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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.)

"Cutie pie hits"? Is he talking about Philly Joe? And what does Johnny Mandel have to do with it besides writing Emily. (BTW I saw Johnny Mandel, who was in his '90s lead a big band a couple of years ago and they rocked. I've also seen The Bad Plus and they didn't-- I got free tickets because the venue couldn't sell them and didn't want to have a completely empty house.)

I've got to admit I've always liked Ellington's version of Mighty Like the Blues which I was surprised to see was credited to Feather.

Received opinion keeps changing too. When I started really listening to jazz in 1961 received opinion was that Ahmad Jamal was a cocktail pianist, post army Prez was much inferior to his earlier work, Pops' big band work was unworthy of him, Stan Kenton was head of some sort of overblown cult, and after Moanin', Art Blakey had become a cliche. (I'm embarrassed to admit that I once wrote a club review of the 2nd great Miles quintet in which I referred to Wayne Shorter having "escaped the confines of The Jazz Messengers".) Received opinion now disagrees with all of this except Kenton. (And btw I still agree with some of the old opinions.)

According to YouTube music is the Count Basie Band.

Henry Threadgill. And loving it.

Well some good came from the Mosaic panic: I wanted to help out and buy a couple of sets so when several of you highly recommended Henry Threadgill so I took your suggestion and am I ever happy I did. This is a great music. (Though I have to admit I'm not nuts about the session that was released here for the first time-- but otherwise I live it. )

Didn't know of the existence of this till recently when a friend turned me on to it. Now it's a favorite.

Well I think they were rumored to be even more extensive. Almost glad they weren't.

Again IIRC you've quit this group several times because you took offense about less nasty things said about you. And the point is not what you said about fellow musicians but what you implied about fellow board members.

IIRC (and I often don't) someone on this forum recently attended a Giddens concert and liked it. So why do you gratuitously feel the need to insult them? No one was even talking about her. As someone recently wrote : there's a reason why there's less and less discussion on this forum. Vituperative comments like yours just drive people away.

I was about to post this story too. But is everything really free to download and how do we search it? I wonder if there are any jazz tracks never released on Lp or cd.

IIRC I saw Bill Barron at The Montmartre in Copenhagen a couple of times in the summer of 1964. Yes, he was good but at the time he didn't seem to me to be that distinctive though I was probably too enthralled by Coltrane at the time to be very perceptive.