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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.

Benny Carter. I think it's also the only one I have. I got it on the only occasion where I ever asked a friend to arrange a meeting with someone I admired. I brought along the sleeve from Further Definitions and asked him to sign it.

The Capital Cd is called Django Reinhardt: All-Star Sessions. You can get it on Amazon for $11.98. It also includes the Benny Carter- Coleman Hawkins sessions. (I think I have that session on more cds than anythng except maybe Bean's version of Body and Soul.

I think I have them on both a European Django cd and a capital US cd. (I'm not home so I"ll have to check later.)

I remember I once corresponded with someone who claimed to have heard a tape.I thought it was Peter Losin, but I just looked at his site and he's not sure such a tape exists.

In the meantime I went back to the cd myself and the vamp does seem to be the one from "It Ain't...". Though not listed as such in any discographies. Even Peter Losin's excellent Miles Aheaad site just calls it a fragment of "So What".

What's the vamp being played by the orchestra under the openng titles? Is it Gil's arrangment for "It Ain't Necessarily So"? BTW the show was recorded just a month after So What was originally recorded and between the 2 KOB sessions. Given Gil Evans's reputation for slowness it suggests that both Evanses -- Bill and Gil-- may have been involved in some of the composing for KOB. (And what's the correct spelling of the plural of "Evans"?)

BTW The late Shirley Clark also made a feature length film about Ornette Coleman.

Where can one get it? I'm an Evans completist (can never have too many versions of Little Wing) so I've had the cds since they came out. (Vol 1 came out in 2000 and Vol 2 in 2001). They're both still availabe at Amoeba in LA. What makes these distinctive is the use of Urszula Dudziak as a wordless vocalist. This is the Gil Evans DVD. http://www.towerrecords.com/product.aspx?pfid=2747554 Thanks. I do have this. It's not from Umbria, but it's very good. (Herb Geller plays on it!) According some discographies I've seen there's a Japanese DVD release of this show with at least one alternate number. Hard to tell though because the songs are not identified correctly on the US DVD. Anyone here know any sources for Japanese DVD's?