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Check out "The Carolina Chocolate Drops". Historians as well as great performers.

Mazel Tov!!! (And congratulations!>)

BTW Does anyone know where and when he might have played with Ellington?

A friend of his recently gave me a book of his work. He took many great photos of jazz musicians before he he began photographing rock stars. There's a very nice photo of Gil Evans in the book I've never seen anywhere else but I couldn't find it on his website.

Great record! I feel (not really think) that I've heard it before with words. Is that possible? (It does remind me a bit of Wimowhe (sp?) or The Lion Sleeps Tonight-- which I guess, as done by the Weavers-- would be the first AFrican music I ever heard.)

I just noticed that the Nat King Cole Trio Complete Capital Mosaic is available at the iTunes store! Are there any other Mosaics there?

I'm the right age to have loved DAvy Crockett a a kid, however living in Santa Barbara when I hear "Fess Parker" I think of hotels and wine.

Chuck (and others) turned me on to Von Freeman. But Chuck alone produced the record.

Those are just the jazz holdings. They also own tons and tons of other imprints in other genres. (Other EMI jazz labels off the top of my head: Liberty, Jubilee, United Artists, Solid State, Aladdin, Jazz West. I thought they also owned Elektra Musician but Wikipedia suggests it's a Warner holding. Maybe they only got part of the EM catalog like the Bird and Diz Washington concerts?) Pretty sure it's Warner's. Elektra is the "E" in WEA.

Probably available many ways, but I have it as part of this compilation. The Sound of Miles Davis This compilation actually lives up to it's title: The Greatest Jazz Films Ever.

Happy B'day Mr. B. Anette Hanshaw?!! For some reason I have about 20 songs by her on my computer. You've given me the impetus to listen to them. Black Bottom on right now. Good stuff.

Without having seen or used one can't really comment on the iPad but I think it might be useful as an e-book reader. The Kindle which I use for work is not as ergonomically well designed as almost any Apple product. (I can't believe that "ergonomically" got through spell check. Is it really a word?)

These are DVD rips, mostly... What DVD would this be on?

Thanks so much. I really enjoyed this. Where do people find something like this to upload?

I've used a cheapo one and it worked. You could see on the disc that it had been doctored but they sounded fine.

I'm having trouble finding the clip-- probably my fault but the links keep taking me to a generic Youtube page. What Jo Stafford performance are we talking about? There seem to be several available.

A lot of these are far from obscure. It's interesting how many of them made an impression because they were about children.

I liked the book though I found the introduction (by someone else) a little self serving.

The Jazz Icons DVD of two televised concerts is great. Especially the first concert.

I've heard they're working on a Fletcher Henderson set and let's hope they do the Ellington set they're talked about.

Well according to Bobby McFerrin the whole world is hard wired to use the pentatonic scale: http://www.ted.com/talks/ bobby_mcferrin_hacks_your_brain_with_music.html

I'm 67 and didn't hear a thing.

Zero Hour was originally a CBC drama called Flight Into Danger. It was written by Arthur Haley who was then living in Canada. IIRC The show was so popular it was shown twice (maybe even performed twice- this was before the days of taping.) It was then done in the US on IIRC the Kraft Suspense show. Haley went on to become a popular novelist. He wrote Airport, the novel on which the film is based.

I scored about a 30 even though I'm of teh supposed "Silent" generation. (B ased on my friends I can only say "silent, my ass".

I just saw him with the SF Jazz Collective. I presume that he's on their latest cd,