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I used to have the Time-Life Giants of Jazz Tesch. box set. He made so few recordings that to fill up a 3 record set they had to include cuts that they weren't sure he played on. (IIRC I sent the set to an Austrilian jazz fan who was desperate for it. Would never have done that with my Pee Wee box.)

I used to live next door to Jane Jacobs in Toronto. (We were in houses that were attached to each other but known as "semi-detached" houses in TO.) As you might expect she was a good neighbour.

I use a prograqm called "Wiretap".

Wish I'd noticed that before. I saw Lloyd last week. He was signing his new cd at my (and his) local Borders. It would have given me something to ask him.

I dunno. The little bit I heard sounded more like it was going to lead to JATP.

Anybody else hear yesterday's NPR piece about the newly discovered Lester Young jam session recording ? I was very excited until they played some of it which seemed like sub-par Prez to me.

I've got a Sting 3 incher because it includes him singing Up From the Skies backed by the Gil Evans band and that cut isn't available anywhere else. (I'm an Evans completist.) Also Springsteen doing Chimes of Freedom live but I think that whole disc was later released on a 5 inch cd. Also Zappa doing Peaches en Regalia plus 2 others. Finally a 3 inch billie Holiday cd that came with an Italian book about her. The Zappa anad Sting have fancy printed sleeves. The Sting is a fold-out!

Are there extant video copies of the Allen Show? As to The Sound of Jazz: The Columbia Lp/cd id from a special recording session not a reheresal. Hence the slightly differnt personal. I've heard Gerry Mulligan wanted too much money and I presume they left out Monk because they thought he was too far out. Prez plays on more selections on the record than he does in the show. Makes me think he was too physically weak those few days later. I worked with some peole at CBS/Fox to get Sound of Jazz legitimately released as a DVD. I wanted to add Milt Hinton's photographs of the session and an interview with nat Hentoff. Ran into legal problems with the musicians union.

Happy B-Day!!!

I'd somehow missed this thread earlier. Anyway money now on the way via paypal. (Once I was able to find my password.) you should "up" this thread every so often.

It's a story I've never heard. Can you say more? What songs are we talking about? And what was Red's "book of changes"?

I think at least one of the Gil Evans's records was originally produced by George Avakian. He's always claimed that the master tapes were in bad shape. I'll definitely get them again if they're at all upgraded.

i've always liked the comment on the Xmas Eve '54 date when after Monk and Miles argue, Miles tells the engineer to leave the fight on the record.

Hmmmm..Which one had the worst re-issue program? At least BMG did the Ellington complete RCA box set. Sony still has a lot of Ellington that is out of print.

I think the Prestige 'Round Midnight is a different recording and was originally released with most of the December '24 '55 session with Monk. I presume that it will be included in this box set. (It would be cetainly be incomplete otherwise.)

There was supposed to be a 45 of the Evans/Miles "I Loves You Porgy" that would actually have been longer than the album track. Schaap included the longer solo on the Porgy and Bess box set but for some reason never spliced it to the head used on the album. (I made my own splice using pro-tools. It make a great version of the song.) There are bunch of concerts from the fall of '67 which I have copies of. They'd make a great box set.

Yes it is Leo Watson.

In honour of he death of Fayard Nicholas I've been re-looking at various films in which the Nicholas Brothers appear (yes even Orchestra Wives). Stormy Weather features several acts that are unidentified in the credits, the commentary track is worse than useless and IMDB seems to be mistaken (I don't see Coleman Hawkins or Jo Jones anywhere in the film). Does anyone have accurate information about this film? BTW is this the correct forum for this kind of query?

And many, many more!

So that explains it! Monday night I went to see Kieth Jarrett at Disney Hall. We had dinner at Pinot in the hall before hand and Jack Black came in with a pregnant woman and sits next to us. Then Charlie Haden and his wife joined them. I thought Jack Black was just a really hip guy who'd invited Charlie to the concert. It was interesting that nobody bothered Jack Black but a couple of people (I was one) came up to Haden to say they were fans. (I ran into him in the bathroom where somone else was already giving him props.

And many, many more!!!!!!

I thought it had only been shown on tv and never released for home video because of rights problems. If Amazon 's got it I guess I'm wrong.

I'm suprised no-one has mentioned that the booklets with the jazz series refer to them as "Chronogical" (sic) on the outside cover .

Kermit is no longer with Re-Birth but I saw him sit in with them at Joe's (?) in NO a couple of years ago. Great fun.

What's the BSN site?