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Of course e don't know what other people who didn't record were playing at the time of the ODJB but whatever you think of the ODJB, they were playing jazz (jass?). I wouldn't say that about Arthur Collins. Nevertheless thanks for posting this. It's fascinating. I'm going to try to drop in to see the archive as it's here in Santa Barbara.

I find ALL this very depressing. Do you know that only a small percentage of all the silent film ever made are still extant? There were probably masters lost (eg alternate takes) for which there are no copies.

PM sent on Ellington alternates and which ever Tubby Hayes you think is best.

I've never been to one and I'm a bit of a skeptic about them. But my wife goes to one and swears by her.

Heard from Garth. He's ok. Had some damage to some trees but not his house. (Most important his cds and Lps weren't damaged. http://www.organissimo.org/forum/style_ima...cons/icon1.gif) This was an attempt to add a smiley emoticon. I just dragged it up to here. What else should I have done?

Hawkins' recording career was so long that I think nobody's dared try to compile a complete discography. I've been listening to a few cuts from the early recordings he did with Red Allen but have had trouble finding more. Did they do many together and is there on good cd that contains some of them?

Had you ever heard Neil Young? He sure doesn't sound like Thunderclap Newman. BTW didn't Pete Townsend produce that record?

Wow. Where do they find these shows?

I think they go Fletch, Confess Fletch, Fletch's Fortune,Fletch's Moxie, Fletch and the Widow Bradley, Fletch and the Man Who, Carioca Fletch, Fletch Won, Fletch Too and Son of Fletch. Even the early ones are out of chronology which was confusing. Fletch and the Widow Bradley takes place before Fletch. Carioca Fetch takes place immediately after Fletch. IIRC the charcter Flynn is introduced in Confess Fletch and then went on to have his own series.

Ganja and Hess was a favorite of the critic/writer Jim Monaco. I think we published Jim's review of it in Take One, a film magazine I used to help edit. Jim mentions Gunn several times in his book American Film Now. (It was published many years ago so should probably be referred to as American Film Then.)

To answer my own question (at least in part) the Nontet was recorded playing Godchild at the Royal Roost on September 4, 1948 but didn't do an official studio recording until January 21 of 1949. Meanwhile the Thornhill band did a transcription in October of '48. Mulligan did similar charts for each of the bands.

He did a rather clever thing: putting Fletch's adventures in chronological order after he began the series so that the ones that took place earliest were published 4th or 5th and called: Fletch Won and Fletch Too.

Sure this wasn't earlier? He began to claim his name was Dylan by '61.

Glad you've picked a picture that looks like you, Niko. I always find it a bit disconcerting not to know whether or not I'm looking at an image or near-image of the poster. I mean, does Allen Lowe really look like one of Richard Nixon's seedier henchmen? Or does medjuck look like Clarence Williams - or is that a photo of someone else? Tiny Parham actually. I'll try to attach a picture. If it works, I'm the old guy. The others are my family. I do have a beard though only for the last 35 years.

So I even got it wrong that the non-film composer was "the East Coast" John Williams.

Chris: How do you happen to have so much Elmer Snowden stuff?

I just came across a Japanese mini-lp cd of a Stan Getz record called "Cool Sounds". On about half the cuts he's accompanied by John Williams on piano. Am I right to assume that this is not the film composer but "The East Coast" John Williams"? Does the film composer appear on any notable jazz discs? Benny Carter once told me that composer Williams had played with him and Elmer Bernstein said that it was the film composer's hands playing jazz in the title sequence of the old tv show "Staccato". (How's that for name dropping.) But does he play on any records we might care about?

Sorry to hear that. I read all of the Fletch novels and a couple of others by him too. Very clever. I never understood why they didn't ask him to write the screenplays. The books are much better than the movies.

just saw Brian Wilson at The Lobero (600 seat theater). We were in the 2nd row and in Heaven.

Well then how about a film noir: Two of a Kind (1951). I had to do research to find the title. All I remembered was that it was Edmond O'Brien and he chopped off part of his finger in a car door in order to impersonate someone. Argh!! BTW Cheap sci-fi scripts often have amazing sub-texts. In case of Invasion from Mars there are 2 very disturbing things suggested: 1) Your parents aren't who they say they are. 2) Life is a dream/nightmare from which we can't awake.

I'm old enough that I saw The Thing, Them, and Invaders from Mars in movie theaters when they were first released. They scared the shit of of me. Invaders from Mars was fairly obscure despite being directed (I think) by William Cameron Menzies. It started to get revived (and remade) when people my age who were traumatized by it as children entered academia and the film business.

I went looking for a postage stamp the other day and discovered that my wife had bought a couple of sheets of these. I'd didn't know about it before and immediately posted to the Duke-Lym group under the subject line "Forty-two Cent Stomp". (And I don't usually like puns.)

I'd say yes, either this or The Masters of Jazz cd which may be hard to come by. However I notice that there's also a disc from 1949 but I've never heard it.

Lobero Theater in Santa Barbara with the Liberation Jazz Orchestra!

Yes regular DVD discs do look a bit better on Blue Ray machines. I bought my machine the day after HiDef went down the tubes with the Warners announcement that they were going Blue Ray. I decided to do so after comparing some regular DVDs to Hi-Def tv broadcasts of the same films. I'd been a skeptic until then.