medjuck

Thanks for the reminder. I just ordered it from Amazon. I remember seeing Lonnie play at Meat & Potatoes across the street from the University of Toronto. To be honest at the time I didn't really understand his importance. (Just as I didn't really know who Willie the Lion Smith was when I interviewed him at about the same time.) A friend of mine paid her way through college working as a teller in a bank. Lonnie chose her as his favorite teller and would come to her to withdraw money from an account she thinks was set up by fans. One day after his withdrawal he commented on the small amount left but said not to worry, he wouldn't need much more. A few weeks later he was dead. BTW She's now principal (president) of McGill University.

Just checked the discography in the Lewis Porter Prez book. He lists a shit load of airchecks! I've only been able to find a couple of them. He also lists some Benny Goodman sides for RCA. Does Prez solo on them? BTW Fiesta in Blue can be downloaded from iTunes. They have it from several sources.

Worth noting is that per here: http://lists.jazzwee...rch/002849.html Burns unstead used a slip of juggler Rudy Cardenas, who was not even on thee show that night, but who was on the following werk, 3/19/55 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1855000/ So what Burns is showing you that Bird was watching, Bird was already dead by then - and it wasn't evne the same act. So much for meticulous research... That sort of thing is what I have against Burns. Then, again , most (though not all) documentarians seem to think this sort of thing is ok.

Happy B'day and many more!!

They would have paid composers' fees. Hard for a bog company to et away with not doing so. It's mandated by law.

Just about to start it myself, Medjuck. Remember, it's FICTION. Of course, but she seems to have researched it pretty well and to make a passing statement like that suggests to me that she must have read it somewhere.

I've just started Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugayan in which Louis Armstrong, John Hammond and Bill Coleman are minor characters. The book makes reference to Pops hating Hammond. I can think of why he might Hammond wrote several despairing things about Armstrong's latter day playing but is Pops on record anywhere about hating Hammond? Seems to me Pops hardly bad-mouthed anyone. I'll write more about the book when I finish it. It's a bit of a sensation in Canada.

I do remember when "funk" as personified by the Jazz Messengers was considered to be not hip. (I admit that when I first saw Wayne with Miles I wrote that he had "recently escaped the confines of The Jazz Messengers" or something like that.)

They're all on The Complete Count Basie Decca Recordings box set put out by GRP in 1992.

The set begins with an into by George Wein in which he explains the the festival lost a lot of money but they were going to to keep it going anyway. Sure glad they did. One of the best latter day EKE sets too.

Welcome back! While you were gone Berrigan had an epiphany and became a socialist.

Thanks guys! No big jazz presents this year (I would have asked for the Mosaic Hawkins if it were available) but A Study in Frustration did arrive last night.

Hmmm I've got one that's just Hawkins & Young. Put out by Columbia Special Products but on the Signature label.

"The Greatest Love at All" IIRC it was originally written for a bio-pic of Ali which starred the man himself and was called "The Greatest". The words state the the greatest love you can have is for yourself. Always found that strange. I lived across the street from one of the writers who of course was thrilled when Houston's version took off.

Now it says $25.95 and temporary our of stock.

If you want an overview, the Hippo Select "Ultimate Collection" covers her entire career and also has a DVD with her best film/tv performances.

Well maybe someday they'll be an ad for some re-issue we didn't know about. I'm often surprised by Amazon suggestions for things I didn't know existed but which I want when I do know about them.

I think that's where I saw Art Pepper (though it may have been Carmello's-- they were both still around when I moved to LA in 1980.)

of "Red Rubber Ball" fame Also "Turn-Down Day"! You mean they actually recorded more than one song. I have a vague memory that they were managed by Brian Epstein and were one of the acts opening for the Beatles during the '66 tour of America.

I saw Jackie Byard there.

Does anyone know which box set (or single cd) contains ""Flèche d'or", Django Reinhardt, January 30, 1952?

I saw him during that period and thought it was one of the best sets I'd ever heard. Made me realize that a lot of great jazz men were not well known but could still knock you out.

The group in Copenhagen was Ted Curson, Bill Barron, Herb Bushler (bass), Dick Berk (drums), no piano so Kenny Barron was not with group, who was playing a three week gig at Jazzhus Montmartre. Vic I'm sure you're right but I don't remember Curson who I'd seen a lot in Montreal around then. This was the summer of 1964. (I don't remember a lot things from 1964.)

I was hoping to get it for Xmas. Then maybe for my birthday. At this rate it may be a Father's Day present.

This must make me a big thinker.