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So how good is this compared to other Wes records?

Me too. I also have something claiming to be "The Complete Ellington Indigoes" and a Gold hi-def version. I first got it from the Columbia record club when it was just released and probably have owned more versions of it than anything except KOB (which i also received from the Columbia Record club when it was new).

This set contains the only known extant recording of Strayhorn's complete arrangement of Chelsea Bridge by the Ellington band. (Something I stumbled across by misunderstanding what Walter van de Leure wrote in his book. He didn't know it existed either. )

That first Jones-Smith session is so great. Does anyone know what kind of reaction there was when the two records were released?

I also found the Teagarden set 2nd hand without booklet. Just ordered a copy of the booklet from Mosaic. (To be shipped with the Mobley and Threadgill sets.)

I meant the Decarava book. (I actually have a copyof te DExter photo signed by Leonard. I expect that there are thousands of them.

I just orderd it from Smithsonian/Folkways. On a cd with Omer Simeon cuts.

I have that book and can't find that photograph in it! Anyone know what page it's on? (I have the 2001 Phaidon edition with no index or ids.) Many of DeCarava's photos are technically similar. And yes, hard not to id Big Ben.

Does anyone know where I can find the recording he mentions here?: Fats Waller participated in one session with Louis Armstrong and Jack Teagarden and friends that has come out on many bootleg recordings over the years. This session was issued in many different ways.

Here it is: http://jazzmuseuminharlem.org/introducing-savory-collection-vol-3-honeysuckle-rose/

So no Teddy Wilson set?

Maybe I misunderstand (I often do) but shouldn't you order them before they're back in print to encourage them to print them? There's no risk since they don't charge you until they ship.

I thought his breakthrough film was Wild Seed which made a bit of a splash in its time, but no one I've read is mentioning it.

Sony? (Which owns Columbia and RCA I think.)

Huh? I get a couple of e-mails a week. Don 't you get The Sunday Gazette?

I bought something from them (can't remember what). It went fine. Used Paypal so no security problem.

Ok You guys have convinced me. Just ordered it. (The Threadgill, that is. Elgin is referring to B. Frank's post but somehow when I hit quote it only brings up Elgin's reply.)

I was really happy with the Town Hall Concert. My wife and son liked it too. Did Terrance Blanchard play every number? (the trumpet player in NY only played did the first half of them. Also did Ibrahim comp at all? He didn't in NY.

How do they decide when to repress back order sets? I presume that they wait until they have enough orders. So if you're interested you should order now as there's no risk since they don't bill until they ship.

I don't think tape was used on The Tonight Show until 1959. However there may have been kinescopes which can't be erased. Doesn't mean they still exist. I don't think tape was used on The Tonight Show until 1959. However there may have been kinescopes which can't be erased. Doesn't mean they still exist.

I once visited Chertok at his apartment on (IIRC) Riverside Drive to discuss putting out some of his films on Lazer Disc (speaking of media becoming obsolete. I believe that most of his collection is now held by Mark Cantor who is still cataloguing it so he may find some pleasant surprises. Lon, what's the next set? Teddy Wilson? I couldn't find anything under "Upcoming releases" on their website.

No I don't. I inferred it from something I read on a usually reliable source -- this forum IIRC.

This has never come out on cd ( I transferred it to digital to have it always available.). Wouldn't it be great if it got released on cd with the rest of the concert. Charlie Haden always pointed out that he played on this when asked about how he moved from Ornette to his later work.

I think lots of interesting people played there: Marlene Dietrich, Duke Elington (though that may have been the King Eddie-- I'm not near my reference materials to check it out. Just found this in Wikipedia: "Famous legendary performances by popular entertainers included: Marlene Dietrich on her farewell tour, the last performances of Johnny Hodges with the Duke Ellington Orchestra...Count Basie, Woody Herman, Pearl Bailey, Eartha Kitt, Peggy Lee and Ella Fitzgerald, and the first appearances doing comedic impressions in 1982 of future Canadian star, Jim Carrey." I have to admit I was never there though I lived in Toronto for 15 years. Apparently they once refused admission to Bob Dylan for not wearing a tie so they probably wouldn't have let me in even if I could have afforded to go. ( I was refused admission to the Colonial Tavern once for wearing jeans when I went to see Ornette Coleman! Had to wait till I moved to Santa Barbara to first see him.)

By the time I got to see her live she was in a wheel chair. It was at the Hollywood Bowl and she shared the bill with a large Benny Carter orchestra. So glad I went. The only time I've ever paid scalper prices. My late friend Josef Skvorecky, a Czech novelist, got into jazz because he heard Ella singing A Tisket (sp?) in the late '30s. After the Russians invaded in '68 he ended up in Toronto and finally got to see her in performance at the Imperial Room in The Royal York Hotel. (This story always makes me happy. )