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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.

And where's the "Big Band" version of George Jackson?

This morning on Weekend Edition there was an interview with Stanley Crouch about his new Bird bio. He read a section describing Bird with the McShann band at the Savoy in Feb 1942 while they played music underneath what he was saying. Only unless I'm nuts (always a possibility) what they played wasn't from the only extant recordings of that show and worse, the 2nd solo is not by Bird but by a tenor player. You can hear it here. http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=2&t=1&islist=false&id=237040499&m=237570181 BTW I don't blame Crouch for this-- it's the producer's responsibility.

If we're going to discuss further purchases shortly after buying Jazz Red Hot and Cool I joined the Columbia Record Club's Jazz division and received KOB, Ellington Indigoes, Lionel Hampton's Silver Vibes and JJ Johnson's Blue Trombone. A pretty good start.

Saw them last night, Third time and I thought this was the best version yet (Or at least gave the best performance).

The gypsy guitar player is Laurendo Almeda.

The 1943-1945 Ellington transcription were for World and are avaialbe with multiple takes on the 5 Circle cds. The sound is great. There are also a couple of 2 cd packages that contain Ellington's "Standard" Transcriptions from 1941. Included is the first studio version of Take the A Train. (Has a different Ray Nance solo.) 29 cuts in all. I've never seen alternate takes of them.

Probably Dave Brubeck Jazz Red, Hot and Cool.

Hey Alice Munro just won the Nobel Prize for Literature!

This may be the funniest thread I've ever read on this forum. Since I can't top any of these posts let me ask a serious question: Are there other Verve complete sessions avaialbe on iTunes? And was this ever released on cd?

The article was just plain silly. Yes owners cam make more money selling a company than keeping it. That's true in all industries, But if they have no income they're not going to get very much for the company.

She made mention of that album during her performance. I talked to her briefly between sets and mentioned that I'd bought it when it was new50 years ago. I'd forgotten that it was her first record. (Though I think she recorded with George Russell before then.)

Just came from seeing Sheila Jordan. She turns 85 next month and the local pianist accompanying her with his trio is 83. They were both great. Gives me hope.

I was listening to a Jubilee show from June 1944 which had the Eddie South Trio with Billy Taylor on piano playing a Taylor composition entitled "The Mad Monk". With a bit of internet research I learned that Taylor later recorded the piece with his own trio sometimes with an alternate title "Monk's Mood" (not to be confused with....). The composition has some Monkish qualities and I presume it is an homage to Thelonious. The broadcast was made before Monk's first recording session but according to Taylor's web site he headed to Minton's as soon as he had arrived in New York. I guess he heard Monk there but I've certainly never thought of Taylor as a Monk acolyte. Was I just missing something?

BTW The Naxos series of Ellington cds is far from complete but does tend to include some rare things like the "Hit of the Week" sides. Sound is good too. Easily available in Canada if not in the US.

There are a few JSP boxes with Paramount material; I have the one that has about 100 blues tracks. Me too. I think it cost about $20. But I think Allen already has that. IIRC I bought it on his recommendation.

Barcelona: If you're interested in architecture at all or just Gaudi, I found the Casa Batllo even more fascinating than the Segrada Familla. Easy to get to see without advance tickets.

I found it for $8.95 and $3.99 from an Amazon re-seller-- which I find easier to do than E-Bay. Thanks for all the help people. (Now I just hope it doesn't turn out to be "nothing special".

I saw him there too. IIRC he did a Jazz 625 show summer of '64.

Not curious enough to pay 84 pounds. (plus postage).

I've been listening to the Jubilee shows in chronological order while I work out or drive to LA. I'm missing quite afew of them but the one I don't have which I'd most like to hear is the 60th which has amongst other guests Ivie Anderson and Bing Crosby. I'm pretty sure Crosby is the first white singer or musician to be on the show. (Jack Benny showed up earlier and Johnny Mercer a couple of shows later.) Anyone have access to it or know where i can get it. BTW I highly recommend these shows: Guests include Ellington, Basie, Benny Carter, Art Tatum and many people I've never heard of who are petty good. You also get to hear what was going on during the recording ban of 1943.

I agree with this, but (and how many times have we had this debate?!) if the material is available nowhere else, well, I get it. Example: The John Graas Jazz Studio and Jazz Lab recordings originally issued on (I think) Decca. They're only available from Lonehill. Mosaic has never touched them, and neither, to my knowledge, have any of the "legitimate" reissue labels. So I got the Lonehills. I don't feel great about supporting the label, but I want to hear that music by a (pretty well forgotten) fine jazz artist. gregmo Yeh, I spent years looking for that one. Once bought it as 3 45 EPs.

Thanks. Somehow this slipped by me. I think I already have everything on the first five discs and much of what's on the later discs. But this looks like a reasonable price that won't take up too much room on my shelves.

I disagree. It's a myth that you get the best people by offering the most money. One tenant of good business is never to hire someone who's just doing it for the money.

Has there ever been a box set of the complete Louis Armstrong Okeh material controlled by Sony? I was looking for the 1931 Pops version of I Got Rhythm, discovered it was controlled by Sony and there doesn't seem to be available on a legitimate cd. Or have I just not looked in the right places?