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He was the filmmaking equivalent of Chris Strachawitz (sp) and Arhoolie Records. In fact I think they sometimes worked together. Great fillmmaker.

I love that he manufactured in New Brunswick (my home province). Not much else made there.

Happy Birthday young man.

I saw him at a concert in Santa Barbara as part of an Arts and Lectures series at UCSB. Good stuff but I'd rather see him where you could dance.

Today's LA Times Sunday Crossword has the following clue: "Saxophonist-composer Jimmy, known for his big-band arrangements for Benny Goodman and Count Basie"! The answer maybe obvious to jazz fans but pretty esoteric for most puzzlers I would think.

Finished The Holy and the Broken: Leonard Cohen , Jeff Buckley and the Unlikely Ascent of "Hallelujah" by Alan Light. Really a long magazine article published as a book and probably more than most people want to know about the history of one song, but I liked it. Also The Tin Horse by Janice Steinberg. A novel about a woman who makes a brief appearance in The Big Sleep. Philip Marlowe makes a guest appearance here but it's not a noir mystery- or even a mystery really.

To be honest I didn't know about this book, just the Wilde on-line discography. And I also don't care much about each issue-- I'm still trying to find the session information that's not on-line. Anyway thanks for info about the book. Is there a new edition in the works or should I just buy the rather expensive paperback?

There are at least a couple of Trane discographies on-line that I can find but neither of them have been updated in a while. They're missing most of the info from March 28, 1960 session that's on the Jazz Icon disc and some grey area cds. But I'm particularly trying to get the info on the 3 cuts found on the First Impulse release: Laura, The Damned Don't Cry, and Nakatine Serenade. Anyone have it?

Howard Johnson with Gil Evans? Purple Haze!

Wolfgang's Vault just released a 1976 concert of the Art Ensemble of Chicago from the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco. BTW Has anyone (me?) mentioned the Santana/ John McLaughlin concert with Larry Young?

Almost exactly the same as what I've quoted. I do remember hearing Rock around the Clock first in '55 but '56 was the big year. I saw Elvis the second time he was on the Dorsey Bros show which I think was early in the year. By that summer I knew Rock and Roll was here to stay and I loved it. BTW That was in a small town in Canada. Globalization was beginning to happen.

As of one minute ago it's on my Kindle for the iPad. Congrats!

Time flys when you're having fun. (And when you're old.)

A couple of the concerts (McElroy's Ballroom) in this set were available on a Laserlight 5 cd box set at the beginning of the cd era.

In LA the program is being broadcast again Sunday morning.

Latter day Benny Carter.

It's worth watching/listening to the commercially released DVD just for the commentary track. In the film Rodriguez seems a bit of an idiot savant but in the commentary you realize that he is just laconic and really smart. The director keeps trying to put words in his month and Rodriguez doesn't let him.

IIRC Glen Gould really liked her.

I always wanted to get a shave in a barbershop but I'm waiting till I get rid of my 45 year old beard. By now I'm afraid of what I'll find underneath.

I think it's a great quote but I'd point out that there are also people who feel sorry for someone who likes Oscar Peterson or Dave Brubeck. And somebody out there must enjoy Kenny G. Do we feel sorry for them?

A very minor complaint: I always click on new content after I log on and don't always notice in which forum topics are started. If I reopen the board later, topics I've read don't show up as new content unless someone adds a post. Sometimes i like to think a bit before I add a post but if I've left the board and the topic doesn't come up under new content I have to guess which forum it might be under. Is there a way to just leave the posts in chronological order and not remove the ones you've already read? (Does this make sense-- I'm not sure I'm using the right terminology.)

You think Chuck does it for the money!!!!????

I've got that CD. The Bootleg 2 version has a much drier sound with better separation between the instruments. The Japanese CD has a lot of reverb added, and everything seems shifted to the left a bit as if the tape wasn't aligned properly. There is also a lot more high frequency on the Japanese version which I think is annoying because of the cymbal crashes. I prefer the bootleg version, it is more detailed, better base, and doesn't have the irritating high frequencies. It is also dead centre rather than everything seeming to be slightly left of centre. I'll post some samples alter. It is on mono isn't it?

It's About That Time. It's more than 10 minutes even without In A Silent Way.

Me too. It was recorded at a small theater about ten minutes from my home. Like a fool I never went because I had heard Loyd there the year before and though I liked the concert didn't feel a need to see him again so soon since he plays here pretty well every year (he lives nearby too). My greatest "missed concert" since I skipped seeing Bill Evans at McGill in 1962 because I had an exam the next day. It was one of the first concerts he gave after the death of Scott LaFaro and my roommate said it was amazing. I failed the exam too. Learned my lesson though, Duke Ellington played Montreal the night before an exam a couple of years later and I went. it was great and did ok in the exam too.