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This business of destroying original stereo or 3 track masters to create mono issues seems to have happened often. There's an RCA George Russel cd where the originally released tracks are in mono but the alternate "bonus" tracks are in stereo. And say what you like about Phil Schaap (and I've said my share of nasty things about him) I'm forever grateful that he found a way to release a stereo version of Miles Ahead.

Wishing a Happy B'day and many, many more for you and your wife!

I've got to get this! I hope you don't want it because of Strayhorn. He he's not on it and had nothing to do with it.

This is really funny!!

If you feel that way you should get this disc just for the cover photos. She's sort of gone the Diana Krall route and she looks great.

'Meditations' was the original title. But "Meditations" is also on this disc. Anyone know the first perrformance or appearance on disc of "Eric"? Also on the Cornell release Dolphy doesn't play on it does he?

What was the original title of So Long Eric?

I've got Mysterious Mountain on a cd that also contains Hovhanesse's Lousadezak played by Kieth Jarrett! (I didn't notice that when I bought it.)

This might be my favorite film ever. I'm very glad to own the Criterion edition. I do wonder what someone who hasn't seen his other films would make of Playtime, especially on a small screen at home. I highly recommend seeing this in a theater first if at all possible. I was lucky enough to see this for the first time at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston projected in 70mm. My memory of seeing it in 70mm was that he used the verticality of the screen more than any filmmaker in history (ie he compsed shots from top to bottom as well as from side to side.)

I was disappointed to to learn that they don't use "The Madison" in the musical version of Hairspray. I loved it in the original and always like to see Jazz musicians getting some royalties.

I found his Diabeli Variations in the classical section of Border's. Didn't know anything about him so was surprised when I got to some stride piano variations. I like it.

Someone posted that The Sonny Rollins site was selling downloads of the bootleg Sonny in London cds. The Monk Zone is offering downloads of grey market European releases including the Classics series offerings. Some of them contains Bluenote material and others have the Mintons/Monroes material that is probably not even Monk.

How did they get the camera on the ground before they got out? Was it on one of the legs of the spacecraft?

There are a bunch of Maian McPartland's Piano Jazz cds that usually have some duets on them. (I've only got the one with Bill Evans and the one with Benny Carter. For obvious reasons the latter doesn't count.)

I was 25 and watching it with Zal Yanofsky. His very yong daughter was there and I remember commenting that this would be common place for her. Shows how smart I am. BTW How many men have walked on the moon?

You're right, of course, but if Mosaic gets around to do the Decca stuff as well, this is really going to rock the house. Musically, the Victor's are on a much higher level, but the Decca's are the birth of R&B. Lionel Hampton's Decca sides certainly did play a part in the birth of R&B, but don't forget Louis Jordan, whose first sides appeared in 1938, and Big Joe Turner, whose first (pre-Atlantic) recordings were also made in the 1930s. There were several others too who contributed to the rise of R&B (Buddy Johnson, Lucky Millinder, etc.) There's a pretty good Decca two disc set with about 45 cuts: includes Mingus Fingus and Flying Home IIRC.

Brownie: Where did you find this? Aren't you in France? This edition of the Independent just came out yesterday. Though my son had been over to Woodard's house the night before and Woodard had told him about the incident. When Stanley Clarke and Chick Corea announced they were Scientologists I used to joke that Kieth Jarett wasn't but he should be.

Wasn't the flips side My Blue Heaven? IIRC it also got a lot of airplay.

I'd recorded the documentary and watched it last night. Noticed that it's directed by Bruce Ricker who also directed Last of the Blue Devils and the Monk documentary Straight No Chaser.

Where he made an Lp with Stan Kenton.

Yeah, I'm so old I bought it new. Liners by Stanley Dance. I wonder if he held the record for the most liner notes written by one critic? They're good liners, but I'd bet the Mosaic will be at least as good, possibly better. It would be cool to reprint them, but that's not Mosaic's style. Nice idea for a set, though. Didn't Teddy Wilson lead a similar series (without Billie Holiday as well as with her) for the Columbia labels during a similar period? I have an old Columbia two-fer with some of those. IIRC there was a twofer Wilson set that was only released in Canada. Great idea for a box or a select (I don't know how many sides he cut). they could leave out the Holidays since probably everyone who would buy such a set would already have them.

In the late '60s the Buffalo ABC station played a movie before the Cavett show so it didn't begin until 1:am. Nevertheless in Toronto (where all the US stations on cable were from Buffalo) we used to stay up late to see it . We forget how difficult it was to see counter-culture things on main-stream media in those days. One night Abbie Hoffman was supposed to be on and we all stayed up to watch it. But whenever he was on camera the screen went blank. In two-shots with Cavett half the screen would be blank. But at about 2am his arm broke in to Cavett's part of the screen and we all realized that he was wearing a flag shirt! Our phone started ringing off the hook with calls from friends who had figured out the same thing. The next day I had a class with Marshall Mcluhan. We had a geat time discussing it. I claimed it was the greatest thing ever shown on tv.

I can't tell whether your claim of enjoyment of poems about "knives twisting in the bellies of Jews" is meant to be ironic or not. And if you'd read all of the posts you'd know that the lyrics aren't by a black composer. AND am I not supposed to be offended by Mein Kampf just because it was written before even I was born? (Actually I've never read Mein Kampf so I don't really know if I'd be offended-- but if it talked about "knives twisting in the bellies of Jews" I would be.) And I don't think that it's any "shame" for Tranemonk as an African-American not to be where you are when it comes to what he percieves as racism.

Why did Berigan post this? What's it got to do with Muslims or France?

Whooooopie! I've been waiting for this one.