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Which bio do you recommend? John Edward Hasse: "Beyond Category, the Life and Genius of Duke Ellington".

Seems to be available on Amazon for $20. BTW The missing songs from the single cd are available as downloads. I've always been interested in the DVD because it was shot at the Santa Barbara Bowl.

No, not to stream but they charge for downloads. (Lot's of things aren't available for download.)

Wolfgang's Vault seems to have access to a lot of jazz concerts not just those from The Newport Jazz Festival. As with their rock concerts, a lot of them aren't very good but some are gems. There's a couple of Mingus Quintet concerts from '77 (one of which they describe as being by a quartet) that I like better than the studio sessions from the period. And there's a set each by Al Cohen and Zoot Sims using the same rhythm section (with Jimmy Rowles) one night at The Great American Music Hall. And today they're honoring Dizzy Gillespie.

I've just finished the Teachout book. It's the 4th bio of EKE I've read in the last decade and easily the worst. ( I've never read Collier's-- it sounds awful.) However about the only negative thing Teachout doesn't say about Duke is that he was a mediocre piano player.

The Oliver Nelson Mosaic is available on iTunes for $44! Are there other Mosaics available there? (Of course it's not advertised as a Mosaic but just as being from the Verve Music Group.)

I met him once at a film event and thanked him for the OJC series. Glad I did. BTW I believe that he was married at one time to Charles Mingus's ex-wife Celia. According to Wikipedia that's how fantasy ended up with Debut records: Mingus gave it to them as a wedding present.

It's already available for download at Amazon US but I'm waiting for the cd (and not just because it's cheaper).

BTW Mercy, Mercy, Mercy shows up a couple of times in the film.

Yes, and it's also a defiant song. The singer is saying "that's why everyone in the smart set thinks I'm a tramp", ie, because I haven't much money and prefer everyday simple activities to fashionable, sophisticated ones. "No got. So what?" Although the versions by Sinatra, Buddy Greco and other male singers swing superbly, the song doesn't suit a man at all. It comes across as, at best, nonsense, at worst misogynous. The scene when Sinatra sings it in Paul Joey to provoke a woman is especially embarrassing. And the attempts to update the lyrics are uniformly dreadful. I'm not surprised the OP was nonplussed by the versions he's heard. Well it makes sense for a male to sing if he's defending a woman who's been dismissed as a tramp. But IIRC in the Pal Joey film it's just confusing because Joey is trying to say that the woman in question is a tramp. (Rita Hayworth?).

I hate to admit that it's 75 and sunny here today. But we do have to worry about brush fires.

It's in the Duke Box from Storyville and is still sold as a single CD. Iit is also on eMusic and perhaps iTunes. It can also be downloaded from Amazon. The cd has no liner notes.

The Carnegie Hall concert is (or was) available on cd. Storyville still lists a cd of Hollywood Empire broadcasts, and it's available on cd or as a download from Amazon.

It also contains the single versions of "Honky Tonk Woman" and "You Can't Always Get What You Want" and the Mick Jagger single of "Memo From Turner" with Ry Cooder on slide guitar. Probably other singles that were never on Lp that I don't know about. Great compilation with terse but informative notes.

And to all a Good Night!

And there's a 6 1/2 minute version of Charles Brown's Merry Christmas Baby that's really good on a cd called "Reconsider Baby (Elvis Sings the Blues)".

I did see him with Cannonball. That would have been more than 50 years ago. Wow.

The "Lincolns or Fords" line is sung in the Sinatra version and he may have originated them. They aren't in the original Larry Hart lyrics as found here: http://www.lorenzhart.org/trampsng.htm where of course she "won't go to Harlem in ermines and pearls". These lyrics, which go on for several choruses, make a lot of references to then contemporary topics and probably upper class Easterners were just starting to brag about trips to California-- which is sometimes (eg the Spring) colder and wetter than the East.

I shouldn't take any credit. Ghost of Miles posted the URL on Facebook and both he and I got an e-mail Nou Dadoun who sent it to several list-serves. Who ever posted it on You Tube (Harry Oakley?) deserves the credit. Amazing stuff shows up there.

Sorry I wasn't clear. Publisher's royalties have nothing to do with whether the source is a broadcast or not. I meant if it's being broadcast on radio when you hear it. If they are using Pandora or I guess Muzak then the record company would get some money I guess even if it's a European pd semi-bootleg.

Not if it's a radio broadcast. And not if the store is programming itself. Not sure about Muzak or similar services, (but I think not) yes if it's Pandora.

Is All About Jazz a social medium?

I just read a post on Facebook saying Herb Geller has died. The source was All About Jazz http://news.allaboutjazz.com/news.php?id=107712#.UrXxKGRDu4v

Until recently only the publisher (and hence the composer) were paid for public performances or radio broadcasts. Either Macy's or whoever supplies the feed should have a contract with ASCAP and BMI. Most internet streaming music suppliers have also made a deal with record companies and so it is to be hoped that the performers get some piece of that.