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I think if you get The Fox and Katanga you've got the complete recordings of Dupree Bolton.

Ooops. I counted wrong. I'm one of the people who cl;aimed more than 300 but I've actually only (only!?) got about 200. How do I change my vote?

I checked in at 151-200 and hardly any of them are from after 1970. (Well maybe 20 or so.)

Last week Robert Fulford devoted his entire Natinal Post column to kvelling about the cd . Fulford's been a culural commentator for decades. (I used to guest on his CBC radio show many years ago.) I tried to provide a link but failed. Perhaps someone more computer savvy than me (eg any 13 year old) could find it. Fulford suggests (regretfully) that the concert may replace the Massey hall concert as the great Bop event. If you're in Canada can you order directly from the good doctor?

I'm there !

Wow I was starting to think I was the only one who'd ever heard Pop's singing "Cheesecake". My son's music teacher at school played it for him when he was in grade six. He came home raving about it and I thought it would be a cinch to find a copy. Took me forever and very few Jazz fans I asked about it had ever heard it or even heard of it!

Oh to be 50 again! Happy Birthday.

Berigan: You obviously had a great and loving relationship with your mother. My sincerest condolences.

KOB: 1) On Lp from Columbia record club when it was first released 2) 1st cd 3) Gold cd 4) Newer cd release because of exra track (which I already had on-- I think-- the Miles on Columbia box set) 5) SACD 6) Miles/Coltrane box 7) New CD/DVD

Well they did open with some groups that claimed to fuse Celtic and Afro-Cuban music! But Bill Frissell was appearing (though some may not consider him a jazzman anymore). And they also inlcuded some straight ahead Canadian players: Sonny Greenwich, PJ Perry and Oliver Jones with Jennie Lee. (I may have gotten some spelings and even names wrong here.)

What's the best place/site to order the new Nance cd from ?

Well they do offer music on the iTunes music store. You can gedt the new release of the Miles Round Midnight there and cherry-pick some (but not all) of the additional material.

I was just outside Montreal for a wedding this weekend and this morning as I left the hotel the headline on one of the local French language papers claimed that Pat Metheny had played for 100,000 people at a free concert ending the Montreal jazz Festival. Then I checked an English language paper and it said (also on the front page) that it was 150,000! I had passed through Montreal on the way to the wedding but to be honest the only part of the festival I paid for was a concert by Daniel Lanois. I don't know what it had to to with jazz but as always he was great. I did hear a bit of a couple of free concerts by local groups. it was a lot of fun. Now I 'm in Halifax and just found out that there's some kind of jazz festival going on here too.

My favorite local sushi bar seems to play nothing but KOB and Birth of the Cool.

Mazel Tov!! (Do they still say that in Israel?)

Unfortunately he's become a sportswriter and never seems to write about music anymore.

I got intrested in Freddy Slack because they kept playing "Beat Me Daddy 8 to the Bar" on a local radio station in LA. (It no longer exits). I finally broke down and ordered a Will Bradley/Ray McKinley cd to get it. Turns out the piano player was Freddy Slack who played a lot of Boggy Woogie with Bradley. They also recorded Down the Road Apiece-- I think the first recording, even before Amos Milburn's. hence the reference to Slack in the lyrics. Next I noticed Slack played piano on T-Bone Walkers "Mean Old World". Then I read that he'd been married to Beverly of Revelie with Beverly (sp?) fame. And he co-wrote "It's Square but it Rocks" which is on the Ellington Centenial Collection (the recent one with the DVD). All of which may have been too much of a build up for me. I'm a little disappointed in the Mosaic. However it's led me to replay the Bradley/McKinley Band cd which I'm still enjoying.

I remember reading an interview with him in Coda and thinking "What a great guy". He had a wonderful atitude about music and life and was very grateful for the help he'd gotten from other musicians-- especially Mary Lou Williams.

I was just loggin on to post the same information. Great site.

The Port of Harlem Jazzmen which I'd want one last taste of before I go. As to my funeral: I've instructed my wife to play KOB while people are entering, The Byrds version of Turn, Turn, Turn before the Rabbi speaks-- since at the last couple of funerals I've been to the clergymen have begun by saying "For everything there is a season"-- and finally at the end of the service Warren Zevon's "Keep Me in Your Heart": a song so to the point I don't know why everyone doesn't have it played at their funeral.

And if we're talkling spy fiction I have to recommend LeCarre's "Tinker, Tailer, Soldier, Spy". I find a lot of Le Carre to be depressing and politically defeatist but this is a great book-- and a great read.

Yeah I really liked it too. But I have to say a lot of people I know thought it was terrible.

I'm with you. I've been trying to create my own Gaslight tapes from a couple of bootlegs and single trackes that Sony has set free but I haven't gotten very far.

And let's wish a Happy Birthday to Louis Armstrong--even if it's not really his birthday I say Pops earned the right to whatever day he wanted.

Ambler was quite famous in the 40's and 50's. His best known novels are A Coffin for Demetrius and Journey into Fear which Orson Welles made in to a pretty good film. (Welles produced it didn't direct-- I think Joseph Cotton did.)