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I'm another one who never saw The BRady Bunch but loved Shultzy on the Bob Cummings Show.

I can't believe that I left out Pops.

In the documentary "The Last of the Blue Devils" Count Basie says he'd just like to be remembered as a nice guy. I was reminded of that reading the interview with Bob Cranshaw who certainly seems to be a nice guy and the story he tells of Milt Hinton's generosity is pretty mind-boggling. Given that many of our musical heroes appear to be less than stellar in other aspects of their lives which jazz musicians do you know or know of who seem to be genuinely nice guys? I'll start. (Obviously Miles doesn't make the cut even though I love his music.): Count Basie, Bob Crenshaw and Milt Hinton (see above). John Coltrane. There's a documentary in which Elvin Jones describes Trane as a saint. He says it with such reverence it made me love Elvin too. Gil Evans (though I've read that his mellowness was the result of a lot of weed.

I seem to have missed this. Could you indicate where in the interview it comes up.

Pepper's listed under "other reeds".

Happy B'day Jim and many more!

I love this record.

I saw him with a group in Toluca Lake several years ago. Took my father-in-law who had heard a lot of jazz as a youth but hadn't gone to a club in 30 years. Told me he used to see a child prodigy named Victor Feldman. We both had a good time listening to Strazzeri.

I remember that many years ago Coleman Hawkins picked a Clooney-Crosby Lp as one of his favorites. I had owned it for some reason as a kid and really liked it, so his accolades for it reassured me that I wasn't nuts. However it' still the only record I have of either of them except for the Ellington/Strayhorn/Clooney.

Happy B'day and many more!

Hey, you're even older than me! (Though barely.) Happy B'day!

I felt that way too but whenever I tried to point out examples they were trivial. Did you notice any major ones?

Reminds me a bit of Return to Me which he did for the Sopranos. (Or at least it was on The Sopranos soundtrack.)

Since this is for HBO, unlike most films that get announced this one will probably get made. Chris, I hope you're staying involved.

What were the 2001 references?

I've got a cd which according to the notes has 3 songs from Stockholm with Henry Grimes on bass and 3 from NY with Bob Cranshaw on bass. Haven't ;istend to this for a while but remember liking it.

Happy B'day and many more!

I would also claim that there's at least one "American institution" that he has done the opposite of making a vigorous defense" of: Duke Ellington.

I don't care about his politics. His book on Pops was pretty good. His book on Ellington was a piece of shit. (Though his politics might explain some of his inanities about EKE.)

BeBop: Sorry to hear about your dilemma and sorry to hear about what I presume is the death of a very young friend or relative.

Thanks os much.

Since we've had more than a bit of discussion about 'the real" Don Wilkerson: http://thebluemoment.com/ More than half o the latest entry in this blog is about him. What album (if any) is the live version of Come Rain or Come Shine from?

Billy's production company is "Face Productions" because he was nick-named "Face" by Willy the Lion Smith.

The Spanier-Bechet Big 4. Inspired apparently by the Rex Stewart, Barney Bigard,Django and Billy Taylor piano-less and drummer-less quartet from 1939.

It was worse in the late '50s. Prestige sat on some the Miles material from 1956 for 5 years. RCA didn't release Tijuana Moods for several years also. I"ve been trying to find out the release dates of all the Prestige Miles for a long time but it's difficult. There is a Wikipedia page devoted to Miles release dates but I know it to be inaccurate in at least a couple of cases so I'm a bit dubious.