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Hamilton 35.

If this were true there would be a lot more blind women around.

As someone in the business let me say that the first rule of filmmaking is that most films don't get made. (Though, obviously, some do.)

I ordered it from Amazon US and they claim I'll get it Tuesday.

And of course near the end of his life he added to his repertoire The Theme from Mash also known as "Suicide is Painless".

If anyone was thinking of getting the deluxe edition of Another Self Portrait just for the Isle of Wight you can buy the songs individually on both iTunes and Amazon.

I remember a critic who was into free jazz telling me that Evans was nothing special and played in a way common to lots of white players and if he had to listen to someone playing in that style he preferred Chick Corea. I knew he was an asshole not because he didn't like Evans but that he couldn't even recognize his distinct style. If you're a critic who doesn't see a difference in style between Evans and Chick get another job. (He probably would have said Keith Jarrett if he'd known he was white. )

Hope she gets better real soon and thanks for the good advice.

The Mann is from a session on which Mann plays only bass clarinet issued as "Great Ideas of Western Mann". This selection was added to the cd release. Obviously he doesn't sound like Dolphy but didn't Ken McIntyre (sp?) play bass clarinet?

Speaking of Shepp (and changing the topic) anyone besides me get the download of his new kickstarter cd? I really like it though it definitely doesn't fir into what we're talking about here. The hard copy should arrive by the end of the month.

Well I was about to say "Laissez les bons temps rouler" but I guess I should just say Happy B'day!

OK I'll bite: Does part of this sound like something by EKE or Strayhorn?

I once sent a copy of this to McLuhan's daughter. (I was a student of McLuhan and separately a friend of one daughter.) She loved it and said Duke seemed to like her father but never-the-less kept hitting on her mother.)

Got mine. Played it continuously while driving to and from LA. Great stuff.

I wrote the following to the Duke-LYM listserve: "I haven’t read the book yet so probably shouldn’t comment but several of the reviews have mentioned that EKE rarely gave Strayhorn credit. I’ve listened to a lot of Ellington’s radio broadcasts and I think he rarely played a Strayhorn composition without acknowledging the composer. I’ve just now been listening to a a Jubilee show in which he introduces Mid Riff by saying “This next selection is written by my composing, arranging companion: Billy Strayhorn.” David Hajdu’s “Lush Life” is a great biography of Strayhorn but it over-empahises the extent to which Duke can be considered amongst those who did not acknowledge Strayhorn’s contribution to the band. Unfortunately most writers who have followed him have not noticed that Hajdu never lets nuance get in the way of a good story. (I once read piece in the NY Times where someone wrote that a Duke would play Lush Life without crediting the composer. Of course the band never played Lush Life except on a couple of occasions when Billy was at the piano. ) I hope that Teachout hasn’t reiterated what is now (unfortunately) the received opinion." Never-the-less I'll probably read this book-- partly because I am interested in Duke's sex life. The other biographies I've read have all tip-toed around the subject so much that I never could tell whom he was married to or living with at any given time.

Happy B'day Brownie!!

Lou's left town. I saw him with 3 acoustic bassists. Wondered if he was influenced by Ornette. I didn't really get the Velvets while they were i existence, but I was so much older then.

The Mingus Candid set.

I thought the article was clever and I'm a Jew. The point of the article is that "Redskins"is as offensive as "Kike". There is no joke if you don't think "kike" is offensive.

This Savoy reissue reunites all the studio and live recordings, if I'm not mistaken. F The band appeared a few times on the Jubilee radio shows (Fats, Jug,Budd Johnson Leo Parker, Blakey, Sarah Vaughn etc). I've got a couple of them but am looking for the rest. Actually I see that I only have the FEb 19, 1945 broadcast. Anyone got any others? f them but am looking for the rest.

I was seriously weighing this matter a couple of weeks ago trying to transpose it: Would it be ok to call a team The Miami Jews? Probably. Seems to me the equivalent of Braves or Indians (the problem with the latter team being their mascot/logo who sort of looks Jewish to me). But the equivalent of Redskins would be The Miami Hebes if not the Miami Kikes.

He stayed with us once at my apartment in Toronto. (My room mate was a folk singer who knew him from the circuit.) Seemed like a good guy.

Anybody else receive this yet? I just got it. It's now called "Trombone for Lovers".

But the music is available (perhaps with some effort). Bird's playing on "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" on that broadcast perfectly illustrates what Crouch is talking about.