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I admit I went on a bit torrent spree a couple of years ago and added greatly to my collection of unreleased Gil Evans concerts. (Gil with Jaco, with Roland Kirk and a great concert withe Lee Konitz & the RAI Orchestra.) Can't claim I stopped for ethical reasons: the site I was using disappeared-- probably for legal reasons, though I don't recall there being any copyrighted material on it.

I just noticed that my posts are being spellchecked even though I'm using Safari as my browser. How Long has this been going on? (Until now I've had to use Firefox if I wanted Spellcheck.)

I didn't much care for the score either. One of the many films I watched for Academy Awards consideration kept using a riff that reminded me of "Birdland" but I can't remember which one. Don't think it was "Blood". BTW I really liked the score for "The Assassination of Jesse James". Liked the movie too.

I don't think you need them to get into Canada-- however you need them to get back into the USA. (Actually I think I read that Canada did say you need them once the US law was passed. Otherwise all those Americans who came without a passport would be stranded in Canada.)

Just listening to Abbey Lincoln sing "Porgy" by Fields & McHugh. Anyone know its provenance? Obviously it's not from Gershwin's opera but is it based on the source material? Or was Porgy a common name? (BTW It's published by "Cotton Club Publishing" so I guess it was written when they were doing the songs for the Cotton Club reviews.)

I've always loved the Nicholas Brothers but the "3 Whippets" who open the show are no slouches either. BTW Anyone recognize the tune to which the Nicholas Brothers are dancing? http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1eolw_ad...-brothers_music

I watched the original on TCM right after seeing the new version. Original is 1/2 hour shorter and the ending makes more sense.

Saw the Roy Haynes Quartet in a small (600 seat ) theater last week. Great performance. I'd read somewhere that his recent gigs have been heavy on drum solos but that was not the case. If he hadn't been making the announcements you wouldn't have known he was the leader. And if you didn't already know, you'd never have guessed he was more than twice as old as anyone else in the group. On the way out I bought the Dreyfus box-set "A Life in Time: The Roy Haynes Story". It's a great compilation. They seem to have made deals with several labels to get the historical recordings with Prez, Bud, Bird, Monk and Coltrane. I hadn't bought it before because I already have much of that material but in my elation from the concert I wanted more Roy Haynes. Glad I did. I'm really liking the more recent cuts under Roy's name that I hadn't heard before.

Powell & Pressburger made an interesting film of Tales of Hoffmann as sort of a followup to The Red Shoes. It's available on a Criterion DVD.

I went to the Big O site to buy this but found it difficult to do there. (This my be my fault, I'm a little distracted right now.) So I bought it form the iTunes store and got instant gratification. BTW as an independent label can't you guys as to be a DRM-free download?

Not home so can't check but my memory is that Bass Line is an autobiography as well as a great photo book. Over Time is mainly photos. Don't know the third book.

The new issue of Coda magazine arrived in the mail the other day and it's got their year end "best of" lists and I see that Nate Dorward and Ken Dryden are contributors. There may be other members of this board who have lists in the issue but I haven't looked at it very carefully yet. Looks like a good issue with a long piece on Dodo Marmarosa.

I'm off the board for a couple of days and I miss the party!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

I eventually was able to find a copy of the Verve Sweet Rain. Can't remember where now. Great record.

Happy B'day!!! And many more!!

Huh!!?? How come?

Nice piece here about Dorn by his son. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.p...toryId=17703687

Chuck they are not talking about downloading things for free, they're telling you that you are not allowed to do what you want with the Cd that you have bought. If i paid 25 $ for a freakin' cd, i sure should be allowed allow to do whatever the hell i want with it. If they don't want us to own music they just have to stop selling it. Somewhere else on the web (sorry I cana't remember where) I read that-- as is often the case-- this story from the mainstream media is inaccurate. The person is being sued for file sharing after she ripped the cds not for the ripping itself.

OK so which earlier ones did it?

Can't add much except to wish you good luck and to agree that a move to Oregon sounds like a good move.

Is this the first Mosaic set to place the alternate takes at the end of discs?

Happy B'day and many more!!!

Ellington's childhood piano teacher was, indeed, Mrs. Marietta Clinkscales. See "The Duke Ellington Reader," p. 6. The line about "don't sit down at the piano after..." is just Ellington recycling an old joke, a la the one about the New York concert debut of some new piano virtuoso, say the young Horowitz. Rachmaninoff and Fritz Kreisler are seated in the front row, and after Horowitz rattles off a piece or two, Rachmaninoff says, "Is it getting hot in here?" To which Kreisler replies, "Not for violinists." Accoding to Steve Voce it's something Duke often said when he was following on stage a piano player he admired. Voce mentions Nat Pierce as an example but I'd like to imagine Ellington saying it about Willie the Lion or James P Johnson -- of course in those cases it could be a true story.

Anyone know where one can find a copy of "Young Bird Vol 5"?

Ditto, except that the news is better than good! Ditto redux