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Yes it's called A Day with Satchmo and contains the masters as well as the alternates.

Saw (and met) him when he was with BS&T then several times with Gil Evans and finally with the Gil Evans band after Gil's death. Glad that at that last gig I briefly talked to him and told him how much I had liked one of his compositions on one of the records he did under his own name. (It took me many years to learn to stop trying to be too cool to tell people when you admire their work.)

That's what I thought.

Another recommendation of the Paris gig. The crowd's whistling during Trane's solos only adds to the excitement. He's on fire.

Well at least I wished you a happy birthday on FB on the right day.

Before reading this I had presumed that this was about a pro-Palestinian group stopping a concert because he was an Israeli. Pissed me off. Then I read what it was about. Made me think about my attitudes towards all free speech etc. Decided I was still pissed off that he wasn't allowed to perform.

I just saw a Cassandra Wilson concert where he reed player often used a bass clarinet. (I forget his name.)

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.)