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Yah, but I like that Randy Newman (Copeland-like) score.

Right. And IIRC (though I often don't) the label was started by one Archie Bleyer who led the Arthur Godfrey band.

He starred with Ethel Watters in a short film when he was 8 years old! He's pretty good too. I saw him perform in a night club when I was about 13. Talk about "anything else he wanted to do": what he wanted to do was demonstrate his quick draw skills. I was more impressed with Bobby Darin whom I saw the same week (I was on vacation in Florida with my parents).

Nice.

Thanks. I think I have all of them but on yet another label.

What dates are on "Pres"?

I usually get pretty good service but I just had a package that was supposed to be delivered today, arrive in Santa Barbara yesterday only to be shipped to LA. Now it's back in Santa Barbara. We'll see if I get it Monday or if it bounces back to LA.

The quintessential film noir.

Agreed. (This forum needs a "like" button.)

These sides were on a 2 Lp Spotlite set called Every Little Bit of it that had other (all?) Bird appearances from 1945.

It's interesting to the compare the 2 takes of "Started": we now have. I like the piano playing on the presumably earlier take much more than that on the originally released take. The solo on the new one is at times even a bit Monkish. Maybe the trip to the bathroom was between takes and it smoothed the edges too much.

Pops: West End Blues. Trane: Alabama. The Sound of Jazz: Fine and Mellow.

Yes.

I have a 3 inch Sting cd because it includes a long cut with the Gil Evans Orchestra which is not available elsewhere. (Yes I have the Johnny Mathis record with Gil arrangements too.)

He is fine but I missed Dannie Richmond. (Would I have known it wasn't him if I hadn't been told? I dunno. Lacked a bit of his snap.) BTW Why don't they list Jones as playing soprano as well as tenor and clarinet? Brian Priestly mentions it in his essay but I hadn't read that when I first listened to "Orange Was..." and I didn't know what was going on when I heard the soprano. (Thought maybe he was sounding like Bechet whose clarinet is sometimes hard to distinguish from his soprano.) Well said. (But I could live without the vocals.)

Got the Criterion version of Round Midnight. Watched the film and all of the supplemental material. Never liked the film when it first was released. Like it better now but I can't get past Dexter's playing. It does remind me of the last few Prez dates. Interestingly everyone interviewed in the extra material (Cuscuna, Gary Giddens, Maxine Gordon) admits that Dexter isn't playing very well but that it's ok in the context of the film. However everyone in the film keeps saying how great he is, not how great he was. One of the extras is a filmed performance of him playing "Fried Bananas" where you can see and hear how good he had been.

Discogs has more than 100 both cd and Lps cheap. The film seems to be available for rent in 16mm from the Filmmakers co-op

I saw Charles Brown during his "comeback" period. A great evening at The Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood. I once left a Charles Brown tape playing when I had my car valet parked. When I came to get the car the valet wanted to know who it was and where he could get it.

You should start a Canadian section; you could add the soundtrack to Michael Snow's "New York Eye and Ear Control": Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Roswell Rudd, Sunny Murray, John Tichcai and Gary Peacock. .

Does anyone know how this record came about? And on Jubilee? I looked in a Mingus bio but it didn't say much about it. For what it's worth I find the added material more interesting than the first cd.

According to this article in Nature. Sweden had 10 times the death rate as Norway in 2020 a country that is more comparable in that (according to this article) both countries are sparsely inhabited (compared to, I guess other rich European countries such as Germany. ) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-022-01097-5

I guess the two people I saw whom you'd have to be just about as old as me to have seen were Coltrane and Wes Montgomery.

I'm old enough to have seen them when I was a teenager but they weren't likely to have shown up in the small town I Iived in.

I can read it but for some reason I can't copy it. It's only a couple of sentences in which he says it's being released. and that even though he produced it he can't even remember who plays on it. (It may not really be being released if he got the two records mixed up.)

yes. Who he?