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I once heard a an editor of a jazz magazine put down Evans by saying that he played in a style he didn't like but if he had to listen to it he'd rather listen to Chick Corea. I couldn't see what they had in common except that they were both white. I'm not nuts about all of Evans's post LaFaro music either. (Saw him a couple of times with Gary Peacock and was sort of bored though I also saw him record a CBC-TV program with Eddie Gomez that was terrific-- unfortunately it does not seem to be in the CBC archives.) However, imagine if the first Bill Evans we ever heard was one of those lesser later records. It would probably seem like magic.

Jelly Roll Morton Benny Morton Bennie Moten

Ooops you're right! Lon and I did that. I just reported that mine arrived today from Amazon US.

I have a vague memory of "All the Things You Are" being chosen as the most beautiful song of the 20th Century (or something like that) a couple of decades ago. I can't remember by whom. I tried googling it and it does have an interesting Wikipedia entry but nothing about what I remember.

Mine arrived from Amazon US today.

The EMI recoding of Showboat is indeed terrific. 3 cds and a large booklet with every known piece ever written for Showboat including the songs written for the 1936 film version with Irene Dunn, Helen Morgan and Paul Robinson. (I recommend that highly too.) Does anyone know if the McGlinn version was used in the last big Broadway production produced by the notorious Garth Drabinsky? Both were controversial because, as with the original, the show opens with the chorus singing "Niggers all work on de Mississippi".

You're welcome! And Happy B'day!

I believe that the US distributor went bankrupt and all unsold copies were destroyed.

Happy B'day and many more!

But I think Neil Young's system is supposed to be a lot better than cds as well as mp3s. Not that I'd necessarily be able to hear the difference.

Wow! Very neat and clean.

Blind Lemon Jefferson Blind Willie McTell Blind Willie Johnson

Happy B'day and many more!

I suspect that before Bitch's Brew, Porgy and Bess was the top selling Mile's Lp.

It was one of the first jazz recordings I owned and definitely the first Miles Davis I heard. I thought all jazz was going to sound like that. I was sort of disappointed when it didn't.

That's great!

I just finished the book. Sure he could have used a better editor but it's an easy read (got through it a lot faster than I did the Neil Young "autobiography") and had lot's of information I didn't know about Bird (and yes I've read other books about him). However can someone who's read the book explain what was going on when Rebecca found him with a handkerchief tied around his penis which leads to his mother taking him for a cure. Venereal disease?

The new Mosaic Webb/Fitzgerald set includes "Rock It for Me" the bridge of which goes: It's true that once upon a time The opera was the thing, But today the rage is rhythm and rhyme, So won't you satisfy my soul With the rock and roll?" That's from 1937! Does anyone here know of an earlier use of the term?

I've often wondered if there was more material from The College Concert. Presumably the concert was more than 40 minutes long.

The Spirit of '76 can be downloaded from iTunes. You can find it buried in the Oliver Nelson box but can chose just the Pee Wee cuts. I've never been able to find a cd of The College Concert and finally did my own digital transfer from a fairly clean Lp.

The anniversary has not gone unnoticed. http://www.npr.org/2014/02/25/282508306/still-out-to-lunch-50-years-later

No doubt joined by Gilda Radner and John Belushi. I first saw Harold, Belushi and Gilda along with Bill Murray, Brian Doyle Murray and Joe Flaherty in" The National Lampoon Show on Broadway". Sadly half of them are now gone.

Wow! Thanks. I didn't know about this and have no memory of doing this interview.

Thanks. They are on the earlier issues. Not much info about them except that they were discovered by Earl Hines