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I cribbed this from my friend David Palmquist: Time on your hands? If so, here’s a nice way for you to spend a few mid-day hours with no Covid travel risk! We have about 10 unfilled spots available for this year’s Duke Ellington International Study Group conference beginning April 29. It’s on Zoom, in English, and it will be free. There will be no commercial element - you won’t be swamped with ads. Instead of the usual three days of lectures and music, this year we’ll have four 3-hour sessions spread over a week. You can sign up for the whole kaboodle, or for your choice of days, subject to availability. This is the first virtual Ellington conference, but the Swedish and English Duke Ellington Societies have been doing weekly virtual sessions for several months now. It works. The presenters are fascinating and knowledgeable. Ulf Lundin, a “Swede in the south of France,” Bo Haufman, Göran Wallén and Anders Asplund, all of the Duke Ellington Society of Sweden, organized this year’s conference with advice from a program advisory group with Ian Bradley (London), Marilyn Lester (New York) and Joe Medjuk (Santa Barbara). Details at https://ellington.se/ellington-2021-april-29-and-may-3-5-7/ To register, send an email to ellington2021@outlook.com saying you want to attend and on which days. If you have students or musical friends you think might be interested, please pass this along to them. The session times are given in Central Europe Time, but I’ve added the Pacific Daylight Savings Time equivalent. Double check in case I made a mistake; it should be 9 hours difference. Times are set to be convenient throughout Europe and North America, but our friends in Australia, South America, the middle East, Africa and Asia may need to lose some sleep.

White bald guys with beards and glasses all look alike.

Have them contact me. I'm 2 degrees of separation from her. They can e-mail me at joe@medjuck.com

I just found this photo after thinking it had been lost for the last 25 years. Me and Benny Carter.

And pianist with Lady Day. Friends of mine wrote her biography called "Uncorked". Didn't know that about the "w", so maybe not them. I used to always wonder when I saw it listed with their compositions and presumed that meant Stoller wrote it.

Mine is coming USPS an according to the tracking is supposed to arrive Friday.

I think "Ruby Jewler" is Lieber and Stoller-- two smart cookies one of whom is still around. (IIRC Stoller who's married to Corky Hale.) I doubt that they would let it fall into the public domain and if it was renewed in 1981 it probably won't be pd for another 30 years.

There's a December 1938 air shot with with those 4 musicians available from Smithsonian Folkways that supposedly is the only extant recording of Fats and Satch. And I have obtained it. The cd also has 4 cuts from the James P. Johnson trio. You mean steal them?

In his autobiography Herbie Hancock relates that Donald Byrd advised him to play hardball with Lion re: publishing. He did, and as a result owned the publishing on Watermelon Man. With the money he made from it he bought (IIRC) a Jaguar XKE. BTW I believe (perhaps incorrectly) that the songwriters always get 50% of any income the publisher receives. But the publisher controls the musics usage.

I get fake numbers with the same first 6 digits as my cell phone.

Ditto on all of the above.

Is that on-lone from the stores? I know Amoeba is on-line.

Having gone to the Record Store Day website I have a couple naive questions: Will these records only be available from participating stores always and will they stick to the "limited editions"? E.g. If I want a cd of the Bird in LA does that mean I have to drive to LA on the day and brave the crowds at Amoeba or can I wait and presume that Verve will eventually want to sell more than 1800 copies of this cd. What has past experience shown?

From the director of Gun Crazy.

Me too.

Maybe they'll use the tapes mentioned here: https://www.laweekly.com/everybody-got-naked-with-charlie-bird-parker-at-the-wildest-party-in-l-a-history/

There are 1937 airshots from the William Penn Hotel, Pittsburgh and The Savoy Ballroom, NY.

Is that a woman? I once asked on this board and someone suggested it was Jimmy Rushing reacting to, and urging on, the band. (We may not be talking about the same thing.)

I'd go for the Savory Collection on Mosaic before it runs out. You'll only get 2 cds of Basie (with Prez), but the other 4 cds contain great stuff too. None of it is available elsewhere.

I read this and got very excited thinking it referred to the Miles sextet. Oh well.

It would be great if I presumed wrongly but after 60 years I've given up hope.

Shit. I love her work and once put her in a movie.

Here's another review: https://thebluemoment.com/

Review here: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/mar/28/floating-points-pharoah-sanders-lso-promises-review-extraordinary and it's now on Spotify. I first heard a cut on KCRW, didn't know what it was and went searching for it.