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Allen: I see you've posted in the last couple of days so I thought I'd up this.

Ira Nepus on trombone and Steve Moore on guitar accompanied by (amongst others) Jeff Hamilton and the Clayton brothers. Ira was a close friend of Benny and this mellow but swinging cd is a fitting tribute. 13 songs by Carter many of which are not that well known-- though it does contain favorites like When Lights are Low and I'm in the Mood for Swing. It's on Jazzed Media and I don't know how easy it is to find but there's a JazzedMedia.com website from which it can be ordered. (I see there's a few Phil Woods cds available there too as well as a Bill Holman Big Band.)

All these and an expanded "Ellington Indigoes." I'd add the Mosaic Ellington big band set of the stuff owned by Sony but that seems to be on the horizon. (Though the horizon for cd releases often reflects the real horizon: you can never reach it. )

I've finished listening to all 36 cds in these excellent box sets. Allan Lowe (and anyone else), you up for discussing/answering questions about the project?

I had a gareat time in Austin though I never did hear any live music. But I did have 2 nice jazz experiences: 1) Walknig through the Hilton lobby I realised that the Muzak being played was Mingus performing Fables of Faubus! Then I noticed that the Muzak alwasy seemed to be jazz of some sort though often so muted I couldn't make it out. 2) Saw the restored Imagine the Sound now in stereo (the DVD will be 5.1 surround). The performances by Cecil Taylor, Bill Dixon, Paul Bley and Archie Shepp are even better than I remembered. Interesting response from the audience: several people said they'd never heard music like that before and really liked it, or that they'd never paid much attention to jazz but this turned them on to it.

I have 2 Ellingtons from Dreyfus. The sound is great.

There's also a DVD of the Liberation Jazz Orchestra in Monreal. I don't have it near me but I presume it's from the same year.

I'm going there for a film festival tomorrow. I know there's amusic scene but any jazz? Any recomendations for clubs or record stores I should visit?

I just picked up a cd on Savoy called "Confessin': the Astounding Coleman Hawkins". It consists of 3 cuts from the "Big Sax Section" sessions and ten cuts from the 1954 organ quartet session.

Percy Heath?

Happy B'day. Hope to see you on the West Coast tour.

Happy B'day and many more. What new show?

Thanks guys. I saw Budd Johnson in the mid sixties when he was with Earl Hines and by then he was a bit more conservative. (Though still pretty great. )

I'm into the 4th volume of Allen Lowe's terrific history of Jazz cd/book collection and though I haven't' heard all of the cds yet I have read all the books and have a discographical question. Allen (if you read this) or anyone else: in the last volume there's a mention of the "one surviving performance" of Dizzy's 1944 band but there's no corresponding cut on the cds. There is a very bad sounding recording of "Night in Tunisia" in Volume Three but it's listed as being from 1943. The Gillespie discography I have doesn't list any performance of "Night" before 1945 and no recordings of any Dizzy led band in 1944. The discography is more than 20 years old (yes Chuck I did buy it). Is this a more recent discovery? Should I presume that it's really from the 1944 band and is that really Budd Johnson?

Has the song continued while there was no sound or does it pick up where it left off? If the latter you probably need a new battery.

That tune almost certainly was "All Across The City," later recorded by Hall with Bill Evans I believe and probably elsewhere. "Two Jims and a Zoot" (A&R man Teddy Charles) is good one -- top-notch Raney and some fine work from the young Steve Swallow. Pretty sure that was it. Thanks.

Hey, thanks everybody. It was great to wake up Saturday morning and read all those best wishes. I'd been celebrating the night before by going to Jim Hall-Dave Holland concert -- less than 48 hours after seeing a production of the Weill/Brecht opera "Mahogonny" which was the night after seeing The Spanish Harlem Orchestra. A good musical week.

Saw Jim Hall and Dave Holland last night and they played a lovely tune that Hall said he'd written for a Jimmy Raney record featuring Zoot Sims and Osie Johnson. Would that be "Two Jims and a Zoot"?

Are they both from The Grand Canyon Suite?

"Imagine the Sound" a DVD featuring interveiws and performances by Dixon (as well as Paul Bley, Archie Shepp and Cecil Taylor) will be available this year-- in stereo for the first time.

And at 4:03 a.m.!!? BTW is that Eastern time?

Some cuts on the JSP set are not on the Sony and vice-versa.

Discographical information: There seems to be 3 different versions of this: The original Lp (and I think cd) a cd containing the original as well as The Africa Brass Sessions Vol 2 and finally a 2 cd set entitled The Complete Africa Brass Sessions. The last named may be the easiest to obtain nowadays. I have the 2nd mentioned cd and the notes have a lot of misleading information. I presume that The Complete... has better notes. (Or you can check an on-line discography.) And why was it ever referred to as being by The John Coltrane Quartet? There are at 15 musicians playing even if only the quartet members take solos. (Actually even that's not true: both bass players seem to solo and some of Dolphy's fills might be called solos. ) All versions have cuts from 2 different sessions: May 23rd and June 4th 1961. In between these 2 sessions Coltrane recorded the rather similar Oleo for Atlantic with another augmented quartet (an extra bass player and Dolphy--who does get to solo. ) I love this record-- or at last the original release. The master takes do seem to me to be the best. Coltrane is on fire and the brass lays an almost mellow cushion for him. On Africa, at the end of Tyner's solo he begins playing block chords that are then continued by the brass. Similarly at the end of Elvin's solo the two basses come in almost imperceptibly: one arco and one plucked. (This doesn't happen on the alternate take I have. however, on that take McCoy takes a great solo which includes what I can only describe as a "rolling chorus"- if that makes sense.) And hey, is that the father of the governor of Massachusetts on baritone?

How come no one (not even Allan Lowe) has mentioned That Devlin'Music vol 1? .