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I'm not much help, but you've already helped me. I've been trying for years to find out the dates of the Miles Prestige releases. Do you by any chance know the release dates of any of the others besides the Quintet records?

Happy birthday young man!

This new collection seems to me to be cleaner but less compressed than the 1990 release. (And it has one more track.) However the 1990 release has the advantage of having the lyrics transcribed which I appreciate since I an't always make them out even in the new version.

A good man. I first met him when he was screening a rough cut of Last of the Blue Devils and ran into him again after more than thirty years when he'd just finished a film about Dave Brubeck. The guy spent most of his life supporting the music.

Me too

Happy bday and many more!

It's engineered by Steve LASKER who did the last 2 Ellingtons for Mosaic.

On the Night Lights FB page or my own page? I think I missed it (your question) somehow. I think I added it as a comment on your FB note about this. Just asked if the show had been broadcast yet and if it was archived. But I'm so bad with FB (I blame them) that I may not have done it right. Have only heard the first half but it was great. BTW I take it that he feels constrained by law from playing a disc all the way through. Also he seems to have an Ellington broadcast from the Cotton Club not included in the recently released Storyville set that we all thought had all the extant Cotton Club broadcasts except one cut.

This answers a question I posted yesterday to your Facebook announcement.

This LA Times story seems relevant to the topic: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-library-congress-packard-20110508,0,3320526.story

Anyone here live near Marlborough MA? There's any amazing auction of Ellington memorabilia taking place there this week. http://www.skinnerinc.com/discovery-auction.php?fam=9&type=latest

Where did you find this post? I'm very interested in Pennebaker and his work. I met him a couple of times many years ago and loved his enthusiasm for recording what he thought were important moments in the culture. This was before the days of portable video tape machines never mind phone with cameras. Nowadays of course just about everything gets recorded by somebody.

I used Skype a lot when my daughter was in Australia. Also use it on holidays when my wife wants to take part in her family's festivities: we schedule and set up laptops at each end for a video conference. We usually end up using the laptop as a camera and walk around the house filming the dog etc. All of this is with the other user using Skype. I've also had e-mails from a surprising number of overseas businesses asking to set up Skype conferences.

Happy B'day and many more!!

I got the Bill Dixon from Dusty Grove after reading about it on Facebook via Ghost of Miles. Don't know why I missed this thread. It's a beautiful release in every way.

WTF indeed! I run into Llyod sometimes but i'd be embarrassed to ask about this.

Well the composers for sure, but you don't need to make a deal-- those fees are mandated by law. (Some songs are out of copyright.) But nobody has yet mentioned the radio stations or networks that originally broadcast the shows. Do they have any rights? What rights did they buy when the did the original broadcasts? Could the museum webcast the music? I was scoffed at elsewhere when I suggested this but I remember that it was possible to legally re-breoadcast "The Sound of Jazz" with permission from CBS, but I tried to help a legal DVD release and was told it was impossible because of the musicians' union. ie the musicians involved were paid for a broadcast (and maybe even re-broadcast) but not for a sale.

Sort of makes you think the European 50 years copyright on recordings is not too unreasonable. Or if you think it still screws artists, how about 70 years? That would make a lot of this material available.

There's the Mingus Midnight Jam July 7, 1974 on Wolfgang's Vault. (Does that count in a discography?)

I'd get Nilsson sings Newman just for Vine Street. He wrote a lot of great songs but seem to have done best with other people's.

One egomaniac writing about another.

You are right. There's a story in a recent autobiog---I've read so many I can't remember which now. It's about how Lionel Hampton, Illinois Jacquet, and Louis Armstrong's bands all tried to outdo each other in this theater. Hamp told Monk "Gates, I'll give you an extra ten if you 'jump in the river'" (jump from the balcony to the audience while playing). It's kind of hard to do this with a string bass I think he jumped into the river from a boat they were playing on. Hampton wanted to do something spectacular because Jacquet had played Flying Home before he could.

I agree with all the above (though I don't care that much for the original "head" of Shhh/Peaceful). On later live versions of It's About That Time donesn't Miles often play a "head" that copies what Teo did via editing?

Sonny Rollins had a vocal group on two cuts of What's New? on RCA: Don't Stop the Carnival and Brown Skin Girl. Not that interesting.

Congratulations! You deserve the recognition.