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I usually don't like wasting energy on negative posts but actually she reminds me more of latter day Sarah Vaughn and I admit I don't much care for that either. I do like some present days singers though: Catherine Russell, and despite the general attitude here, Norah Jones.

That great map of the clubs reminds me that between when the Hurricane Cub and Bop City were there, the Zanzibar (where Duke also played a lot) was in the Brill Building. Anyone know any other clubs that t used the space?

I went to NY often in the '70s and regret that I never went to either club. IIRC Roy Eldridge was in permanent residence at Ryan's.

I remember Jimmy Ryan's was still around in the '70s.

It may have been on the 2nd floor which had housed The Hurricane Club where Ellington often played. https://swingandbeyond.com/2017/01/27/swingin-at-the-brill-building/

Mosaic now issues so few new releases that I don't think we can generalize much about them. As to the Crosby/Clooney boxes: I'm guessing there were commercial considerations. IIRC the Crosby was an edition of 20,000! I haven't heard either but as to their validity, I remember that many years ago in some magazine's (I think Coda's) year end round-up Coleman Hawkins picked the Crosby/Clooney RCA release "Fancy Meeting You Here" as one of his favorite Lps of the year.

Ditto

Liked the movie but it begins with a title card saying something to the effect that Beale Street is in New Orleans and that Louis Armstrong and jazz were born there. None of this is true. Is that in the book? Is it meant to be metaphorical?

I can't find any reference to a quartet version of Punjab and the full orchestra version has never been released. However Ryan Truesdell's Gil Evans Project did record Gil's arrangement on their cd "Centennial". Do you know which other unissued recordings exist?

King of Jazz. Not much jazz (43 seconds of Venuti /Lang and you get to see Frankie Trumbauer clowning around) but some amazing production numbers -though I fast forwarded through a couple of them the music was so boring. Also interesting commentary by Gary Giddens amongst others.

I just discovered (In the new photo book about the Great Day in Harlem photo) that the original photo was by Art Kane and the model was his wife.

My wife got it for me for Xmas. I love it. Makes me very nostalgic for the era and my youth.

Of course I like the Charles Brown Version too, but this is 7 minutes plus of Elvis singing the blues.

He did enough recording at those Feb 7-8 sessions that they released two records: the other one is called "Historically speaking and it's all older compositions by Ellington or Strayhorn. You may have all of the 23 songs on 1 cd set. Before Newport he also did a couple of small sessions for "the stockpile" which were released much later I believe. (I am becoming a pedant in my old age.)

He made at least three movies. The first one was his biography called "Crazy Legs". The last one was "Zero Hour" a film based on a Canadian tv drama called Flight into Danger by Arthur Haley who went on to write "Airport" and" Hotel". Most important Zero Hour was the basis for "Airplane". (I used to be pretty good at Trivial Pursuits.)

I heard an interview with Lane once and he talked a lot about how much he loved jazz and how much he had been influenced by Nat Cole. You sure can here it here but not in his later work.

Unchained Melody was already an oldie when they recorded it. IIRC Al Hibbler had had a hit with it years before. and it was from a prison movie starring Leroy "Carzylegs" HIrsch.

East Coast dates. Since I presume your dad was neither Duke Ellington nor Irving Gordon, was he J Farmer or J McNeely?

Wow. A few years ago I was looking for something like this and presume it was too daunting a task for anyone to have taken on. And I'm right that these are only the numbers on which he takes a solo? Do you presume he's going to continue with the '60s?

Take him up on it. I can't do it by tomorrow.

My experience too amongst women I know. In fact if you include things like groping in the subway it's almost 100%.

Not sure that's statistically true.

Don't blame the cabbie. I saw Jimmy Smith in a club and shortly after I said to my wife "Holy shit, Sonny Rollins is here", Smith introduced a celebrity in the audience, Don Newcombe. Given another thread here I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Jack Johnson.

How'd you like it? I stopped watching after an hour (shortly after Natalie Portman first appears!). I almost never do that but I really disliked the film.

Jeff sent me ot a website with the following: " Bryant - trumpet, Odell Williams, Harold Blanchard and Bobby Sands clarinet & sax and Charlie Dixon (ex-member of Fletcher Henderson) on banjo. Drums? Some believe Chick Webb, others Kaiser Marshall - but most probably it is a certain Herbie Cowens." And then sent me to the Wikipedia entry for Cowens which had the following: ". He worked with Garvin Bushell in 1942,"