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I think trying to be deep is a good thing. Agreed but they seem to think that all it requires is a series of aphorisms.

It's a duo recording with Armstrong on trumpet and Buck Washington on piano. April 5, 1930. New York City. Recorded for Okeh. And it is a lovely recording. I expect that's it. The applause was probably for the beginning of the next song which was IIRC "If I Could Be with You". The two were run together.

How long after re-construction were the Jim Crow laws passed? And how long was the reconstruction period? (We didn't learn that much about American history where I grew up in Canada. My US geography isn't very good either. Until this year I thought Colorado was on the Canadian border. )

WEll it's worth $12 or whatever it costs to see a movie where you live but is a bit long and tries a bit too much to be deep. Nevertheless it's fun and a bit moving.

Saw Benjamin Button last night. At one point the background music is Pops playing a lovely version of Dear Old Southland. Sounded like it was just him accompanied by a piano (but I could be wrong about that). It was a bit of a strange choice for background music because it was live with applause. Made it seem that Louis was playing somewhere nearby. I stayed through about 10 minutes of special effects credits at the end to get to the music credits. They only identified it as being courtesy of Columbia Records. Anyone know what record/concert this might be from?

Am I really the first to mention the Mingus?!!I'd add the Mulligan Concert Jazz band and the Ellington small groups.

Does this article mention that Cook took Sydney Bechet and (IIRC) Tommy Ladnier to Europe around 1919 where they received some acclaim? I read the article quickly and didn't notice any mention of Bechet. I may have missed it. .

I just discovered a free app you can download to your iPhone that allows you to listen to a 100 or so public radio station via the 3G network. So this morning I was listening to a Jazz station from Phoenix and when they went to local news and interviews I switched to KCRW in Santa Monica. (And I'm in Toronto right now!)

IIRC Mole also produced a few records. I had an Lp they released of the parts of the Gil Evans Royal Albert Hall Concert that were left out of the RCA Lp from the concert. I did manage to visit the store a few times when I was in the UK in 2000. Has anything in London replaced it and Dobell's (sp?) Is Ray's gone too?

I just found this on the Smithsonian website re: Folkways (took some searching): "As a condition of the acquisition, the Smithsonian agreed that virtually all of the firm's 2,168 titles would remain "in print" forever--a condition that Smithsonian Folkways continues to honor through its custom order service. Whether it sells 8,000 copies each year or only one copy every five years, every Folkways title remains available for purchase." I'm not home to check whether the one I got was a CD-R but I see you can also download (even single tracks!) for about half the price of a cd. Wouldn't it be nice if every label had this policy.

IIRC The Folkways catalogue is available on demand from the Smithsonian. I got a cd with cuts by Gil Evans and Maryy-Lou Williams from them. It was originally a compilation Lp and they include the original liner notes. I'm not home so I can't check it for info right now.

Someone told me recently (Friday in fact) that George Avakian came up with the idea for the Columbia Record Club.

Getting back to the original post: I think that if you replace the term "hard bop" with "funk"-- a term that was used a lot at the time, you might have a different conversation. I do remember that after "Moanin" came out there seemed to be an attempt on the part of Blue Note to reproduce ti's success. (There were probably earlier examples of funk but I can't think if any right now.)

Port of Harlem Jazzmen is OOP.

A Drum is a Woman!

Yeah, that would be about the right timescale for Harriott & co. at the Marquee. Would have loved to have seen that ! Is it true that the band-room there had a pet rat? I saw the Harriot Quartet at the Marquee in the summer of '64.

Phil Schaap claimed that the originally released take wasn't in stereo and that's why it got left off. He also claimed he wasn't responsible.

Information on soloists would have been nice. Does Mosaic ever post things like that?

Enlighten me. Well the liner notes spend a lot of time discussing a famous take of "Up and Down" that they left off the cd. It can be found on a cd celebrating Ralph Ellison.

There's none in the booklet. Were there some for the original release?

I work in a business that is very unionized and most people are highly paid. And though I might complain about how it adds so much to cost of filmmaking I find most union crews to be terrific. And I like working in a business where I don't feel I'm exploiting anyone.

You're right! I'm talking about Saturday the 29th. Is Schneider Sunday or Saturday?

I have to decide whether to spend the Saturday after Thanksgiving in New York or Toronto. Anything special Jazz-wise going on in either place?

Depends on when the Great Depression ended in one's perception; many would say 1939 with the beginning of the war economy of World War II. The earliest tracks on the Mosaic date from August 1939, just before the war started in Europe. I recently heard someone say that in the US it didn't really end until 1942 when they finally entered the war. (OK DEc 1941). I certainly don't have the knowledge to argue.

I'd try to get Katanga. Ray Crawford accompanying Dupree Bolton & Curtis Amy. When I walked into a room and heard ray soloing I thought it was Out of the Cool.