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I made several suggestions to them many years ago and some of them came to be-- but after the fact they all seem obvious. Hey, maybe they can make a deal with Concord and put out some of the obvious things they don't seem to want to do anymore. (Eg the Complete Shelly Mann at that Blackhawk.)

Saw Betty Levette at a small venue (used to be a church) in Toronto on Friday night. She was great.

My wife has taken up playing electric guitar and is now more obsessed with music than I am. Buys almost as many cds as me and wants to go to more concerts than I do. We have enough overlap in taste that it's all ok.

There have been DVD releases of both the Monterey and Woodstock films that have added a lot of extra footage. And Pennebaker shot enough songs by Otis Redding and Jimi Hendrix to release DVDs for each of them. (Don't recall whether they're complete sets.)

they've done Birth of the Cool and Miles Ahead by now (didn't check the other labels, but JazzTrack and that other one with identical layout but different name are the most likely candidates for such "straight" reissues, it seems - it's them that did "Ellington Indigos" and "A Drum Is a Woman", too, as well as some others - here's what CDUniverse carries these days). The 2 Ellingtons aren't actually "straight re-issues". A Drum is a Woman has never been released as a cd by Sony in the US and the Jazztrack edition includes one extra cut that was never on the original Lp. The "Indigos" is titled "The Complete Ellington Indigos" and as someone else on this board said, Sony should have done it themselves.

Happy B'day and many more!!!

I remember seeing Mary Lou Williams there. Didn't know she'd done a recording.

What solo tracks?

Would you elaborate on that last sentence.

It's always seemed to me that Smith's influence on Bird had more to do with tone than anything else. Maybe there's a bit of bop in the beginning of the 2nd chorus but generally seems to me to be a very good blues solo.

That "Unlucky Blues" (aka "Unlucky Woman") from the MCA Blues Box Vol. 2 set is available elsewhere relatively easily, e.g. on the MCA V.A. LP "THe Swinging Small Bands 2" (Jazz Heritage series Vol. 45) and on "Sounds of Harlem Vol. 2" (HEP CD 1066). So no shortage of listening opportunities ... The iTunes store lists "Unlucky Woman" on 2 different collections "The Sounds of Harlem" under Pete Brown's name and on "Helen Humes: Today I Sing the Blues".

I read this and immediately downloaded it from the iTunes store. (I need instant gratification right now.) it is indeed a great solo but I'm not sure why you describe it as "bop".

I wonder how many times I've read that! At least five times. A novel that is in my psyche somewhere by now. Ditto!

My guess is that he couldn't afford to shoot many more performances than are in the final film. (Film stock and developing is expensive.) Be great if I was wrong and lots more showed up.

They usually come right by my corner-- unfortunately I'm in Toronto, not there.

And is the first part of Lush Life the verse? I read somewhere that the whole song was meant as the verse to Something to Live For.

I think Ella sings all the verses on the Songbooks. Often my favorite part.

Part of my question was answered in Francis Davis's Grammy winning notes to the latest KOB release. Jamal did a very similar version of Green Dolphin Street a few years before Miles.

I must have missed something in this thread. I thought his congratulations were sincere. Am I just being naive as usual? Has something been deleted? BTW I just read the notes. They're pretty good.

Saw Patti Smith with Philip Glass last night. They did a tribute to Alan Ginsberg but after some poetry accompanied by piano, Lenny Kaye and Jaye Dee Daougherty came out and we had some songs-- including a Valentine's Day sing-along of Because the Night.

My Dad owned a furniture store and brought home all the latest gadgets. We had one of those big box stereos-- turn-table and amp with speaker on one side and 2nd speaker almost as big on other. I loved stereo from the beginning. Not the ping-pong or train stuff which was fun, but the music-- especially the large orchestras. I still find mono compressed. (I even like the stereo versions of Pet Sounds and Phil Specter's stuff.)

Great post. My father was basically a refugee in Europe for the first 10 years of his life (1911-21) running from the Cossacks and various armies (ironically the Germans saved his family during WW1), but he used to say he had his mother and her family and despite everything that was all that mattered. (His father had left for Canada before he was born and for various reasons they couldn't join him, so my Dad didn't meet his dad until he was 10!)

I concur with everyone else. They once sent me the liner notes for the Port Of Harlem Jazzmen Lp when I hadn't been able top buy it before it was oop but had the Blue Note cd.

Also full of historical mis-information.

He seems to have quoted "If I Loved You" on many recordings of Turnaround, including the earliest ones.