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I got this after reading this review: https://thebluemoment.com/2026/03/31/alto-voices-art-pepper-karsten-vogel/. Glad i did, but that is weird about Al Neil. Also I just noticed that there is a ninth number on disc three not listed on the cd, the the box, or the envelope for the disc.

I have several of his cds featuring big band (and singers) but only saw him live playing solo piano. Glad I was able to do that.

When I was growing up in New Brunswick Canada people (not me) would vacation in Ogunquit which is down your way I believe.

Well I'm 83 and I think you young people are complaining too much.

I remember when that film was almost impossible to find. Isn't it funny how we do that.

What music (if any) was on the version you saw? And where are you seeing all these films?

ha! I was one row behind you probably a few feet to your right.

Would have been hard to find me in that crowd. I was standing about 6 feet from Roscoe. I started a bit further back but as people left I could inch up.

Roscoe, Drumming, and Julian Lage. I also paid the extra to see David Byrne and Robert Plant. Enjoyed them both. I was happy to have gone to 4 shows a day and thought everything was worthwhile if not always to my taste. Loved Knoxville.

My father, who was not a jazz fan, brought Ambassador Satch home when it was first released. Hence it was one of the first jazz Lps I owned.

Shit this just reminded me that I saw her at The Cookery. I can't remember much about it. I better get that record.

Have you contacted Ted O'Reily in Toronto?

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?