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And the original EKE still loves you madly!! Happy B'day.!

Shouldn't "After solos you like" be a choice? BTW Audiences get pleasure out of applauding. I've been at screenings of jazz films and seen the audience applaud after great solos.

I attended an Archie Shepp concert around the time of Mamma Too Tight and at a lull in one of the large ensemble's free blowing simultaneous improvisation numbers someone yelled out "one more time" as they left in a huff.

A complete tangent -- MG, where did you read/hear this story? I've never heard it mentioned before. It's generally stated that George Avakian signed Miles to Columbia after the latter's performance on "Round Midnight" (and the crowd response) at the 1955 Newport Festival. (Which also fits the timeline.) Guy In conversation with Bob Porter. MG Hmm... was Porter working for Prestige in 1955? Guy No - but I rather think that would have been a story he would have heard from an authoritative source when he did work for Prestige. I'm inclined to credit it. MG Well, without independent verification of Porter's claim (I believe you, not necessarily Porter), I'm somewhat more skeptical. But it's definitely plausible that Columbia became interested in Davis as a result of the 1955 Newport Festival, checked his sales at Prestige, and then signed him. Guy The story of Miles's signing with Columbia is one of the most documented events in Jazz history. Amongst many other places it can be found is in the liner notes to the Miles/Coltrane Columbia box set. BTW I once had an e-mail exchange with Avakian about the event. From listening to the music and announcements it seemed to me that Miles was the leader of the group rather than just a last minute addition. But Avakian assured me that I was wrong and that Miles's participation had not been announced in the program.

I feel the same way about the Trane photo used on Blue Trane. By the time I first saw it they were out of print. I found a poster with the uncropped picture on e-Bay, then bought a different shot from Mosaic that looked like it had been taken a few seconds later from a different angle.

I think I avoided all jazz recorded in the '70s ( except a couple of Gil Evans records). I had bought contemporary jazz in the '60s but by the '70s I as buying older jazz and contemporary rock.

I've been using it since I discovered it had spell check! (But that's the only advantage I've found with it. I find Safari faster and more stable. )

Definitely hard task to recognize. On some variations of "Topsy" it sounds like Monk, while on another occasion I believe it is Kersey. Kersey was hell of a pianist, anyway. Not standard bop by any means. You're right. The point I was trying to make is that Monk seemed to be able to play pretty well in a conventional manner back then. It's like when people claim that Picasso paints like a 14 year old they should see what he did paint when he was 14.

Funny you're choosing 26 as a milestone. I always joke that I didn't mind turning, 30, 40, 50 or 60 because I was over the hill at 26. I mean after that no-one every says "Isn't it amazing he's doing whatever and he's so young!". At at 23 I was teaching at a university , editing a magazine and doing commentary on radio and television. I think I had my mid-life crisis at 26. I read a Rolling Stone interview with Janis Joplin and she said that she was 26 and realised that this was real life. I thought, holy shit she's right! In every other way I've been chronologically retarded: Got into the film business at 37, married at 38, first child at 43 and probably not retiring until I'm 70 or dead (whichever comes first.) I do think back at my years in graduate school with great fondness. "There was music in the cafes at night/ And revolution in the air." Anyway, I like to think the best is yet to come.

I was about to place an order with Amazon and wanted to do it through the forum but can't find the link. Has it moved? Disappeared? Or am I as usual just missing something in front of me?

Isn't Monk's playing on his earliest recordings at Minton's pretty standard early bebop? So much so that there's some controversy as to whether it's Monk or Kenny Kersey on some numbers. (In fact are any of those recordings definitively Monk? If not, I guess it sort of invalidates my point. .

Trying to remember how to say Happy Birthday in Hebrew. By the time it comes to me it probably won't be your birthday anymore. Sooooo........ HAPPY B'DAY!

Nothing wrong with esoteric taste but I'd rather hear a better reason as to why I should listen to Mudhoney than just someone claiming that they (he? she?) are superior to Roy Orbison and that if you don't agree you're aesthetically (and maybe morally) inferior. Clem seems to think he's the only person on the board who ever read a book or heard a rare record. It's an attitude most people grow out of by the time they're 19. (And about that time the frisson of talking dirty usually wears off too.)

Why do you presume people don't know who Emmet Grogan was? And if you're old enough to remember him you should stop acting sophomoric.

Anyone hear these? How are they?

So how good are these both sonicly (sp?) and more important, musically?

Good advice from Eric. Don't be shy. Tell everyone you know that you're looking for a job and just ask them to keep their eyes open for you. Tell them what kind of jobs you've had, what you're looking for and what your skills & knowledge are. Good luck. I'm sure we're all rooting for you.

We got a couple this week. Trying to get more for the rest of the office. I'm still learning to use mine but already find it better than my old Blacberry.

I finally finished Pynchon's Against the Day. Thought it was definitly worth the effort but made everything else seem easy and short, so since then I've burned through Ondaatje's Divisadero, Roth's Everyman, Tom Perry's Nightlife and am half way through Chaibon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union.

I heard Strozier and Mabern in the early sixties and they knocked me out. For years I gave their performance as an example of how a little known jazz group could have an amazing night. From what I heard from other jazz fans these guys had amazing nights all the time. I wished they'd recorded with Miles during the brief time they were with him.

No, but my wife is. I'm never going to hear the end of this.

I just got e-mails from CD Universe announcing Clifford Brown at The Cotton Club 1956 & Chet Baker in Koln with Dick Twardzik. Since they're both on Lonehill I have to ask: Have these been available before on another label?

Nothing wrong with the ending of Gun Crazy! Agreed!!! However, there is that strange scene where he asks Peggy Cummins why she has to kill people, "...Why can't you let them live?" Several commentaters have maintained that this odd, flat, frankly nonsensical little scene must have been imposed by the studio ex post facto, and I'm inclined to agree. I'll have to watch the film again. Kind of off-topic, but I just found out that the 1957 film Night of the Demon, directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Dana Andrews, also stars Peggy Cummins. I've been on the fence, but now I'm definitely going to get it. I should have taped it when TCM showed it. Oh well. BTW, as you probably already know, the studio forced Tourneur to actually SHOW the demon, which inevitably compromises the film somewhat. Night Of The Demon is a MUST HAVE. There are only a couple of shots of the "studio imposed demon"...it really doesn't have an adverse effect on the film as a whole. It's so much fun to watch Andrews be a skeptic of all things supernatural...while everyone around him (and the audience) knows different. I have a vague meomory of there being another title for Night of the Demon in Europe. Accordig to IMDB the only other title is Curse of the Demon but I vaguely remember something else. Is this just another of my acid flasbacks?

So I ordered them and they've already arrived. That's service!!

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned Gun Crazy or the other great Joseph H. Lewis film, the Big combo. And no Sam Fuller fans here? How about Pick Up on South Street or the Crimson Kimono?