I'm traveling from the south of France to Tuscany and the only city of any size I'll be in is Florence. I'm looking for several European released cds. Anyone know of any cd stores in Florence that might be worth checking out?
Hound Dog: The Lieber-Stoller autobiography. Good stuff. More jazz references than I would have suspected. Stoller studied with James P Johnson and gigged with Chet Baker.
How big does a book have to be before it becomes a coffee table book? I have a bunch of books of jazz photography and find that when they get too big I hardly look at them. The Taschlen edition of the William Claxton "Jazz Life" is so big it's unwieldy (and quite a bit bigger than the original edition).
I find that within in a year of their first release large photo books are often remaindered. The they go out of print and start to get very expensive.
At a July 4th party the hostess was playing a cd that at first I thought was a compilation because sometimes it sounded like Chicago Blues but at times a bit like Charles Brown. Turns out it was all by one guy: Jimmy Babyface Lewis. Unfortunately she was playing a CDR from a friend and so I got no info from it. He's not even listed in AMG and there were only a couple of sites when I googled him. However one of them was
http://www.bluebeatmusic.com/index.php?mai...df1251d47825745
a site I'd never heard of and they have a cd for sale from Bluemoon of his complete recordings. Before I order this is he as good as he sounded to me or had I just had too many marguerites?
Parts of shows have turned up on cds/DVDs. There's some good stuff on the Coleman Hawkins 100th Anniversary disc as well as on a Billie Holiday collection. (I'm not 100% sure of all this. I'll check my collection when I get home.)
I hope we're all linking to Amazon through the board.
Some one gave me a Kindle and much to my surprise I like it-- especially when I'm traveling. I just ordered the Lieber-Stoller autobiography.
Wow, it pays to check this board every day. I thought there was no mail delivery today. I read these posts, rushed out to my mail box and sure enough there was my package from CD Baby!
Sometimes recordings were announced but never took place. Verve actually took photos for the cover of a Bill Evans, Gil Evans session that never happened.
I have vague memories (as many of my memories are) of 2 stories:
1) When Phil Woods was married to Chan Parker he played a gig using one of Bird's altos. Mingus came to the club and harassed him about it
(took it form him? stood in front of the bandstand staring at him? yelled at him?-- I forget).
2) Jimmy Blanton's bass was left to a cousin of his who later played with Ellington.
Both the stories could be apocryphal or some sort of acid flashbacks.
I just checked the large format Francis Wolf book and there's no photograph of Washington there, nor is there one in the Blue Note Album Cover Art book.
There's a few recordings I'd like to have on cd that were originally released on Mainstream. Who owns the rights and have they released anything recently?