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The film is showing in LA this week at The New Beverly Cinema.

How does the sound of the RCA sessions in this box compare to that on the "Complete RCA" box release?

Jazz Red Hot and Cool was one of the first Lps I bought as a teenager. I was haunted by Little Girl Blue. Bought several other Lps up to and including Time Out but by that time I thought I was too hip for him. I still think Balcony Rock rocks. I saw the quartet in the early '60s. Woman behind me complained that she'd paid $8 and there were only 4 of them. I asked her how many people she thought would be in The Dave Brubeck Quartet? Saw him again a couple of years ago. (He played Santa Barbara every year.) Though he played Take 5 and Blue Rondo he mainly played standards and sounded more like a conventional Jazz pianist without much of the percusive chording I had expected.

Happy BD,BF,

Yes, they are, as is the whole series, "Jazz at the Concertgebouw". Oh, true! Thought they were from Scheveningen - even better news, then! Wow. Me too. I thought I had this but I guess not. BTW as much as I've liked everything from this tour that's available the 1964 Copenhagen concert has made me lust for more releases from that tour too.

I just noticed that Sony is releasing the "Complete Bessie Smith on Columbia" but read in another thread that the sound is terrible. The Frog releases are recommended but they're awfully expensive if you want them all. So how about the JSPs?

Toronto- 30 (which would be a very boring game)

By the same token, the band that played Manny Albam's charts for his West Side Story album...not real crazy about the charts or the solos, but I don't know that I've ever heard a better ensemble blend between players on an album of that nature. All the usual suspects are in place, and it's obvious why the were the usual suspects. Has that album ever been available on cd?

me neither OK I got mine. How about you?

Hey, what am I: chopped liver? I never got one.

Thanks. I've always liked Richard Williams' writing on music but most of the time he writes about sports.

Just listening to the AFRS Jubilee 205 from 1946 featuringt he Benny Carter band. The band takes a break at one point and the rhythm section backs Barney Kessel, Les Paul, irving Ashby and Arv Garrison as each of them plays a number. A great show.

I caught the end of The Blues Brother's 2000 film on tv tonight. It features a battle of the bands between The Blues Bros and a band made up of mainly Louisiana musicians but also including Jon Faddis, Jack DeJohnette, Grover Washington and Joshua Redman!

I used to own it and like a fool sold it with most of my Lps after I moved from Toronto. And I was in the audience the night it was recorded too. IIRC it was released as a cd under a different title. I'd love to get a copy of that cd. (I'm trying to collect all the recorded performances at which i was present. )

Just received an e-mail on the Mingus list-serve that Ted Curson has died. He was 77. I heard him a lot on the early '60s when he was hanging around Montreal and I was going to McGill.

Obviously we had nothing here in Santa Barbara but as if in sympathy a tree fell down across a road trapping my wife at her band's rehearsal.

"It'snot dead but it smells" or something like that? I think someone here used it as a signature. But I got into my car this morning and my iPod starts into the middle of a really good driving vibes solo and I can't recall what it's from. Turns out it's from Zappa live at the Capital Theater in 1978 from Wolfgang's Vault. Sure sounds like jazz to me.

People going to work today!!!!!!

Happy B'day! And many more...

I admit that the one time I saw the quartet live I could not hear him at all. But I was sitting on the Elvin side of the stage.

I'm really curious as to what's on the Strayorn cds. I think they did one cd of "The Peaceful Side of" plus the EKE/Stryhorn duets. But what's on the other 2 cds? More stuff from the Mercer label?

Gil Evans, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis (not every bootleg) others with smaller discographies.

Thanks. I can't deal with e-bay. I just bought it at full (exorbitant) cost through Amazon.

Thanks for posting that. I went on a Weill kick last year and found one version of just about everything but never thought I'd get to hear this. I wish they'd given info on how to get it.

Great line. I just read it to my wife who said "That's a very good description."