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So is everything they offer now in print?

Not exactly his usual tone. He doesn't usually sing. Hint: he's also the bass player. And the fiddler might give a clue. Yes indeed!! They were playing each other's horn. I picked it to cause confusion. I think it's just one guitar and bass but he's a prodigious guitar player. Ry Cooder also used it in the soundtrack to the film Paris, Texas. (Not this version.) You got the time period right and the leader on vibes is not playing his usual instrument. Wow, you're right. I'd completely forgotten that Monk recorded Abide with Me. You'd probably only be familiar with the bass player. But Ed Bickert is. And IIRC the bass and drums are also on the Desmond recordings. I picked some of them for their obscurity (and I think deserving of more recognition) and in 4 cases there are musicians not playing their usual instruments. (Well one is playing his usual instrument but he's also singing.) And three of them aren't really jazz. So you did pretty darn good.

Very close in every sense of the words. Indeed the real thing. Tracks 3 and 4 give a clue. it is Gil and probably no one but a Gil completist like me would have this. I think you can still get it. But this seems to have disappeared from the face of the earth. This was probably the most obscure track.

The food is good at The Jazz Standard. (IIRC from a Danny Meyer's BBQ place next door.) Wish I was there this week to see the Mingus Big Band.

If it is out of print it may be their smallest selling set: I got it a month or two ago and I got number 1704. BTW It's a great set.

The Henry Threadgill is not listed as OOP but it's also not listed as being available.

It was indeed Le Place.

Paris is amazing. The audience hates Trane and he just ignores them. Wynton Kelly is on fire on this tour.

Small club in Montreal. Can't remember name. I had just arrived to start McGill. My cousin, a jazz fan, took me. I remember John Gilmore but not the other horn (ir there was one). Just seemed like jazz to me. ( I already owned about a dozen jazz Lps : KOB, Ellington Indigoes, MJQ plus Sonny at Music Inn, and a couple of Dave Brubecks. I'd gotten most of them from The Columbia Record Club. ) The only thing that seemed weird about it was they played The Christmas Song and it was August.

I think it might have been Gene Autry at the local arena. First jazz was Sun Ra with a quintet (summer 1961).

Around 1982 I met with Jjean-Luc Ponty and he raved to me about how Jaco had revolutionized bass playing. I'm not sure I'd even heard of him at the time but Ponty was definitely convinced (and convincing).

I've got a cd of the Zurich concert, April 8, 1960 (Swiss Radio Days Jazz Series volume 31) advertised as "Officially released for the first time". Actually I think I have cds of the entire tour. The packaging is going to have to be awfully good for me to get this one.

Happy B'day!

Bennie Moten, Benny Morton, Bennie Maupin (I'm always getting them confused.)

Are you Canadian? You got three out of 4 of the Canadian guitar players. And 4 out of 5 of the guitar players.

I can't answer that but according to Stratemann the tv film was a shortened version of the 81 minute original.

You seem to know who it is but aren't saying. Most people on this board have this record. Yes. No Yes. Wow. You're good.

Excerpts from a film called" Monterey Jazz" (1970). They're not in order. That's Johnny Otis's band backing the singers. (Esther Phillips, Cleanhead Vinson and Jimmy Rushing). And yes it's from a few months before the Lp recording of Chinoiserie. (Here it was still being called Eclipse pt 2.) I got this info from the late Klaus Stratemann's excellent book "Ellington: Day by Day by Day and Film by Film".

OK It's BFT 162 and it's up and running. Thanks Thom.

Since BFT 161 has been revealed this must be 162. It's not actually September here in California for another few hours but it must be September for some people on this board (though Thom might not activate this right away-- not sure where he is --but I'd like to thank him for al his help). http://thomkeith.net/index.php/blindfold-tests/

No love here for Matador? Gil Evans even covered the title song and you can get it on cd with another record (Into Somethin'.)

I'm not attacking a fellow musician( I'm not a musician) or a member of this board. I'm defending Johnny Mandel who probably reads that New Yorker. And it was on topic. But you're right I didn't need to bring up the concert I saw to do that. (Actually I thought Bad Plus was ok though sort of boring. )

I saw that tour but can't remember what she sang. She supposedly wrote Coyote about Sam Shepherd who was n the tour with her. BTW Is Hejira the one that has a photo of the skater Toller Crantston on the back or inside over? And is the video of Miles of Aisles the one that begins with the film of The Teenagers singing "I'm Not a Juvenile Delinquent". (I may have misremembered both. Had "Miles" on a Lazer disc and I no longer have the disc of a machine to play it on.)