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When I moved to Toronto in 1965 John Norris was in charge of the Jazz Section of Sam's. That was how I met him.

Finally over.

Hey it's only 11:45 here.

Does "Jonathan and Darlene Edwards" count.

I have what I think is the whole broadcast (and I think it was sent to me from someone on this board).

I have both boxes. I think that's all there were. There was also a book. They're all still available at Amazon.

The first discounted jazz cds I ever saw were some Impulses at Sam the Record Man in Toronto. I got Quincy Jones and Benny Carter. Also they I remember that the first cd release of The Koln Concert left off the last movement.

RCA was especially bad at the time. They did great double Lp reissues with added never before released material but the cd version were missing some of that material. e.g Tijuana Moods.

What's the date of that recording?

I use Audio Hijack. You do have to pay a bit for it but it seems worth it to me.

I threatened to but couldn't figure out how. Maybe you could do it. BTW it's basically a "prepared" piano. i.e. with tacks.

Or how many people do.

He explained that it's to make it "educational" so that the estates can't force them to take it down.

The Ellington listening session is up!!! http://jazzmuseuminharlem.org/events/savory-session-2/?fbclid=IwAR0kF1iADq9YQ267PW88o10NGni60fgej4zKP9x5kcdzso68PK0TaBfd4os

I usually try to play every new acquisition at least twice before I file it away. OF course if I buy a large box set (like some pf Alan Lowe's collections or Mosaic boxes) the unheard pile starts to get fairly high. Also every few years I buy a cd and discover I already own it but have no memory of having listened to it.

David wrote: Feather sold his shares in Mercer Records Inc. to Mercer Ellington on May 28, 1957 for $100 plus 25% of the sales proceeds of certain recordings by Mercer Records Inc. to Coral Records Inc., net $300, and an earn-out of 25% of any additional money received from Coral Records in respect of those recordings.

Ellington scholar David Palmquist tells me that Mercer Records was sold to Coral which was a subsidiary of Decca which is now part of Universal.

I saw Benny Carter give a good concert in his nineties.

Agreed.

I mainly associate those later versions with drum solos.

I made reference earlier to seeing The Gibbs band with Jack Bruce on acoustic bass in Hampstead in the early '70s, but I can find no record of such a concert on a site that lists every known Bruce gig. Does anone in the UK remember this or have a reference to it or did I just hallucinate it?

Last night I got an e-mail from Spotify saying that it was available fro listening now! Not sure how they knew I'd care since I rarely use Spotify and don't recall ever listening to Mingus on it. Nevertheless they say "Fresh tracks by your favorite artists, including Charles Mingus, on a personalized playlist that we update just for you every Friday. Listen to it now on Spotify."

I didn't know the story of the tunes genesis. Has the Cannonball aborted session ever been released?

The Hodges is from a 1947 date for Vogue. Maybe Mercer got the US rights at some point. The New Piano Roll Blues is from a Mercer date Sept 21, 1950. It's on Chronogical Classics 1191. If I can figure out how to do it I'll post it here somehow. (I have no idea how.) Why is the Serge Chaloff record here?