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All his choices are great and he doesn't even use anything from Saxophone Colossus.

According to the liner notes "at the artist/producer's request, the original multitrack recordings were remixed to digital tape...." Little Wing from the original album is on the Jimi Hendrix Evans album. Aftermath:the Fourth Movement... was on a strange cd that was half Evans and half Mingus. The Meaning of the Blues is 14 minutes longer on the cd! Joy Spring, So Long and Buzzard Variation are not on the original. The only thing you can't find on any cd I know of are the "short portions" of Comes a Time that were deleted. Is this a cd?

I'm a huge Chandler fan. I think I've read everything by and about him except his laundry lists but I'm a heretic amongst other Chanderphiles because I believe he began to deteriorate half way through The Long Goodbye. (Playback is hardly worth mentioning.) And I think the ending of the Altman/Leigh Brackett movie is better than the ending of the book even if the ending of the film is partially stolen from The Third Man. (Go ahead-- throw things at me. )

Where are you!?

I saw him in Amsterdam in 1975 with (I guess) his band of the time. I've always appreciated that he was involved in producing a Gil Evans concert video in 1983 as well as playing drums on it.

Not much interest in football there. (We only played rugby in high school.). Big decision was whether to root for Habs or Toronto.

Fredericton, NB. Went to McGill in 1961 and saw a lot of great live jazz.

Does it count if they were really your parents' and your older sisters'? If so, Benny Goodman Carnegie Hall Concert, Ambassador Satch, a 10" Goodman Trio, and a 10 inch Ellington. No one in my family was a jazz fan but these were popular records at the time. First jazz Lp I bought (after I'd bought Harry Belafonte, Elvis and Fats Domino) was Brubeck: Red Hot and Cool because I'd read about him in Time magazine and I loved the record's cover. There were very few jazz Lps in the only record store in my home town and I bought the next one i saw; Sonny Rollins and the MJQ at Music Inn. So I joined the Columbia record club in 1959 and the first Lps I got were KOB, JJ Johnson (forget title), Lionel Hampton (Silver Vibes), Mingus Ah Um and Ellington Indigos. Good year to join. For reasons I've never understood my oldest sister gave me The Hawk in Hi Fi for my birthday when I was 14. I still love it, but I have no idea why she got it for me. I'd never heard of Hawkins at the time and I'm sure she hadn't either.

In some ways it's too bad that CTI overshadows his earlier work as a producer: Genius + Jazz = Soul, Blues and the Abstract Truth, Out of the Cool, Africa Brass, Jazz Samba....

Benny Goodman Trio.

I suspect it's out of print but how about Port of Harlem Jazzmen?

Saw him last night. He gave a long solo to his sax player in the very first number; a baritone sax-- the way rock n roll is supposed to sound.

Just finished both "From Swing to Bop" by Gitler and "Tonight at Noon" by Sue Mingus. I recommend both. And I'd like to thank all those here who recommended the Gitler. It's terrific.

Sinatra tried to buy Verve Records! ? And I didn't realize that Ostin had been mentored by GRanz.

It does capture his graciousness.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/08/the-saxophonist-charles-lloyd-still-stirring-the-soup-at-eighty-four Nice to see him getting noticed even if this is short and superficial. (And btw he lives a long way from Oprah and whoever the royals are. It's like saying you live down the street from Trump if you live in Miami.)

Isn't Marshal Royal playing clarinet rather than alto on some of the McVea cuts or has my hearing deteriorated even more than thought? The personnel listings only show him on alto.

This is great. Are there places where one can find Roney's reminiscences of Miles? All more interesting to me than his "bio".

I wonder if they do much market research? I always thought this forum (for better or for worse) was a representative sampling of the jazz cd buying public and they're doesn't seem to be much enthusiasm for this set here. I've never been on the Hoffman forum; do they display much different taste?

Resistance is futile.

Well I've now read it and quite enjoyed it. Book is divided into 4 parts each built around a jazz musician: Jo Jones, Fats Waller, Pops and Duke. He tells other, probably apocryphal, stories about gigs he implies he attended: he may have seen Trane with Monk but I doubt if he was present at an encounter between Buddy Rich and Big Sid Catlett. (Big Sid died when Appel was 15). I don't buy many of his interpretations of works of art (for him a cigar is never just a cigar) but his close reading jazz recordings is really interesting and his writing on Joyce's Ulysses is terrific.

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.