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Ted Gioia started this: https://www.change.org/p/give-duke-ellington-the-pulitzer-prize-he-was-denied-in-1965?utm_content=cl_sharecopy_33959600_en-US%3A3&recruiter=1109027729&recruited_by_id=e91caf70-a6c9-11ea-881e-2d025b4bf7df&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_message&utm_term=psf_combo_share_initial&share_bandit_exp=message-33959600-en-US

They've organized the sessions by theme or style rather than chronologically e.g Disc 4 is all women singers. Works for me but have they ever done this before?

Yeh.

Arrived in Santa Barbara. Given that you can't get much further away on this continent from where it began its journey, everybody should have theirs soon.

I've read both books and like the way they contradict each other at least in terms of their evaluations of individual songs. Marcus's chapter on the Harry Smith anthology is really good but as a Canadian of a certain age I was offended by his condescension to Ian and Sylvia.

One of the first jazz Lps I ever bought --some 60 years ago. When I got more into jazz I learned it was frowned upon by hipsters.

Right. I read (too) fast.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogie_Woogie_(album) Has this ever been released as a cd (or even as an Lp)? And were they 10" or 12" 78s?

Me too. I can barely believe that it's the same guy on his own recordings.

I don't think this is true.

My copy of Jazz Modernism finally arrived. I may never get around to reading it but it's a beautiful book with many great illustrations: photos of musicians and colour reproductions of art works. Even the spine of the book is illustrated.

Just reading "From Swing to Bop" -a great book btw- and Ira Gitler explains that he was originally called "Kinney, short for McKinley".

Perhaps on release but IIRC most scores were at least recorded multi-track.

I don't think so. Last mono movie I worked on came out in '81.

Friend of mine used Lester's "The Great Pretender" in a short film she made. (I warned her that it might be really expensive but as usual I was wrong.)

Thanks, that's it. But is Appel quoting someone else or was he present at the event? The typology is confusing-- I can't tell if just the italicized part is from the book or whether the whole thing is. (I should just buy the book. the topic interests me.)

On twitter :"Harmony Holiday" just posted a great account of the night Stravinsky came to Birdland to hear Bird, but they didn't cite whom they were quoting. The quote was from someone sitting at the table next to Stravinsky. I've asked "Harmony Holiday" where it's from but she hasn't responded. Does anyone here know?

On the Criterion Channel. Watched it last night. Good stuff.

Fun, but not as interesting as I thought it would be.

Thanks. Worked great.

Lewis I get, but how was Schuller a power player at Atlantic?

Yes, please.

Does the 1946 Big Sleep count as noir? I love Max Steiner's score. And what was the first Noir to use actual jazz in the score? The Man with the Golden Arm?

Just noticed this on Peter Losin's excellent Miles Ahead site: Another installment in the Bootleg Series (May 1, 2022) After many stops and starts, the seventh set in the Miles Davis Bootleg Series will be released this fall. It will comprise unissued studio material from 1981-1984, plus the first official release of the full concert from Montreal's Théâtre St. Denis, parts of which were included on Decoy. In addition, the Montreal concert will be released separately on two LPs for Record Store Day. According to Losin there's a recording from the bowl in '82. I saw him there on a double bill with Gil Evans around that time. I was disappointed that Miles didn't sit in with Gil's band. (Nor Gil with Miles.) If it was '82 I'd seen both of them previously and had liked them better: Gil in Paris in '78 and Miles in Montreal with the 2nd great quintet in '64 or '65.

It seemed to me that the rhythm of "Legacy" was similar to those of network television shows with commercials.