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I use Wire Tap which captures whatever sounds are played through your computer, then just drop the results into iTunes. Worked great on the Van Morrison in Montreux Dvd. Because each song got its on chapter I did them one at a time and even got separate cuts for the cd. 1980 concert is wonderful btw.

In his book on Miles entitled "The Man in the Green Shirt", Richard Williams suggests that working on this score led Miles to see that he could work without standard chord changes or chorus structures thus leading to his modal compositions and Kind of Blue.

Don't know if the Mosaic has all the tracks, nor I have it, but my Columbia Jazz Masterpiece cds sound pretty awful, for sure the recent Mosaic remastering is light years' better. Yes it has all the tracks. (Vol 1 begins with a couple of Rex Stewart tunes that aren't on the Mosaic.)

Maybe because it's the first version I ever heard I've always been partial to the one by The Pee Wee Russell Quartet. I also like the cut titled Moten Swing on the RTE cd of a Gerry Mulligan Concert jazz Band performance. Unfortunately the song they're playng is actually "Broadway".

I grew up in a small town where I could get up at 8, shower, have a quick breakfast, and still be at school by 9. So I thought 8 was the norm. When I was studying and teaching at university I tried not to have any classes before 11 so I got up even later. When I moved to LA I discovered I had to get up by 7 just to get to work on time. (When I'm on a film it's more like 5:45 or earlier.) So now I usually wake up between 6:30 and 7 and get out of bed at 7 or a bit later, but that still seems early to me. I think our concept of norms is set when we're young. My kids had to be at school by 8 and sometimes earlier, though supposedly teenagers' natural rhythm is to get up later.

I love these shows. I don't think Dylan writes them though he's a good DJ. BTW they often use relevant but unidentified jazz as background music when he talking. E.g. When Classic Rock was the theme a lot of the songs were about rocks and stones and at one point they played Strayhorn's Rock Skippin' at the Blue Note.

1968 is a funny year to have chosen. Most people who only like his early stuff would have said '66. I think al he did between 66 and 68 was John Wesley Harding and the basement tapes. And surely you find some merit in Blood on the Tracks.

Try this one. Mine is on Fresh Sounds: I'll look for it. The one time I saw Pepper was at Donte's, but that was in the '80s when he was playing with George Cables. Really happy I got to see him perform.

There's a concert performance by Jack Teagarden where he introduces the song and says that he and Glenn Miller wrote the intro. Anyone know if this is true?

To get back on topic: What cds are most typical of the Trane influenced Pepper? I've seen it most on his Jazz Casual appearance but there aren't many cds from that era except with the Buddy rich band. The Trip, perhaps?

I think it's because Miles had already recorded a different tune called "Milestones". But I think (I'm not sure) that on the original Lp release it was called "milestones".

Happy B'Day and many more!!!

OK then one (I hope) final question) if I get a new receiver which is better: PCM or bitstream? And thanks again.

Gene DiNovi! Is there anyone else who can say they played with Benny Carter, Lester Young and Frank Zappa?

Wow! Thanks so much. This is very helpful. I think my receiver is only 2 or 3 years old (I got it so I could try out SACD. It has a label saying it's got DTS, Dolby Digital Ex and Prologic II. I don't even know what the latter 2 are, but I guess they're now obsolete.) I'll probably go looking for a new receiver today. Some more questions: Do you prefer DTS to Dolby when you have the choice? And is bitstream preferable to PCM? Do Blue Ray discs only have Dolby Digital Plus? That seems to be the case with Blade Runner Final Cut which doesn't to offer any sound choices except language. The other disc i got from Netflix was Deju Vu. It offered a choice of of Dolby Digital 5.1 and 5.1 uncompressed.. What the Hell is Dolby Digital 5.1 uncompressed? When I chose "uncompressed it could not be decoded in 5.1. Finally, I don't have room for more speakers. I presume the player can translate everything to 5.1 from 7.1 or whatever. BTW The manual claims the the BD30A player I bought does handle DTS-HD. Is DTS-HD Master Audio something different? OOOPs After I wrote what's above but before sending it I tried one more thing: the player offers something called BD-Video Secondary audio which cam be on or off. I'd left it off because it suggested the audio wasn't as good with it on. Now I realize that it's converting the BD-Video audio to Dolby 5.1 it seems to work on Deja-vu but not on Blade Runner. Could Blade Runner be in some sound format that can't be converted?

If I may reiterate (this thread seems to have started last year) HAPPY BIRTHDAY GARTH!

Heron is included on that show in the box set of Season 1. A friend of mine cleared the music rights for the box. He told me that he had to get permission from Heron who was in prison at the time.

I made the mistake of missing the concert he gave at the Lobero at which they recorded Sangam because I'd seen him there just the year before and liked it but didn't love it. Bought a copy of the Sangam cd when he was autographing them at the Borders which is next to the Lobero. I did love it and kicked myself for missing the concert.

I just got a Blue Ray Player (Panasonic) and ordered a couple of Blue Ray Discs from Netflix. Connected the player to my 1080p tv set with an HDMI cable and to my 5.1 receiver with an optical cable. The picture is wonderful and even my non-Blue Ray DVDs look better than ever. However when the audio output from the player is set to PCM my receiver doesn't decode Dolby Digital but only stereo. When the audio output from the player is set to Bitstream my receiver does decode Dolby Digital but the sound keeps dropping out-- always at the same places on the DVDs which I have cleaned. I did a test with a brand new completely clean stardard DVD and it seemed to play fine in Dolby Digital. To confuse matters even more the trailers on the head of one of the Blue Ray DVDs played just find. (I was shocked that they included trailers.) When I set the receiver manually to "normal surround" I do get pro-logic surround sound ok, and the crappy sound on my tv set has no drop-outs in any format or setting (though I then get no sub-woofer or surround sound.) I phoned the Panasonic service center and much to my surprise got someone on the phone even though it's Saturday. He said the problem was that the HDMI cable was the only way to get Dolby Digital but even if my receiver had an HDMI input (which it doesn't) if I used the one HDMI output from the player I couldn't get a 1080p picture on my tv. I asked if there were any receivers with both an HDMI input and output and he answered not that he knew of and he was sure that there were none that offered 1080p output. I want a 1080p picture and 5.1 sound! Is this really impossible to get? BTW My cds do sound great on the Blue Ray player. Can't claim I've actually A&B'd any.

With regard to Duke Ellington, there are a couple more recordings in the pipeline - the 1946 Carnegie Hall concert (also on Prestige, and similarly capable of much improvement in sound quality), and a 'rarities' issue which should contain the following: Fargo, North Dakota, November 7 1940 11 tracks Hollywood, January 15, 1941 Take The 'A' Train - original unissued recording Hollywood, 17 September 1941: Chelsea Bridge - unissued take with Blanton on bass "C" Jam Blues - unissued full-band version Chicago, November 10 1946: Improvisation on Tiger Rag Blues Improvisation No. 2 (Reinhardt) Honeysuckle Rose These four featuring Django Reinhardt on guitar. I'm not yet sure which will come first - work on both is underway, but at one release a week and a lot of classical and blues fans to keep happy too it may be a little while yet... Are A-Train and Chelsea Bridge different takes from the released Standard Transcriptions? If there is a C-Jam Blues from 9/17/41 it is a real find and not listed in DESOR.

I saw what I think may have been Ella Fitzgerald's last concert. It was at the Hollywood Bowl and I had a box very near the front. I went because Benny Carter had put together a large band for the occasion. As I remember it, the band played an opening set then, Ella sang one song with the band before brining on on her trio. But Benny joined the trio for a lovely unfamiliar ballad and took a great solo. A friend of mine in the band said that not only had they not rehearsed, but Benny had never heard the song before. He was in his 80s by then and nothing could throw him.

When Miles Davis went electric didn't he keeping asking his drummers to sound more like Buddy Miles?

My wife has been forwarding this to everyone she knows.

In April 1964 I saw Duke Ellington at a club in Montreal. I went didspite having an exam the next night. (I'd learned my lesson the year before when I'd stayed home to study rather than see Bill Evans at a small hall in (I think) one of his first concerts after the death of Scott Lafaro. My roommate went and still says it was one of the greatest concerts he's ever seen. ) I had good seats at the club because I was writing a jazz column for The McGill Daily. The band gradually made their way onstage and played a couple of numbers in a desultory fashion but came alive when Duke arrived at the piano and hit the first chords of A-Train. They began their usual program of historical hits but the audience became very vocal calling out Happy Birthday (It was a few days before EKE's actual birthday) and making requests for a lot of non-Ellington big band hits. The audience seemed very old to me (they were probably all younger than I am now) and at first I thought they were being very un-hip. Of course they did know the date of Duke's birthday and for all I know they all had copies of Ellington's Lp "Will the Big Bands Ever Come Back?" But Ellington was a in a great mood and his response was extraordinary. He'd play a few bars of one of the requested songs the rhythm section would join him for rest of the chorus then Hodges, Gonzales or Cootie Williams would join in while sections of the band tentatively tried out some background riffs. By the 3rd chorus the whole band would join in and Duke would call on different members for solos. It became a jam session/ party with the world's greatest jazz band! Other great concerts: Elvis Costello in a small Edinburgh club in 1976, Bruce Springsteen at Maple Leaf Gardens that same year, Horowitz at Carnegie Hall and Rostropovich at Massey Hall. One of the nice things about jazz is that players not in the Pantheon can blow you away. I remember seeing Frank Strozier and Harold Maburn at a club in Montreal before I'd ever really heard of them and just loving it.

Same here. First time particularly memorable, in Toronto. It seemed to go on for an eternity - but was brilliant. Middle bit had Ra on solo piano playing Fletchers Henderson. There were also quite a few Disney numbers with vocals, which caused a lot of audience mirth. The whole orchestra put 300% in. The second occasion was about 6 months later in Boston - not quite so good. At what venue did you see them in Toronto? I saw them at The Horseshoe Tavern once.