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Came across this 2008 film while channel surfing last night. Even if they exaggerated a lot he sure had a difficult life. There are a lot of actors playing musicians in it: mainly country ones, but at one point he goes to a bar and sees Wes Montgomery playing . Then he sits in with Barry Galbraith (I only know that from the credits) who for some reason is fronting the Dave Brubeck Quartet with Desmond, Morrello and Joe Benjamin. (Did that group ever exist?) They also show the recording of Jazz Winds from a New Direction with someone playing Gary Burton who looks way too old. It's ham handed, melodramatic, very sad and at times sexy, but somehow compelling. Anyone else ever see this? I'd never heard of it. Don't think it got a theatrical release.

I mentioned the Day Tripper riff in another thread (which I can't find right now) and someone sent me to a Youtube performance by and R&B group who had used the exact same riff previously.

Also Bill Evans at Great American Music Hall. However lots of complaints about sound on RRK at Fillmore.

Does Joseph Conrad fit into this category?

Download from Amazon does have a lot of pops and crackles. Great record though.

I don't know what you're responding to. I started this thread and I never suggested that on-line discographies had to be free-- quite the opposite. And no-one else I've read has suggested it either. Personally I'd be happy to pay even more for the DESOR on line and constantly updated than I did for it in hard cover form. Save some trees too.

I used it because I purchased a download of the Pepper Adams "Ephemera". It went to the cloud but not to my computer. To actually download it required another step, which I didn't figure out immediately as it wasn't explained. Sort of pissed me off.

And "African Herbs". (Though I'm not sure I'd claim it's a classic.)

Pee Wee Russell and Red Allen: College Concert originally on Impulse. Also there's a Gil Evans on Horo, which admittedly isn't essential. However the Royal Albert Hall Evans concert is essential and unfortunately was released over two different labels so it will probably never be out on cd. (In all 3 cases I made my own cds-- back in the days when I knew how to do that.)

The Big Sleep is based on two short stories and they don't entirely blend together.

You're not happy with Hawks's "The Big Sleep"? I also like "The Long Goodbye" even though most Chandler fans didn't and Altman said really stupid things about it.

A 1972 Newport in NY concert with an amazing line-up: Benny Carter - alto sax Harry "Sweets" Edison - trumpet Taft Jordan - trumpet Carl Warwick - trumpet Joe Thomas - trumpet Tyree Glenn - trombone Quentin Jackson - trombone Benny Morton - trombone Dicky Wells - trombone Barry Carter - saxophone Earle Warren - alto saxophone Howard Johnson - baritone saxophone Buddy Tate - tenor saxophone Budd Johnson - tenor saxophone, clarinet Heywood Henry - baritone saxophone Teddy Wilson - piano Bernard Addison - guitar Milton Hinton - bass Jo Jones - drums

There's been a few discussions here of who's a jazz singer and who isn't and even some on who's a jazz musician and who isn't. It's been suggested that improvisation is one of the key signifiers of jazz but other genres of music often use improvisation. When I hear Wes Montgomery improvising I know it's jazz, and when I hear Neil Young playing a long improvised solo I know it's not. But I can't really articulate why. Any suggestions? (I was spurred to this queston by hearing a cut from the Al Kooper Super Session disc on a pretty good local jazz show.)

For the same reason that record companies priced cds out of the reach of many consumers and sent them to pirates: they couldn't think of any other way to raise income other than to raise prices. Publishers are even more egregiously dumb since there are no manufacturing costs involved with e-books. Costs the same to sell a million as it does to sell one. (Someone once did a test halving the price of downloading songs and discovered they sold 4 times as many (IIRC). Nevertheless the record companies pressured iTunes to raise prices. )

That's not Amazon it's the idiot publishers. Amazon wanted to make all new hard covers $9.99.

Scott Wenzell has been looking for copies of the transcriptions so they must want to include some.

Why would they need to drop a cut from a 27 minute session? I guess I should give this another listen. I've never liked it that much but haven't heard it in over a decade.

According to Peter Losin the music was recorded first then the musicians mimed top it while being filmed.

I don't know of the footage with Prez but there is a film he made with Coleman Hawkins for Norman Granz. And I think it's more than 52 seconds long as is the other piece of footage with him from a tv show with Dizzy in which they play all of (IIRC) Hot House.

"Battleground" is 3:21, "4 and Moore" 3:45 and "Battle of the Saxes" 3:51. Could you get that much on a 10"?

I'm listening to a lot of early Stan Getz and just noticed that most of the Roost recordings clock in at just under 3 minutes but the first Prestige recordings are all closer to 4 minutes long. I presume the latter were 12' releases. Were they common? Mainly jazz or classical? And what were the time limits for 10" and 12" recordings?

My son who hangs out in Brooklyn says he's never heard of Good -Bye Blue Monday but that Cafe Orwell is a small coffee house where he's been but didn't know they ever had music.

I have an Italian Billie Holiday 3" that came with a not very good book. Also a Sting 3' cd because it has a long version of Up from the Skies with Sting (who I don't particularly like) backed by the Gil Evans band and I'm an Evans completist. Does Frank Zappa count? I have a Zappa 3" too.

Love this record. IIRC good solos considering that it's music one.

IF improvisation is the essence of jazz is Neil Young a jazz musician? Or was Jimmy Hendrix?