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I was at a function with Reiner last year and I told him that I'd been a fan for 60 years. He was very sweet and acted as if no-one had ever said that to him before. (I presume it happens every day.) What's amazing is that he can also play straight man for Mel Brooks.

Carl Reiner is da man!

Was it seller "avatarmusic"? I just ordered from them. Does anyone have the Strayhorn box set and is it worth getting? Yes. I can't seem to find them on the net without going through Amazon.

Loved this. Same here. I'm buying the duo CDs because of reading this and I never buy bass/piano duo CDs - plus I havn't bought a Keith Jarrett CD except older recordings since Deer Head Inn and I bought that when it was released. Steve, i highly recommend checking out some tracks on youtube or wherever first. I really like Jasmine, but i think people are getting a bit worked up about these records at the moment (not here). I haven't heard Last Dance, Jasmine is a fine album but i think it's definitely an album where mileage will vary. With the best possible intentions I highly suggest trying before buying, that is all. Here's a review favoring Last Dance over Jasmine that was written before Haden died . http://thebluemoment.com/2014/06/17/jarrett-haden-revisited/ Williams also wrote a nice piece after Haden's death: http://thebluemoment.com/2014/07/12/charlie-haden-1937-2014/

Got it today. About 10 days after ordering it. The notes begin by saying "The following three titles complete the broadcast of April 13" to which my immediate response was "So where's the rest of the broadcast?" Though the notes don't say so, a perusal of The New DESOR (The insanely well researched and nearly complete Ellington discography) leads me to believe that a couple of the Treasury Shows are no longer extant in their entirety. (Including it looks like, the very last show.)

IIRC The title "Will the Big Bands Ever Come Back" seemed mildly ironic in 1965.

Happy B'day Shawn!

Who's the rest of the rhythm section? I don't think Laurie names them on the download page.

This book is about the relationship of Orson Welles and Billie Holiday. It sort of tapers off near the end but the author really knows his stuff. (There are a few anachronisms: eg he has Paul Gonsalves with Ellington in the early '40s. ) Here's the review that led me to it. http://thebluemoment.com/2014/06/06/orson-welles-and-lady-day/#comments

Would love to see it! The rooms of Suprematism are outstanding - proper 'Shock of the New': like a cold shower that takes your breath away and refreshes (sweltering London similes alert) I really wanted to see that. Saw it advertised when I went to the Matisse cut-outs show but was leaving London before the Malevich opened.

Some of my favorite versions of old warhorses.

Happy Birthday young man. I hope it gets better as the day goes on.

OK but how do you get the location of just the image without everything around it. (As I said pretend I'm really stupid.)

The 1958 Newport set is in stereo. That's all of disc 9 and the last cut on disc 8. Is this mentioned in the notes and I just missed it? Ambassador Satch may have been the first jazz Lp I ever bought. Got it when it was first released so this set has a lot of nostalgia for me.

Amen, brother. Though Sonny is well represented in my collection.

I just discovered that Haden also plays stand-uo bass with a wah-wah pedal on one cut of Keith Jarrett's "Birth" Lp.

I found vol 18 on Amazon US by searching for it specifically. It was available from the UK for less than $20 including shipping. And I almost immediately got an e-mail from the vendor saying: NOTE: Please ignore the Amazon delivery estimate of 18-26 days – we upgrade shipping so orders arrive usually within 5-12 business days as stated on the listing (US/Canada/Europe/Japan only). I'll let you know how long it actually takes.

Things changed faster in those days. There seemed to be a new generation every 3 years.

Thanks for the help. I just made it work. See Return of the Film Corner. And when I do that I get a thumbnail.

If you use this what size do you choose? (It suggests 640X480 for message boards.)

I've done it in the past but I forget how I did it. Now I seem to only be able to do thumbnails or whatever they're called. And how do you post cd and book covers from Amazon? Pretend I'm really stupid. (It won't take much imagination.)

It's available on Blu Ray as part of a fairly expensive George Pal Collection : http://www.amazon.com/Puppetoon-Movie-Blu-ray-Limited-disc/dp/B00GL9D6JG/ref=sr_1_4?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1406263871&sr=1-4&keywords=George+Pal

So I guess he created the solo (apparently based on a piccolo solo) long before he recorded it. I've read that almost everyone else playing it copied his solo and I think there are many recordings by others before 1940. I always presumed he recorded it in the late teens.

Listening to Barney Bigard playing it on the new Mosaic Pops collection got me thinking about this.

I As an aside, when I was going to school in Buffalo in 1964, Sonny Rollins appeared at a local club with a group that included Grant Green. Unfortunately, I missed that gig and I've wondered since what the group sounded like. I saw that group in Montreal. I remember not liking it that much. (It was 50 years ago so I don't remember many details.) Next time I heard him was with a pick up group in Toronto which included Ed Bickert and Arcjie Aleyne (sp?)-- or maybe it was Ed Thigpen-- and I was much more impressed.