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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.

Fair enough, but where did you learn this? I've probably read it but don't remember it. ( I can say that about a lot of things nowadays.)

Because the pictures and liner notes were so good. 512L2dsgeyL._AC_UY436_FMwebp_QL65_.webp Because the cd release doesn't have all the cuts.

Sounds a bit like a Hitchcock thriller when described this way. (Hitch did make one film, Rear Window, from a Woolrich story.) I've only read a couple of Cornell Woolrich books.: which ones most parallel Blue Dahlia?

IIRC Irvin Mayfield portrayed himself as a hustler on "Treme".

Were none of the Freddie Webster tracks released as singles?

I'll trade/sell/give it to you. PM Me

I've had two different girl friends who rode bikes and sometimes (fearfully ) I would ride behind them. That's the extent of my biker experience. (I just realized that they both had red hair-- though my wife has pointed out that most of my girlfriends, including her,had red hair. )

At the recording session for The Beat Goes On (which I consider a great song) after strumming the same chord over and over again, he stood up and announced to the rest of The Wrecking Crew "You know, guys, this song has got a great change." Then he turned to the recording booth and said to Sonny Bono "Never have so many played so little for so much."

There are two versions of this movie. They sent the earlier version to Armed Forces abroad. Then To Have and Have Not came out and Bacall's agent fought to have more scenes with her put intoThe Big Sleep . You can get both versions on the same DVD. Some people have claimed that the earlier version made more sense: It doesn't. BTW to me the book points to Joe Brody as the killer o.Owen Taylor. Brody keeps changing his story, each time admitting that he was with Owen closer to his death than in his previous story, and he does end up with the photos Owen was carrying. In the book she is referred to as "an intelligent Jewess" and someone has written a whole book with her as the protagonist.

When Amazon has it they want an insane amount of money. You can get it from the author at : http://www.stjamesinfirmary.ca/purchase.html

I've now read a whole book on this topic.