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Then you should check out the DVD of Ron Mann's film "Comic Book Confidential".

IIRC Coltrane asked the Montreal guitarist Nelson Symonds to join his group but Symonds couldn't get a vis to work in the States. (I just read this again on Symond's Wikopedia entry-- which doesn't of course make it true.)

Yea. Trane already had a quintet that split the money 5 ways. He didn't need another musician. I don't think that Trane would have hired Wes if he didn't think that this was something that he wanted musically. I didn't know about Trane sharing his income equally with his bandmates (I've never read his bio). Is this common knowledge? Certainly not a practice of many jazz stars.

Are you already '36? Happy Birthday!!!

She definitely had a full life. Born in Russia and emigratied to Canada about 1913 (we think-- she never talked about it and implied (she never actually lied about it) that she was born in Cape Breton where she grew up. Moved to Fredericton after she married my Dad and lived here for more than 70 years.

My wife posted the following on her face book page: "Faye Claener Medjuck (b. 1908), wonderful wife , mother, mother-in-law, grandmother, great grandmother--rest in peace. Died peacefully early morning this New Year's Day. We always marveled that Faye was the energizer bunny, even at 101, so we're not a bit surprised she saw the New Year in." I managed to get back to New Brunswick a couple of days before she died. She was already in the hospital getting good care and being kept comfortable but even the Energizer Bunny eventually runs down. The funeral will be Monday and my family is on the way but we've got a blizzard here and most of them are stuck in Toronto-- the last stop on their way here. One of my sisters has flown back from a vacation in Africa and will also spend in the night in Toronto. So I'm in a a hotel room in Fredericton New Brunswick catching up on the always interesting news at the Organissimo Forums.

Reading books I got for Chanukkah/Xmas. Finished The Jazz Loft. Great book. Now reading a collection of Michael Chabon essays called "Maps and Legends". Interesting essays in a beautifully produced book from McSweeny's. Glad I didn't get it for my Kindle. (Though I'm sure it wasn't offered as an e-book.) In fact glad I was given the hardcover edition. Also a book of essays by David Hadju whose work I like though I think he's a little too willing to sacrifice nuance for a good story.

Good story. I'm not sure that the basis for LaFaro's breakout was Motian's ability to keep time. I always felt that Bill Evans kept his own time (even though-or perhaps because?- he had a tendency to speed up), and that allowed both LaFaro and Motian to become equal partners with Evans in the trio and not just time keepers.

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Just finished The Jazz Loft book which I highly recommend. In it the author talks about most Lps costing $1.99 or $2.99 in the early '60s, but my memory is that the standard list price even in the late '50s was $3.99 (mono) and $4.99 (stereo). Of course I may remember wrong or the prices in the small Canadian town I grew up n may have been higher than elsewhere. Anyone remember or have some old ads?

Hey, welcome back, keep on typin' and Merry Xmas!

Do you mean "District 9"? If so I agree. I liked Avatar and had a good time but in some ways (even technically) was more impressed with District 9.

Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year!.

Only had a chance to play it once so far. Even my too hip for the room (but hopes to be music producer) son liked it. Merry Xmas and all the best for the new year!

Finally finished Roberto Bolano's "2666". Liked the last book the best, but can't really recommend the investment of time it takes to get through all 900 pages of the entire book-- though some friends think he's the great writer of our time. Then blew through Alice Munro's new book of short stories "Too Much Happiness". I think she's the great writer of our time. Then because I was in an airport with nothing to read bought and re-read "Up in the Air" which I first read several years ago when we began work on the film version. Sort of surprised to realize just how much the film differed from the book in tone as well as plot.

Is there still a box that links to Amazon or CD Universe so that the board gets a royalty?

It's on the Ember "Complete Bird at Birdland Vol 1" 4 disc set but it's edited to feature only the heads and Bird's solos.

Birdland with Fats Navarro and Bud Powell. (There's controversy about the date-- probably May 1950.) I like Rockland Palace at lot also.

True. My only complaint re-iPhone is I can't fine the "view new Content" on it. Maybe one of the computer guys on the Forum can make an Organissimo app. (I can't even set the alarm clock in hotels.)

Happy B'day and many more.

I love it!

Just came from visiting my mom who's almost 102-- but she hasn't composed anything that I know of.

IIRC Lieber and Stoller say they produced it so that Johnny could play drums.

I agree, but it is complicated. I think there was an accepted attitude about blacks that even the most sympathetic whites let creep into their way of thinking. And we shouldn't think we're so sophisticated that we would have been wiser. Some of this was discussed in the thread about Johnny Mercer and racism. A few "probes" as Marshall McLuhan used to call them: Isn't Hoagy Carmichael sort of doing a black dialect when he writes and sings "Lazy Bones"? Apparently most black listeners didn't know Amos & Andy were played by white men until the film Check & Double Check was released. (And that movie is really weird-- white men in blackface intercut with documentary footage of Harlem and certainly worth seeing because of Duke Ellington's performance-- during which Barney Bigard and Juan Tizol wore dark make-up and when the band does 3 Little Words some of them step forward to sing but the soundtrack is Bing Crosby and the Rhythm Boys!) Did emcees on radio shows refer to white musicians as "boys" as often as they do to black musicians? I find Freddy Slack's version of "Further on Up the Road" (Is that the correct title?) disconcerting because it seems to be in black dialect but Amos Wilburn had no problem covering it and even including the reference to Freddy Slack that's in the lyrics. I bet I'm the only person on this forum who ever actually performed in a minstrel show. (I wasn't in blackface-- I was Mr. Interlocutor.) And perhaps more shocking, despite what Lieber and Stoller think I prefer Elvis Presley's version of Hound Dog to Big Momma Thorton's.