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Well I guess Loren would have access to that.

Couple of questions: 1) Schoenberg mentions a live Famous Door recording of Blue and Sentimental with a vocal by Helen Humes. Anyone know if this is available anywhere? 2) On "I'm Fer It Too" from the Dicky Wells December '43 session Freddie Green takes an introductory solo. Does he solo on any other recordings? (I know he does at the Goodman Carnegie Hall concert-- supposedly unwillingly. )

It's directed by Jerry Lewis! The Jerry Lewis!!???

Happy B'day!

I just remembered that when I moved to LA I lived in The Valley and Johnny Guarnieri played nightly for a couple of years at a bar/restaurant just down the street from me and I never got around to going! Victor Feldman performed several times at a small jazz club near me and I never saw him either. Fortunately shortly after I moved there I did see Art Pepper, Harry Edison (with Bob Cooper) and Teddy Edwards. They were either at Donte's or another Valley club the name of which I've forgotten.

Have fun today!

There's a lot about him in Tommy James' autobiography "Me and the Music and the Mob". Actually it's called "Me, the Mob and the Music."

5 tracks are on both. (I think I got that right.)

Amazon is now listing vol 21 for shipping in September.

Max Beckmann show at the St, Louis Museum of Art.

So far I agree with Loren Schoenberg's comment that the only alternate that might be considered equal to the original release is "Boogie Woogie". He presumes that the alternate take of "Lady" is the second take and writes "it sounds as though he (Lester) had already said what he had to say". Not s sure of the order of the takes-- hard to believe that they thought they'd need another one after the one we're all familiar with but maybe they always did two to have a backup.

The Hajdu book shone a welcome light on Strayhorn but he was wrong to imply that Ellington never gave Strays credit. I have many, many concert recordings where Ellington names Strayhorn as the composer of the numbers he wrote. I like Hajdu's writings, but he's not one to let nuance get in the way of a good story.

Just playing 1st disc (the Sony one). I already had all but six of these cuts and I've got most of the rest of the whole set, but the sound is great, the packaging lovely and the music as beautiful as ever. What I've read of Loren Shoenberg's notes has added to the pleasure.

The Eagle has landed! Number 0184.

Has this been discussed before?: I just learned about it on a Duke Ellington Facebook group. I thought it was eye-opening. Coltrane's solo on the first cut reminds me of something he might have played with Monk. He's not very interesting on Castle Rock (so much for those who dismissed him as a honker-- he's not a very good honker). In a Mellow Tone suggests his early style with Miles was fully formed a year or so before he first joined the quintet. BTW Which forum should this be on? Broadcasts?

The Sony logo is featured. I don't even hear Wayne (but he gets credit as an arranger). Most featured is McLaughlin. It's two dates and I don't hear two basses so I think Cox was on one and Brooks on the other. BTW I've been enjoying this.

Mine's "out for delivery"!

Great!

Lucky you! Mine's not scheduled to arrive till Thursday.

So this morning I got a notice saying it would ship in a couple of days! But UPS says it's left Secaucus.

But they are different sessions?

Wasn't that the name of his first Sackville record?

And now I've had a shipping notice. We'll see how long it takes UPS to get something across the country. And it's in Secacus!

BTW The collection also contains a couple of tracks of Hawkins' playing Body and Soul a few months before he recorded it for RCA. I listened to one that was quite a bit longer than the record and it was great.

I didn't get a shipping notice but my credit card has been debited. My breath is very bated.