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Funny I just finished an obscure Highsmith called "Found on the Street" and recently read a short story by Flynn that reminded me of her (Highsmith). I've never seen a quote from Flynn about her before but I've joked that I wouldn't want to live next door to either of them.

I saw Lalo (and James Moody) with Dizzy's quintet. Yes I am that old.

I'd love to see a streaming service for jazz similar to the Criterion Channel-- i.e. featuring rarer things not available on Spotify et al and giving the equivalent of liner notes. I'd be willing to pay way more for that especially if I thought the artists were getting a fairer share.

It's not a complete score but "Stella by Starlight" is certainly better known than "The Uninvited" the film where it's a theme in the score. And "Unchained Melody" is way better known than the film "Unchained". (OTOH The film "Laura" is almost as famous as the song of the same title derived from its score. There's an oft told story that's so good I doubt its veracity: Otto Preminger had wanted to use Ellington's "Sophisticated Lady" because David Raksin couldn't come up with a theme. Then one night Raksin came home to find his wife had left him. He sat at the piano and wrote "Laura". ")

I have met him. I taught at the same university but met him at a Duke Ellington conference. He's aware that there are some errors in his Miles biography but the publishers of the 2nd (1 volume) edition wouldn't allow him to make changes in the body of the book. However they did allow a new preface in which he points out how much Miles lifted from it for his "autobiography". He also makes the claim (which I don't think I agree with) that in his last years Miles put more artistic effort into his paintings than his music.

I was just going to comment on that track which I also heard in that episode about an hour ago. I admit I wouldn't have known it was KD if they hadn't said so in the dialogue.

Thanks.

When was Sonny's Crib released? (I keep complaining that discographies should try to give release dates.). I have a discography of Trane done for Coda shortly after his death and it's not listed.

Reading the Oppenheimer too. Fascinating and makes me even more impressed with the film.

Yes and heavily discounted. Some are from 35mm prints! (They were shot in 35 but distributed in 16mm, so most surviving copies are in that format. BTW though I think the visuals are in the public domain I don't know about the publishing rights of the music. )

I think we have now recommended all of the Serge Chaloff cds ever issued except one so I'll recommend it: "Serge Chaloff Memorial: We the People Bop". It even has a couple of sessions not on the Mosaic "Complete Serge Chaloff Sessions" because they're ones on which he wasn't leader.

Did the same group also do a music minus one Lp or is this what I'm remembering?

Joy Road is a discography. with some very few biographical notes and interviews.

Thanks.

Thanks. I didn't know that. IMAX is 65 mm (70 mm when you add a soundtrack) run sideways. (BTW VistaVision was 35mm film run sideways.) I used to have a frame of an IMAX film to hand around to my students. It was the size of a small post card.

Something to Live For and I Let a Song... were the only 2 tracks on a bonus cd that came with the Ellington album so I can understand missing them. My box set is called "40 Years" and only has 87 tracks but 3 of them are from the Fantasy Bill Evans record.

The box set I have is far from complete. Mainly Columbia material but does have some Bill Evans material. The box set I have is far from complete. Mainly Columbia material but does have some Bill Evans material.

I'm old enough to remember when his version of Cold, Cold Heart was on the hit parade and that sort of turned me off him. And I got tired of I Left My Heart very fast. Then I didn't like it when he curled his hair. But after I heard him sing Lost in the Stars with the Count Basie band I realized how shallow I'd been. Saw him at Disney Hall shortly after it opened. A great concert. Heard an interview with him aimed at a general audience where he mainly talked about jazz bands and jazz musicians. He was very knowledgeable. Columbia did a nice box set which included some of his work with Bill Evans.

Sometimes Mosaic can supply a booklet for out of print sets.

Unless they've recently changed the process you ask for a return, they send you a reply and you can then take it to any UPS store or Whole Foods with no packaging and drop it off. (Of course UPS may soon be on strike.)

What's a "stamp on the back"?

IIRC his first appearance on record is as a piano player with Zoot Sims/Al Cohen. Just remembered that as well as seeing him at Ronnie Scott's in 1964 I saw him open for Van Morrison. (Been dipping into Jann Wenner's rather self-contgratulatory autobiography and I think the only thing that impressed me was that he and his prep school friends skipped their graduation to see Mose at the Troubadour in 1963.)

They seem to have left out sessions from The Okeh Ellington that were made under names other than The Washingtonians or Duke Ellington. (Though one listed as by the The Harlem Footwarmers is included and another one not so there goes that theory.)

Are you trying to drive people away?

Lumet was 82 when he made this movie! Feels like an independent film buy a young rebel.