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Do you remember where you saw them? I think the second time was at The El Mo but I've never remembered where the first one was.

I was playing some discs from the complete Prestige recordings and noticed that Sonny debuted 3 of his best known compositions, " Airegin", "Oleo" and "Doxy" in one session-- and he wasn't even the leader! It was a Miles session for which Sonny supplied three of the four numbers. (George Gershwin wrote the other.) Talk about generous, though I guess Miles returned the favor by recording Oleo several more times (and he didn't even try to claim authorship).

Me too.

I knew him mainly for his work with Gil Evans but I saw him once width a small group in an LA club and really enjoyed it.

Marcus Rojas and Scott Robinson with Ryan Truesdell's Gil Evans Project.

http://www.wbgo.org/post/hear-earliest-surviving-radio-broadcast-duke-ellington-historic-find-deep-dive#stream/0 Many thanks to Lewis Porter and especially Steven Lasker for sharing this.

I once saw Buddy on (I think) the Johnny Carson show where he was preceded by a child prodigy. When Buddy came on he began to imitate the kid. It was a bit cruel and incredibly funny. The only Buddy Rich band music I have is a concert I got from Wolfgang's Vault. It's from the 1975 Newport Jazz Festival in NY. They band is anchored by an electric bass and of course the drums-- sometimes at velocities that overwhelm the soloists but not the drummer. Because of this thread I put it on my iPod when I went to the Y this morning. Great workout music.

I feel fortunate to have seen him in what I presume was his last appearance at Jazzfest.

I just noticed (in very small print on he Roulette release) that Getz wasn't actually at the Carnegie Hall gig but was recorded at Birdland. Fun to hear one of Pres's "grey boy" followers playing with the Basie band. I think he plays well on both cds. A couple of questions: Is Sarah's accompanist Jimmy Jones the same Jimmy Jones who often subbed for Duke in various Ellingtonian aggregations? When a singer was backed by a big band for a few gigs did they bring their own arrangements? And do you think Getz and Pres talked about anything with each other having been brought all the way to Topeka to play a handful of numbers? (Though I guess this was part of a tour. Anyone know?)

What Christmas song?

I've often wondered why there has never been a single cd release of all the music (plus chatter) from the Monk/Jackson session. Yes. Jimmy Durante! Who knew?!

The Riverside Monk & Coltrane compilation will get you some Hawk too, but though I know it's not a compilation I would start someone with Monk & Coltrane at Carnegie Hall. If you don't like Monk after that you're never going to like him.

BTW I played these again yesterday and got intrigued by the sax player on the Bud Powell dates. According to the jazzdisco.org site the recording were actually made under the name of the saxophonist, one Frankie Socolow. A search of the web led me to believe he was only on a few recordings though he played with several (white) bands. I quite like him here.

I've been told (by a fairly reliable source) that there's no print in circulation right now. I think Francis Coppola may own US rights.

I thought I got my copy from Ghost of Miles. Whoever it was thanks.

Yes. The tinted print is probably closer to the original release. (E.g. night scenes were often tinted blue.)

Wow. Thanks.

People who are able to get one love the car but I think what might really help the company would be to deliver on the roof top solar tiles they've demonstrated but haven't been able to produce en masse yet. (And the stock is wildly over-priced but market value often has nothing to do with the actual value of a company.) Personally I'd be interested in both the Tesla 3 and the tiles but worry that they won't actually be available in my lifetime.

This was in the NY Times obit: "Mr. McNeely’s breakthrough record, however, had come a decade earlier: “Deacon’s Hop,” a growling, percussive instrumental released on the Savoy label. Based on Lester Young’s tenor saxophone solo on the Count Basie Orchestra’s 1940 recording “Broadway,” “Deacon’s Hop” spent two weeks at the top of Billboard’s Race Records chart, as it was then called, in 1949." Never knew that. Ooops just read the obit in the LA Times which tells a different story: 'Said McNeely to biographer Marc Myers: “A kid I knew in Watts had a record shop. He gave me a record by Glenn Miller that opened with the drummer playing the sock cymbal. I can't remember the name of the song, but I built a blues [riff] off of it called ‘Deacon’s Hop.’”' B TW that obit reminded me of the DJ who mc'd the LA R&B concert I saw: Hunter Hancock.

Yes. around then. I think the tv host was Ian Whitcomb though the concert mc was a local dj from the period.

I just heard about this: "A new streaming service devoted exclusively to classical music has launched in the United States, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. Called Primephonic, the platform claims to have nearly all classical music ever recorded, with over 1 million tracks available at the push of a button." Are there more jazz recordings extant than classical recordings? If not would it be possible to have a jazz streaming service with nearly all jazz ever recorded?

I saw him once as part of a concert featuring LA R&B: Big Mama Thorton, Joe Liggens and the Honey Drippers, Lowell Fulsom, Screaming Jay Hawkins etc. IIRC it was being filmed for the BBC.

Was he sometimes called "Kinney"? I thought this was one of my usual false memories but then I noticed that his real name is Mckinlay.

Ahhh. It was they "vinyl" that confused me. (I'm often confused.)

Was it originally on 78?