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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!

Godard?

I've encountered the Bergmans a couple of times. Once they sang at a mutual friend's birthday party and last year they were present at a Pat Metheny concert at a small venue in Santa Barbara. Tierney Sutton guested on one song for which they had written lyrics. Metheny seemed thrilled that they had done so.

Can anyone id these guys? I think it's Ralph Burns on the bottom.

IIRC it was in the opening credits where the director credit was "Jean-Luc Cinema Godard". You may be seeing later prints with different sub-titles nowadays. I saw it when it first came out in 1964 but pretty sure that this is not one of my acid-flashbacks.

HE arrived on the scene at a great time: t he beginning of the new wave in film and the blossoming of the Miles Davis Sextet. He used Miles, Trane, Chambers and Evans together on 4 cuts of Legrand Jazz. I've always remembered his credit on Godard's "Bande a'part" that read : "For the last time (?) on the screen Music by Michel Legrand"

Got this from a jazz loving friend in Seattle: I would recommend Tula’s for jazz or the Royal Room for jazz/rock/avant/weirdness. And we have the Earshot Jazz Calendar which lists everything: https://www.earshot.org/jazz-around-the-sound/

IIRC Kid Ory played at Disney Land. (And I definitely remember seeing Count Basie and his band there. )

I agree.

Good point. He uses few close-ups rather like Tati.

I really liked it. It's probably sacrilegious to say this but I thought the Laurel and Hardy bits done by the two stars were as funny as the originals. Also I thought the relationships of the couples and between the two couples were lovely.

Ditto

Maybe because I wasn't that familiar with Queen or maybe because the LA Times was so incredulous that it won the Golden Globes, I really liked Bohemian Rhapsody. But I think "Ray" is even better than "Walk the Line", maybe because I like the music even better.

And I suggest the 10 Martin Beck books. They're best if read in order.

I don't remember why but In 1965 this was the only jazz album my girlfriend owned. Only reason I know about it.

Shit, I was living in LA then. Don't know why I didn't go. Heard Farmer with the local Charlie Biddles trio backing him in a small Montreal bar sometimes in the late '60s.

Wow! When was that?

They have a huge amount of Benny Goodman (including some with Charlie Christian) and some very good Duke Ellington but they haven't been able to make a deal with either estate.

And not electronically remastered for stereo. Could they get it all on one Lp including the dialogue?

I think it was originally issued on Hit of the Week which I presume just went under and was not bought by anyone. The master take is available on Vol 2 of the Naxos Ellington series. The cd is titled "It Don't Mean a Thing: Classical Recording vol 2 1930-1934."

Didn't know that. The dialogue is left off this session in the old Miles box. There could be some interesting notes with a single cd.

If they want to re-package things why don't they do a single cd release of the December 24, 1954 session with Miles, Monk and Bags and include the conversations. It would all fit on one disc.

Didn't they already release box sets of all the Trane Prestige recordings? Twice in fact.