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The only boards I've ever read regularly are about Jazz. Are boards on other topics similar in tone? I mean would a board about bird watching be this rambuctious? If so perhaps that Freud quote (which I first read here) about the "narcissism of small differences" explains it. I guess I'm asking is it Jazz or the nature of small communities or just the nature of the internet that sets the tone?

Just read that it's been picked up by Sony Classics for American release.

According to "Bird's Diary" by Ken Vail, Bird was on the West Coast June-August 1952, November '53 and late February early March '54. Vail doesn't list him as playing LA City College. However Vail doesn't account for every day.

Christian wasn't exclusive to Goodman. He also recorded with Ida Cox, Lionel Hampton and Edmond Hall.

I have all of these and love them. As I mentioned somehwere before the sound is good on all of them except Vol 10 which has very compressed sound. I'm hoping that's not the case with volume 11.

Hey, man I hope your mom's getting better. When she's ok you should be allowed to post another birthday so you get a chance to enjoy it.

"Word" to all of the above. (I think that's the correct usage. I've had to ask my 15 year old son what it means.)

Bird recorded with McShan on Decca and those recordings are available on cd. Various broadcasts and private recordings are available on the Stash label amongst others.

I saw that group around the same time I think. I was knocked out by Andrew Cyrelle. My (often faulty) memory is that I saw a Steve Reich concert the same week . A great musical week.

Oh, no! I think he was on every film scoring session I ever attended. I used to love talking to him about his earlier jazz recordings.

Only because no one else had mentioned it seriously I'd like to throw in a vote for The Czech Replublic.

The Dreyfus remaster is one extreme - you have much less surface noise but lose most of the natural room ambience. I think the instruments sound more natural on the RCA Centennial box set - haven't heard the new remaster. The two Robert Parker CDs stop in 1938, AFAIR before Balenton joined the band - Jack the Bear is not on them. I found the Parker remasters startling when I first heard them, but now I prefer the Centennial box - I guess the Davies must be even a notch better. I've got a Vol. 3 of Parker's Ellington releases and it does contain Jack the Bear. It does sound good but I'm made nervous by its being in "surround sound". On the centential set Jack the Bear is unlistenable. The Dreyfus cds actually sound the least compressed to me.

I saw so many of the living jazz greats '61-'65 that it's easier to list those I missed: Coleman Hawkins, Pee Wee Russell and Ornette-- and I still haven't seen Ornette. I almost saw him in Toronto but they wouldn't let me in because I was wearing jeans!! Most memorabale concerts: Ellington just before his birthday in '65. The audience kept calling out requests for non-Ellington big band numbers. He'd play one chorus solo on piano, then Johnny Hodges would do a chorus then the the whole band would come in with what seemed to be a head arrangement. I never figured out whether the audience were referenicing his "Will the Big Bands Ever Come Back" Lp or were just old swing fans. They seemed real old to me at the time. But then they knew enough to sing Happy Birthday to him. A double bill of Roland Kirk and Wes Montgomery. Kirk was great then Wes came on and just burned. One great solo after another. I knew people who said that he was never as good on record as in person. After I saw him I believed them. Gil Evans one night at Sweeet Basil. Best Rock concert: Bruce Springsteen in 1976. Best classical: Horowitz in what I think was his last NY concert. And Rostropovitch with a not very good piano accompiainist. After i suggested that he was probably an old friend of Rostropovitch Josef Skvorecky told that he was probably his KGB keeper.

I love TCM. A couple of weeks ago I TIVOed Lubitch's The Merry Widow which I've never seen before. Finally got around to watching it last night. After a slow start it just takes off! A realloy good film.

There is a Robert Parker remaster of Jack the Bear. The Dreyfus cd of this material is the best sounding I've heard.

What I want to know is how the thing in the trunk in Repo Man managed to get in the attache case Jules was carrying in Pulp Fiction! I thought it was the briefcase from Robert Aldrich's Kiss me Deadly. Or maybe it stopped off at Repo Manon its way to Pulp Fiction.

I have a 4 cd Ember release that's in one of those book-like box sets. It's put together by Robert Bregman I think. (It's at home and I'm not.) There's still some more music from Birdland that is combined with some from Cafe Society on yet another Embers cd. I've meant to buy it but haven't seen it recently. BTW There's some great music on the Birdland sets.

This is the 6th edition of Kind of Blue I've owned. (Lp, cd, remastered cd, Mastersound Gold cd, Miles and Trane box set, SACD and now DualDisc.) I haven't really compared the sound on all versions but the 5.1 DVD sound is pretty good. The DVD documentary isn't very good but has a few interesting moments.

Pretty good trick for someone who's obviously dickless. Maybe it's because I know her (though I can't claim she s a good friend): but am I the only one who thinks we should watch what we say about real people? Hey if she's a jazz fan maybe she's reads this board. And the same goes for coments about jazz musicians critics etc: If you wouldn't say something to someone's face don't say it on the web.

A couple of people (including me) have been trying to get access to the original tapes. I think (hope) that Steve lasker has been haviang more success than I have.

Agreed. As I just wrote on another thread: I wish all discographies were on-line and accepted help from readers.

I've found Losin's discography to be much more complete than Bregman's. At least the copy of Bregman thaqt I have whihc is more than 10 years old. I wish all discographies were on-line and accepted help from readers.

That's what the guys who do Duke Ellington discographies do. As a result the discographies run for several hundred pages.

Jason: You've probably read lots of accolades about your father but in case you missed it: the LA novelist Carolyn See is a huge fan and I remember a piece she wrote about your dad for the LA Times several years ago in which she talked about driving from LA toNY to hear him play. (At least that's how I remember the story. I met her once and discussed the story with her and she also talked about delivering a present or birthday cake or something to him on his birthday. As I remember it he was a bit dumbfounded by her arrival on his doorstep. )

One of my favorite moments in the film is when Ava Gardner says she'll sleep with Frank Sinatra or Artie Shaw if she wants just as Shaw's "Nightmare" is being used as bakcground score. Actually it's used several times in the film.