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Bullshit. Some people are lucky, but they're usually only lucky once. He didn't have capital when he started but he sold he car and some old calculators to start Apple and get rich. Then he got fired and bought Pixar turning it into a huge success when Lucas (who had even more capital) couldn't. Then he re-took over a failing company and completely turned it around. Any one of those things might have been luck but not all three. Don't say he wasn't smart and talented. Some rich people are.

Is this where Cranshaw first went electric?

I know it's a political website but you can skip the politics -Bergian will especially want to- and go directly to http://newstalgia.crooksandliars.com/ . Type "jazz" in the search box and you'll be offered some amazing stuff. There were a couple of Ellington concerts that even the mavens on the Duke-Lym list serve hadn't heard. I don't know who runs this site but they sure know their music.

BTW In the linter notes to "Early Ellington" Steve Lasker says that it's "probably" Prince Robinson.

Gotta admit I want the Jonah Jones set for nostalgia. When I was a kid and before I was into Jazz I bought several of his Capital "Muted Jazz" records. When I started learning about jazz I was surprised by his history. Similarly, I first heard of Cozy Cole when he had a recording of Topsy on the hit parade in the '50s. (Actually I think the hit was "Topsy Pat 2" the flip side of a 2 part record that had his drum solo.

Are we talking importance or influence here? In the '60s and '70s it was obviously Trane. Then I thought it was Rollins for a while. Now I hear Shorter in a lot of new saxophonists. One can be great without being an influence (e.g. Art Tatum or Monk).

AMG lists it as being by Ray Brown but they're probably confusing it with Gravy Waltz. On a later record (with Sonny Stitt) Ammons or his record company call it "Walkin'". Does "Gravy" have the intro Miles uses? (The Leo Parker sort of does.)

How essential is the extra non-Savoy Pershing material? Does it have any guitar solos? Losin's description of it suggests that it's the heads and Bird's solos only.

I think everyone's taking their cue from Tony Williams. (Or maybe not-- maybe Ron Carter or either of them at different times.)

IIRC he teaches/taught (?) at the University of Toronto where I used to teach and where Jack Chambers, who wrote the Miles and Twardzik bios also teaches. I once asked Chambers and he said they'd never met.!!

What;s "The Complete Chicago Disc"?

I saw it. Pretty good. A lot of deification of Clifford Brown in it. (Not a bad thing.) IIRC His trumpet plays a major part in the plot.

How do you get it? I went to that website and don't see any ordering info or prices. (They may be there but I didn't see them.)

Wow this seems like a bargain: Epic 22 CD budget box set, that contains the 20 albums from Miles' time on Columbia. Includes: Kind of Blue, We Want Miles, Bitches Brew, Porgy & Bess, 'Round Midnight, Someday My Prince Will Come, Miles Smiles, On the Corner, E.S.P., Decoy, Star People, and more. http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=8573847&style=music&meid=12852&x=1473141897738 20 (or is it 22-- they can't seem to decide) for under $50! If I was missing even a 3 or 4 of these (which most of us probably aren't) I'd get this. Looks legit too.

I have that too. But is it just Vol 1 and there's another, even harder to find volume 2 (iirc with additional material from Cafe Society)?

In the mid-sixties he spent quite a bit of time (IIRC) in Earl Hine's Quartet. That's when I saw/heard him.

The bootleg DVD? Or just on the cd?

Thanks guys. (The usually excellent on-line jazz discography project left him out).

Idrees Sulieman (tp) Jerome Richardson (as, fl) Coleman Hawkins (ts) Pepper Adams (bars) Ray Bryant (p) Wendell Marshall (b) Walter Bolden (d) Jerry Valentine (arr) Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ, February 5, 1959 But there's a a guitar player as well. Did Jerry Valentine play guitar? Great date btw.

IIRC I read one review that said Miles stopped using a mure after 1965 but I notice that he carries a mute on stage with him in both tv shows even though he doesn't use it. BTW There's at least another 3 cds worth of material readily available from 1967 including the rest of the music from the concerts that were filmed. I've heard/seen most of this music before (not the Paris concert, but everything else) but somehow it seems even better to me on this release. Maybes it's the sound quality or maybe it's just my excitement about the release. And am I right that none of it is in stereo?

I'm on a jazz research list-serve and there seem to be many people who are mourning him. (I have no opinion.)

My exact thoughts too. Would have been nice to at least have some kind of sleeve to hold it all together. Oh well, still great to have all that music! I agree. They could at least have equalled the Dylan Bootleg Series that has pretty good packaging. (Mind you, iirc never has 4 discs.)

Hmmm. Mine still says "shipping soon". Because we're not Amazon Prime members. Actually I am. And I just got my shipping notice.

Hmmm. Mine still says "shipping soon". Because we're not Amazon Prime members. Actually I am.

Hmmm. Mine still says "shipping soon".