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Me too. I think I've played it more than any of my other 300+ Ellington cds. It may just be because it was one of the first Jazz Lps I ever got. (From the Columbia Record Club when it first came out.) I'm still waiting for the deluxe editon of Indigoes on cd: one with all of Autumn Leaves and any extant alternate cuts .

I bought a copy of his new solo record playing war time tunes and there was a bonus disc with a one hour interview by Walter Cronkite about Brubeck's war-time experiences. Really interesting.

--from Worlds Records e-mail There's been a lot of discussion on the Duke-Lym list-serve about this sound quality (or lack there-of) of this latest release. Complaints of too much compression. I haven't heard it yet so I can't comment.

BTW Did HoLland play both acoustic and electric bass throughout his stay with Miles?

Who's name is that session under?

I've been listening to the couple of cds I have of "the Lost Quintet" from 1969 and thinking about how revolutionary (or perhaps off-putting) the group must have sounded to their audiences of that time. In their July performances they're playing things from Bitch's Brew though even In a Silent Way hasn't been released yet. By October they're even further out but Bitch's Brew has still not been released. Actually on both cds the audiences seem quite appreciative, but surely some people were shocked when what starts as 'Round Midnight ends up out there in the ozone somewhere.

Uhh.... What original movie? Les Liasons? There's a different video release?

Keven: You obviously know a lot more about the Prius than I do. One question I have: The "B" setting for driving(about which very little is said it in the instruction manual)-- is it basically just a lower gear and should one use it as such. Right now I only use it when descending very steep hills.

I just saw this on the Jazzmatazz upcoming releases list. Anyone know anything about it? John Coltrane - Live at the Half Note (Impulse) Aug 24 — from 1965

I've got a Prius. I love it. But I sure don't get 60 miles per gallon. More like 42. I've got the first model. I bought it because I test drove it when my daughter was buying a car. (She ended up with a pick-up.) It's fun to drive and has a great turning ratio (if that's what it's called. ) It's fast enough for me to have gotten a speeding ticket already. I think the new models are slightly bigger. I've read somewhere that they get better mileage than mine but I met someone who's owned both (he obviously likes them) and he said he got slightyer better mileage with the old one.

And then what they actually play is some Mingus.

Ditto for the Billy Eckstine band.

I agree. Name calling isn't appropriate. The "nut" word wasn't in reference to his religion, but rather, that he may have supported the murder directive of Rushdie. Frankly, it was always my understanding that he agreed with the "fatwah". So, it's good to know that he didn't and, moreover, that he apologized for any confusion he may have caused. Thanks for the article, John. Maybe Yusuf wouldn't mind making a little cash? I happened to be in London and saw that interview. I thought it was a good example of the difference between US & UK interviewing styles. (Well, some anyway.) AsI remember it the interviewer didn't argue with him. He just let him hang himself. (Even though there was an audience the interviewer didn't seem to need to show that he was on the side of the righteous.) And (again as I remember it) the artist formerly known as Cat, agreed with the fatwah but said he wouldn't necessarily carry it out himself even if he had a chance. Wierdly enough the other day I found myself arguing about this with a woman who turned out to be Rushdie's ex-wife. She thought he'd made too much of the fatwah and had played into the hands of UK racists.

Big Stuff! Bernstein kept bringin her back into the studio to get it "right"!. They all sound pretty good to me. Interesting to see the results of his work here and listen to him talking to Miles Davis on the recordings of "Sweet Sue" on the Miles/Trane box set.

Right on. I'm not sure, but I think Take One was released first. Usually it's a later take that becomes the "master" take. Which getes confusing since they'e often now sequenced chronoligically. Which makes the "alternates" the earlier takes. (Or maybe I'm just easily confused. )

I remeber having this on Lp and it was my introduction to Jack Sheldon. I think I'd better get it on cd.

Another vote for the Dreyfus sets. I only have the 2 Ellingtons and hear that there is another on the way. I guess I should start looking for some of the others too.

I think she meant the part that goes "Come along and light my fire" or something like that. It does sound like final phrase in "Jambangle". However right after I read that, I was listening to something recorded earlier than "Jambangle" which used the same phrase. But now I can't reember what it was. ( I was listening to both some early Basie and some Claude Thornhill at the time. ) Gil was not above borrowing. I once hearad a radio program where the dj played something from an Lp of Spanish music and pointed out that it was pretty much the same as one of the Evans "compositions" on Sketches of Spain.

Maybe it's "grey market" but I have a Japanese Sony cd of the "lost quintet" called 1969Miles-Festival de Juan Pins. It's a live recording from Antibes July 25 '69. It includes notes in English. I think I b ought it in Toronto at HMV or Virgin. No reason for Sony not releasing it here. But they probably won't.

I think Miles was still recovering from an illness when the week began. It seems to me his playing gets better in the later discs.

Wow. I used to have an office righ there: about 1/2 way to Barham Boulevard. Did you ever find out where they came from?

I've seen him a couple of times at L.A. Duke Ellington Society events. He seems to be a true gentleman as well as a great musician. I think there's a cd available of him discussing the history of jazz in L.A.

When I was growing up, Bostic's version of Harlem Nocturne was the closest thing to jazz they played on our one and only local radio station. Mainly they played country (even the show they called "Western Swing" didn't play Bob Willis). That was all I knew about Bostic so I was really surpised when years later I heard an interview with Benny Golson and he declared that Earl Bostic was the greatest sax player he'd ever heard. I think he qualified it by adding "technically".

How about the Lionel Hampton RCA all-star small groups? There was once a 6 Lp set but I don't know where to get them all on cd.

Actually "Days of Wine and Roses" came with 2 bottles of wine. I think I checked out half the supermarkets in California before I was able to find it. Good wine. Better cd.