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At a July 4th party the hostess was playing a cd that at first I thought was a compilation because sometimes it sounded like Chicago Blues but at times a bit like Charles Brown. Turns out it was all by one guy: Jimmy Babyface Lewis. Unfortunately she was playing a CDR from a friend and so I got no info from it. He's not even listed in AMG and there were only a couple of sites when I googled him. However one of them was http://www.bluebeatmusic.com/index.php?mai...df1251d47825745 a site I'd never heard of and they have a cd for sale from Bluemoon of his complete recordings. Before I order this is he as good as he sounded to me or had I just had too many marguerites?

Happy B'day and many more!

Happy B'day!!

Parts of shows have turned up on cds/DVDs. There's some good stuff on the Coleman Hawkins 100th Anniversary disc as well as on a Billie Holiday collection. (I'm not 100% sure of all this. I'll check my collection when I get home.)

I hope we're all linking to Amazon through the board. Some one gave me a Kindle and much to my surprise I like it-- especially when I'm traveling. I just ordered the Lieber-Stoller autobiography.

Wow, it pays to check this board every day. I thought there was no mail delivery today. I read these posts, rushed out to my mail box and sure enough there was my package from CD Baby!

Sometimes recordings were announced but never took place. Verve actually took photos for the cover of a Bill Evans, Gil Evans session that never happened.

I have vague memories (as many of my memories are) of 2 stories: 1) When Phil Woods was married to Chan Parker he played a gig using one of Bird's altos. Mingus came to the club and harassed him about it (took it form him? stood in front of the bandstand staring at him? yelled at him?-- I forget). 2) Jimmy Blanton's bass was left to a cousin of his who later played with Ellington. Both the stories could be apocryphal or some sort of acid flashbacks.

I guess they're not related to " Blue Moon" records which definitely released copyrighted stuff.

I got my replacement disc yesterday. Very impressive customer service.

And done again.

I wasn't that impressed with Vineland. REminded me of Tom Robbins. However a freind of mone who's a big Pynchon fan posted a Reader's Guide to Vineland: http://www.mindspring.com/~shadow88/http:/....com/~shadow88/ I much preferred Against the Day. It even has a quote from Monk as an epigraph.

Me too.

It's a short story by his standards.

I just checked the large format Francis Wolf book and there's no photograph of Washington there, nor is there one in the Blue Note Album Cover Art book.

There's a few recordings I'd like to have on cd that were originally released on Mainstream. Who owns the rights and have they released anything recently?

Hmmm,,, I'd be curious to read them. Did he say anything memorable?

Happy B'day and many more!

What's a"record show"? And Mosaic had a table? (Sorry if this is a really stupid question.)

I give up. Who was it?

This is great! Thanks for pointing it out.

Obviously of it's ten cds it will contain a lot of material not on the recent 3cd set from the period.

The liner notes to the first Lp on which he appeared (a Cohn-Sims record) doesn't even mention that he sings. Just discusses him as a new find on piano. I've seen him several times over the decades (including once when he opened for Van Morrison) and quite enjoyed him but I do think The Back Country Suite period is his best as a composer. (I'm as tired of hearing "Your Mind is on Vacation " on the radio as I am of hearing Krall sing "Peel Me a Grape". )

Got mine yesterday and listened to Mitchell in the car while I drove to LA this morning. Good stuff!

Given that they seem to be pretty good at obtaining musicians' rights maybe Uptown could release the Lester Young recordings.