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Me too. As I said elsewhere I think if they ship it within the next couple of weeks this will be the shortest time between an informal announcement of a set and it's actual shipping. (Well maybe it was faster in the earlier days.)

A few weeks ago I ordered a used cd via Amazon and later realised I already had it. It went into the USPS system and never came out. I used the Amazon site to inform the dealer who immediately refunded my money. It's better to be lucky than smart.

I make fun of myself by pointing out It was the first Dylan record I bought . I thought I was too hip to buy rock and roll or folk-- only jazz Lps for me. Not sure why I bought it but I liked it. Most of the Dylan Heads I knew didn't. (I knew several people who had been folkies and only got into rock when Dylan went electric. ) I bought every Dylan after that as soon as they came out until Slow Train. Blood on the Tracks really sealed the deal for me. I think the most underrated record is Street Legal.

It has, I believe, a pair of tracks not found elsewhere: the rehearsal (?) for Ebony Rhapsody parts one and two.

Just got this in an e-mail re: Armstrong and Henderson sets: "Due to Covid-19 protocols at the warehouse, collating and shipping the sets has slowed down. We have had a really strong response to the new Joe Henderson set and we expect to ship all the initial orders in 1 - 2 weeks. We sincerely apologize for the delay and appreciate your patience." OTOH even if the Henderson set doesn't ship for 2 weeks, isn't this the fastest ever time from announcement to shipping of a Mosaic set?

I thought it was really good with great performances. Apparently it was ignored at awards season because Carey Mulligan's people wanted to concentrate on "Promising Young Woman".

Ditto. (Though cover should mention "Record of the Week" or whatever that label was called.

I'm in for Clarence Shaw.

Probably.

And indeed it did! So from the day of my firs notification it was one week until I got a shipping notification and then one more week until it arrived via USPS.

Hey now it says it's arriving today!

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.