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In case you think you're hip (like I did) by knowing that Irma Thomas not the Stones first sang Time is on My Side, Bob Dylan on his radio show claims the first version was by Kai Winding! I just checked it out: he's (of course) right-- you can hear a sample of it on AMG.

I live in beautiful but fire prone Santa Barbara. The mandatory evacuation area ends across the street from me so it will probably soon be here. I'm packed and ready to go but didn't even try to decide which cds to take. I knew I should have transferred them al to a hard disc but who's got time). If the house goes up I may soon be begging for cdrs of hard to find cds I've lost. (Does loss in a fire allow some bending of the board rules?)

I second that emotion.

I've seen Sonny perform about 5 times over the last 4 decades. Hadn't been that impressed the last couple of times. Then I saw him last week and he just burned the place up. Never sat down, rarely stopped playing even when his sidemen were soloing-- which they didn't get to do that much. It was all Sonny, all the time and I loved it.

I've got an extra copy of the Wardell Gray 4 disc Proper box.

Is it coincidental that I got an extraordinary amount of spam on both my e-mail addresses today? Is the internet under attack?

I wrote my post about Lucky and Prez right after listening to "Strike Up the Band" where he seemed to use phrases and "swoops" that reminded me of Lester.

I made one mistake on each of the first two but only got 69/70% on the last one and that took some lucky guesses.

My version has the original notes (as well as Schapp's). They're not very edifying.

I thought this review nailed it: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/apr/2...together-review though I think" Jolene" is better than he suggests. (Basically he says this is an ok record but as usual Dylan followers have gone crazy over it and published a lot of rubbish.)

I was driving in my car and on the radio heard "Bebop" from "For Musicians Only" and though "I gotta get that". Discovered it was o.o.p. but was able to find it from an Amazon seller at a reasonable price. Great record. Strangely Getz's playing on it reminds me of his playing on Focus though that's highly orchestrated and this seems like a jam session.

Could 'Quiet Nights" have been sung by Art Garfunkle? I've never head his version but he sort of fits the description.

Tonight I'm seeing Sonny Rollins. Yeh!!

I finally finished the first three books ( my son gave me the boxed edition where they're in one volume and the last two books each get their own volume) but read a couple of other things at the same time: Mordecai Richler's "Barney's Version" and Alan Furst's "Night Soldiers." Anyone else here into Furst?

I saw him live once and was really impressed but at the gig I bought his then latest cd ("Prototype") and didn't care for it at all. However both live and on that cd he didn't sound too much like Miles.

If the cd edition reflects the original lp edition, the vocal comments are missing. Also, in the first pressings, an alternate was missing and the "master" was duplicated. My CD edition does have 2 different takes each of "Bags' Groove" and "The Man I Love" plus single takes of "Bemsha Swing" and "Swing Spring". I didn't check if the vocal comments are there. They aren't.

Has Concord (or Fantasy before them) ever released all of the Miles/Monk Dec 24/1954 session on one cd?

Thanks. Took me a while to register at E-bay (I think I had done so years ago to buy a Coltrane poster but couldn't remember my id or password) but I eventually got it-- or at least ordered it.

I think it was released on cd by Vintage Jazz Classics. Anyone have a copy or know where I might find one?

Heard Hugh Masakella (sp) on NPR this morning saying that he'd been turned on to the flugelhorn by hearing Miles play it on one cut of Musings of Miles. He's misremembering isn't he?

Happy B'day and many more!

Anyone else got his duet 2 cd set with Dizzy? A bit too austere for me but lots of drumming.

What I presume is the same piece by Williams can be found in a fine collection of his writings on music entitled "Long Distance Call".

I don't find his tone quite as light as Prez's but every so often I hear a phrase that sounds very much like that of latter day Prez. However, yes he often uses those rhapsodic Hawkins phrases too.

I know this has been discussed in a thread devoted to Thompson but not much was said about this specific release. I'm very impressed by it. I'm not that familiar with Thompson's work. I think that the only recordings I have of him are Milt Jackson cds on which he's a sideman, though I really liked his work on those. This newly released 2 cd set consists of 2 performances: one with an octet in a 1964 concert and the other with a quartet at The Half Note a year later. The "Jazz on Broadway" concert is very ambitious, all original compositions, the writing at times reminding me of Mingus. The brochure includes a review of the Little Theater concert by Whitney Balliett which states that "Thompson's style is the best possible distillation of the styles of Webster and Byas." But especially on the 1965 cd his work on tenor at times reminded me much more of Lester Young. Is he not usually considered a disciple of Prez?