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Uhhh...who's in this trio?

I don't have the best audio/video equipment, but its fairly decent. With the deleted scenes, I noticed that the the picture quality looked like it was transfered directly from the film stock, and not digitally remastered or anything. The colors were weak and the picture was grainy. Imagine watching a movie in 70mm and then a scene cutting to 16mm. This is what it felt like. And the sound was very compressed...almost sounding metalic. It was a huge change from the beautiful 5.1 mix that the rest of the movie had. Sorry to keep bitching about this. I'm sure it had to do with the budget and pre-production forcasts and all that good stuff..... I'm just upset because I think these extra scenes could have really served the film had more care gone into the presentation. And now, it feels like we're stuck with a half-assed product. I wish that I could process it all at the end and be done with it, but unfortunately these things really bother me. It's possible that the opposite is ture: i.e. that the outakes were taken ff of their avid editing machine and were never colour corrected on film. (Though colour correction is now often done using a digital intermediate, since that's quite expensive they probably didn't do it when finishing this film.) And you're probably right that the outakes didn't go through a sound mix. In fairness to correct this after the fact would be quit expensive and they do allow you to see the original film and watch the out-takes seporately.

Is this what Phil Schaap takes credit for on the Miles and Gil Box set? He implies it's some sort of secret process.

I had exactly the same experience. Bought it on some cheap Decca subsiduary label then got what was I think a Decca re-release. Don't have it any more but wold like it on cd. Think it's got both Phil and Quill on it.

Hank's "I'm So Lonsome I Could Cry". (Is that what it's called?)

Do you mean it never appeared on Lp or the first Lp release was on Barnaby? I rmember seeing it as an Lp in the late 60's (i think) but I'm not sure of the label.

And now Moody himself sings it. (As does Van Morrison.)

I think Chaloff was Russian [not a Jew of Russian descent]. Serge Chaloff's mother was not jewish indeed. She was a Presbyterian. But his father was. Even if he converted to Christianity 'after getting miffed at the rabbi from his synagogue who was pressuring him for money' (quote from Vladimir Simosko's biography of Serge Chaloff). Well according to Orthodox Jewish law (and apparently the laws of Israel) that would mean Serge was not Jewish since it passes through the mother.

Wow this is amazing. I only knew about the existance of the video on the 2nd site you list. I though it was the only known footage of Django.

He was a tv star in Canada before he was Dean Wormer.

I saw Ellington (twice), Herman (both at the same club in Montreal), Basie at Disneyland!, Gil Evans in Paris, LA and Sweet Basil, and Sun Ra at a Country and Western bar in Toronto. However the only one I really got to dance in front of was (I guess ) a pick-up band called Manteca at the El Mocambo in Toronto. Dancing to a good big band that takes solos is really fun. Made me wish I was even older and had gotten to dance to Basie or Ellington. Oh, weel. I did go to a danace where the Dirty "Dozen Brass Band played.

I've seen him perform solo, in a duet with Roscoe Mitchell and once with a group. (Can't remember who.) The only cds I have are his Sackville release and Conference of the Birds. I've always enjoyed his work but never felt a need to buy more. Don't know why. I once saw him walking down the street in Paris and accosted him to tell him I liked his work. Before I could speak he threw his hands up and said he didn't speak French . I guess this shows that: 1) I look French 2) I dress like a pan handler 3) He's not used to being recognized.

Apparently Shatner attneded McGill University in Montreal but never graduated. Never-the-less the Student Union (over the objections of the administration) call their building The Shatner Building. Most of the buiildings with official names are called something like the Molson or Seagram Building.

I bought the hybrid single of Sympathy for the Devil which had remixes by several DJ's (including Fatboy Slim). None of them were anywhere near as good as the original which I enjoyed hearing in 5.1 surround.

I saw Benny Carter when he was in his late 80's. He paced himself, gave lots of solo space to his group but sounded just like Benny Carter when it was his turn to solo.

Do any of them indicate who the artist was? SomeoneI know worked on the graphics for that Olympics and I'm curioius as to whether he did these.

Mazel Tov!!

I was fortunate enough to be in London for a concert Elmer Berstein gave at the Royal Albert Hall. He conducted scores by others as well as by himself and when they played The Bad and the Beautiful he had Raksin at the other end of a phone line in LA! I think this was shortly before Raksin's death. (Elmer was a friend and sadly I think seeing him after the concert was the last time I saw him alive.)

I agree that Flying Dagggers is a beatuful film but that the story isn't quite as strong as Hero. BTW You might want to look at Iron Monkey. Not nearly as beautiful as the other 2, but a lot of fun.

Any news from the appointment? Hope you're both ok.

Any news?

I used to watch on Tuesday nights when they had "Jazz Classics" and "Duke Ellington". The trouble was they kept playing the same things each week. Recently "jazz Classics" has repeatedly shown an old film called "The Duke Steps Out" . Unfortuantely not about Ellington but a film starring Lena Horne. For a while The Duke show kept repeating "The Intimate Ellington" which was so good I got it on DVD so as not to have to put up with all horrible commericals. Jazz Classics also repeatedly played the feature length Dizzy revue film-- the name of which i forget but which has a lot of good Gillespie big band stuff between bad jokes and dancers.

Film producer. According to some on this board: corrupter of American youth. Used to be an academic and corrupter of Canadian youth.

Anyone know where one might find the Bing Crosby show? Duke and Jimmy Blanton appeared one but to the best of my knowledge it's only availabe on tape. I'd like to find it on-line or on cd.

I think I've never heard his stuff with Jamal but I love his work with Gil Evans, on Katanga and on his own Candid release. Aa very distinctive player: When I first got Katanga I put it on and left the room; when I returned it was during one of his solos and I thought I was listening to Out of the Cool.