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IIRC there was a story/interview with Miles in Rolling Stone during this period that was really depressing. He was very fucked up.

I agree. I'm pretty sure your cable has nothing to do with it.

Just got an e-mail from the Vault which included the following: Playing as part of an all-star jam that included Thelonious Monk, Zoot Sims, and Gerry Mulligan, the Miles Davis show at the 1955 Newport Jazz Festival warrants the importance history has attached to it -- listen to and download the set today! And once you've gotten your fill of his 1955 comeback, fast forward to 1970 and catch some video of Miles playing at Tanglewood.

He definitely did. Benny Carter (how's that for name dropping) once told me that John Williams had been in one of Benny's groups. In fact Benny had just been to see him at Dreamworks. Also IIRC Elmer Bernstein said that the piano player who Cassavetes replaces in the title sequence of the Staccato tv series is that John Williams.

Given them all away except "Braggin' in Brass". Any takers?

Yes. We use some of her songs in the services at my temple.

Hey they've now added the Cannonball Adderly Quintet as well as The Jazztet from 1960!

I have it on a Japanese Sony release. I'm not as big a fan of Miles after Bitch's Brew as I am of his earlier work so I'm not a good judge but I do think it's pretty good.

I always thought that Tim Rose's was the original of Hey Joe. Long piece in Wikepedia about the source of the song and it's earliest incarnations.

Did Brownie play in every cut? And if not is it in the Brownie box anyway?

Has there ever been a set of cds (or Lps) devoted to this session? I have Dinah Jams but looking at the Mercury discography it looks like cuts are spread all over the place. (The session featured Dinah Washington with the Brown-Roach group plus Clark Terry, Maynard Ferguson and Dinah's working trio.)

I've read something that explained the relationship between the Groovin High coda and If You Could See me Now but can't remember where or what exactly it said. Not very helpful I now but at least the information is out there.

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Walter Mosley. Devil in a Blue Dress is pretty good but then they get better and better.

What do you consider the 2nd in the series? After writing a few Fletch books MCdonald began "filling in the blanks" chronologically so that IIRC Carioca Fletch takes place right after Fletch but was written much later. Chronologically the first two are "Fletch Won" and "Fletch Too". He also has Fletch cross paths with the hero of another series: Flynn (in, iirc "Confess Fletch". I really enjoyed the series but read them pretty much in the order they were written which was a bit confusing.

Happy B'day and many more!

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I presume they don't let you download to the US. (I guess I should just try.)

Stuck in the Middle was a Lieber Stoller production. I presume they had nothing to do with Baker Street (which I don't believe I've ever heard-- seems like I should look for it.)

Happy B'day and many more.

Or that he loved musicians. Gave Milt Hilton his first studio work, used Bobby Hackett on his music to neck by records and produced the Dorsey Brothers tv show which brought us Elvis and which Bird was watching when he died.

OK PM me and tell me where to send it.

The 2 Ellington in the '30s Mosaic boxes have made several of my cds redundant so I have Braggin' in Brass The Immortal 1938 year a 2cd set, as well as the Classics 1939, 1939 vol 2 and 1939-40 cds. (These used to be rather valuable though I suspect the Mosaic sets have made them much less so.)

Am I the only one having trouble getting the discs off those things in the middle of the dish they come in? (What are they called?) I'm worried about cracking the cds.

Those people need to decaf, detox, decompress, or something. That level of manic energy and gleeful precision does not occur naturally in nature without chemical inducement! I think that Bob's Big Boy is just down the street from Warner Bros.

The Complete Mingus at Birdland plus Brian Prestly's Mingus bio.