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Who's that good looking guy with him?

I tried to figure out how to frame the jacket for the 2 disc Ellington Black, Brown and Beige but because it's a fold out, I couldn't figure out how. I guess I could cut it up and display all 4 sides. (The actual 78 records got broken when I moved to Santa Barbara.)

Don Was and the Pan-Detroit Ensemble. They played music by Henry Threadgill, Yusef Lateef, Hank Williams and Curtis Mayfield (amongst others). My only complaint is that it was in a beautiful small theater with no dance floor. (Some people danced anyway.)

The Savory Collection does contain performances with Christian though not for any numbers not available elsewhere-- but I'd sure like to hear his unissued solos. Not for anything published before 1930. An awful lot of music, books and films are going pd in the next ten years. Unfortunately not many recordings.

Would that time period include anything with Charlie Christian?

Nathan Van Cleave wrote and recorded some cues that were used as well as some overdubs on what EKE had already recorded. Frank Comstock "arranged and orchestrated" Van Cleave's work. (Van Cleave had worked on The Twilight Zone so we're sort of on-topic here.) BTW Ellington used an orchestra with 8 members of his band as well a LA musicians including Buddy Collet and Bud Shank.

IIRC in the '50s he was known as a "serious" writer of such tv productions as "Requiem for a Heavy Weight" and "Patterns" (both I think originally on "Studio One"). He's also the screenwriter for the fairly bad "Assault on a Queen" which I've studied because of the (butchered) score by Ellington.

Could one really march to that beginning?

Saw him with a local Montreal rhythm section in the early sixties. IIRC saw Art Farmer with same rhythm section a few weeks later. Maybe the only time I saw either of them.

IIRlC there are several Eno interviews (or at least one long one) in a Danial Lanois documentary called "Here is what it Is". There's also lots with and about Brian Blade in it.

IIRC (and I often don't) not every cut on "Always Know" has been released on cd. Similarly not every cut on the Hal Wilmer produced Monk tribute 2Lp set "That's the Way I Feel Now" was included on the single cd release. (In both cases I burned a cd to replicate the double Lp from whatever cuts were on cd plus the ones on Lp only.)

Konitz and Braxton played together on Dave Brubeck's "All the Things We Are" Lp. Did Braxton record with Konitz or Marsh elsewhere?

This is why you should never repeat other people's opinions about art till you've experiences it yourself. I used to go crazy listening to opinions about movies from people who hadn't seen them but had read Pauline Kael's or the NYTimes" review. Is that online? (the night of coverage)

There is a feature length documentary about him called "Sergio Mendes in the Key of Joy". When it was shown at the Santa Barbara Film Festival Mendes introduced it and performed with his group.

jo Jones is listed as being on one cut only. Otherwise Nick Stabulas.

BTW It's Bird's only tv appearance but not his only film appearance. There's the film he did for Norman Granz though the music was pre-recorded.

I first heard it by Bing Crosby and the Andrew Sisters.

I just read this in a comment to a post on Richard Williams' "The Blue Moment" blog where he reviewed a new Scott LaFaro collection: "I just wanted say Scott LaFaro lovers should check out the remastered versions of the Village Vanguard recordings and also “Ornette!” and “Free Jazz a collective improvisation” on Werner Uehlinger’s ezz-thetics Revisited series.There is so much more to hear from LaFaro on these. Steve Beresford told me that the audience noise on the Vanguard recordings were added as post hoc sound effects because it was felt the recordings did not sound live enough." Does anyone here know anything about this?

Blue Christmas-- Elvis

Is this possibly true: "Most of the songs included on this forthcoming release, out October 25, have never been heard before and some were not even known to have existed in the first place." ?

Did Steve Turre olay on a sea conch? My friend Ira Nepus, also a trombonist, sometimes does that soloing with big bands.

Orange was the Colour of her Dress then Blue Silk

So the only way to get the entire session including the dialogue on one cd is to buy the Monk box? Actually I've made my own version on one cd burning it from the Miles box and the Modern Jazz Giants cd. I always thought Concord would release one but I guess now it will never happen.

Interestingly it wasn't on the Complete Prestige Miles set. Was that session all on one cd on the Monk set?

Most important to me: do they include the dialogue between Miles and Monk.