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Somewhere I read a letter from Pops to Mezzrow in which Louis asks Mezz to have some "arrangements" ready for him when he (Pops) arrived home for abroad. Whoever published to letter didn't seem to get that the "arrangements" (IIRC the word was in quotation marks) referred to pot.

My roommates and I watched the series when it was first on. We were graduate students but not (yet) stoners. We thought it was very philosophical.

Just read this on Peter Losin's "Miles Ahead" site: Several months ago the Louis Armstrong House Museum put a large number of Armstrong's tapes online. One of them includes a jam session featuring Charlie Parker and Big Nick Nicholas. The sound quality is poor, and most of the details of the session are unknown, but it is more "unheard Bird." With help from a lot of people I have tried to make sense of this session here. I'm trying to register so that I can get to hear it but haven't heard whether or not my request was accepted yet.

Not to me.

One only.

So was the Hurricane Club from where Ellington often broadcast.

I saw them there in 1964. In stacks on the floor. And I think it was Collets.

LPR? What's that?

I have a (probably false) memory of seeing Bill Goodwin play with Tim Hardin in Montreal in the late '60s. Can anyone confirm that this is just a hallucination?

New to me was what happened to Hank in his last years. Makes me despair for mankind.

I've stopped buying books about Dylan or Miles (between them they fill a shelf ) but I'm still buying Ellingtonia.

I bet there are even more on Bob Dylan.

I thought I 'd posted about this, but can't find it: even though I'm inept at this kind of thing I was easily able to jerry rig a potable cd player with a cheap device that plays the music through an unused frequency on your fm dial.

I probably read this when it was first published.

I believe that the Canadian company Naxos were sued (and lost) for importing such cds into the states. Too bad, since they have a great series of Ellington cds which include some cuts that aren't available elsewhere. Unfortunately my son is getting tired of answering my copyright questions. ( I think he's going to start billing me for his time.) . But I'll bug him about this anyway. Huh?

Don't think it was ever that but it was more than the 50 years after publication that used to be used in Europe. Also I'm curious about who the author of a sound recording is or are they all "works of corporate authorship".

I guess that would be Mount Allison. (Is it still called that? Have I spelled it correctly?)

What?! I grew up in Fredericton. Where did you live in NB?

Dolomite is My Name... which I loved and which features the Bihari Brothers as well as The Dunbar Hotel.

What's the rational for that gap? (I haven't finished reading the booklet yet, so maybe it's explained there.)

14:57 2 Body & Soul Written-By – Ben Webster, Johnny Green 20:25 3 How'd Ben Webster get the writer's credit on Body and Soul?

Ernie "Bubbles" Whitman was the mc on many Jubilee shows. IIRC he has a small part in Stormy Weather as James Reese Europe.

Yeh, I've always been pissed off by Pete Weldings liner notes for The Return of Art Pepper where he wastes a lot fo space knocking Sheldon's contribution. (And IIRC Mosaic reprinted those notes in their Pepper Select.)

Well I do remember it. Can't say that for everything from 1964.