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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!

I remember Esquire mostly from the '60s when Robert Benton and David Newman were there. They had amazing covers (Sonny Liston as Santa Claus etc). To quote Wikipedia "In the 1960s, Esquire helped pioneer the trend of New Journalism by publishing such writers as Norman Mailer, Tim O'Brien, John Sack, Gay Talese, Tom Wolfe, and Terry Southern. In August 1969, Esquire published Normand Poirier's piece, "An American Atrocity", one of the first reports of American atrocities committed against Vietnamese civilians.[7] "

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.

Lester , , , then James P. . . . good things ahead for we who wait. Is Lester first? When?

Then Miles began doing live performances of Teo's version of It's About That Time.

I probably don't want the 18 disc set (though I'm embarrassed to say I already have a lot of it with crappy sound) but this is from what might be the most creative 18 or so months of creativity in music history. I'd love to be able to buy just disc 18-- it at least has some new music.

I think George Avakian (whom I greatly admire) also edited and sometimes even dropped in notes to get a better Lp. and that was back in the day when you had to cut tape by hand.

IIRC I was watching the film On Golden Pond and in a birthday celebration they sang For He's a Jolly Good Fellow and I thought "Holy shit, someone must own the copyright on Happy Birthday."

I've been told that he only plays sax when he was feeling good.

Wow! Sounds great. I've seen Van about 5 times over the last 45 years (I may also have seen Them opening for The Yardbirds in the summer of '65) but this sounds as good if not better than any concert of his I've attended.

I got mine today from Amazon. I've heard part of it and it's very good. However I've read all the notes and in three essays no-one mentions the man who recorded "what would have been a private bootleg recording". It was the late Will Thornbury a wonderful d.j. whom I was lucky enough to hear when I first moved to California. The only credit he gets is in very small letters as one of two after "originally engineered by". He was also an actor (model for the Marlborough Man) and a screenwriter. Oooops. I just noticed that on the back of the package he does get credit for doing the interview that's at the end of cd 3.

They seem be avaialbe on one cd: http://www.amazon.com/All-American-Jazz-Midnight-Paris/dp/B00BWS4TF6/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1442444229&sr=1-1&keywords=Duke+ellington+All+American

Apparently The Nutcracker will also contain The Girls' Suite and I'm guessing that Peer Gynt will have Suite Thursday.