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So the Hank Mobley sans Coltrane cuts will not be boxed. Once again he gets short shrift. Isn't all of the Mile+Mobley stuff currently in print now that the Blackhawk stuff has been released? I'm not sure why box sets are such a big deal for Hank's legacy. Guy Of course you're right. I was just pointing out that these are the only studio cuts from a decade and half of Mile's Columbia recordings that aren't getting the royal treatment. At least Mobley's solos have now now been re-inserted into the recordings.

I have it on tape and can send you a copy (actually it's 5 tapes).

So the Hank Mobley sans Coltrane cuts will not be boxed. Once again he gets short shrift.

Bought my first jazz records in the late 50's. Got really serious about it in 1961. A pretty good year. Saw a lot of live jazz in the next 10 years. (Started with Sun Ra and a small combo at a club in Montreal. All I remember is that it was August he played "The Christmas Song". )

Me too. I just got it in SACD. It's a hybrid with the cd in stereo for the first time. Worthwhile even if you don't have an SACD player. (To be honest I barely hear any difference-- but my ears are shot from too many rock concerts and too much time on mixing stages.) There's a new biography of Gil in which the author states that Evans took a huge chance giving such a new comer so much solo space. It sure paid off.

Does that include "smooth jazz"? (I'd rather listen to polka music.) And Wynton Marsalis? (I've always sort of liked him.)

I'm surprised that someone listed "Conference of the Birds". I'd always thought that it was an acclaimed and popular record. John Norris and Bill Smith who used to run Coda magazine also had a Jazz/Blues records store in Toronto for a while. Around the time "Birds" came out, John told me that whenever they had it on the turntable whoever was in the store asked about it and bought a copy.

I bought their release of Kurt Weil's "The Eternal Road" recently. The production of the music was paid for by "Milken Foundation for Jewish Music". Anyway the cd was cheap and the music was good. I've been on a Weil kick recently. Didn't RCA once release a recrod of Weil music by the Jazz Sextet of the USA or something like that? Mike Zwerin was involved if memory serves me well-- which it hardly ever does nowadays.

I've learned that people can be extremely knowledgeable about more than one topic. I expected to find a lot of information about jazz here but the discussions of films, books and even (sometimes) politics are of a very high standard. Maybe jazz fans tend to be erudite folk.

I did belong to e-music for a while and got some of the ESP discs. (eg Spiritual Unity). The i-Tunes store seems to have even more ESP material.

Several items from the old ESP library have turned up in the i-Tunes music stores this morning. Anyone have any recommendations (or criticisms)? I'm especially interested in the Billie Holiday broadcasts.

Jack Chambers does give a great summary of reactons (including his own) to the session though I think the quotaton from Stanley Crouch he cites is not about Bemsha Swing as he says it is but rather about one of the other numbers (I forget which one right now). I've never been able to find the original Crouch article. Anyone know where it's from?

We were shooting a film at the Prague airport and were forced to close down and evacuate because of a bomb threat. No bomb. Came back the next day and finished.

Garth: My memory is that it's also a film where Eastwood makes fun of his Dirty Harry persona. Sondra Locke keeps having to explain the obvious to him implying constantly that he's not too bright. Most critics seem to think that it's only in films like Broncho Billy or (god-forbid) The Bridges of Madison County that Eastwood plays against type. That may be true but in Gauntlet and Every Which Way But Loose he suggests that his usual hero may be strong, but he's dumb. In both cases this idea is voiced by the films' heroine.

I just bought it on i-Tunes. Grooving to it right now. Good stuff. But if you hadn't posted I never would have found it. Was it ever in the "just added" list? If so, when? I usually check that every week but I might have missed your listing.

The film soundtrack is performed by Nora Jones' dad. Ornette's score was rejected. AS remember it The Fugs were also on the final soundtrack. They're not listed on IMDB but Ed Saunders is in the cast (as is Ornette). And "Phil Glass" was music supervisor. Perhaps he's responsible for rejecting Ornette's music.

Thanks. Is it still available?

There seems to be a lot of action on Friday afternoons (night in the East). Are there other busy times?

Has Ornette's "Chappaqua Suite" ever been out on cd?

If you go to the HBO website you'll see that the episode is entitled "Unidentified Black Males". So yes, the writers are obviously making a political point about scapegoats. (The black males in queston are not only "unidentified", they're nonexistent.)

I'm curious: Has owning an i-pod changed your collecting habits?

Anyone heard the SACD of "Gil Evans + 10"?

Was there a Bob Brookmeyer-Clark Terry releawse on Mainstream?

Elvis: Hound Dog/Don't Be Cruel. Now there's a double bill. But now that I think of it, I may have had this on '78. But the one I remember the look of the best was "That'll be the Day". Definitely on '45, though I never owned it. I just remember seeing it at parties. (So I guess you can see how old I am.)

I'll probably get this because of the Elvis connection.