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I'm confused about the charge of racism. When I first started listening to jazz I often didn't know what colour the musicians were. What if you liked Buddy Rich and didn't know he was white? Are you still a racist? (BTW I loved Terry Gross interview with Keith Jarrett where she asked him about his reactions charges that his music was a betrayal of his Black roots. She, like me, was floored to discover that he's a Caucasian. )

Happy B'day and where and how are you?

http://www.newsweek.com/through-chuck-stewarts-lens-history-jazz-310085

But oh, didn't he ramble.

Not my cup of tea.

Thanks guys. How'd I get so old?

I didn't like But Beautiful either but many people I know do. I thought Terry Teachout's book on Pops was ok but his Ellington book is shit.

I'm going to see a singer named Cecile MclOren Salvant tonight. I know nothing about her.

It's been a long time since I comnpared them, but my memory is that I prefered the remakes on all but one where I strongly prefered the original. FWIW, YMMV, etc. Interesting that Bob bothered to do that, he's generally one take or less.... Supposedly he was visiting his brother who heard the original takes and thought they revealed too much about his marriage. Though that wouldn't account for all the remakes.

The only thing better than Blood on the Tracks is Blood on the Tracks with the original New York versions of some of the songs replacing the Minnesota versions. (I especially prefer the original version of Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts.) BTW I think I read that the next volume of the Bootleg Series may be devoted to BOTT.

I liked Lilith. IIRC it has a score by Kenyon Hopkins featuring a lot of Phil Woods. (Though I may be confusing it with another Hopkins score.)

Dalton Trumbo? (Though he claimed he quit the party pretty early.) Rossen was not one of the Hollywood Ten but he was blacklisted. I always thought he was an excellent writer director. His breakthrough film was "Body and Soul". I can't remember whether they play the song in it.

I've always tipped but i'm so old I remember when 10% was the norm. I became a big tipper after both my kids began working in restaurants. (The system in NY where people working in restaurants can get paid less than the minimum wage is nuts. )

I remember when I was studying with Marshall McLuhan he complained that people would confuse him with Rod McKuen.

Brooklyn Rider string quartet on Thursday night. The program was made up of works commissioned to celebrate one of the composer's "inspirations". Composer's included Vijay Iyer (who was inspired by James Brown), Bill Frissel ( John Steinbeck), Gonzalo Grau (Chick Corea) and Rubin Kodheli (Henry Threadgill). Good stuff.

I'm fond of her album Azure-Té. I used to get the title song confused with Ellington's Paris Blues. I was surprised to find that Louis Jordan had recorded Azure-Te.

I saw a string quartet in a 350 seat hall last week. It was wonderful to hear unamplified music. (It's so rare that spellcheck doesn't believe that unamplified is a word-- or did I in fact spell it wrong.)

Showboat? (Though not ones played that often by jazz musicians.)

Spaceballs is one of my favorite stupid movies (high praise from me). I still LOL at some of the lines: "Yogurt! I HATE yogurt!" "I'm a mog - half-man and half-dog. I'm my own best friend." "What's the combination? OK, I'll tell you: 1.......2.......3.......4.......5." Rick Moranis said that at one time they were planning to do a sequel called "Spaceballs III: the Search for Spaceballs II".

Thanks. I found the Ornette film on YouTube also.

Most of us have outlived Jimmy Blanton and Charlie Christian. A lot of us have outlived Bird. In fact of the jazz musicians I most admire the only ones I haven't outlived are Benny Carter, Ornette Coleman and Sonny Rollins. And of the the first generation of rock and rollers we still have Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m4xkY0WgVw#t=736 Am I the only one who had never heard of this great 1967 short film? (Can't find the YouTube thread or I'd post this there.)

Happy B'day and many more!

It's available from ITunes under the title "Capital Vault Series". (At least I think they're the same.)