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I have both the RVG and The Complete. Do I need this? Wouldn't it be great if they discovered some new live tracks? Or even more unlikely some rehearsal tapes? BTW According to an old copy I have of "Goldmine's Price Guide to Collectable Jazz Albums 1949-1969" some of this material (probably 8 tracks?) was issued in 1954 on a 10" Lp entitled "Jeru" before it was issued as "Birth of the Cool" on a 12"Lp in 1956. I've never seen a copy of "Jeru" but wonder if the cover attempted to sell it as a Gerry Mulligan record.

Sometime in the mid '80s I saw Dexter all by himself with a saxophone case on a moving sidewalk at LAX. He looked great. I turned to my wife and said "Hey that's Long Tall Dexter the coolest man alive. I can only hope I look like that when I grow up." I was about 45 at the time.

IIRC he plays it pretty straight in Lonely Are the Brave and A Face in the Crowd.

I read it and liked it a lot more than you do. But I didn't know much about him -- especially his pre-Elvis days so I found it al interesting. One of his artists (can't remember whether it was Carl Perkins or Jerry Lee Lewis) sure has bad things to say about him.

I saw them with Mingus twice in Toronto a year or so apart. Both times were great.

Richard Williams on 1965: https://thebluemoment.com/?s=1965

Unfortunately no.

Track 13 is "Have You Met Miss Jones" . No idea who's playing it but I sure like it.

I saw it. Loved it for a half hour or so then got tired of all the drug and acting like an asshole years.

Overlapped with him in Toronto. I had students who claimed they'd gone to high school with him a few years before.

Could track one be Stephane Grappelli?

This may be the only time I ever bought a book because of its cover and title (and it was 25cents in a thrift store). Awkwardly translated from Spanish and full of name dropping and yet it has power-- especially the last five pages. Should be of interest to those who were reading about the Spanish civil war

I saw it at 1:15 on a Sunday in a 1/2 full (mainly older people) theater. Most laughter (including mine) I've heard in a theater in years-- and I'm a Toronto fan.

It's that time of year again! Happy Birthday!

Snug Harbor is great, Tom McDermott is great. Don't know the others.

I may be wrong (I often am) but I believe that though the recording may be pd in Europe the composition is not and the Arlen estate is owed money from the European record company. Good luck with collecting that.

Sort of the way I remember the Club Saint Germain. (I saw Wingy Manone there.)

75! A mere child. (Says the 76 year old.)

I just got a note from Facebook saying it's Chuck Nessa's birthday. they wouldn't lie would they?

I don't seem to even have the free service but if you do try that link I gave and see what happens. Actually I just clicked on that link and without my logging in (not that I'd know how) I've just heard three Bill Evans cuts in a row-- though one was with Jim Hall.

Yes.

Huh? Maybe I wasn't listening to Pandora (I thinkI was) but they were playing 3 or four Evans tunes in a row. https://www.pandora.com/artist/bill-evans/ARrwKcVZzxzbkx9

I recently discovered that a couple of my friends usually have their Pandora tuned to "The Bill Evans Station" (or something like that). It's mostly, but not just, Evans's music. They keep it on almost constantly. These people are not big jazz fans so presumably others have also found this station. Does this mean that the Evans estate now gets meaningful income from Pandora?

IIRC he played bass clarinet when I saw him at a rock festival a couple of years ago.

Reading the history of the band and the rest of the lyrics I on't think that's the case. Wow: how old is she now? I saw her a couple of years ago and really enjoyed it.