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Is there a discussion of the Blakey anywhere? If not, has anyone here heard it and how is it?

2 questions: Does anyone know how many songs from the Goodman jam session there are in the collection? And what songs are the 2 great Pres solos from?

About 60 years ago I saw Milt Buckner with a large band at a club called The Black Bottom in Montreal but I can't remember who the leader of the band was.

I saw Don Newcom at a jimmy Smith club show. I thought it was Sonny Rollins till Jimmy introduced him.

I'm getting ads from this label on Facebook. Is there anything they've released that I should buy? Who are they and how good are their recordings?

Me too.

I had a girl friend many years ago who only owned one jazz record and this was it. I didn't know about this but bought it (cheap) on Amazon for Pee Wee. It's great. Thanks for the recommendation. A weird brain fart: for years I remembered that in my home town, which only had one radio station, it not only played cover versions of early rock and roll (Pat Boone instead of Little Richard) but a cover of Buddy Knox's Party Doll by Muggsy Spanier. I recently mentioned this to a knowledgeable friend and he pointed out that it was Wingy Manone who'd done a cover of Party Doll. I checked it out on Lord and he was right. Now I'd never heard of either trumpeter at that time so when did I do the transference?

IIRC (and I often don't) he was on a Mose Allison tribute record along with Georgie Fame and Van Morrison.

IIRC (and I often don't) the only known footage of Brownie is from the Soupy Sales show. Perhaps that's why they invited him.

Lester's later playing?

IIRC they named both of them as "inspirations" for the film on the poster! (At least in the US)

Am I the only one who doesn't like his playing in Round Midnight? I think that film has a lot to do with why he became more famous than Stitt. IIRC when I started listening to jazz in the late '50s early '6os Stitt was the more famous of the two. BTW I do like Dexter's earlier work especially Go! I saw him once walking through LAX all by himself carrying his saxophone and looking very distinguished.

I have in movie theaters. It's great. I know there are some Blu rays being redone in Dolby. Atmos but I haven't heard any yet. Also I suspect you need special speaker placement (and extra speakers).

Even in the movie OP gets special billing. Was he that famous (or appreciated)?

Who else was in the group? (Not Monk, I presume.)

Ted Gioia tweeted that "Old Time LA jazz people who were on the scene in 1945 told me this was the first genuine bebop band to play on the West Coast. It shook up the local players and paved the way for Bird and Dizzy to play Billy Berg's a few months later." Sort of echoes Scott DeVeaux's emphasis on the importance of Hawkins to BeBop. Interesting that they give billing to OP. (btw is it ok to quote things from twitter?)

SonnyMax who's obviously a better researcher than I am pm'd me the following: From what I could find, MOMA and TCM issued a restored version of the film in 1998 on videotape. This was the occasion for which a “percussive score [was] added”. Interestingly, I also found this in the NYT, dated February 4, 2001: “On Saturday February 10 at 2 p.m., the Newark Museum will screen one of Micheaux's silent films, ''The Symbol of the Unconquered'' (1920). The drummer Max Roach will provide the percussive accompaniment to the film he performed once before on television.”

You sure?

I recently watched TCM's presentation of Oscar Michaux's 1920 "The Symbol of the Unconquered" and the opening titles include a credit reading "Music by Max Roach"! Sure enough the originally silent film was accompanied only by one long drum solo which seemed to have been done specifically for the film though I'm not sure that's possible given that I don't think the only surviving print of the film was discovered long enough before Max's death for it to have been screened for him. IIRC the translated English titles were copyrighted 2008. (The print was found in Belgium and had French titles.) Anyone here know anything about this?

But did they use the name "trad"? I think of the term as being British. (BTW Richard Lester's first feature film was called "It's Trad Dad", but given a different title in the US. It's worth searching out for the cinematography if not the music.)

When I first started listening to jazz in the early '60s I asked a friend what "mainstream" meant and he said "mainly people who once played with Basie."

I'm presuming it doesn't run at a loss but I'm not sure it makes "a tidy profit", and I am sure the new owners will want it to.

What can you tell me about Bob Reynolds.

I met him once 40 years ago and he talked a lot about being inspired by meeting Clifford Brown's widow.

Great titles.