medjuck

Thank you. That's very helpful.

I'm going to be in New York on the night of April 27th. Are there any jazz happenings on that night that I should try to get to or should I just try to see a play or have a nice meal? (My wife and I will probably walk the High Line and go to the Whitney Biennial during the day.)

At my age you read a lot of obits just trying to keep track of your friends.

I got it from an Amazon sub seller called Marvello for $11.65 in June . With shipping and tax it was $15.64.

I saw it on tv a couple of times in the late '50's. As I remember it there was a lot of music.

There are a lot singles in there that I think have never been released on cd. And while they're at it they could add much of what was on the French CBS 3 Lp release Duke 56/62. OTHD they could leave out the albums avaialbe on cd and still have a good box of rarities.

I had a choice of about 1100 selections (with some duplicates). Are there more?

I didn't realize that. I thought I was choosing from the entire collection when I was there.

That should mean more Basie with Pres. Great!

Glad you like them. A friend of mine produces them, another friend was the original production designer and still gets credited and her husband directs a couple of them every year.

I wonder if he recorded any other acts at the festival. Anybody who's visited the Museum notice?

OK I now have the 2 cds with a slight price reduction. Vol 23 contains the last 3 actual Treasury shows (the last last one was very short--apparently most of it was pre-empted by a college football game). Has anyone heard the shows from 1953 and have an opinion about them? Also any idea of what else might be on the last two sets since the '53 shows aren't quite enough to fill 4 cds? If vols 24&25 include earlier air shots I'd be tempted to get them. Not sure the '53 material appeals that much.

No new music but there are new photographs.

That was probably the AFRS Jubilee Show number 186. I have a lot of the shows but not that one. Anyone know where it can be found?

Wow. I'll be curious to hear what you think by the end. I'm a big fan and admire that he's eclectic enough to have done a few albums I really dislike.

It's got a great poster.

I believe that Vadim is usually not included as part of the New Wave-- I've always felt a bit unfairly. He's considered a terrible director (rightly in my opinion) but that doesn't negate that his choice of subject matter, locations and technical apparatus not to mention his commercial success made the New Wave possible.

You don't like Blood on the Tracks?

This interview is so good it almost convinced me to buy the 3 cd set. http://bobdylan.com/news/qa-with-bill-flanagan/

I was always disappointed that he didn't sing the "Oh to be back in the land of Coca-Cola" that The Band sing in "When I Paint...". IIRC, Robbie Robertson in his autobiography, claims he added that line.

I remember either reading or reading about GB asking why were people so big on Milt Jackson when all he could play well were ballads and blues. I was taken aback just as I was when I read Larry Coryell saying something like "I'm young, I don't care what older musicians think, they're going to die soon." Even though I was young at the time I thought it was a bit much to say , even if you thought it.

IS all the Monk music used in the film?

Well I was about 15 and thought I was too sophisticated for someone who did the duck walk. Chuck now seems like the most exciting thing in Jazz on a Summer's Day but I can't tell if Jack Teagarden and Jo Jones are amused or bemused.

I remember seeing Chuck in all those Alan Freed films and just not getting it. But I was so much older then.... Listening to those early recordings it's amazing how full a sound they get with just a quartet.

It seems you made the right decision: Amazon has still not sent out their expensive offerings and have yet to announce when they will. (Maybe they'll take the opportunity to lower the prices-- he said optimistically and probably naively. )