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I have an image of thousands of Amazon trucks making deliveries tomorrow....

It took me years to figure out the release dates of Miles' recordings. I think Losin was able to nail most of them. Old Schwann catalogues help. Release dates really change the history.

I've always liked Rushing Lullabies. The You and Me We Used to Be-- the very last record he did-- is very good.

This is one includes Bird's set.

Looks like it was released: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064107/reference

Me too. On Amazon it was a couple of hundred bucks.

I bought tickets about 2 years ago for a concert with the Marvels. Cancelled for covid but rescheduled with Gerald Clayton, Reuben Rogers and Justin Brown. (It's ok, I've seen him with the Marvels, including Lucinda Williams, a couple of times.) I first heard him when Kieth Jarrett was still with him so that must have been nearly 50 years ago. Then didn't see him until I moved to Santa Barbara. i think I've seen him here 5 times in the last 20 years. Charles is 83, stood for the whole 2 hour with no intermission concert and danced a lot in a manner reminiscent of Monk-- including throwing his right elbow up as Monk did IIRC. Began with Dirge and then spoke about the passings of George Wein, Phil Schaap and Mikis Theodorakis. (He explained he usually didn't speak much at concerts but felt it was ok since he considered The Lobero his living room. ) I've never heard him sound better and I was very impressed by the rest of the group.

http://www.plosin.com/milesahead/Sessions.aspx?s=590402. The tv show is on the expensive CBS 50th. Anniversary of KOB set.

Charles Lloyd.

He also wrote "Duel" the tv movie directed by Steven Spielberg.

I think that the second refrain in Splanky is iconic-- and I hate that word.

He was very prolific and very nice.

Wow! Thanks so much. Just looked at it. The English translation of the story is dedicated to me so I narcissistically collect all the different editions of it I can find, but I don't have the one they show. Pepper Adams read The Bass Saxophone after he'd been diagnosed with cancer. He contacted Josef and invited him to a club engagement where the three of us sat and drank between sets.

So do I have this right: a contra bass is even bigger and lower sounding than a bass saxophone and there's even a bigger, lower sub-contra bass?

OK After 40 years I misremembered: it wasn't Bill Challis who remembered "Cloudy"-- it was band leader Charlie Davis. And she only uses the shot of Bix running once-- at the beginning of the film. This is a restoration and doesn't add any footage to the original. The music track consists chiefly of Bis solos which is a treat.

I saw this film in (I think) 1981 when it was at the now defunct Filmex film festival. IIRC at one point Bill Challis says he knows an unrecorded Box piano piece and asks the interviewer if she wants him to play it. At which point the audience of the film began shouting out "Yes, play it!" When she made the film the only known extant film of Bix was a brief, silent shot that (IIRC) she slowed down and used a couple of times. After her film came out a sound newsreel was found of the Whitman band in which Bix stands up and takes a solo. IIRC there are 2 takes or 2 angles of it. I always thought it was a shame it wasn't found in time to be included in the film so I'm curious as to whether she's now incorporated it. I'll try to watch it before the password expires tomorrow.

Where did you find the downloads?

I think there are some things online of Miles with Prince. Not the best work of either.

Does the revised film include the Bix footage that was found after she originally released the film?

Ditto. And I got to see him at a rock festival a couple of years ago.

Watched "The Fugitive Kind" last night. Got a sense of how exciting Brando must have seemed in the '50s. Also music by Kenyon Hopkins.

Volume 2, which is just from 1938 is available too.

Complete Mildred Bailey on Columbia available on Spotify.

When it comes to Basie I'm a moldy fig: the older, the better. I especially like the air shots from the late '30s. However I do recommend the 5 cd box set "From the Crescendo, 1958."

Just finished reading the complete published (in book form) works of Frank Conroy-- a total of 5 books, four of which are pretty short. "Stop Time": a rather disturbing memoir. "Body and Soul": One of the best novels about music I've read. "Mid Air": A collection of short stories. "Time and Tide": a book about Nantucket, part of the "Crown Journeys Series". "Dog's Bark, but the Caravan Rolls On": a collection of articles and essays several about music and musicians in which we learn that Conroy sometimes supported himself as a piano player who jammed with (amongst others) Mingus, Paul Desmond and Charlie Watts. He writes that after Mingus had "...once again sat in with me. "What's going on, Charlie? You're the best bassist in the world and I'm a putzer." "You are," he said expansively, "an authentic primitive. That is true." He leaned forward and lowered his voice. "But you swing." He does indeed.