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Saw him a couple of times playing around LA. Always happy I did.

Me too. And I think it would have been interesting.

I'll take the Ornette. Paypal on the way.

The placement (and size) of speakers has led to many divorces. For some reason women often don't understand their importance.

Just found something called The Stanley Dance Session on Amazon that seems to contain this plus other cuts that I haven't figured out yet.

Do you have any unused video inputs into you tv? Looks like you have an unused s-video input. If so, why not run the spare DVD player's sound into one of the amp inputs you're not using (eg SACD) and use an s-video cable into the tv/monitor?

Lance Travis. They're hardly great literature but I like that he gives the provenance of the songs and points out how briefly some were in the band's book. But what does he have against "I Ain't Got Nothing but the Blues"?

Moosehead is indeed from New Brunswick-- as am I. However I think it's owned by the Olands who are a Nova Scotia family and make Olands beer in their home province. When I moved to LA I was shocked to see Moose advertised as a gourmet beer. I think it was the only one you could buy in NB when I was growing up. An American writing a book about Canada used the fact that you could buy Moosehead in every state but in only 4 provinces to exemplify the independence of provinces vs the feds as compared to that of states vs the feds.

Can I get dibs on it?

Anyone ever see it around? Was it issued under Strayhorn's name?

Topsy Part 2 was one of the only records by a Black musician played on the only radio station in my home town when I was growing up. And I don't think it was racism-- they played Mugsy Spanier's version of Party Doll instead of the Buddy Knox version. I think they just had a very limited music library. (They mainly played country and western music.)

I saw Petra with The Foo Fighters.

It's a term I heard as a teenager and I recently came across it again but not not in a context that explained what it meant. (It was in reference to a rock n' roller who had formerly been in a "show band".)

The Bruce Conner film I remember was "Cosmic Ray" which used Ray Charles on the soundtrack.

Buddy Collette has spoken highly of these sessions on which he also played. I tried to track down the original Ellington score. Never did get it but was able to obtain a a couple of cds of the music which was finally used in the film. Some of it is pure Ellington, some EKE with overdubs and some just studio musician playing music not by EKE. It would be great if Shank has a copy of all the original Ellington material.

There's the Ruby Braff session that remained unreleased until it appeared on the Mosaic Columbia Small Groups box set.

It seems to me that most of these stereotypes are now archaic which takes the sting out. What are the new offensive Jewish stereotypes?

The Masters of Jazz Charlie Christian series added a Volume 9 made up only of new discoveries.

Rhapsody has begun offering mp3 downloads for sale. Pricing is about the same as iTunes Store. So-so selection. However they are offering one free album download to the first 100,000 people who register. I was looking for some Ivie Anderson material and found the cd I most wanted "Raisin' the Rent" was listed as a single, so I got a 24 cut cd for 99 cents as well as a free download. I don't know if they made this mistake anywhere else and I feel a bit guilty taking advantage of them (and telling others about it) but at least I'm helping to publicize the the service as well as (I hope) helping out some short-on-money jazz fans.

Bobby Charles: "The Tennessee Blues".

Having spent more time with the Ellington Box set I highly recommend it. You can't beat the price. However I do worry it might scupper a Mosaic set. There's only about 2 cds worth of material from the period missing and most of it is vocals and alternates.

I run into Bones Howe now and then. I'll ask him about it.

Not to mention Tim Hardin. All that was after Granz but was it during the Creed Taylor period?

Not to mention Tim Hardin. All that was after Granz but was it during the Creed Taylor period?

The recordings were made to match the playback equipment and sounded fine, back in the day. Many current cd transfers are only pale reflections of the originals. So the bass would sound just as present as it does today?