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I think you're right about Stone Free being the only Hendrix tune Gil did that's not on this cd. BTW Little Wing wasn't on it originally but was on Comes a Time. (Or was that "Angel"? I forget-- anyway on eof the Hendrix songs was originally on the other Lp. ) I heard many of Gil's version s before I ever heard the Hendrix version. I love that song. My wife is learning to play guitar and the other day I heard her trying out some chords that I knew immediatly were for "Little Wing". It sounded great to me.

Gotta agree with you on the Dylan song ...never heard it before(Not the biggest Dylan fan in the world, sue me! ) But love her version, and will now have to check out the original version. It's an instrumental version, correct? I won't have to listen to him sing will I? Yeah, she sounds more than a little like Billie, but it doesn't grate like most everyone else I have heard try to sound like Billie.... ← Hey Berigan have you checked out the Dylan version yet? I'm curious as to what you think. I saw her in concert a couple of months ago. Because I love the Dylan version I was a little disconcerted when she changed the melody. (Not that Dylan wouldn't change it even more if he performs it live nowadays.) The band I saw her with would definitely be called a jazz band though she accompanied herself on acoustic guitar-- something I don't think I've ever seen a jazz singer do. I was put off a bit by her Lady Day phrasing on her first number (Leoanard Cohen's "Dance me to the End of the Night") but after that I quite liked her. Not enough to make me buy one of her cds however.

I think Louis Prima wrote it!! Anybody heard his version?

I've been listening to both of them a lot recently and though I think the Bird/Diz is of more importance historically I find myself looking forward to re-hearing the Monk/Coltrane even more.

BTW Have you guys seen the Newport concert that comes with the big Atlantic box. Another great DVD. I saw a Ray Charles concert in 1961. He was already playing arenas! (The Montreal Forum.)

I hear of players who do fine on tunes until they get to the bridge, and then they freeze up. I wonder if anyone has the opposite problem - remembering nothing but the bridges to tunes. ← Miles got the bridge wron gto The Lights are Low and now everybody seems to play his version rather than Benny Carter's. I first heard Masquerade on the Leon Russell record where I presume it first appeared. I remember really liking it. The Lp got a bad review in Rolling Stone presumably because it had a song making fun of writers for that magazine.

Well they won't send them profits but they may have to send them royalties and if they've written any of the songs they get composers fees by law-- something I suspect Lonehill doesn't pay.

I'm pretty sure it is is Speedy too. What do you mean by the original music? Was music written especially for these and if it was are there extant scores?

Except for the previousoly unissued Ruby Braff session I was underwhelmed by this set. Obviously you should get some more opinions. I may have been put off by the notes with their gratuitous attacks on John Hammond and Illinois Jacquet. I don't even like the way the cover photo is cropped.

I've got all of them through Vol 10 and was very happy with them until Vol 10. The sound on it is horribly compressed. Also the notes identify the last song on cd one as A Train when in fact it's Things Ain't What they Used to Be. Maybe the death of the founder has led to shoddy work on the part of Storyville. I have volumes 1, 2, and 10, and 3 & 4 are on their way... you're right about V. 10's sound. Hopefully V. 11--if it ever comes out--will not suffer from the same problems. Aren't there 24 double-CDs planned in all? I'm thinking about featuring some once a month on The Big Bands this year--doing a show of April 1945 broadcasts in April, a show of May 1945 broadcasts in May, etc.--right up through the 60th anniversary of V-J Day. (After which the name of "War Bonds" was changed to "Victory Bonds.") ← Is it just my copy but the 2nd cd of Vol 10 not only has compressed sound but seems to have a lot of what I would best describe as surface noise? BTW The sound on the later volumes is fine.

Did anyone get this and is it as good as it looks? Also is it readily available?

Well I guess 1996 is fairly recently to me. Actually anything since the Beatles broke up is fairly recently to me.

I just got the Storyville Release "Billy Strayhorn: Piano Passion " and I'm a little disappointed in them. It seems to me everything on it is readily available elsewhere. The first 10 tracks were originally released as "The Peaceful Side of of Billy Strayhorn" by Capital fairly recently and though it now seems to be oop I still see it in stores. The next 8 traacks are the Ellington/Strayhorn duets still in print on Prestige and the last three are in the RCA box set. Is the Peaceful Side cd that hard to find now?

Neither one is really a re-issue. ← OK So which do you think will get the most "cd of the year" votes?

Cecil played in the Hodge's band!! I didn't know that. When ? Did they record together?

That's the thing that's become increasingly intriguing to me - listening to Trane's phrasing/articulation on the heads. Very unique in comparison to other Monk saxophonists, and, yes, more often than not perfectly melded with Monk's. ← Yes. It also seems to me that these are slightly more elaborate arrangements than you usually find with Monk quartets. I just saw the promotional tv show about the the cd in which Monk's son talks about how much time Trane spent in their apartment rehearsing with Monk. BTW (And I know I asked this before) but has anyone besides me compared this concert to the set from September 11, 1958 that was released by Blue Note a few years ago? It seems much more like an unrehearsed blowing session.

And many, many more!!!

I think the Jazz Memories is missing only the appearance on the LA Stars of Jazz show Bobby Short did which is on the Ultimate set.

I did get it and yes the DVD did make it worth getting because of the time lines and photos as well as the performances. And that's despite the fact that I already had all of the audio perormances. (I'm a Lady Day completist. (Though I am missing her concert performance with Duke. Is that extant?)

So any guesses as to which will be "reissue of the year" in various polls?

Well the music for both of them is by James Newton Howard who obviously knows Wayne. BTW Did Glengary also have a version of Prelude to a Kiss featuring Pete Chrislieb or am I confusing it with another soundtrack I heard at about the same time? (Maybe the film entitled Prelude to a Kiss.)

Co-incidentally I just heard a version of Stolen Moments on the radio by a group led by Chris Walden. Not very interesting. I think I've heard other versions too. But none of them are nearly as good as the version on "Blues and...."

Thee were some quotes from Johnny Mandel in the LA Times obit that I didn't see anywhere else: Mandel said he was blown away when he first heard her on the radio in his car. "I stopped the car and I said, 'Who … is that? When I found out that was Shirley, I said, 'Oh, boy, look what I've been missing.' I went out and bought every one of her records." He said Friday that working with her was a joy. "She was also a better pianist than most people knew," Mandel said. "She would play her piano, and I knew just what to do with an orchestra behind her. I knew exactly what she wanted, and we had few conversations about music. We were soul mates…." Mandel paired Horn with a string section and orchestra for the first time on 1991's "Here's to Life," which stayed on the Billboard jazz chart for 15 weeks. "You have to be very careful with someone like her," Mandel said after the album's release. "She works a small emotional gamut. But she's the best living interpreter of songs I know. She's got the best taste and a delicious voice, full of wonder."

Actually you only have to change a couple of letters for the name. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! (I just had to shout.)

A great record! And it always has reminded me of KOB. BTW can anyone post the original Lp cover? I used to have it but can 't remember exactly what it looked like.