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I'm really curious: How did you come across this?

Wow I didn't know there was a video of the interview. On the cd they do talk about the drummer (IIRC).

Hang around here long enough and you probably will.

Isn't Gil's intro a variation of the one Dizzy wrote?

A wonderful piece.

Al Kooper's autobiography tells a very funny story about Bloomfield and the making of "Super Session". AFter they cut what became one side of the record Bloomfield (who IIRC was staying with Kooper) went back to Chicago without telling anyone. Kooper had to start frantically phoning around for another guitar player finally ending up with Stephan Stills. Kooper also told a nice anecdote about Bloomfield on Fresh Air. Kooper showed up at the Like a Rolling Stone session with his guitar, took one listen to the guitarist already there and decided to be an organ player. (He blew the story by never mentioning that the guitar player was Bloomfield and for some reason Terry Gross never asked.) Griel Marcus is extremely condescending to Bloomfield in his book about LARS. He seems to have no idea of who Bloomfield is and what else he did except that late in his sad life he showed up at a Dylan show and didn't play very well.

I like tasting whatever is the local brew. Usually works out well for me but I've never been in Milwaukee.

Most people have trouble recognizing the drummer-- including Diz! There's an interview with him and Max Roach on a double cd of them playing in Paris (IIRC) during which they're shown that clip and begin musing about who was the left-handed drummer. (I gotta admit I thought it was Max when I first saw it. Didn't notice the drummer was a lefty. )

Used to see Ewell playing at a bar in Toronto. Because I'm a jerk I never saw Guarnieri when he was playing every night at at restaurant near my house in The Valley (LA). Maybe seeing and interviewing Willie the Lion makes up for it. (Actually he was doing a CBC tv show dueting with Don Ewell.)

Michael Ondaatje's "The Cat's Table".

A bit more info from a film research list serve: One of the most eagerly sought pre-Code films, THE STORY OF TEMPLE DRAKE (1933), is showing tonight on TCM at 8:00 pm EST. An adaptation of William Faulkner's 1931 novel _Sanctuary_, it stars Miriam Hopkins and features atmospheric cinematography by Karl Struss. The transfer broadcast tonight should look beautiful. According to Lee Tsiantis from Turner Broadcasting, "TCM paid for a broadcast master from MoMA's print materials - which were in great shape, as the film has essentially remained unseen for so long. Although it's a Paramount film, Fox owns it, as they bought the underlying property, Faulkner's SANCTUARY - & the original film - for a remake in 1960."

I'm in trouble then.

This made the whole thread worth reading. For me too. I don't care one way or the other about Clapton or Wynton (though I have enjoyed the LCJO a couple of times and saw the first ever performance of Derek and the Dominoes which featured Dave Mason not Duane Allman. I may also have seen him with the Yardbirds in 1964-- I thought they'd be a jazz band.) However I just learned about Van Alexander in a new documentary about Chick Webb made by a friend. There's an interview with Van where he tells about writing for Chick as a teenager and how Ella nagged him to arrange A Tiskit A Taskit. (Sp?) He says he owes everything to Chick. It's a great interview. And on the topic of Blues guitarists: I used to go dancing to the Buddy Guy-Jr Wells band at the El Mocambo in Toronto. They were good. Also heard Peter Goralnick (sp?) say he thought Geoff Muldar was they most interesting blues singer around today. It got me into Geoff who I really like, though I'm not sure he's a blues singer. (He does have a great Tommy Johnson falsetto.)

I usually find the pre-order arrives on the day of the official release. However I just got an e-mail saying that the Duke Ellington DETS vol 15's delivery is being delayed. BTW If you pre-order do you get the lowest price advertised after your order?

"The Steins Collect" at the San Francisco MOMA. One of the best shows I've ever seen.

Loved this! Is it a T Bone Burnette production? However I wish on these all star duet recordings they'd sing together instead of just exchanging choruses. (Though that works in this case.) I think often it's because the singers aren't in the same room at the same time.

Did they even cover jazz in 1943?

Christlieb did a wild version of There's No Business Like Show Business for an HBO show I helped produced. We wanted to use Sonny Rollins version but couldn't afford it.

I go to a subscription series at the local university and the program notes are often just reprints of press releases. They are often very badly written if not shoddy.

+1 +2

And so's Barbara Cook. "Singer Barbara Cook, singer and songwriter Neil Diamond, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, saxophonist and composer Sonny Rollins and actress Meryl Streep will receive honors for 2011 on THE 34TH ANNUAL KENNEDY CENTER HONORS, to be broadcast Tuesday, December 27 (9:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. "

Claire Gordon's "My Unforgettable Jazz Friends" recounts at least one incident in which Big Ben got it on with a woman. (It's a good book btw.I bought it from her at a meeting of the Duke Ellington Society but it's avaialbe on Amazon. )

I can recognize quite a few by name though I haves to admit that in some cases it's because I've heard lyrics put to them. However aren't there a few that are similar to each other? Is there one that sounds a lot like" Well You Needn't"?

Saw him just last year as part of a blues review. He was brought our for a couple of numbers looking quite frail, but then he began to play and kicked ass.

I think you're not covered right away. But even if you're not, you can buy private insurance and even then I think it's a lot cheaper than in the US. (BTW it's not entirely free depending on what province you're in. Sort of like Medicare.)