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The two West Coast pianists named John Williams. (The movie one played with Benny Carter.)

I heard him interviewed once and he talked about how he had been influenced by Charles Brown.

That has a couple of cuts that I think are not found anywhere else: the rehearsals of "Ebony Rhapsody". Don't think they're even on Ellington in Order.

So you could do that with the Decca Ellingtons since Early Ellington seems to be there. I think they also have some grey area European issues that might have some of the Pathes etc.

That would be great but a lot of important Basie is not on Columbia or RCA ( though a lot is). Is it possible on any of the streaming services to make a public playlist that takes from the existing ones and adds to them?

And I think for just about everything else (books, films, etc) except sound recordings.

This seems to suggest that it's sitting at 1923 for recordings: https://ask.loc.gov/recorded-sound/faq/313179

I should probably let this thread die, but I finally read the article. Except for the "Worst Masterpiece " line I don't think it's that controversial. A couple of points: RIB was not well received by "serious" music critics. (Google "initial critical reception of RIB)" and the criticism is quite similar to that EKE got for Black, Brown and Beige. Iverson criticizes it for its lack of jazz chops-- was it advertised as jazz? Probably it was. I've always thought Ellington really resented Gershwin doing both a "jazz" symphony and a "jazz" opera before he could.

This record, which I got when it was first released, was the first time I ever heard this tune. Shortly after it seemed to be being sung everywhere. Maybe it was already a standard and I just didn't know about it.

Serious question: What does "masterpiece" mean? From the dictionary I get that it's the best piece of one person OR a great piece of work regardless of who created it. I like Gershwin but does anyone really call RIB his greatest piece of work? As to posterity: In 100 years no one will remember anyone of us on this board or Ethan Iverson, but I think they will remember Gershwin. ( I could be wrong-- I often am.)

I suspect that Spotify and other streamers, even though they don 't pay much per play now account for more income to performers than cd sales. (I'm just guessing. Happy to hear from anyone who actually knows.)

Some of these were on various Naxos cds but I think they no longer distribute into the US.

This is a really interesting interview with Connelly in which he explains that he got into jazz as part of his research for Bosch. Also about Frank Morgan. https://www.jazz88.fm/2024/01/23/crime-novelist-michael-connelly-on-the-role-of-jazz-in-creating-bosch/?fbclid=IwAR0hVf0r_INItBjoWcgwg1ThB5pkkfQYCHs0ib2FrMYp85blzx6gcI5VHoI

Got it from Rhino and really had fun listening to it a couple of times. I only have surround speakers in back with large floor speakers and subwoofer in front, so I think it would be even better if you had four equally sized (large) speakers. Fortunately, with the exception of one Howard Johnson tuba solo, most low sounding instruments were in the front speakers . You generally feel as if you're in the middle of the musicians facing the the rhythm section with the soloists behind you. (Maybe I should have turned around. )

How about all the times Bird quoted "In an English Country Garden" or "The Kerry Dancers".

Great idea! Maybe they can convince the Goodman estate to allow the release of the Goodman/Christian and Goodman/Prez material in the Savory collection. Do people remember the Lp where they spliced together Christian solos from different takes of the same song?

I was really impressed by Domingo because I had just seen him play such a different role in The Color Purple.

I've seen it twice and between viewings read the book on which it's based. The book is great but I think the changes made for the film were necessary for it to work as well as it did in that medium.

I have tickets to see him in April so he's still performing.

But then I met Mile '65 again at the Paris Ellington conference.

Some were so small you could barely see them. The museum offered magnifying glasses which were useful for the Songs of Innocence and Experience.

I think because this was under "Announcements" no one could respond. Larry posted: "I'm back after a six months unfairly enforced absence in an assisted care living facility. Maybe I'll tell you the whole story after enough time has passed, but it's a strange one." Welcome back, Larry.

William Blake at the Getty. https://www.getty.edu/visit/cal/events/ev_3282.html

I think I saw Sonny Rollins in every decade from the '60s through when he retired. IIRC The first time I saw him he had Grant Green on guitar and I thought he was suffering from too much a Coltrane influence. The next time I saw him was with a pick-up group in Toronto in late'60s or early '70s and he blew me away (though the concert got a bad review in Coda). Saw him often with the trombone-guitar group and enjoyed every concert. However the records I enjoy the most are the ones with Don Cherry.

Wow they had a bad lawyer. However there were many films that didn't clear music rights for home video because home video barely existed (if it existed at all) at the time the film was made. Frank Zappa held up the home video release of MediumCool for many years because of a song that was barely heard in the film. Later contracts bought music rights for "any future medium throughout the universe". (I'm paraphrasing-- can't remember the exact wording. )