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I'm impressed. It came with a notes saying that their records showed I had bought The Hampton set, and Disc V had Fiddle Diddle where it should have had Fiddle Dee Dee. They apologized and said there was no need to return the defective disc. Now that's customer service.

68 was a very good year for rock and R&B.

I didn't pre-order but as soon as I read here that it as available did so. It arrived yesterday, so there's something wrong if someone who did pre-order hasn't gotten theirs yet. And I'm a long way from the East Coast.

He's a tough, but good cop in Madigan and IIRC he's an unambiguously good guy in Warlock and Two Rode Together.

I loved Widmark. He was in a lot of good movies that were just seen as programmers when originally released: Madigan, Warlock, Two Rode Together..... etc. but that have stood the test of time (can't think of anything that's not a cliche).

Hey don't laugh: Didn't Kid Ory end up at Disneyland? (Maybe I'm wrong-- Chilton doesn't mention it.) I went there once to see Count Basie.

alocispepraluger102: Is the subject line accurate re: you personally?

Be sure to try some poutine. It may be like mainlining cholesterol, but it sure tastes good and goes great with beer.

Well then the costume designer and art director of "I'm Not There" owe him a big shout out: the whole look of the Richard Gere section is based on the cover of The Basemen Tapes (and the names of most of the characters are from songs on the record).

I was the first person to vote so for a while it was 100% for Montreal (only 1 vote). I love Toronto but I've always presumed that Montreal was better for tourists. Toronto has better Chinese food but Montreal has Schwartz's for smoked meat.

Well I did see Manglesdorf, Roscoe Mitchell and Cecil Taylor (a couple of times, once right after being at a Steve Reich concert: making for a great weekend of music), but I guess I think of them as being from the 60s.) But I never did get into fusion. Saw the Mahvishnu Orchestra open for Zappa but didn't much care for them. I do like William Breuker but only have a couple of cds. (And I would definitely describe them as "fun".) I forgot that Conference of the Birds is from the 70s. I probably did hear CTI records on the radio but never really cared for any of them. During the 60s I managed to see Ellington, Miles, Trane, Art Farmer, Woody Herman, Frank Strozier, Earl Hines, Cannonball, Dizzy, Jackie McLean, Sun Ra, Art Blakey, Monk, Oscar Peterson, Brubeck, MJQ, Sonny Rollins, WEs Montgomery, Roland Kirk-- the list goes on. I don't think I heard many people in the 70s who excited me the same way. To some extent I think it has to do with age: The golden age of any art is always when you're young. Hence most film crtics think the 70s were the golden age of cinema whereas I know it was the 60s. (Can't find the proper emoticon to insert here.)

Nothing. Nothing at all. People started dieing and using electric instruments and messing around outside the lines, shit like that. It was a mess. You were right to ignore it all. Sorry: this was a serious question. I'm looking over my collection and don't see much from the 70s. I wasn't disagreeing with anyone but admitting to a lack of knowledge. Thought someone would make some recommendations. The trouble with the internet is that people can presume you're being sarcastic when you're sincere. There should be an emoticon that signifies "100% no irony". During the 70s I did see a couple of great Mingus shows with Don Pullen and George Adams and a couple of Anthony Braxton performances (including a great solo concert) but I tend to think of them as hold overs from the 60s. Ditto with Frank Zappa who I saw several times during the decade. In fact I think I heard a lot more live rock than jazz at that time though I still bought mainly jazz records. I think most of the jazz musicians I did see live tended to be older musicians. I never did see Sonny Rollins in that period though I caught him a couple of time in the 60s and 80s. So what did come to the fore in the 70s that I should check out?

Anyone want to elaborate about the "fun" of 70s jazz? I stopped buying many contemporary records after Trane died and Miles went electric. Most of my purchases in the 70s were of records made before I was born (exceptions being new works by Mingus, Gil Evans and of course Ellington). So I'm curious as to what I missed out on.

I saw Loyd with Motian and Jarrett. Can't remember exactly when but it was at Convocation Hall at the University of Toronto. At one point Jarrett played soprano sax and Motian began beating on the floor with his sticks. Great concert. After a couple of decades I wasn't sure I remembered it correctly and that it must have been DeJohnett on drums. But I ran into Loyd here in Santa Barbara and he reassured me that he had indeed toured with Motian.

Those are all on the iTunes store (except the Desmond I think).

This morning the iTunes store offered a bunch of records from Universal labled as "originals". I think some of them have been o.o.p. They include Bill Evans Plays the VIPs... (I couldn't resist downloading The Man with the Golden Arm... ) and Pops' "New Orleans Nights" from Decca. Anyone know if these are available as cds?

I saw them around the time of Holland. Brian wasn't with them but they had a huge band including Ricky Fatar (sp?) and The Captain. It was at Massey Hall (yes, that Massey Hall)on a t summer night so hot they opened all the doors and the audience acted like they were at an outdoor concert. The show was terrific, though Mike Love seemed like an asshole. The crowd was so wound up that a friend of mine described the vibe as "sing Good Vibrations or we'll kill you".

I interviewed Willie the Lion many years ago when he was in Toronto to do a tv show playing duets with Don Ewell. I really didn't know much about him at the time but he told me about speaking Yiddish and being the Lion of Judah. It was done at a press party at which he held court and charmed everybody. Years later Billy Crystal regaled me with stories about Willie the Lion. BTW Crystal's production company is called Face Productions because The Lion nicknamed him Face.

Belated Happy B'day Berrigan. Thought of you when I saw the tornadoes on tv. Hope you're ok.

Didn't the original release(s) have a lot echo added to those 10 tracks?

I know what you mean--we're about to switch to archiving WFIU shows (including Night Lights) in MP3 format. Re: EYE, yeah, I got that same e-mail from FSM. How's that Bernstein score for HEAVY METAL? Huh!? To What are you referring? I was involved in that film and have a copy of the vinyl release of Elmer's score somewhere (hope I can find it). Have they released a cd of it?

Wasn't he Harry Belafonte's music director or something like that at the height of the singer's recoding career?

Huh!?? As long as your DVD is playing through your computer Wire Tap will capture the sound.

I agree about that session but I'm surprised by how much I like most of the cuts from their earlier sessions even the ones without Basie.

Wire Tap works on a Mac.