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BTW When I saw him at the Santa Barbara Bowl he began Moondance just as the full moon appeared over the stage. Coincidence? Or, despite appearances, does he have a sense of showmanship?

I've seen him live about once a decade since 1970 or so. Last time I saw him was a couple of years ago and he was great. (He dos seem to tease the audience at the end-- walks off stage and the band vamps for about 10 minutes looking offstage as if he might return but he doesn't. Though I do think I have seen him play encores a couple of times. )

There are some good concerts at Wolfgang's Vault or whatever it's called now.

I think the same is true on the domestic regular cd. What makes for the time difference?

Nice review of an Alexander Hawkins piece here: https://thebluemoment.com/

Part of a book being done about 2 Toronto music promotors called The Garys. I saw the band during that engagement.

One of the great American movies. Maybe Ford and Wayne's best. BTW The Searchers like many British groups seemed to get songs from American composers before US groups. E.g. When You Walk in the Room is by Jackie de Shannon.

Nice. Here's the front page obit from the LA Times: https://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-don-newcombe-appreciation-20190219-story.html And I won't repeat the story of how I once mistook Newcombe for Newk in a club.

I'd pre-ordered before they sent this. (And I'm not even as big a Hank fan as most of you seem to be. However that meant I didn't have most of these records.

Do you know which Jubilee broadcast this is on?

I've had "76 Trombones" in my head all day. Just figured out why. Thanks guys.

Or "left town"? As in "Lester Left Town"?

From American Friend poster (Dennis Hopper is cropped out). First noticed Ganz when that film was new.

Makes you aware of how great Monk was as a composer. I've listened to the whole thing twice and there's not one piece here I would have rejected.

Philharmonic Hall LA 1/17/45 broadcast on some AFRS One Night Stand shows?

Is much from the Concord catalogue available on streaming services? That seems to be the main source of income for record companies nowadays. (We may soon have to stop calling them "record companies".)

Great record.

Thanks.

How do you do that? I'm being asked to subscribe.

Thanks. That explains a lot.

Me too. But what's an "echo coronet" and how does it work? I thought it was two trumpets one with a mute.

When the Lp was released in the UK and Canada it came in a box with a book of pictures and dialogue. IIRC the book contained some disconcerting dialogue not in the film. I still have the book but it's falling apart.

But was that film ever released?

The other piece of new (to me at least) information from the Robin D.G. Kelley notes is that Prince Lasha, Charles Moffett, Dewey Redman and clarinetist John Carter were all in a Fort Worth high school band with Ornette Coleman. And I hadn't realized before I read it in the notes that Dolphy led only for studio session in his life and three of them were in 1960. Also seems that nobody has a bad word to say about him as a person (except the trumpeter Eddie Armour). Sort of like Coltrane: in a documentary about Trane there's a wonderful moment where Elvin Jones says with complete sincerity: "He was a saint."

And according to the notes the Bob James who wrote and play son Jim Crow is the smooth jazz Bob James!