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There have been DVD releases of both the Monterey and Woodstock films that have added a lot of extra footage. And Pennebaker shot enough songs by Otis Redding and Jimi Hendrix to release DVDs for each of them. (Don't recall whether they're complete sets.)

they've done Birth of the Cool and Miles Ahead by now (didn't check the other labels, but JazzTrack and that other one with identical layout but different name are the most likely candidates for such "straight" reissues, it seems - it's them that did "Ellington Indigos" and "A Drum Is a Woman", too, as well as some others - here's what CDUniverse carries these days). The 2 Ellingtons aren't actually "straight re-issues". A Drum is a Woman has never been released as a cd by Sony in the US and the Jazztrack edition includes one extra cut that was never on the original Lp. The "Indigos" is titled "The Complete Ellington Indigos" and as someone else on this board said, Sony should have done it themselves.

Happy B'day and many more!!!

I remember seeing Mary Lou Williams there. Didn't know she'd done a recording.

What solo tracks?

Would you elaborate on that last sentence.

It's always seemed to me that Smith's influence on Bird had more to do with tone than anything else. Maybe there's a bit of bop in the beginning of the 2nd chorus but generally seems to me to be a very good blues solo.

That "Unlucky Blues" (aka "Unlucky Woman") from the MCA Blues Box Vol. 2 set is available elsewhere relatively easily, e.g. on the MCA V.A. LP "THe Swinging Small Bands 2" (Jazz Heritage series Vol. 45) and on "Sounds of Harlem Vol. 2" (HEP CD 1066). So no shortage of listening opportunities ... The iTunes store lists "Unlucky Woman" on 2 different collections "The Sounds of Harlem" under Pete Brown's name and on "Helen Humes: Today I Sing the Blues".

I read this and immediately downloaded it from the iTunes store. (I need instant gratification right now.) it is indeed a great solo but I'm not sure why you describe it as "bop".

I wonder how many times I've read that! At least five times. A novel that is in my psyche somewhere by now. Ditto!

My guess is that he couldn't afford to shoot many more performances than are in the final film. (Film stock and developing is expensive.) Be great if I was wrong and lots more showed up.

They usually come right by my corner-- unfortunately I'm in Toronto, not there.

And is the first part of Lush Life the verse? I read somewhere that the whole song was meant as the verse to Something to Live For.

I think Ella sings all the verses on the Songbooks. Often my favorite part.

Part of my question was answered in Francis Davis's Grammy winning notes to the latest KOB release. Jamal did a very similar version of Green Dolphin Street a few years before Miles.

I must have missed something in this thread. I thought his congratulations were sincere. Am I just being naive as usual? Has something been deleted? BTW I just read the notes. They're pretty good.

Saw Patti Smith with Philip Glass last night. They did a tribute to Alan Ginsberg but after some poetry accompanied by piano, Lenny Kaye and Jaye Dee Daougherty came out and we had some songs-- including a Valentine's Day sing-along of Because the Night.

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.)