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IIRC in the '50s he was known as a "serious" writer of such tv productions as "Requiem for a Heavy Weight" and "Patterns" (both I think originally on "Studio One"). He's also the screenwriter for the fairly bad "Assault on a Queen" which I've studied because of the (butchered) score by Ellington.

Could one really march to that beginning?

Saw him with a local Montreal rhythm section in the early sixties. IIRC saw Art Farmer with same rhythm section a few weeks later. Maybe the only time I saw either of them.

IIRlC there are several Eno interviews (or at least one long one) in a Danial Lanois documentary called "Here is what it Is". There's also lots with and about Brian Blade in it.

IIRC (and I often don't) not every cut on "Always Know" has been released on cd. Similarly not every cut on the Hal Wilmer produced Monk tribute 2Lp set "That's the Way I Feel Now" was included on the single cd release. (In both cases I burned a cd to replicate the double Lp from whatever cuts were on cd plus the ones on Lp only.)

Konitz and Braxton played together on Dave Brubeck's "All the Things We Are" Lp. Did Braxton record with Konitz or Marsh elsewhere?

This is why you should never repeat other people's opinions about art till you've experiences it yourself. I used to go crazy listening to opinions about movies from people who hadn't seen them but had read Pauline Kael's or the NYTimes" review. Is that online? (the night of coverage)

There is a feature length documentary about him called "Sergio Mendes in the Key of Joy". When it was shown at the Santa Barbara Film Festival Mendes introduced it and performed with his group.

jo Jones is listed as being on one cut only. Otherwise Nick Stabulas.

BTW It's Bird's only tv appearance but not his only film appearance. There's the film he did for Norman Granz though the music was pre-recorded.

I first heard it by Bing Crosby and the Andrew Sisters.

I just read this in a comment to a post on Richard Williams' "The Blue Moment" blog where he reviewed a new Scott LaFaro collection: "I just wanted say Scott LaFaro lovers should check out the remastered versions of the Village Vanguard recordings and also “Ornette!” and “Free Jazz a collective improvisation” on Werner Uehlinger’s ezz-thetics Revisited series.There is so much more to hear from LaFaro on these. Steve Beresford told me that the audience noise on the Vanguard recordings were added as post hoc sound effects because it was felt the recordings did not sound live enough." Does anyone here know anything about this?

Blue Christmas-- Elvis

Is this possibly true: "Most of the songs included on this forthcoming release, out October 25, have never been heard before and some were not even known to have existed in the first place." ?

Did Steve Turre olay on a sea conch? My friend Ira Nepus, also a trombonist, sometimes does that soloing with big bands.

Orange was the Colour of her Dress then Blue Silk

So the only way to get the entire session including the dialogue on one cd is to buy the Monk box? Actually I've made my own version on one cd burning it from the Miles box and the Modern Jazz Giants cd. I always thought Concord would release one but I guess now it will never happen.

Interestingly it wasn't on the Complete Prestige Miles set. Was that session all on one cd on the Monk set?

Most important to me: do they include the dialogue between Miles and Monk.

"Ear Splitting volume" is my complaint about many shows .

I saw them several times in the last century. Always liked them even after they added electric guitar (my late friend Mike Goodwin who wrote what was probably the first piece about them in a national magazine, felt the addition of the guitar was not a good idea). When and where were they in DTLA? Looks like the space near Bunker Hill.

Is there anything on Directions that's not on any other cd? It was important in its time because of the first Miles with guitar which I don't think anyone knew about.

If you're really into MacDonald you might want to join this Facebook group:https://www.facebook.com/groups/1734000126825677/?multi_permalinks=4541292272763101&notif_id=1723831618276982&notif_t=group_activity&ref=notif

I had dinner once at Disney Hall before a Kieth Jarrett concert and noticed the actor, Jack Black, at a table near us. I didn't get excited about it until he was joined by his father-in-law: Charlie Haden.

I saw him once carrying his bass across what was then the Warner Brothers/Columbia lot, presumably on his way to a soundtrack recording session.