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I always liked the way the original release of And His Mother Called Him Bill ended with Ellington alone at the piano playing Lotus Blossom. I could never figure out the reasoning for the order of the cuts on the Phil Specter Back to Mono box set until my wife pointed out that it's programmed for a teen dance party ending with slow-dance songs.

Wow!! Mazel Tov!!!!!

I'd love to get a copy of this. I was in the audience that night.

Just noticed that the entire Duke Ellington Reprise Box is available from the iTunes store ($49.95). Mosaic lists it as oop. I'm not sure this heralds anything for the future because IIRCC Reprise had a hand in this release (ie it was available in stores).

I don't have the DVD right now (my son took it to college with him) so I can't check: Is the echo on he soundtrack of the film or just on the Lp/cd?

Seven Klang's Combo is my favorite jazz film too. Saw it in London. Not sure it's every been available in the States.

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? They just sent a copy of the Heavy Metal Score to our office. It contains a very good and extensive liner notes. I've always loved Elmer's score.

Press passes are pretty easy to obtain. I helped publish a small film magazine in the '60s and we printed very official looking press passes. Since we didn't pay very much we felt obliged to offer them to pretty well any of our writers who wanted one and had the chutzpah to use it. I used mine to get in to the Rock&Roll revival show that turned into Live Peace in Toronto when John Lennon, Yoko Ono and Eric Clapton flew in in from London. I wasn't planning to go to the show till I heard they were on an airplane and planing to perform. I wandered down, flashed my card at the gate and got in just in time to see Alice Cooper. As I remember it, one of the people using our press pass was Jonathan Demme who was our London correspondent. Can't remember if he ever wrote anything or what he was doing for a living a the time but I think he claimed he got into movies free with it.

Wow! I went to a dance performance last night that had music by David Lang. I liked the music but the program didn't disclose which pieces were by him. I do have and like the Bang on a Drum performance of Eno's Music for Airports but obviously that's not by Lang.

I met Heston once at my son's pre-school. He was with his grandson. Introduced himself as Chuck. Fortunately we didn't discuss politics. The first time I ever read the word icon in reference to a person was an article about Heston in the '60s British film magazine "Movie". It was an auterist magazine and I think Pauline Kael once made fun of that reference to Heston back in the days when she was attacking auteurism. (ie Before she decided james Toback was an auteur).

I agree. Prez's solo on the Shoe Shine alternate is pretty incredible but even here I think they chose the right take to release.

Yes The Marquee in Soho. Saw The Yardbirds there too. Thought they were going to be a jazz group.

Wow!! Maybe the Jazz Icon people could put this out with some of the other Al and/or Zoot stuff on this page. BTW Wasn't Ginger Baker a protege of Phil Seamans? Have any of the Jazz 625 shows been released on DVD? I was present for the taping of one at the Marquis Club. Jimmy Witherspoon IIRC. Maybe Mose Allison. I saw them both that summer (1964) and may be confusing which one was being taped. Maybe both?

Happy B'day. May you receive a free "get-out of Hell " pass.

I was in Ottawa working on Pierre Trudeau's campaign to become Prime Minister. Though I didn't hear it till much later, I find King's final speech ("I have been to the mountain..." ) eerie in that it seems to predict his imminent death.

Bozzio is in the film "Twins" playing with Jeff Beck. We let Beck pick his own band and he kept raving about how great Bozzio was.

Chris: How big is your place? Where do you keep all this stuff?

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.