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If you pay a a bit more you can get it from a US seller. You have to scroll down a bit to get to them.

You buried the lede: it's a collection of Jerome Kern songs. And I agree that it's very good.

I always though Michel Petrucciani sought out Lloyd in Big Sur and talked him into performing again. Turns out they met by accident and it was more that the then relatively unknown Petrucciani inspired Lloyd. Also Lloyd never really stopped recording.

Just finishing Joe Woodward's new book about Charles.

Not sure what you mean. How does it show which forums have unread activity? I just look to see how long it's been since the last post.

Is there one cd or set of cds that features Pops work with various singers during the '20s? I've got the Bessie Smith but he was on recordings with lots of singers I've barely heard of.

Good to hear!

Davies was my teacher in graduate school at UofT (Toronto, not Texas). Was also my thesis supervisor for several years until I switched topics. I only read 5th Business because I was seeing him every couple of weeks. Was shocked at how good it was. After that I read everything he wrote. The later trilogies (starting with 5th Business are much better than the earlier ones (which I eventually went back and read). I love that book. I think it's a perfect Canadian title but in the States they called it "The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose". I guess that sense of you're not supposed to rise above your station doesn't resonate in the US.

Happy B'day!

Happy B'day Brownie!

"Topsy" was, of course, a Basie number c-written by Eddie Durham.

When I was a kid Cozy had a song on the hit parade: Topsy Part 2.

I always liked his record "Rah!" but later editions dropped his rewording of "I'll be Seeing You" and "My Favorite Things" apparently at the insistence of the copyright owners. I still remember "I'll be seeing you in all the old familiar faces of the horses at the races..." Saw him a couple of times in the '60s and in the last decade liked his cd "Love is What Stays" which uses "Stolen Moments" as a theme. RIP.

Thank you . Those are helpful. the one I remember was done by Leo Valdes.

There was (is?) a great site devoted to Charlie Christian entitled "Solo Flight". I can't seem to find it anymore. (What I have bookmarked just takes me to Time Warner Cable.) Anyone know what happened to it?

I love Los Lobos. Seen then several times including, much to my surprise, once in Fredericton New Brunswick.

So how much is it really for all 5?

I've just listened on Wolfgang's Vault to the only concert Monk gave in 1975 . I was surprised how great it was. I then looked up what was written about it in Robin Kelly's bio and it's obvious that he hadn't heard the concert and relies on contemporary critics who didn't particularly like it-- especially Monk's playing. Am I crazy, or as is often the case, are the critics just wrong? (I should add the the notes on the website is even more enthusiastic than me, but they tend to shill a little bit. However there's an interesting comment by someone who attended it.)

I didn't think there were any recordings of Christian and Monk. This would be a great find.

Neil Young tonight. I expect the longest solos since the last time I saw Coltrane.

I don't understand most of this but it's scaring the shit out of me.

Have a magnificent birthday!

I used to see him play in Montreal 50 years ago.

How do all these people know about Sonny Greenwich?

I've only known Esquire since the late 1960s, by which time it was reputable fare found in doctor's offices and such. But other than the Vargas Girls, etc things, how "racy" was it, ever? Esquire was into jazz before my time but I do have an old Esquire Jazz Yearbook that gets pretty heavily in to the moldy fig/bop controversy. People forget that the Great Day in Harlem photo was taken for Esquire. Not only that, but it was part of an issue devoted to "The Golden Age of Jazz"-- by which they meant right then:1958. I'm sure people laughed at that but they were right, it was a golden age and people rarely know when they're living in one. . Though Bird had died, The Sound of Jazz had just been broadcast and many of the older greats were still alive and working. Miles in '58 had Trane, Bill Evans and Cannonball in his group. The list goes on. I don't have a copy of that issue and I forget what else is in it. (I think an article on John Hammond-- IIRC he went on and on about how much he hated Artie Shaw.) Remember the Esquire jazz polls and concerts? I don't know when they started covering jazz or when they stopped but for a time they were a force for the music. I just discovered that it's on-line: http://archive.esquire.com/issue/19590101 Amongst other things I got wrong: it's dated January 1959. And "The Golden Age of Jazz" article is by Ralph Ellison!