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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.

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.