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I'm really liking this. The original 2 cd release has all the highlights but it's great hearing a set per disc.

Just got the new Mosaic catalogue and noticed that the headline for the Braxton box is "The Birth of a Record Label" and that in the body of the article they mention the "unlikely story of jazz on the Arista label". But if this is discussed in the booklet for the box I missed it. (Which is possible-- I only skimmed the notes which I didn't much care for.) Is there an interesting story about Arista and jazz beyond the fact that they signed Braxton? I have a vague memory of there being a sub label dedicated to avant-garde jazz which didn't seem to me like Clive Davis's cup of tea.

I don't know if it's jazz but I like it.

As well as being too expensive, Taschen books are often too big. The Claxton Jazz Life is much bigger than the original edition and I don't think gains anything from it except make it more difficult to gset down from teh shelf or turn the pages.

It was interesting to see this right after reading Kelley's Monk bio which IIRC contradicted the film at a couple of points.

I ordered People Time from Amazon France. Cost $57 including shipping and it arrived today! Nice looking box. About the size of the Miles box sets but much simpler. Each cd is in a cardboard sleeve which are in cardboard box along with a 40 page booklet (most of it written by Gary Giddens, who I usually like, though I know some here resent him.)

Finished the Monk biography and Save the Deli. Starting the 5th and last book of 2666.

Hearing that I'd ordered a turkey my daughter rebelled. Cancelled the turkey-- we're having lobster. (It's local lobster season here in Santa Barbara.)

He took a solo on Honeysuckle Rose at the Benny Goodman Carnegie Hall Concert. Supposedly he wasn't prepared to do it but Goodman just threw to him without warning.

By "the original" do you mean the single or the album version? I've always liked the guitar solo on the single better, but that may just be because it's the one I got used to hearing on the radio.

Right now there top downloads are Warren Zevon and Count Basie! Meanwhile I'm listening to the Monk at Newport '59 which is described in detail in the Robin Kelly biography.

Listening to Count Basie right now. Pretty great!

I don't think Louis Armstrong or Fatha Hines were on either of them. He does explain why Monk isn't on the LP, something I've always wondered about. He repeats the claim that it's of a rehearsal but I've always presumed that it was a separate recording session. I think I read somewhere that Gerry Mulligan isn't on it because he wanted double scale. I've also presumed that Prez had weakened so much between the recordings of the Lp and the tv show that he didn't have the strength to play on all the numbers on which he appears on the Lp. IIRC his one appearance on the tv show is for Fine and Mellow during which he's sitting down adn takes what may be his last great solo. (I could be as wrong about this as I was in my speculations as to why Monk wasn't on the Lp.)

I've been unable to find the Complete People time on US Amazon. Actually when I search for People Time "People Time the Complete Recording" is suggested underneath the box but when I click on it I get a bunch of miscellaneous cds-- mainly by Elvis Presley!

BTW I really liked the liner notes. As someone unfamiliar with Freeman I thought they gave a fine portrait of a dedicated musician and since Chuck supervised this I presume it's an accurate depiction.

I'm pretty sure he has the list of participants on The Sound of Jazz wrong. (In case you're sending him a list of corrections for the paperback.)

Is this actually a podcast? ie. Can you download it to iTunes? Or do you haves to stream it? And I hate to admit it, but I'm not sure what an RSS feed is.)

I would agree. Rosenthal's basic position seems to be that critics at the time largely missed the mark on the hard bop period of the mid-50s to mid-60s, preferring instead to save their stars for music that was generally safer and more inline with "the tradition." There's a cultural aspect to the criticism as well, he says, where the largely black musicians felt their music was not being properly understood by the largely white critics. But there are insightful critics and bad critics alike, certainly. It's of little use to paint the whole enterprise with a broad brush of dismissal. Well, reading the Monk bio makes me think they sure missed the mark on him.

The book's sub-title makes reference to photographs and tapes, but am I right that the book just contains photos? (Or perhaps transcripts of some tapes)?

The last couple of paragraphs in this article imply that the new material and remasters may be available separately someday (though there's not much information as to what that new material might be). http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/...0,6182371.story

There's quite a bit about them in this article (which had a thread devoted to it.) http://www.JazzWax.com/2009/11/how-remasters-are-made.html

Who originally did After Hours?

Ray Nance's A Train solo.

Well I guess that means that they weren't previously unreleased, but I've only been able to find one Philology disc. (Fortunately it was the one I really wanted-- Bird with Dizzy's big band.)

In his autobiography he complains that the didn't get to play jazz often enough!