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The date is disputed. One reason I believe is that Jimmy Woode was with Ellington in 1955. Losin makes a pretty good argument: Although the tunes performed (especially "Jumpin' with Symphony Sid," "Ray's Idea," and "Wee Dot") might suggest an earlier date, the customary date for this set is pretty close to correct. Davis was booked as a single at the Hi-Hat Club for two consecutive weeks in February 1955, joined by Boston locals Migliori, Walcott, Woode, and Zitano. According to Down Beat, a Davis engagement advertised in Detroit for February 11-13 had to be canceled "because of a prior commitment in Boston... Davis was held over at the Hi-Hat for an extra week to share the stand with an R & B group called The Chords" (DB March 23, 1955). My guess is that the Hi-Hat engagement began in early February. (Thanks to Chris DeVito for help with this date.) "Jumpin' with Symphony Sid," performed here at a very slow tempo, is clearly a set-closer, and the music may be from more than one night. I'm slightly acquainted with Jimmy Woode's daughter and if I see her around I'll ask her( though I doubt that she has any knowledge of her father's whereabouts in February 1955).

Well Feather did write "Might Like a Rose".

Hey and they don't even mention Julie London singing it in The Girl Can't Help It.

Anyone in California get theirs yet?

Miles version of Blue Xmas. It's on the Miles/Gil compilation-- though it was originally done for an Xmas compilation. BTW does We Free Kings Count?

Uhhhh ...I can't find the thread to which this is a follow-up. (I did try "search"). Help please, someone.

Happy B'day and many more!!!!

Anybody else get a shipping confirmation yet who ordered before last Friday? I got the "24-48 hours" e-mail last Friday, but no shipping notice yet...hoping that it goes out tomorrow. I just got it. The shipping notice that is.

I haven't checked but is there any overlap between this and the old Anthology?

I have about 25 Henshaw recordings on my computer but no documentation. Is she the piano player on any of the recordings besides the tests?

I hate Word but I'm afraid to try something else since everyone seems to use Word.

I forgot-- I've got Buell Neidlinger's autograph on the booklet of the Mosaic Cecil Taylor/Neidlinger box set. I was talking to Buell during a film scoring session he was on and he mentioned he had some copies he could sell. So I bought one and he autographed it.

I have a copy of Further Definitions signed by Benny Carter. He's not only the only person I've ever asked for an autograph but (although I'm in the film business) also the only celebrity I've ever gone out of my way to meet. A mutual friend took us out to lunch together. The three of us also went to a concert of the Carnegie Hall Jazz orchestra. It was like going to a film festival with Orson Welles. Musicians were jumping off the stage to come over and talk to Benny.

I saw him with Dizzy in the '60s and then as a leader a few years ago at which point he spent nearly as much time telling jokes as he did playing. But they were pretty good jokes.

Hey does that copy of RAH have the lyrics he used on the early pressings? "I'll be seeing you in all the old familiar places/Of the horses at the races......"

What's the Ellington? A concert recording? Do you know the date it was recorded?

Wow another birthday!!! Have a great one.

"Mingus at Monterey" . On Amazon it looks like it costs $75. I do like it but can't really claim it's even my favorite Mingus. I think the most I ever paid for vinyl was $30 for the Gil Evans on Horo. (Can't remember the title right now.) May be the most I ever paid for a single cd too. Just paid almost that much for Ellington's Togo Bravo Suite (on Storyville) because I'd never come across it in a store before. Found it in Toronto. It's really good. Worth every cent.

I was in LA and was watching the late night news. I kept thinking "I heard the news today...."

I've seen the first half of the tv show and heard parts of a radio show in NPR. There was some contradictory information in them. In the film Kahn says that Paul Desmond asked to join the Brubeck trio but on the radio I thought I heard a much more interesting story: Brubeck had played in a Desmond led group and there'd been some sort of falling out. DESpite that Brubeck knew he needed a horn and asked Desmond to join a group with Dave as the leader. Anyone know which story is true?

My son claims the following: What was your first album? It was a CD. My dad bought me “Good Dog, Happy Man” by Bill Frisell when I was 6 or 7 years old. When he played it for me I was like, “What is this?”. I didn’t get it. It was like instrumental avant garde music. It was totally over my head. I listened again in my teen years and finally realized it was a great CD. I’m sure the same thing will happen when I give my kids “OK Computer”. Get her something you think she'll enjoy in a few years. (Though I suspect I gave my son the cd because of the title and the picture on the cover.)

I remember a Village Voice article from many years ago. First time I'd read reference to "The Lost Quintet". Probably by Gary Giddens so it may be in one of his books.

There were several jazz versions of West Side Story IIRC. I liked the Manny Album release but I think it's never been on cd. And of course we haven't mentioned Porgy and Bess which may hold the record for jazz versions. My favorite is the Ray Charles-Cleo Lane. Well, actually my favorite is Miles-Gil but it's in a class by itself.

I saw him last Saturday with the same group. However halfway through the concert he had a female vocalist come out and "sing" one song with the band. I didn't catch her name but she was middle age, Asian, dressed in a spectacular outfit that had mirrored pieces on her clothes and she wore a necklace with large pieces of something mirror and the way light was bouncing off of her while she stood there was pretty wild. Her vocals were of the wordless variety and she sparred a little with Ornette in the upper register which got very interesting. After the show I talked to several people and her effect on the audience was very polarizing. She either loved it or hated it. I got the sense that she was possibly local and not part of the tour. Did anyone else see her at an Ornette show on this tour? She's part of the show. At least she was in Santa Barbara and I think in LA too. (Reminded me that Yoko Ono jammed with him before she'd ever met John Lennon.) Now the guest I would have really liked to have seen was Flea who played with him at the LA concert and according to the one review I read kept right up with Ornette.

Congratulations and Mazel Tov!!