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He was a true scholar of, as well as a participant in, the music. RIP

Since this doesn't mention sound recordings here's a good summary of where we stand with them: (And it's not good.): http://www.publicdomainsherpa.com/public-domain-sound-recordings.html It basically says almost no recorded music is pd in the USA.

It's a beautiful box too.

There are some airchecks with Prez on clarinet in the Savory collection.

I'm just about the same but I must admit I usually stop at 50 pages if I'm not into it-- though that rarely happens.

Didn't Gil ask that the quartet sids not be released. (I have to admit I have them.)

Do you mean "It's About That Time"? IIRC that's the one with an unused theme. And Teo takes another phrase and makes it the theme which is the version Miles then begins playing live.

Happy Birthday!

I asked Mark Cederquistr and he replied: "I don't think so. There's an adhesive mark on side A (Keynote 1303-A), but that could've been from any number of things like a personal label w/the owner's name to the music shop it was sold at to a cataloging sticker and Lord knows what else. The original label is smooth enough without any damage to think that there might've been a Mercury label pasted to the other side. In any case, what you see above is how I got it in 2001. If there was another Mercury label on side A, whoever removed it did the best label removal job I've ever seen."

I asked permission to repost this from the original poster. It's a pretty amazing discovery about Keynote (Unfortunately I think you have to copy the whole address to get to it.) https://www.facebook.com/SwingMan1937?__tn__=%2CdlC-R-R&eid=ARDztYX_YlJGyz4tdhdPFNDR-Joz1r8Pw2RYnSbHfY34dhNuWHDZEX6vFQAhcy4DAF3ND1spAL_JJ6fD&hc_ref=ARSkOZbYkXMinGr0BPo3wlpQR-0BnRf1T5mSckztoAR-I49pEL6Z1DELHS0L0_J1FY0 Here's a bit of it:

Just the first one. This must be only semi legal: I'm pretty sure that most of his work is not pd yet.

Between the Mosaic Pres/Basie set which includes the Keynotes and the 4 cd Hawkins Keynote set I have about 35 of the alternates. (There's a lot on the Hawkins set.)

From the description I presume so. If you check David Palmquist's TDWAW site Duke's March itinerary doesn't leave much room for such a concert unless it's one of the last two days before he went into the hospital. I haven't been able to find a reference to this performance on-line but I'm not that good at such research. http://tdwaw.ellingtonweb.ca/TDWAW.html#Yr1974

March 1974: Benefit for St. Clare's Hospital at the Waldorf Astoria. George describes it in detail but none of the Ellington scholars I've asked have found any reference to it. Maybe he got the date wrong.

I've read "Sweet Man" and enjoyed it, though it is frowned on by most EKE scholars because it spends so much time on Duke's and George's sexual exploits. More anecdotal than scholarly and apparently not reliable. (He talks a lot about Duke's last live appearance which no one else seems to be able to verify.) Actually since I first posted this I've verified this last live appearance myself.

Funny, I was listening to it at the gym this morning for the same reason.

If you can find it (and afford it) the 2 volume New DESOR lists nearly every known extant recorded performance by Ellington and breaks down each song while naming each soloist. Timner is not as complete but is cheaper and I believe easier to find.

What's "Urban Jungle"? A Squatty Roo Ellington release?

This description from an Amazon review of New Mood Indigo makes it sound like it's the same recordings: This CD was put out by CBS's special project label: Signature. It is economically priced, and features cuts from four different sessions, all recorded in the 60's. One of the sessions was a project Duke never completed - an album featuring Ray Nance as a soloist, in the same vein as the album he did that featured Paul Gonsalves. That session is only made up of three tunes, with Nance singing "Jump for Joy," and a rousingly comic version of "Mack the Knife." Another session is made up of three tunes played by a sextet led by Mercer Ellington with Nance, Hodges, Carney, Louis Bellson, Aaron Bell and Chick Corea.

What?! Who? What's the source of this?

I can't find the long discussion about music streaming but I thought I'd pass along the latest manifestation of the move to bytes rather than atoms. I got an-email from Smithsonian Folkways advertising an up-coming release of a box set of music from the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. When I clicked on the order link https://orcd.co/jazzfest it offered not only the box set and various places to download it but links to reserve it on streaming services!

I have Harper with Gil and saw him with The Cookers in London a couple of years ago. But I have no other cds. From what's readily available what should I get? Black Saint? Since I first posted this I discovered that I can sample various Harper records on Spotify.

I 'm not sure I've even ever heard Kay Kyser but he's an interesting example of cultural amnesia. In his book "Jammin' at the Margins (Jazz and the American Cinema)" Krin Gabbard devotes several pages to Kyser pointing out that he was incredibly popular right up there with Goodman and Dorsey and sold way more records than Ellington but he's usually dismissed as not only not swinging but not even playing jazz. However after generally denigrating him, Gunther Schuller in "The Swing Era" does admit that the band "could, when required, play with an infectious rhythmic swing". BTW I used to be an academic and the book this thread is about is a good example of why I'm glad I'm not anymore.

I just watched it too. I don't think I'd ever seen all of it before. It is indeed wonderful.

Thanks so much.