autobiography-vol-1?utm_source=album_release&utm_medium=email&utm_content=fanpub_fb&utm_campaign=storyvillerecords%2Balbum%2Ba-musical-autobiography-vol-1 Has this been released before?

I love his (their?) first record especially "Not So Sweet Martha Loraine" but I'm sorry Fixin to Die Rag definitely borrows from Muskrat Ramble and Kid Ory's heirs were right to sue him.

There's a book entitled "What was the first Rock 'n Roll Record" which lists 50 candidates in chronological order. "Rocket 88" is number 24 between Les Paul's "How HIgh the Moon" (I remember when it was on the hit parade) and The Dominoes' "60 Minute Man". The earliest candidate listed is "The Blues part 2" from the 1944 JATP concert. Number 50 is "Heartbreak Hotel".

Watched Blackboard Jungle last night. Haven't seen it since it was first released in 1955. Of course I remembered Rock around the Clock but I didn't remember that Stan Kenton and Bix Beiderbecke were also featured. And in the scene where the kids destroy a record collection they yell out the names of several of my favorites as they break them "Cherokee", "Clap Hands Here Come Charlie" etc. Of course I was 12 when I first saw it and none of the jazz references would have meant much to me.

I saw Benny Carter when (IIRC-- and I often don't) he was over 90. He played just fine.

Got this from the Toronto Duke Ellington Society: I’m very sorry to report the passing of my friend and fellow author Jack Chambers earlier this week, in Toronto, at the age of 86. Jack was a professor in the department of linguistics at the University of Toronto for many years — indeed, its head from 1986 to 1990 — and completed several respected books and countless articles in that field. His “parallel vocation,” as he described writing about jazz, drew similar approbation — Milestones: The Music and Times of Miles Davis (1998), Bouncin' With Bartok: The Incomplete Works of Richard Twardzik (2008), A Tone Parallel to Duke Ellington: The Man in the Music (2025) and the forthcoming Ellington the Composer: Caught in the Act. His CV for linguistics and jazz together runs to no fewer than 41 pages. Jack was the senior member of a group of journalists, academics and musicians in Toronto who shared an interest in writing about jazz and who would meet every now and then for dinner, drinks and, of course, disputation. Jack brought to our gatherings the same quiet, knowing authority that characterized his writing. As news of his death circulated privately last night, he was lauded by one of our number as “a rare and generous spirit.” I can only concur. Posted by Mark Miller

IIRC based on a play by A.W. Pinero which I read in grad school.

Is the song in it?

Mercury is now owned by UMG. (I've always liked that record-- I've always felt that playing with Trane upped Cannonball's solos.)

So Concord is now owned by UMG?

How does Impulse get to do a compilation from '57 & '58? (I admit I've lost track of who owns what.)

Also he did one side of an Lp with Brubeck (IIRC the other side had Lee Konitz.)

Sam Fuller! (I once went to a burlesque house to see this film.)

Sackville. From Dixieland to Avant Garde.

Thomas Perry

Yes, "Call Me Darling" is missing though it's in the booklet's discography and discussed in the notes. But where did you get the list you cite? Also my Apple Music player says there are 24 cuts on the disc, the last being "Error-short repeat of Kansas City Stride". Fortunately I have "Call Me Darling" on VJC-1018 which Mosaic lists as their source. Old age is catching up with me. I figured it out just as I turned on my computer to read responses.

IIRC he was the brother of actor Taylor Negron.

Got mine yesterday via USPS. Started reading the booklet which has a long quote from Tony Janak in which he explains that the recordings were sent out on 12 inch discs with as many as 60 tunes on a double sided disc. Does anyone know what the playback speed was?

What were the earliest jazz box sets? Should we count albums of 78s? (I don't think we had any jazz ones but lots of others in my house growing up.)

Ravi Coltrane and Terence Blanchard are touring with a tribute concert. I was scheduled to see it last night in Santa Barbara but they were snowed in somewhere in the east. (In the '70s here.)