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how is it? while i have huge respect for isoardi's work and am really thankful that he does what he does i found myself enjoying the oral histories on the web much more than the two books i've read (the buddy collette and the dark tree), don't know, somehow those books were rather dry, had a tendency to repeat themselves and i was also missing some hard information added to the information from the oral histories (like yesterday when i tried to find out how long tommy trujillo was with tapscott, all the book says he moved in when he was 18 but not when he was born or which year that was or how long he stayed, where he went from there...)... could have said this better, i guess - simply, while i find the subjects real interesting, the books bored me quite a bit (though at least i could finish them...) Because of the picture (Obama as the Joker) I though this was from Berigan and thought it was nice to see him posting on something other than politics. Can two people use the same picture?

I think Sandler's huge fund of barely-disguised hostility would have made him good for the role, but his hyper-recognizability would have made him terrible. So I'm glad he wasn't used. And I could have done without Mike Myers.

I just read in the Hollywood REporter that UMG had secured international rights to 38 Sinatra albums from Warners' Music Group. Perhaps these are the same albums but Concord doesn't own rights outside the US.

I was at the very first screening of the film (at Cannes) but I suspect that doesn't count. I think I haves one friend who was at the actual event.

I saw it with a large crowd and I think it was about 40% female.

Spoiler alert: I wasn't upset that they rewrote history (actually I liked it) but when I started to wonder whether they were going to or not it took me out of the film. BTW Unlike most of the other posters I found this way more joyful than Kill Bill.

My father-in-law talks about seeing Feldman in London when he was a young prodigy (on drums?). I feel stupid because near the end of his life he used to play near me at a small club in Sherman Oaks and I never went to see him.

IIRC the first Lp edition I ever had of the Ellington Fargo concert was from the BoM.

I just got back from seeing it. I really enjoyed it, but I've always been a Sergio Leone fan. Loved most of it but felt a bit "endistanced" near the end when I started to worry about whether they were going to re-write history.

Uhhh. Can I request that someone repost the info as to how to to the Westbrook Records site? (I tried Google but I kept getting their "my space" page.

The iTunes store this week offers what they claim are the complete set-lists of each day (usually not using the Woodstock performances) and they seem to have skipped Keef Hartley. Also I always thought Hendrix's Star Spangled Banner was the final thing he played but their listing suggests he played several other numbers after that. Anyone know for sure?

Belated Happy B'day!!

I think I have everything available by Gil Evan except some arrangements he did for a Pearl Bailey record. (Can't find it.) I even have his stuff for Johnny Mathis. That takes up less than one shelf. Virtually everything by Miles takes up two shelfs. On the other hand there's Ellington. I keep telling myself I can't get everything, but then I discover something I ignored is really good. But I swear I'm never getting the Mary Poppins album. Please don't tell me it's really good.

Well Duke Ellington wrote a piece called "The Road of the Phoebe Snow" and it had nothing to do with the singer.

What's this in reference to? Did they have a fight?

Wow Thanks. Where did you find the radio broadcast? In The Times?

Hey I've been to Dylan concerts where people in the audience didn't recognize Dylan. (He tends to hide behind the keyboard nowadays. ) And they couldn't recognize the songs either.

A couple of years ago I downloaded several Evans' live concerts from a website I believe no longer exists. One of them was labeled as "At the Village Gate" but there's no reference in either of the Gil Evans biographies of his playing there. Does anyone recall or know of an Evans band playing the Village Gate and when that might have been? ( The concert has several Hendrix compositions so it must be from after '76.)

Wow! I was just listening to a Dylan Theme Time Radio hour where he talked about Dickinson after playing a song by a group he lead (the Mud something or other). I fins it strange that the Times thinks he'll be best remembered because of his sons' group.

I hate to say anything bad about Mosaic but I don't like the "new" look of the catalogue and it's full of typos that make some sentences difficult to understand. They may be suffering from the credit crunch. Having orders you can't fulfill suggests their bank won't extent any credit.

Wow! Great website. Answers all my questions. Thanks!

The DVD release of A Great Day in Harlem has as an extra a short film called "The Spitball Story" about this incident. Has anyone ever seen it?

Donna Lee!! That 's it. What's "Fried Bananas"?

Saw Lyle Lovett and his large band last night. Before he came on stage the band played "(Way Back Home In) Indiana" and at one point did a chorus of a bop tune I recognized but I couldn't remember the name or composer. Can anyone help? (Similarly The Ellington band used to play How High the Moon and do a couple of choruses of Ornithology in the midst of it.)

Just ordered a copy--thanks for the tip. This disc got very positive reviews from Dave Gelly in the Observer and John Fordham in the Guardian, who added "this may be a set for the cognoscenti". I guess we pass the test! Excerpts I've heard online sound fine. Will be buying. Part of the fun with these is hearing these arrangements in well recorded stereo. The tuba parts become really distinct.