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IIRC it's set when it was made (1978) which means it's now a period piece.

Does anyone remember that Europe was a character (played by Earnie Whitman) in the film Stormy Weather?

I was wary too, (it's set in England!) but it's quite interesting because follows the plot of the book much more closely than the Hawks/Bogart version.

I'll look for you. There. Will PM you.

https://www.maison-du-duke.com/meeting-2023/meeting-international/ Anyone else here attending. I am (god willing and the creek don't rise-- an actual concern here the last few months).

I'm most incentivized to listen to new (to me) recordings by comments on this forum.

Thanks.

You mean if more than 15 minutes were recorded they went into overtime? Or did they only count what was considered a usable take?

Unless you only mean records with other leaders but with Condon I'd recommend almost any Pee Wee Russell record maybe starting with Portrait of Pee Wee.

Bigger audience. That's why it can sustain so many labels.

I second that emotion. It's Basie with Prez. And the rest of the set is awfully good too.

I bought the Mingus Candid set shortly after it cam out. When was that? Since I bought a cd set I was t least 40 at the time. I'm 80 now and I've bought most of the sets they've produced for the last 10 years.

The Goodman estate is holding up releases which feature Charlie Christian and Lester Young. In the case of Prez, there are jam session in which Goodman wasn't even the leader. (I'm referring to broadcasts in the Savory collection. )

https://www.gocomics.com/jumpstart/2023/03/29

Ditto. There's also a couple of "Hit of the Week" recordings from that period.

[url=https://postimages.org/][img]https://i.postimg.cc/HcLDyLTS/Screen-Shot-2023-03-27-at-4-39-09-PM.png[/img][/url] What am I doing wrong that this image isn't showing? Using " Thumbnail for forums" on Post Image. (It should be the cover of the new issue of Bird in Sweden.)

Done.

Good music too. The Ellington boxes they did have added tracks. (Though IIRC Such Sweet Thunder still has the wrong take for Up and Down. )

I'm reading the Sonny Rollins biography and remembered seeing him at Hart House at the University of Toronto shortly after I arrived there in June 1965. He'd just returned from a tour in Europe and I remember him quoting "Home Sweet Home". Not sure exactly when it was but Bill Smith wrote a review in Coda and IIRC he did not like the drummer who I think was Ed Thigpen. I'm hoping there's a way to find the review on-line. (BTW I thought the concert was terrific. )

And without making your ears bleed. I heard the Herman band with Jake Hanna on drums in a club in Montreal and it was as you describe. I once danced right in front of the stage to a local band called Manteca at the El Mo in Toronto and thought they might blow me off the floor but without hurting my ears. Whereas for some reason when rock bands are too loud I need ear plugs but they still don't give me that lift.

Wolfgang's Vault has the 1975 Newport Avery Fischer Hall performance. I think it is the last recorded Monk. (He did appear the next year but I've never seen a recording of it.). Despite Monk's condition at the time, I think this is a pretty good concert. Certainly of historical interest. https://www.wolfgangs.com/music/thelonious-monk-quartet/audio/20020457-51182.html?tid=4855879

The Plosin site also says re: the first 3 cuts : " The identity of this group -- and the presence of Parker -- has been disputed, e.g. by Phil Schaap." I'm curious whether board members think it is Bird.

Listening to Billy on Spotify and see that most songs have 20,000 or so plays except for something called "Christmas Eve" which has 8 million plays and is truly awful.

Not sure from this article if they've bought more than the publishing rights for his compositions. Maybe the rights to future releases of the concerts he recorded or even his royalties from other recordings.

The booklet discusses Granz's late adaptation of stereo. Bones Howe, who engineered many of the Granz studio sessions, told me that he was so pissed at Granz's recalcitrance that he personally paid to make stereo tapes at some sessions. I asked if he still had them, but he said he'd later sold them all to Granz.