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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. )

Interestingly in the book the film is derived from the Gene Hackman character complains that it's Chabrol films that are like "Watching paint dry."

But maybe they already like and appreciate Monk,Silver and Clark. I don't know enough about OP's work (I have none of his records except as an accompanist) to know why that might not be possible. Though all this talk about how busy he is makes me want to hear the record he made with Count Basie-- that must be a study in contrasts. (Actually I saw OP twice with 40 years between the performances but they didn't really make an impression.)

How do you know he was mediocre? Just because Bill Evans said so? I mean I love Bill Evans's music but in just about every interview I've read with him he's said some really stupid things-- particularly when putting down players who were more avant-garde than he was.

Yes. But I wouldn't go around telling other people not to cast them. I'd rather spend my energy promoting art I like than putting down art I don't get.

Everyone I've read about who worked with Kenton seemed to love him even if they weren't nuts about the music.

I danced to him at the El Mocambo in Toronto, a rock club where I also saw Mingus. I think I took it all too much for granted.

False analogy. If someone gets pleasure from something why do you want to take that pleasure away? Saying you disagree is fine but why do you have to convince them your taste is better than theirs.

I can understand trying to convince someone to like something but why would you try to convince someone not like something?

Thanks for this. Serious question: Did any of the other musicians or singers complain?

I was once alone in the press room at the Cannes Film Festival trying to type up an article when Jerry Lewis appeared followed by a plethora of French tv crews. He sat at a typewriter and did some funny schtick, then jumped up and left the room with the crews all following him and still shooting. For some reason, they all (including Jerry) ignored me. I used to wonder about the French cineastes' fascination with Lewis but then I actually watched some of the films he directed. They're quite innovative though I prefer Jacques Tati but maybe he's exotic to me the way Jerry is exotic to the French. Their camera techniques do have some similarities.

This is an incredible bargain. Most of it is on the Mosaic box set but I think it's the only place where you can find the two rehearsals of Ebony Rhapsody. BTW what they list as "It On Toast" is "TT On Toast."

I've been sort of embarrassed to mention that Sanborn reminds me of Hank Crawford but then I just bought the on-sale Mosaic release of Heart to Heart and the second sentence of the liner notes begins "Strongly influenced by Memphis great Hank Crawford...." BTW I got the disc because I'm a Gil Evans completist (I even have the Johnny Mathis album with Gil's arrangements) and this cd contains an Evan's arrangement of "Short Visit" on which several members of the Monday Night Band sit in.

And I think (not really sure) that they get to keep the copyright,

The Five Pennies "under the direction of Bennie (sic) Goodman"! I never knew that either.

Wow! Thanks for all the work. I started wondering about this after listening to that same Teagarden record. Ted Goioia's book about jazz standardsdidn't mention that the verse was written later so I thought I'd made a discovery. But then I read the Wikipedia entry for the song and it credits Teagarden-Miller with the verse and it's also mentioned in Teagarden's entry. So much for my discovery. Is the 1928 Armstrong recording the first one? And the new verse has a new melody as well as new lyrics doesn't it?

Does anyone know who first recorded Basin Street Blues with the "Come along with me..) verse written by Jack Teagarden and Glen Miller? I presumed that it was the Ben Pollack Band when the two of them were with him but I can't find such a recording.

I once heard a radio interview with Benny Golson where he said the same thing. BTW Up There in Orbit seems to be a wild variation of The Saints Go Marching In.