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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.

Great review of it here: https://thebluemoment.com/ and it's now on Spotify. with pretty good documentation of who's playing on each cut.

Is it possible to reactivate the poll? I expect that a lot of people have received the shots by now and I'm curious to see how many.

I have to watch that film again. The first (and only) time I saw it, I was very upset by how feeble he seemed-- including his playing. A few years before I had seen him walking through LAX, carrying his sax case and looking majestic. I remember thinking "There he goes: long, tall, Dexter." Everything I'd heard him play sounded very strong to me and I thought his playing in the film was not up to his standards.