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Saw The Cowboy Junkies Tonight. I loved them. No jazz content but they do have lyrics that go: Lunchtime. I start to dial your number then I remember so I reach for something to smoke and anyways I'd rather listen to Coltrane than go through all that shit again

Juan Tizol pulled a knife on Mingus while they were both with Ellington.

I don't remember much about it except that I thought it was real, real good.

He sent me a pm during that contretemps thanking me for defending him when Jim literally threatened him. I didn't really defend him, just responded to Jim. Didn't seem to be a moderator there.

KATANGA! (I needed to shout.)

I just read on-line that he had "come out" and was bitter about how some of his former friends reacted. I had a couple of pleasant e-mail exchanges with him and he was very forgiving about my obvious ignorance of the matters I was asking about.

I just gave. Is it political to point out that the health care system in the USA is insane? I was criticized for pointing this out when there was a similar campaign for Barney Kessel.

I hope that someone or some organization takes over "archive" and keeps his name on it

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.