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Those complaining about the price of Hip-O collections have company. Apparently they've done an Elvis Costello collection which costs $225! He posted the following on his own website: We at www.elviscostello.com find ourselves unable to recommend “The Return Of The Spectacular Spinning Songbook” as the price appears to be either a misprint or a satire. All our attempts to have this number revised have been fruitless so we are taking the following unusual step. If you want to buy something special for your loved one at this time of seasonal giving, we suggest, “Ambassador Of Jazz” - a cute little imitation suitcase containing ten re-mastered albums by one of the most beautiful and loving revolutionaries who ever lived – Louis Armstrong. The box should be available for under one hundred and fifty American dollars and includes a number of other tricks and treats. Frankly the music is vastly superior.

Barns & Noble seem to have a Criterion sale every year or maybe even a couple of times a year. I'm not sure since there is no longer a B & N near me, but my son in New York has taken advantage of their Criterion sales.

Happy B;day and many more!!!

I wasn't sure I wanted the whole set until I heard this review on NPR: http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=143197192 Now I gotta get it.

My wife spent a week adding up all her purchases abroad (well, main;y to Canada) and she got $183! I got the $18 because I didn't want to take the time. Wish I had taken it now, but I was really busy then.

Dear Joe, I've got them both. I am currently away but will be back in Singapore in about 10 days and we can sort this out then. Please send me a pm. Best, Gokhan If you need them sooner I can probably send them to you in the next couple of days.

I love this record. (Though the band gets up so much steam on some songs they almost blow by him.)

IIRC also one on Dante Gabriel Rossetti (sp?)

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.