medjuck

Thanks for the tips. I've never even heard Rapper's Delight or The Sugar Hill Gang.

Me too. (Partly out of curiosity because I don't know the history.)

I think even Prez was seduced by the rabid response from audiences to repeated notes and honking.

Love that record. I had it on a Decca discount label then got the Lp you refer to. I'll have to check if there's a cd or download available.

Just the head

Dog bites man story?

DOXY.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/poseur

Jeff Bezos. And Weinstein never was. He just got a lot of publicity.

Beat me to it.

I'll take that bet. Not to add to the conspiracy theories but.... When all this came out The Weinstein Company was already in deep shit financially and Harvey certainly didn't wield the power he did a decade ago. When Mike Ovitz really was "the most powerful man in Hollywood" only Joe Eszterhas ever took him on in public. Once he fell from power everybody started started piling on.

One of the reasons Hillary isn't president is that the NY Times broke the story about her personal e-mail server and then rode that story for all it was worth so I hardly think her being president would keep them from breaking this one. As to everyone in Hollywood knowing about this-- make that everyone but one. I heard he was a jerk but never that he was a sexual predator. And having been both a university professor and a film producer I'd say there was more hanky panky in Academia than in Hollywood. (Though I was a teacher in the '60s and '70s and an old married man by the time I got into the film business.)

They're nearly the same length. Another anomaly: The discography in the notes doesn't give any info on tracks 2 and 8. They both seem to be big bands conducted by Bernstein but written by Katz-Hamilton. Probably because of the authorship the track line-up lists them both as being by the Chico Hamilton Quintet. They're obviously not played by a quintet and they both appear on the Lp of just Elmer's music. I would be curious to know who plays on them though track 2 (Hot Dogs and Juice) is a pretty awful attempt at Rock 'n Roll.

In my experience very few first call people got more than scale (which was pretty high). One exception was Larry Bunker who always got double scale. However those who played more than one instrument on a session would get extra.

IIRC Ian Underwood was on many of the film scoring sessions I attended. I have a vague recollection that Don Preston was on some also but I may be confusing the two.

Kenneth Anger. Wow! Now there's a blast from the past.

I probably should have made it clear I was asking Jim and Chuck. I got a pretty good interview with Zappa once but was a little shocked (even then) about the way he talked about women. It was backstage at The Rockpile in Toronto and all The Mothers as well as Blood Sweat and Tears were there. Had a pretty good discussion with all of them about music and they told us about a band they'd all heard in Chicago called CTA and how many horns they'd have if all three bands played together.

I was going crazy trying to figure out where I'd heard the cue "Susan (The Sage)" before. I eventually discovered that it was on an early (the first?) Chico Hamilton Quintet Lp under the title "The Sage" and credited just to Fred Katz. Hamilton's name is added as co-composer for the film. BTW There's also an alternate and longer version of this available for download on Amazon. I think these downloads are from the EL/Cherry Red cd.

Do you guys mean they were paid enough and worked enough in heir prime but just didn't manage money well? (I'm not arguing-- I don't know.) IIRC Dicky Wells quite the Basie band to go work in the post office where he'd have a steady income.

I was perusing a Steve Lopez column in the LA Times about people who can no longer afford to live in LA when I realized that I was reading about Don Preston! http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-lopez-preston-housing-20170930-story.html I should be used to it by now but I keep being shocked by learning how people whom I think of as major musicians end up in poverty.

There are two versions (one listed as "alternate" ) available for download on Amazon and they seem to be from a previous release of a soundtrack album. There's also a version on a non-soundtrack album.

I got mine today too and will be listening tomorrow. Peter Bernstein's notes mention a a big band record Elmer made. Google led me to the name: Blues and Brass but it seems to have never come out on cd. There's an Lp offered on Amazon for $99. Has anyone here ever heard this?

You're right about the credit. Sorry I didn't see it. In the "The Bass Saxophone" he does make reference to Adrian Rollini so I presume he meant a bass saxophone. "The Tenor Saxophonist's Story" is readily available from Amazon in the US but I see it's not listed by Indigo in Canada.

Go for Lester.

What I remember is that when he played with the Biddles trio at least once a night in the middle of a solo the rhythm would drop out and just leave Nelson playing alone and he would really take off, often just with chords. I was surprised he never did it on what seems to be his only record. I should add that I saw Wes Montgomery around this time and thought he was the most consistent soloist I'd ever heard, but after listening to Nelson so much I hardly noticed his technique.