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What !! I never realized that.

Speaking of the Colonial.

I didn't realize this existed. I've often wondered why there was never a single cd release of the entire session.

Savoy Ballroom broadcast.

I did meet several people who worked in Hollywood in the '40s but they tended to tell personal stories and anecdotes rather than give overall views. Stories were great but not sure I could confirm or deny McCoy's views. Also, having just read the most depressing book of all time (A Fine Balance) I'm not sure I could take another one.

I know who Horace McCoy is, but I don't know this novel. Is it worth reading?

I recently watched as many musicals from the era as I could find. The 3 WBs from 1933 with mostly the same cast are all great. 42nd St., Gold Diggers of 1933 and Footlight Parade (which may be my favorite).

Mrs. Rupert Murdoch

Now that they're down to 4 box sets is it ghoulish to bet on which one will be the last one to go? (I realize they have 2 more in the works.) BTW If you don't have the Savory box you're missing out on some great music.

I'm loving this release. Both concerts-- though I played 1975 first since I've heard so many of the '64 concerts. (I think I have most of them on DVD). Just as I was thinking that Johnny Coles was really sounding like mid-'50s Miles on" Meditations on Integration" he quoted both "Bye Bye Blackbird" and "I Got Plenty of Nothin'".

Way to welcome someone to the board.

Vibes and trombone(s) struck a chord. Made me remember an Lp I got from the Columbia Record Club in 1960. https://www.discogs.com/Lionel-Hampton-Silver-Vibes-With-Trombones-And-Rhythm/master/367799

I looked at my copies. Belafonte is the narrator but it's mainly performance. I think the Discogs description is wrong: It's only an hour long and the picture they show is of a VHS tape not a DVD.

I thought it had never been released on DVD. I think I've got a couple of DVDrs made from the video tape so the definition is not too great. . (IIRC got one of them via Altman estate.) PM me and I'll send you one. Also I don't remember Belafonte's narration, just the performances.

Gotta watch that film. I bought a jazz photography book at Dutton's in North Hollywood many years ago and the young woman at the checkout (whom I had seen there often) said that there was a picture of her dad in it. I asked who and she said "Joe Albany" to which I replied "You mean the legendary Joe Albany." She laughed and took my money. I guess it was A.J.

Probably everyone else here knows all this but I didn't: I'd always presumed that it cost the same to send something anywhere in the country and cost was based on weight or size only. Not so: except for letters, the further away something is the more it costs to mail it. However, media mail is an exception: you're charged by weight only no matter where in the States you're mailing to. I found this out when I went to mail a Mosaic set to Rooster and it only cost a little over $3 to go from Santa Barbara to DC. Even more amazing: I sent it Tuesday and it arrived today!

I'll bite: What was the new sin sweeping America?

It's because of Ben Webster completists. (OK I'll shut up now. -- But one last thing : it's not listed in the 300 page "Ben a Discography by Langhorn & Sjogren" )

I think it's because Roy Eldridge and Ben Webster are on a couple of cuts on Belafonte Sings the Blues. (If I knew how to add emojis I'd add one here.)

I'm just listening to the 1975 concert too. I love it.

One thing not mentioned here and which I only recently learned: Wax cylinders couldn't be stamped for reproductions. The earliest ones could only recorded with a separate machine for each cylinder so they did about 5 at a time. If one was popular, the artist would just keep redoing it. I presume they soon found a way around this. Anyone know?

Terrible print of a bad but fascinating film. I watched it because the music is by Ellington. Most of the score is made up of brief cues but you get to hear a lot of EKE's piano-- solo and in duets with a bass-- as well as a lot of Harry Carney and a beautiful Johnny Hodges solo over a sex scene. Klaus Stratemann's authoritative "Duke Ellington, Day by Day and Film by Film" says ""Change of Mind" appears to have enjoyed limited distribution only." No wonder: the plot is about a white district attorney whose brain is transplanted into the body of a Black man. The films deals with the political, social and even sexual complications that ensue. Oh, and Leslie Neilson plays a racist cop accused of murder. This is not a comedy.

Thanks. Checked the Wikipedia entry and realized that I've (falsely) remembered the Chandler ending as being that of the film. Checked the screenplay and see that I was wrong. BTW published screenplay has an addendum by Mathew Broccoli (sp?) that explains the change.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2020-11-12/wax-cylinder-dentist Great story with almost no jazz references but can't help but think there's some relevance. (And no, they don't mention Buddy Bolden.)

I saw Wallace at a local place which is upstairs with an outdoor patio. On a cold night (by Santa Barbara standards) the indoors was packed but the outside empty. Then Roney began playing and he was fucking great. I looked outside and there was a solitary man using the whole patio to dance to the music. I thought of joining him but didn't want to get that far from the fire.