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Volume 23 is now listed by Storyville. I'm pretty sure that leaves only one more broadcast so I'm really curious about what the bonus material will be on Volume 24. Anybody got any guesses?

Almost by accident I came across this on YouTube: It was recorded shortly before Hawk recorded Rifftide and long before Monk recorded Hackensack. My question is why did they even bother to call it Lady Be Good? Didn't whoever wrote it (I'm guessing Mary Lou) want royalties? Also: were there many jazz recoding on Asch? I know about the first JATP concert but were there many others? BTW Robin G Kelly makes a half hearted claim for Monk pointing out that he and Williams often worked on ideas together. I OK I just found the answer to the second question: http://www.78discography.com/Asch.htm Google is our friend.

It did a lot of things I don't like in documentaries like using generic footage while talking about something specific. Nevertheless I thought it was great-- one of the best documentaries I've ever seen and I've seen a lot.

Saw documentary Chasing Trane at Santa Barbara Film Festival last night. Quite good, though it leaves out lots and at times is even a bit misleading. Most important it has quite bit of newly discovered footage of Coltrane. And the director claimed that it even has some newly found music: they discovered some of the 1966 Newport performance on the tail of a Charles Lloyd reel in the Warner Bros. vaults. (However I see in the Trane discography that it's listed as being released on what I presume is a bootleg label.) The film is a good introduction to Trane and has interviews with many musicians. (e.g. Benny Golson, Jimmy Heath, McCoy Tyner and Sonny Rollins.) Though my favorite film interview about Trane is one in another documentary where Elvin Jones, looking like he really means it says, "He was a saint."

Do you mean more than what was in the lovely obit?

Curious to hear what you think of Paterson.

Yes. I went the cheap route with the Pioneers after I read only good reviews for them. So far they seem fine for my purposes-- in the living room, not the listening room. BTW How long should speakers last? All my others are 20 years or more old.

Am I right that a lot of stuff on this Lp has never been issued on cd?

Blue Note released a cd with everything from the Mosaic plus some exra Teddy Bunn sides, but the cd is out of print too though you can get it as a CDR from Amazon.

I agree. Drive is great, Falls is a misfire. (Now this conversation should make no sense to anyone.)

I found the size of the 2008 edition to be too large to be easily handled and perused. I believe that the original edition was a friendlier size. So was there another smaller edition since the one I bought? The 2008 one? And I don't mean the number of pages but the dimensions and weight of the book. The one I have weighs more than eight pounds.

Thanks.

hundreds not thousands.

After 20 years my Cambridge Soundworks speakers have finally given up. (Well at least one of them has.) Any recommendations for a pair of bookcase speakers used only for music (i.e. not movies or tv.)

Speaking of whom: When did the trend of standing pianists begin?

Also The Port of Harlem Jazzmen?

Thanks. I didn't know about those dates. I see there is a cd of Hall's Blue Note sessions (best known for the one with Charlie Christian) but it there a cd of Jimmy Hamilton's Blue Note dates or did he just do the one?

In one of his books he says that what he was most proud of in the jazz world was his contribution to the tv show "The Sound of Jazz". I was able to talk to him on the phone about it several months ago but he couldn't hear me very well and didn't really understand my questions. I'm happy I did get to speak to him and tell him how much I admired his jazz writings. (BTW One of the things I asked about was why Lester Young appears with the Basie band on The Sound of Jazz record but not on the tv show. My guess is that Lester was just not in good enough shape--he's sitting down during his great Fine and Mellow solo.)

What radio show?

I really liked her in The Rat Race. Watched it because of Elmer Bernstein's music but found it had lots else to recommend it.

By "Loren Schoenberg's Lester Young blog," do you mean his Facebook page for Lester Young Appreciation Society or is there another site that's a blog? ( I did try finding it via Google.)

And that cover reminded me: I think I was present at that recording session/concert. Or maybe John & Bill set up the recording session while he was in town for the concert.

IIRC (and I often don't recall correctly) there was a Sackville Lp of Roscoe Mitchell solo. (The cover showed him surrounded by instruments including a bass saxophone so I gave a copy to Josef Skvorecky, the author of The Bass Saxophone. Can't remember whether he actually played it on the record.)

Sure looks like Harry and if you Google Cecil he doesn't look like this. But was Harry Carney on any Blue Note session? BTW Is everyone in agreement with the attribution of all of the soloists? The notes says that listening to the solos of Navarro and Dorham "the distinctions are obvious in Navarro's spikier tone, brilliant high notes and blistering technique." The tone of the second trumpet solo (attributed to Dorham) on Everything's Cool is not "spikey" but talk about high notes and blistering technique... Whoever the soloist, it's terrific as are all the solos on that number. And at the risk of seeming ridiculous, on Webb City the trumpets almost seem to be exchanging 4s and 8s to me.