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Hey great analysis of the record which I haven't read anywhere else. I like it a lot but find a couple of tracks over-produced.

Interesting. Ellington makes a longer version of the speech about McLuhan on the studio version of the suite. I mentioned this once to McLuhan's daughter who said Duke and her father were friends though Ellington always seemed to be flirting with her mother.

Uhhh IIRC Seven Steps to Berlin is the name of the box. BTW How long did "The Trio" work with Wes? I thought the Half-Note was a one-off. I saw the trio a couple of times in Montreal and didn't even know about the existence of the quartet.

Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugayan. It's a novel that has appearances by Luis Armstrong, Bill Coleman and John Hammond amongst others. Highly acclaimed and best seller in Canada. Definitely worth reading though I would claim that it takes place in some sort of alternate universe where Louis Armstrong is living in France in 1939 and spends days working on one recording.

Just finished two very different books about music: "Down that Lonesome Road" Mark Miller's book about Lonnie Johnsons's years in Toronto and Tommy James' "Me and the Mob and the Music". Both highly recommended. The main jazz connection in the James book is that Morris Levy, owner of Birdland and Roulette Records, is a major character in it. It's a great book for anyone interested in Rock even if they're not a fan of The Shondells

Happy B'day and many more !!!!

Mary-Lou Williams and much more. I hope this will become a weekly event-- though I wish they had more from the '50s.

FWIW I've digitized Carnival Sketches.

What re-union? '58, or the tour of Europe in '60 (or was it '61)?

Am I correct that only one of his records as leader is available on cd?

IIIRC we had a set called The Book of Knowledge" which sent out yearbooks every year too.

Thirty years ago a friend of mine tried to get Britannica to start producing things for computers. He says he gave up when he realized they thought they were in the furniture business.

Sorry to ask again but where do you see the results? (It's probably right in front of me on the FB page but I'm not seeing it>)

Where are you guys seeing the results of the poll?

Hey I live in Santa Barbara! If I can be of any help let me know.

I really liked this book, maybe because I arrived in Toronto the same year as Lonnie Johnson, lived on Yorkville in the late '60s and have many memories of the era the book invokes. o And the academic that's still in me appreciates the full documentation of sources that Miller gives. A brief but very enjoyable read.

Same here. ditto

Wow! What's that from? ( The "Sunday Night"tv show Hal Willner did with David Sanburn?) I think Sonny's solos were completely appropriate.

Maybe these will show up on Wolfgang's Vault, but if the tapes that were lost were the official tapes, probably not.

Happy B'day and many more!!

Will The Sun's Page 3 Girl be next?

Different label. Listening to the Wes right now. And? And it's good though the sound leaves something to be desired. I was just about to name "After Hours Blues" as "The Best Track I Heard This Week". The notes say "This may be the funkiest Wes Montgomery on record." Fron what I've heard there's no "may" about it.

I remember when this concert was my holy grail. As a result it sort of underwhelmed me when I finally found it on cd. (I wanted to post this in the "mp3 bargains" thread but I couldn't find it. What category is it under?) (

Different label. Listening to the Wes right now.

The Museum of Broadcasting in New York has a Kinescope. And last year a copy was sold at Skinner auction for $652. Who knows if it ever shows up. I'm pretty sure that there's no extant colour print.