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I heard about this cd on the Duke-Lym list serve and got it (at great expense) because it has a bonus track of the Ellington band doing The Clown with narration by Ellington and I've always wanted to hear that. That track is good but the bonus for me is the Mingus concert. There are very few recordings of Mingus between '65 and '70 and this concert is a great addendum to the Mosaic box set. For me it's even more exciting than any of the concerts on the box set. The "great expense" is because it cost 9 Euros to get it from Europe via snail mail. One hopes that it will be available in North America soon. But for those of you in Europe......

Most people don't like it. I sort of enjoyed it because of the music and because I saw it as a commentary on the book. Somehow in the movie Dean Morriarity comes off as even more of a prick than he does in the book. (Though I liked the actor.)

Amen!

I was checkin out the music credits at the end of On the Road and noticed that Charlie Haden and Brian Blades got a special credit (as did one other musician whose name I forget). Then when I left the theater and looked at the poster I saw that they were even listed there. Getting your name on the poster is a big deal in the film business. Can't remember when I last saw a poster credit for a musician who wasn't the composer of the score.

Happy Birthday 6 years later! Hope you have a good one. (I'm taking advantage of being on the West Coast to be the first this year-- it's still Saturday Night here. )

For Bird I presume you mean his studio sessions. Or do you have most of the live bootlegs too?

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...