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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.

I didn't know that this had happened but Losin lists one performance: http://www.plosin.com/milesahead/Sessions.aspx?s=860615

I even own a signed (by Herman Leonard not Dexter) copy of this but just realized I don't know who the drummer is.

So that's not the version on Contemporary I guess. I wanted to use Sonny's version of There's No Business Like Show Business at the end of an HBO film we did called The Late Shift. Someone-- (the record company? Sonny? his management? ) wanted more money that we could afford. Turned out to be cheaper to do a new recording with Pete Christlieb.

Wasn't the hit version of Alfie by Cher? BTW Somewhere there should be a separate track of the film music. Music, dialogue and effects tracks are usually preserved separately in order to do foreign language versions of the film. (Though, IIRC sometimes the music and effects are married on one tape. )

I saw Budd Johnson with the Earl Hines Quartet but it was 1965 and they wore business suits.

Never head of this. Is it as good as it looks? (I once was working with someone from WEA records and got him to make me cds of all the Witherspoon records on Reprise that had not come out on CD including the great one with Webster.)

Who was in that band?

I thought hearing it in stereo was a revelation. I just wondered what purists thought.

I'm curious: Is it in mono?

IIRC (and I often don't) Getz tried to screw Charlie Byrd out of royalties for Jazz Samba even though it was Byrd's idea.

When I first start dating my wife in 1976 I took her to see Steve Reich and then the Cecil Taylor trio on the same day. She fell asleep during the 2nd concert. Somehow we're still married.

I saw her a few years ago in Toronto. She was great.

I've jerry-rigged a cd player into my fm system. I expect it would be better if I blue-toothed it.

Neil Young Joan Baez Tim Hardin The Who Jefferson Airplane The Band Blood Sweat and Tears

Lady Madonna