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Not as bad as Sting singing Every Breath You Take. BTW Changing the subject: anyone remember Teach Me Tonight?

Billy's father produced jazz shows while he was working at the Commodore Record store with his brother-in-law (Billy's uncle) Milt Gabler. Billy was named "Face" by Willie the Lion and his production company is called "Face Productions". He tells a great story about seeing "Shane" with Billie Holiday.

Anyone notice that the string bass player (is he also the tuba player?) uses his bow the whole time and never plucks his strings? BTW How did you find this? It's amazing. I sent the link Jeff Kaufman who made "The Savoy King" which has what he thought was the only (very brief) footage of Chick Webb. Haven't heard back yet.

First Cannonball Adderley record I bought was African Waltz. The song got a lot of play because McDermot lived there at the time.

My advice is watch it at home. A lot of people won't get it and there is a lot of gratuitous nudity (apparently Oja's idea-- she brags about bringing a sexuality to the film that Welles had never delivered before). I suspect that there's a lot of swearing also but I don't tend to notice that so don't remember for sure.

They'll Love Me When I'm Dead is 98 minutes long. Not sure of the length or title of the other doc. I think the best way to see Wind is to see it before the docs so they don't influence you or the way you perceive the film. It's hard not to keep thinking about the way the film was made while You're watching it if you see the docs first. (Hard to give examples without spoilers.)

I've just been listening to some Dodo on some AFRS Jubilee shows. Does anyone know if that's the source for some of these dates. (I expect the Just Jazz All Stars night be.)

I saw Roxy with Eno open for Ziggy Stardust at The Rainbow in London in (I think) summer of 1972. IT was all new to me so I was very impressed by the whole evening. I think I'd read about both Roxy and Bowie but had never heard their records.

I thought European copyright had changed to be more restrictive.

Wow! What's your secret? Happy B'day!

I saw him in the summer of '65 with Earl Hine's quartet. At that time I really only knew him from the Gil Evans' recording but was very impressed.

So is the Benedetti (sp?) Bird material no longer available? If so they should at least put it up on iTunes; the sound wasn't very good to begin with.

It's worth getting just for the "alternate" Celia. The rest is good too (though I don't think anyone wants to hear the announcements/interview more than once).

Good talk though I don't entirely agree with everything he says. He's right about collectors but in the old days collectors tended to guard their holdings jealously-- if you wanted to hear something you had to be a friend of the collector. That attitude seems to have changed: now music and films that were once very difficult to find are being posted on YouTube. And even if YouTube goes down I think collectors will find other ways to make their findings public. I used to pose the question that if everything was available on line do I really need to own books, cds or DVDs? (And I own way too many.) I thought that this was a hypothetical question but now it may happen in my lifetime (I never thought driverless cars would happen in my life time either but if I manage to stay alive a few more years.....). And speaking of such things there was a time when Steven Lasker would probably have kept his discovery of the earliest known Duke Ellington broadcast to himself and his friends but now...:

Saw Tom McDermott and Delfeayo Marsalis in a house concert at Tom's in New Orleans on Sunday night. Was in NOLA for a funeral. At least I heard some good music.

Ditto. Sorry I missed it while traveling.

I always thought Tunnel of Love was underrated.

There were often oldies on Fats's albums. I especially liked "When My Dreamboat Comes Home" on his first Lp and of course "My Blue Heaven" was one of his first big hits. (Of course at the time I didn't know they were oldies. They were new to me.

Happy to say I saw him receive an honorary degree from NYU when I went to my son's graduation. ( Well to be honest I didn't see much of him: it was in Yankee Stadium and it was raining.)

I was surprised to read in Milt Hinton's autobiography (Bass Lines-- with many photos) that he thought he didn't do enough jazz sessions. It seemed to me that the NY Rhythm Section was on half the records from the late '50s that I owned.

That issue of Esquire is on-line: http://archive.esquire.com/issue/19590101

And I think one of the little kids on the curb is also still alive. Esquire reposed those still living a decade or so ago. BTW The original photo was in a a really good special issue of Esquire entitled "The Golden Age of Jazz". It really was in that many of the innovators were still alive as were wonderful contemporary artists.

IIRC Golson and Sonny are the last ones alive.

I always liked that Levant's autobiography was entitled "Memoirs of an Amnesiac"-- a title he stole from Erik Satie.

I still use my old Tower speakers as well as their surround speakers.