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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.

Well I have an additional problem: I often don't understand what he's trying to say. I admit that I tend to read quickly and maybe I should take the time to decipher what he's saying. But he seems so proud of his erudition that it's more than a bit off putting.

My son gave me this for Xmas in a paperback 3 volume boxed edition. I'm away from home right now and took the first volume (books 1-30) with me. I'm just getting into it but quite like it so far. Very well translated it seems to me. (ie the English is not in the least stilted-- can't tell that it's a translation-- though I of course can't say how close it is to the original.)

Whatever you think of the USPS, trust me the Canadian postal service is much worse. Having lived in Canada most of my life I'm actually really impressed by the USPS. And it's got Saturday deliveries. People here (I'm in Canada right now) have told me that Netflix failed in Canada because of the postal system. (I know that's just hearsay but I don't know how to confirm it.)

I thought so too but I'm away from my books and can't confirm it. I think he was in the band but not sure he ever recorded with it.

Sorry. My bad! I meant to write that Duke "was never happy". I'm pretty sure that Happy-Go-Lucky pre-dates Night Train.

Duke Ellington was never unhappy that Forrest stole the tune from the Happy-Go-Lucky-Local part of The Deep South Suite.

There's a more recent cd by Amram with that title. It's from a concert where he included "Pull My Daisy" as a vocal. One of the women in the film is the late Delphine Seyrig who went on to star in Last Year at Mariendbad and India Song. She appears here under another name.

I'm pretty sure it's a song by Raffi. If your kids were young in the early '80s you probably owned a tape of it.

In his autobiography, Al Kooper's explanation of how this record came to be is pretty funny. The whole book (of which he's done 3 editions) is pretty interesting. I can't remember the title and I'm out of town.

I enjoy the show but this year they seem to be trying to protect George Bush's honour! The AFrican country they want to invade is made to sound a bit like Iraq and they defend the use of torture every chance they get. (In one of the previous year they at least had Jack torture someone who turned out to be innocent.

You're right. With strings in '52.

Miles recorded this at the same May '58 session where he first recorded On Green Dolphin Street. Both of course then became jazz standards but was he the first to do jazz versions of them? Did Ahmad Jamal do them first? If they were the first jazz versions where did Miles hear them? IIRC Red Garland often introduced obscure songs to the group but he wasn't present at this session. (And they're both themes from movies.)

Happy B'day! And many more!!

Since I started this thread a couple of years ago I should report that I got my old sub-woofer repaired (I think it cost over $100) and it works just fine. Found a strange place in downtown LA tht advertised that they fixed sub-woofers. Looked like an overfilled pawn shop and had to spend a lot of time listening to the owner explain why vinyl was better than cds but he did the job very much to my satisfaction.

Happy B'day! And many more.

I really liked this one, too, with its fine Shorty Baker solo. I received the record when I joined the Columbia Record Club back in high school days, many years ago. I notice that the current reissue has an alternate take of Willow. I'm tempted. That's exactly my story! BTW That Lp meant so much to me that I recently got the nicely packaged Spanish "import" that contains all alternate takes as well as 2 tunes omitted from the Lp for a total of 19 tracks. Unfortunately most of the alternates are not in stereo.

Hey I just got the November issue of Coda (I guess it takes a while to get from Toronto to Santa Barbara) and there's a very nice review there too.

I've always liked the Ellington Indigos version. Probably because that was the first one I ever heard and I was 15 years old.

IIRC a few years ago Rhapsody did a special sale of songs at 49 cents. They sold way more than twice as many as usual-- presumably with no added costs. (I may have all these numbers wrong, but you get the point.) I think iTunes is going to sell a lot of songs at 69 cents, not so many at $1.29. The record labels pressured Apple for so long because the only answer they ever have to their problems is to raise prices.

Chauncey (Like Clem) seems to dislike anyone with an actual paying gig writing about Jazz. However he may be right. I don't read the NY Times much but I was shocked to see Ratliff recommending a Miles bootleg that consisted of 3 cuts available on Prestige and one cut that doesn't even have Miles on it-- which Ratliff couldn't tell. (This is discussed in a thread under "Discography" but I don't know how to link to threads.) And in defense of Chris there's also a thread here about how influential he was on music people as a dj. (It's in this, the Jazz in Print forum.)