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It should be the "Horseshow TAVERN", actually. Is this a typo, or is the misspelling on the package? (I think I was there for some of this -- coulda been at the Edge, though... Presented by 'The Garys'? I was at one of the shows at The Horseshoe. (It used to specialize in Country and Western acts so it was surprising to see Sun Ra there.) These are "audience recordings". Between a couple of the numbers you can hear someone in the audience saying something really stupid. I think it might be me.

I loved it, but I'm, not sure how people not as interested in the history of cinema as I am will feel about it.

Raincheck (Ellington) Autumn in the Rain Here Comes That Rainy Day Rain Keeps Falling on My Head Someone else can complete this - and choose the next word. Hard Rain Sweet Rain Gentle Rain OK How about "snow".

Heaven-- Talking Heads 7 Steps to Heaven -- Miles (Victor Feldman?) Stair Way to Heaven-- Led Zepplin My Blue Heaven- Gene Austin, Fats Domino etc. 1/2 Way To Heaven- Conway Twitty New word "Rain" An easy one-- or has it already been used.

Todays LA Times's obit page is taken up mainly with side by side obituaries of Motian and Russ Garcia http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/

Brian: I believe you have a blog. Go masturbate there and stay away from RIP threads here. (I somehow doubt that at your passing you will get the kind of eulogies that Motian has received.)

Yes please, though it's sure a long shot.

OK I'll take Winnipeg and 65.

A little off topic: anyone interested in Bolden should read Michael Ondaatje's prose-poem "Coming Through Slaughter". Michael once told me that he did very little research so it's probably full of historical inaccuracies but as Paul Krasner used to say: "it's cosmically true."

According to Mark Cantor the Vitaphone shorts were done "live" until 1931. (And as far as I'm concerned Mark is the maven when one in any jazz on film discussion.)

David Meeker's Jazz on Film site lists: Lorenzo Tucker, The Pope Sisters, Bobby Hargreaves Orchestra, The Six Sizzlers, Harlem’s Apache Chorus. I'll ask Mark Cantor if he knows any other musicians in the film. Mark responded: The Bobby Hargreaves orchestra is indeed a very obscure unit. Your film scholar associate is probably aware that there are two bands in Underworld....the Hargreaves band and the one led by Billy Hick, both with different personnels. At or around the time this film was made Bobby Hargreaves and his Orchestra was featured at the kit-Kat Club in New York City. In terms of the tenor saxophonist, I think that this may well be Sonny Fredericks, Jr. Frederick recorded around this time with both Red Allen and Buddy Johnson, and he solos on a half-dozen tracks, perhaps a few more. I have never made the time to compare his sound on the recordings to the tenor sax on soundtrack, and therefore (possibly) confirm his presence. If your researcher carries through on this, I would certainly like to hear back from him/her.

David Meeker's Jazz on Film site lists: Lorenzo Tucker, The Pope Sisters, Bobby Hargreaves Orchestra, The Six Sizzlers, Harlem’s Apache Chorus. I'll ask Mark Cantor if he knows any other musicians in the film.

In silhouette Reisman's hair flopping around would almost lead you to think he was Cab Calloway.

It was a tv film by David Hare called Page Eight. I suspect that it has already been broadcast in the UK and elsewhere. At one point the hero plays a video of Fine and Mellow from The Sound of Jazz for a young woman and says something about how you can tell that Billie Holiday is still in love with Prez. Later he gives the woman a Lester Young cd.

I've always liked the Dials probably because I heard them first. But recently was listening to some of the Verve's and Bird's solos are really good on many of them.

This interests me but I can't read more without subscribing to the WJS.

IIRC sound is ok. According to Losin, it's not really from Paris but probably from 2 concerts at the Teatro Sistina in Rome on October 27, 1969.

I just read that this is in mono only! I know that's the way Brian hears it but I always like the stereo versions of Beach Boy albums- even pet sounds. Does a good stereo version of Good Vibrations exist? I notice that on the Good Vibrations box set it's in mono.

So has anyone heard this yet? Is the reconstructed "Smile" very different than what one could do oneself with the material from the sessions on the "Good Vibrations" box set?

Are there any recordings with Mingus? Bootlegs?

So is there anything legal you think companies shouldn't do as long as it makes money for shareholders? Read your question again and the answer is obvious. So why don't we turn it back to you and say 'what legal things companies can do in the interests of shareholders should they be prevented from doing?" Oops, there it is, as clear as day. Declaring something legal to be "illegal" because the left doesn't like it. There you have it, liberal thought in all its freedom-hating and free-market hating glory. You miss the point. I wasn't suggesting anything be made illegal, I was trying to find out if you would disapprove of as long as it made money for the shareholders. I added "legally" because I presumed that you would mnot think they should do anything illegal.

So is there anything legal you think companies shouldn't do as long as it makes money for shareholders?

Happy B'day and many more!

Just played all three cds again on the way to LA and back. Great record(s)!. BTW Allen: You write that "Moma, Mercy comes in Spurts" is "based on an old Paramount recording..." Which one? It seems to me to borrow a phrase from Johnson's "Come on in My Kitchen", though as you add the Paramount record was "probably based on a field holler". Maybe the same one from which Johnson borrowed. Or maybe he heard the record you're talking about. Also who's playing tambourine or whatever on Harlem Ashram? Did you or Shipp have something tied to your foot?

I'm a bit surprised that they left out Miss Hannah from the McKinney's Cotton Pickers session but used two takes of Wherever There's a Will Baby from the same session. Neither songs strike me as essential but I like the Don Redman vocal on both of them. (I only know about Miss Hannah because it's on the Bluebird "Coleman Hawkins: A Retrospective" 2 cd set.)