medjuck

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?

Are you sure about Fantasy owning it? IIRC some Ellington experts once told me that Mercer himself had left them to Danish Radio with the "stockpile". (I could certainly be wrong about all this-- I can't find my correspondence re: Mercer Records.)

Great record. Love how Pee Wee turns "Mariooch" into "Pee Wee's Blues"

You're too young. It was already an old record when I got it in the '60s.

What's the date on this?

IIRC he did a jazz record for Columbia in the late '50s or early '60s.

I saw him in the early '60s with Yusef and Nat. I liked him but he didn't knock me out the way some of people I saw around then did.

I really like the first 90 minutes but it lost me a bit in the last hour. No reason for this to be so long. I'm referring the Bad Times at the El Royale. Haven't seen Sister Brothers though Ive read the book. Wasn't nuts about it. Jeeze I'm a grouch.

What cd from this period do any of you recommend? ( I gotta admit I like him best when he's with Coltrane. )

Is the set definitely coming out and if so when? (I have a vague memory of ordering it.)

Yes. Brain fart on my part and Frances Wayne is the singer on the program.

What is that?

I like the Mike Gibbs bands. Saw him with Jack Bruce (IIRC on acoustic bass) in Hampstead 40+ years ago and really like his recent Gil Evans tribute record.

I've been listening to a lot of the AFRS Jubilee shows (I've downloaded about 150 of them) while I work out or drive to LA. This morning I listened to one from May 1948 featuring "The Neal Hefti Quartet": Hefti on trumpet, Joe Mondragon bass, Blnky Garner drums and Jimmy Rowles piano. They back a couple of singers (including Hefti's wife Fran Warren) during which Hefti plays some nice obbilgates (sp?) and Rowles, of course is great. They also play two numbers on their own. Hefti introduces the first one as "untitled" and claims it's from a Woody Herman arrangement that was introduced on "The ramp of the Burbank Theater". It turns out to be "I'm Looking Over a 4 Leaf Clover" which they play cornily and during which Hefti vocalizes by repeating the fiirst line over and over. It's hard to listen to and not funny. The second number is introduced as "Channel One" supposedly in homage to a local radio station but what they then play is Moose the Mooche and they play it well. A lot of the humor on these shows is dated (though some of it's pretty funny still) but this is some of the of the worst attempts at humor I've heard on the entire series. Maybe they were all stoned.

I bought a cheap hand powered device many years ago and it worked on several of my scratched cds. (In fact I can't remember if it ever didn't work.) I'll send it to you if you want. (I no longer have that kind of patience.)

"The Jazz Soul of Doctor Kildare""!! Wow.

I have a vague memory of a jazz version of the soundtrack to a show called "Checkmate". Yes here it is: Shelly Mann! https://smile.amazon.com/Checkmate-Bonus-Tracks-Shelly-Manne/dp/B00HWCCN6S/ref=sr_1_3?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1539065295&sr=1-3&keywords=checkmate&dpID=51Gu1efEfbL&preST=_SY300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch

Though I wasn't there, McDarrah's photos for the Village Voice always made me feel I was part of it. They've done a good job of identifying who's in the shots though I was a bit taken aback when they listed Charlie Parker amongst those who performed at the Cafe Bizarre which opened in 1957. There are no photos of jazz musicians unless you count David Amram and Larry rivers.