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On Oct. 19, 1944 Thelonious Monk made his first studio recordings in a group led by Coleman Hawkins. Four songs were recorded and they're all listed (on the 2 cds I have which contain them) as having been written by "Thomas". Is that Walter Thomas with whom Hawk recorded the week before? I can't find anything about the composer in the liner notes to either cd or in the bios I have of Monk and Hawkins. Holy shit I just put The Chronogical Classics cd in my computer while I was writing this and checked the Get Info on iTunes and it gave me the answer!! It listed Walter Thomas as the composer. (I don't suggest that the CCCG database or whayever is a reliable research tool. It definitely doesn't always give this information.)

There's a club in Santa Barbara called Soho. If you're going up or down the coast it would be a good place to stop. I can get you more information re: booker etc. if you like. PM me.

Hey if I go to Amazon via the forum when I order books does Jim get credit for the purchases?

This is from Ron Mann's "Imagine the Sound" which Ron assures me will be available on DVD with (for the first time) stereo sound in the new year.

In the first half of the 60's I saw nearly every jazz great live at least once. The performance that impressed me the most was by Wes Montgomery (on a double bill with Roland Kirk!). After 40 years I don't even remember what numbers he played but I do remember thinking he was the most consistently good soloist I'd ever heard. I had a couple of his best records (eg The Incredible Jazz Guitar and Grooveyard) but they didn't prepare me for hearing him live. Several people (including the legendary Montreal guitarist Nelson Symonds) had told me that he was better in person than on record, but they say that about a lot of people. This time it was true. The Half Note recordings were, until recently, the only live Wes cds I'd been able to find. Then someone on this board mentioned that the live Paris date was even better. So I ordered it from Amazon (through the board of course) and it lived up to the recommendation. I noticed that they were also selling 2 other live recordings: one called Live in Belgium (1965) and one Live at Jorgie's done with his brothers in 1961. Has anyone heard these and are they worth getting? A customer review of the Belgium disc presumes everybody already has this on dvd. I certainly don't. Anyone know where I might get it? Or his performance on the BBC's Jazz 625?

Happy B'day and many more! Glad to see there's someone here older than me. You're an inspiration!!

I think I read that it was Prince who vetoed the Warners box and Warners didn't want to do a box without the stuff on which The Artist Formerly Known As played.

For years in the mid-sixties I used to see this in cut-out bins. I think it had a picture of Leiber and Stoller in bowler hats on the cover. Never turned it over and read the personnel. By the time I heard that it was virtually the Basie band of the time I couldn't find it anywhere.

I think that Universal/Vivendi who own Verve are intent on going the internet route for their entire catalogue. Maybe they'll offer Mosaic the hard copy rights.

Leslie Nielson for Gil. (And they were both born in Canada.)

I bought both these at the same time a few months ago. They were such standards when I started listening to jazz that the covers were imprinted on my brain but for some reason I never owned either of them. (I remember the Silver being available as 2 ten inch Lps. ) I believe that the term "hard bop" was introduced to describe these and Miles's "Walkin'". (Actually I'm sure that there were other records from the time for which the term would apply but I can't thnk of any right now.)

I mainly remember them for the Bob Brookmeyer/ Clark Terry release.

I'm fine with my DSL line but the local cable company keeps running adds saying their cable modem system is much faster. My tech guy tells me otherwise. What is the truth? (I'll get to what is the meaning of life on my next post.)

I agree that a couple of the tracks probably wouldn't have been released if they weren't on the soundtrack, but I'm hoping that there might be some material that's musically interesting that wasn't used in the movie. I think everything on the cd was used, if in edited form. Of course it could that Malle used everything that's worth listening to. And the music I noticed may be an example of something that they didnt' think was worthy of being on the cd.

Hey am I the only one who got a freebie with my set? When I opened the box from Concord I found a copy of Red Garland at the Prelude along with my Trane box! No mention of it on the included shipping order.

I guess we're not going to start a separate forum for Music DVDs so I'll just start a thread here. I was ordering something from Amazon and their "recommended for you" (which I usually ignore) recomended a DVD entitled "Stan Getz: the Last Recorded Concert". One customer review read: "Those who appreciate the artistry of Stan Getz simply won't want to miss this DVD! It finds Stan, pianist Kenny Barron and the rest of the group in top form live in Munich, Germany just a year before Stan's death. The program includes a nice mix of jazz standards (who plays Billy Strayhorn's "Blood Count" any better?) and selections from the "Apasionado" CD. Both audio and video are excellently captured in a beautiful concert venue. It's one thing to hear this jazz master perform but watching him do it adds yet another satisfying dimension to the performance. And watching the musical interplay between Stan and Kenny (whom Stan described as the other half of his heart) is fascinating. I would give this DVD my highest personal recommendation!" Sold me, so I ordered it. I think it pretty well lives up to this reviewer's rave though it does contain a couple of numbers from "Apasiionado" that add synthesizers. I didn't know this DVD existed before Amazon pushed it on me. Obviously if you're a Getz fan this an important part of his ouvre and I don't think it's available on cd. So my question is: Are there other DVDs that add important entries to any major musicians' discographies? And BTW while we're discussing DVDs I highly recommend "The Greatest Jazz Films Ever". It actually lives up to it's title containing Jammin' the Blues, The Sound of Miles Davis, and what I consider the greatest Jazz Film/Tv show of all: The Sound of Jazz. It also has an assembly of the footage shot for Granz's unfinished follow-up to Jammin' the Blues with Bird, Bean and Prez.

I TIVO'd the film when it was on IFC the other day and in re-watching it heard some music behind the scene where Julienne is interrogated by the police which doesn't seem to be on the cd. It starts with a bass solo, eventually drums come in and finally a piano is heard. Sounds a lot like the 5th cut on the Fontana cd which features Pierre Michelot and Kenny Clarke but no piano appears on that cut. I presume that it came from the sessions Miles did and I wonder if this means there's still more in the can somewhere. It did take them 30 years to release the first 16 cuts on the cd.

Somehow I doubt that they'll finish this in my lifetime. How many volumes do they expect to issue? 1000?

This sounds good. Herrmann is probably my favorite film composer; certainly in the top 2 or 3. I once saw Hermann speak at the British Film Institute. Someone from the audience asked why he continued to work on The Magnificent Ambersons after the studio took the film away from Orson Welles. Given the subsequent careers of both men I thought his answer was amazingly poignant and ironic. He answered "We thought it was just a movie. We thought we were going to makes lots of them."

Tom Nolan's biography of Millar/Macdonald is good but depressing. Myserious Press publiohsed a wonderful book of essays about him called "Ross Macdonald's Inward Journey." I read it just before I moved to Santa Barbara. Taught me a lot about the place.

Is this a new book? I thought I had all of Hammett. (Includng a book of comic strips he wrote.) Yes--I have that SECRET AGENT X-9 book as well. LOST STORIES came out just last year; I stumbled across it at our local Borders last week. It's not "complete," as far as I can tell; it doesn't contain the very last Continental Op story, "Death and Company" (which I've been searching for for some time), or several early 1930s stories I still can't find ("On the Way," "Albert Pastor at Home," and "His Brother's Keeper"). It does have "Night Shade" and "This Little Pig," plus a # of 1920s stories I've never read, so I bought it. The book is rather padded with biographical commentary. \Arghh I just went looking and discovered I no longer seem to have what used to be the most commonly available of his books of short stories: The Continental Op and The Big Knockover. I think while Lillian Hellman was alive she kept anything else from being published. However I did find "His Brothers Keeper" in an old paperback called "A Man Called Spade". If you just want to read it I can scan or copy it (I'll have to do either very carefully) and send it to you. If you want to own it you ight be able to find the same paperback. It's Dell 411.

OK I admit it: I can't hear/understand about haalf of what Mingus says. Is there a transcript anywhere? (Something like what Peter Losin does on his Miles discography.)

Well here's another example of how knowing people's race affects our perceptions: The original version of the song "Further On Down the Road"is by Will Bradley and it it's great but it reeked of blackface to me because I presumed that the Bradley band was White. Amos Millburn covered it and had a big hit singing exactly the same words. His version isn't quite as good but the the words no longer seem condescending because he's Black. (I think he even makes areference to piano player Freddie Slack that's in the original.)

I edited an article on Stepin Fetchit that never got published because the magazine for which I was an editor went under. (It was Take One-- for any of you film fans old enough to remember it.) My memory is thatt I was shocked by how popular he was amongst the Black community and how financially succesful he was. (We were going to run a picture of him in front of an airplane he owned and flew.)

Check and Double Check is one of the strangest movies ever made. I ordered a copy on VHS because I love the performance of Old Man Blues so much. I was stunned when I saw it. You get white guys in black face, interspresed with documentary footage of Harlem with people who really are Black .Then Amos and Andy drive the Ellington band to a party and Barney Bigard and Juan Tizol are in blackface! 3 of the band members step forward to sing 3 Little Words and the sounds of the Rhythm Boys-- 3 White guys (one of whom is Bing Crosby)-- comes out of their mouths. This is the weirdest film I've seen since Starship Troopers. BTW I did some research: the film was a big flop. Supposedly many of the Black listeners to the show didn't know it was done by White guys. They were outraged when the film made it obvious. And I guess White audiences just didn't want to see it.