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Wow. That's impressive. Thanks.

On the 1941 Metronome All Stars version of "One O'Clock Jump" Coleman Hawkins begins his solo with a 3 note repeated riff that shows up a few months later as the main theme of the Basie band's Feedin' the Bean with Hawkins sitting in. It's credited to Basie as composer but on The Hawk In HiFi it's called The Bean Stalks Again and is credited to Hawkins. Basie, of course, was on the Metronome All Star date. (Where they don't ever play what I-- perhaps wrongly-- have always thought was the main theme of One O'Clock Jump.) I don't really care who should get credit but I am interested in the source of the riff. Anyone know if appears anywhere earlier than Hawkins solo on the All Stars date?

Anybody hear the long story about Art Tatum on the NPR morning news show this am? On line it even has some complete performances: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6434701

Saw Lou Reed last night on the first stop of small Western tour (in fact Santa Barbara may be the biggest town on the tour!). He was accompanied only by 2 bass players one of whom was Rob Wasserman. I've never seen Reed before but I really liked the show. Do you think he's been influenced by Ornette? He did comment "Who needs a drummer?"

It still hasn't even made it to "Upcoming releases".

If someone was really willing to do all the work there might be a chance to score review copies. If I ever retire this would be a fun project.

Probably Cd Universe or Amazon but I do buy a lot of things I'm just a bit curious about from the iTunes store. When I'm in LA I do stock up at Amoeba.

Joyeux Anniversaire! And many, many, more.

My point about this is: I know of many, many reissues cancelled by US copyright owners 'cause the "cheapies" were issued. I can personally attest to 4 cancelled Uptown projects. All from far superior sources and extra material. I also know, from "industry sources" of projects cancelled by EMI, Sony/BMG and Universal. The "cheapness" deal was about inexpensive "Andorran" reissues and cheap JSP/Proper issues. What some may not consider is the US companies recording Armstrong, Morton, etc have some contractual obligations to the estates of the artists. The EU "50 year" folks and other outright thieves do not have this obligation/expense. Were any of these ever announced? And even if they were what are the chances they'd actually appear? If someone in Europe issues a reasonable sounding "A Drum Is a Woman" should I wait for Sony to bring out their version? I'm 63 years old. I probably won't be alive when that happens.

Seems to me there are 2 separate issues: one is the right of archives to make copies and the other is copyright in general. I presume everyone including Chuck thinks it's ok to copy music for archival reasons whether it's pd or not. And I doubt if any copyright holders would complain. This is just bureaucrats (and I hate using the word) following the letter of the law rather than the spirit. As to copyright in general: I like Chuck's idea of a compulsory license fee though I'm not sure I really understand it and the devil is in the details. And despite what Chuck writes, I don't buy the imports because they're cheap. I onlly buy them when the music isn't available from any other source. Sony's finally making some of their Ellington material available through Mosaic. But until recently you could only find much of it by buying the Classic series and those Chronogical cds are certainly not cheap.

I read it several years ago. It's idosynchratic and personal. In fact about all I remember from it are some of his personal anecdotes.

Thomas also wrote for some jazz magazines. Chilton's biography of Hawkins quotes from a piece he wrote about the session he led with with Hawkins.

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.)