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I thought it was "Saran Wrap"-- at least that was what the 2000 year old man said and he should know.

Unfortunately I think "Let's Get Lost" is oop. and has never been available as a DVD. I avoided seeing it when it first came out because it sounded exploitative. Now I wish I hadn't been so squeemish.

I ordered the new Dylan cd from Sony so that I'd get a free cd with one of Dylan's XM radio shows. This "Theme Time Radio Show" is about baseball. At one point Dylan plays a song about Don Newcomb, then follows it by explaining how Sonny Rollins got "Newk" as a nickname. Then he plays Rollins's "Newk's Fadeaway". About a couple of minutes into the song it starts to fade but Dylan interrupts, saying "let's keep going". After a couple of minutes when it finally does fade out, Dylan says "That's Sonny Rollins with his big league sound, covering all the bases". Several years ago I went to see Jimmy Smith at an LA club. I thought I saw Sonny Rollins in the audience and pointed him out to my wife. Then Smith announced that there was a celebrity in the audience. Turns out the guy I thought was Sonny was Newcomb!

New release date -- August, 2006. We'll see. Where did you get this information ? Last week I called the publisher to inquire about the book's availability and found that the phone number was ' not in service ' . I then called the publisher's distributor and was given a different phone number , but that number was also ' not in service ' . I guess I should try and contact Jack Chambers directly , but the only email address I have for him is at the University of Toronto from which he recently retired I believe . You can still get him at his UofT e-mail address. I was in touch with him last week. Actually I owe a reply to his reply so I'll ask him about the book.

First time through I was a little underwhelmed till I got to the last 3 tracks. Then played it again from the beginning. Now after about 5 full play throughs I love it-- even if I do think that Dylan's starting to sound like Leon Redbone. Was playing it when I drove back late last night from LA. It's great late night driving music.

Actually I do have the video of Chet at Ronnie Scott's. To be honest I got it becaseu I'm a Van Morrison fanatic. I used to own "The Most Important Jazz Album of 1963" or whatever it was called. Didn't think it lived up to the title.

I'm surprised by everyone's preference (so far) for his later work. I don't know it well at all. As for his earlier stuff (except for the Mulligan Quartet) I only have The Best of Chet Baker Sings, the Anthology "Deep in a Dream" and the Chet with Strings on Columbia-- a record I've loved for nearly 50 years. Is his later work really better?

I bought my first copy of GO! in 1964 in Denmark from an attractive girl who had "moved on" from Dexter to Ornette! You don't meet many girls like that. I liked it a lot but after not playing it for a decade or so I couldn't place "Cheesecake" when it kept poppng up in my head. Then I got s Bluenote sampler called "3 Tenors". (a title I thought was very clever.)They were Dexter, Trane and (I think) Hank. It had Cheesecake on it and I was finally able to name that tune that had been haunting me for years. I didn't realize that "A Swinging Affair" was virtually part of the same session, but I get the impression from some comments here that I don't really need to get it. BTW What do people think of the RVG edition of "Go!"?

I downloaded this from the iTunes Music Store yesterday, burned a copy and played it while driving into LA today. All I can say is "Wow!!. Thanks for the recommendation."

To my knowledge, there´s no available Coleman Hawkins online discography. Is there a full discography available in any medium?

Stratemann has her joining the band in August of '42 . He replaced ivie Anderson with "a trio of girls. Phyllis Smiley, Joya Sherrill, Betty Roche." Smiley left shortly after, and Sherrill went back to school in the fall, leaving only Roche. On the other hand, the New Desor claims she joined in September '42.

One can always hope. Supposedly lost film clips and even features do keep turning up. I think I read interviews with Don Pennebaker where he said all the footage of the '66 Dylan tour had been destroyed by Dyaln and Howard Alk. He also said the opposite-- that he (Pennebaker) had all the raw footage buried in his back yard. Then all this amazing footage (including the "Judas" moment) shows up in the Scorcese PBS documentary with no explanation as to where it came from.

If we're talking Argo, how about a Gene Shaw set. (Though there may not be enough material for 3 cds.)

I bought the Gil Evans lp at the Record Collector in LA nearly 20 years ago and it cost me $35 then!

You had the Nevilles at high school dances!!! Wow.

you sure know more about this than me... but isn't it the common story (doesn't mean it's true) that Miles and Gil Evans got to know each other when Evans wanted to arrange Donna Lee... maybe they just talked about publishing rights... still I would say it indicates that the Davis had more to do with Donna Lee than ... Richard Carpenter with Walkin (not that Carpenter's name would often be mentioned these days without a mention of Walkin... still I hope you know what i mean) I think I remember reading that Evans approached Bird about Donna Lee for advice when he wanted to arrange it for the Thornhill band. Bird told him to talk to Miles who had written it. Why do you think Richard Carpenter (who ever he is) didn't write Walkin'?

Bob Parent was a well known jazz photographer in NY. He also wrote a column on 8mm filmmaking for a magazine I used to help edit. I met him once and like an idiot never asked if I could purchase any prints from him. (A parallel story is that I once worked with the late film composer Georges Delarue. I had been collecting French 45's of his film music in the early 60's but never even told him about them never mind ask him to autograph them.

Instead of the first photo I got an ad for "filelodge". Whaaaaa???? Now it's disappeared and the photo is there!

I saw Wingy play in Paris once at a left bank club! It was fun but didn't impress me enough to run out an buy any records. However, I'm nuts about Pee Wee and he may play on enough cuts here to make me consider buying this set.

I had the cd playing in my car, driving with my 17 year son-- a fan of The Foo Fighters etc.-- who suddenly exclaimed "Hey this is interesting music!" which from him is high praise.

KOB. Got it from the Columbia Record Club when it first came out. One of the first jazz Lps I got and I thought "Hey if this is jazz I like it!"

I think sometime last summer Variety reported that Van's show at Red Rock was the highest grossing show of the week. I guess those $125 tickets add up. Last time I saw him he was with Dylan and Joni Mitchell but the tickets weren't that expensive. I love The Man and since 1969 I've seen him about 4 times but I don't think I'd pay $125 to see him again. I guess that's what performers who appeal to aging boomers can charge nowadays.

I just discovered that Coda Magazine now has a website: http://www.coda1958.com/index.htm. Unfortunately their on-line subscription system doesn't seem to be working right now. However they will take subs via e-mail. They're selling back issues too.

I got the Lp when it first came out. Glad I'm not the only sucker who's bought all 3 cd releases.

I think I saw him once the summerof 62 but to be honest don't remember much about him except that I was surprised to find good jazz musicians in Vancouver.