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Does anyone here have information about who plays on "Josephine" by Jimmy Babyface Lewis?

Wow Thanks. This isn't even in The New DESOR. IS it ok to share this with the Duke Ellington List-Serve?

Do you think Alan Furst's books capture it well?

WOW. It's in Santa Barbara, where I live, and I've never heard of it.

Could you explain the difference please. I guess you mean "transcriptions" were made at the club itself and "airshots" were taken at a remotes place having been sent over telephone wires-- which apparently Savory did for a living.)

In '42 they were broadcast by NBC.

There are several air checks of Ellington from the Hotel ShermanChicago.

IIRC (and I often don't) shortly after the film opened there was an article in Time or Newsweek citing all the P&B records that had been released and saying that the Miles/Gil was the best or perhaps that it was even the best selling.

I forgot. I have it too. It's interesting (I mean that in a good way.) Summertime by the Ellington band is out of place but otherwise it is a pretty good attempt at presenting the entire show with an a narrator and a variety of singers playing roles: there's Mel Torme and Francis Faye in the titles roles but also Johnny Hartman, Betty Roche and even (briefly) Bob Dorough.

I have Miles, Ella and Louis, Bill Potts, The Clark Terry doing Gil's arrangements, the Pete Jolly, and Ray & Cleo. Once owned Belafonte & Lena Horne-- didn't care for it.

Was there once a thread about all the jazz versions Porgy and Bess? I just found another: In the Charlie Parker Records box set that came out a few years ago there's a record called Pete Jolly Gasses Everybody where all of the songs are from P&B. I think that makes about the 6th version I have. I don't know if it counts as jazz but one of my favorites is the Norman Granz produced one with Ray Charles and Cleo Lane.

Hmmm. I wonder if they'll use any of Renaldo and Clare? And IIRC Joni Mitchell played more than one show. (I saw the Revue in Toronto and even saw Renaldo and Clare, though I don't remember much about it.) And BTW there's already a bootleg series box-- vol 5-- from 1975 and the Rolling Thunder Review.

Uhhh..... What Netflix documentary?

Creedance Clearwater couldn't have hurt.

Actually it became Feed'n the Bean which Hawkins recorded with the Basie band later that year. Then even later it became The Bean Stalks Again in The Hawk in HiFi. (Where Bean and the Boys became 39"-25"-39" I had much the same experience seeing him shortly before he died. I wouldn't have recognized him by his playing. (Though he did of course play Take Five.)

Am I the only one here who was into Jazz before I was into Rock? As I said earlier I was a jazz snob when I saw Pink Floyd and The yardbirds in the '60s. I had liked Elvis when he made hi first Lps and liked Little Richard and Fats Domino but I didn't get Chuck Berry at all. I thought the duck walk was embarassing. As I said I was a teenage jazz snob. I finally got into the Beatles in 1966 or so but never understood my students who liked groups like The Kinks.

I was wrong: I have a "collected" short stories but not a complete short stories. I just discovered that you can buy a kindle edition of The Complete Writings of F. Scott Fitzgerald for $1.49! (I think most of his work is now PD despite the new opyright laws.)

Here's a very recent story about Amazon backing off of some of these practices because of political heat from E. Warren: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/03/amazon-removes-special-promo-spots-for-private-label-products.html

I read a version that supposedly was the "revised" edition that Fitzgerald prepared after the commercial failure of the original edition. May have been a mistake on my part. The first two: Call for the Dead and A Murder of Quality are good, easy reads and important for understanding Smiley. I have a "complete" short stories volume and somehow didn't notice that some of them involved continuing characters. (Except the Pat Hobby stories.) How many Basil &Josephine stories are there?

I have a cd entitled Jukebox Jazz which is a compilation of records originally released on small Chicago labels for radio and jukebox play. It includes cuts done by Coleman Hawkins and Jimmy Rushing. I can scan the notes and send them to you if you like. Just tracked it down at Amazon: https://smile.amazon.com/Jukebox-Jazz-Southside-VARIOUS-ARTISTS/dp/B0009IW9O8/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_2?keywords=Jukebox+Jazz%21+from+the+southside+of+Chicago&qid=1554272946&s=music&sr=1-2-fkmrnull

What's the discographical info on "Ill Get Away"?

Wow. I've seen Trucks with the Tedeschi-Trucks band. Didn't know he could play like this.

Haven't listened to all of it yet but really like what I have heard. (I was listening while working out at the Y this morning. Great exercise music.) Only one I've id'd is number 7 (which was pretty easy). Metronome al stars and they really were all stars-- Basie, Bean, Christian, Carter, Goodman etc. I think Bean's solo was one he later turned into a song. One Step Down maybe?

I wish they had sent out all that information with the cd. Or did they, and I just lost or misplaced it? Anyway I've printed it out now and tucked it into the cd sleeve.

Not really a fan but I did see them at a free concert in Hyde Park in 1968. They were the headliners but others on the bill included T-Rex (who were still acoustic) and Jethro Tull who impressed me because they had a flute player who sounded a bit like Roland Kirk. (I was a jazz snob.)