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AAron Bell also did a jazz recording of the music from Victory at Sea. Did anyone ever cover Ellington's Asphalt Jungle? Or if you're doing original jazz scores I think Benny Carter did one for another early cop show.

Her's a taste of it. http://jazzmuseuminharlem.org/events/savory-session/ I sure hope they post the Ellington listening session they did last week.

Thanks for the info.

Does that include the dialogue?( It's left off the Complete Miles Davis on Prestige.) If so there's no reason for them not issuing it as a single cd.

I've recently commented on both these sessions: Amazing that Sonny debuted three of his best known compositions on a session he didn't lead and that the Dec 24,'54 session with Monk has never been released on one cd. I think it would all fit, even with the dialogues and false starts.

Isaac Bashevis Singer: First "The Magician of Lubin" and then "Shosha". I was expecting something like Fiddler on the Roof. Boy was I wrong. I found Magician so depressing that I felt I had to read something else to give him another chance. They're both full of uncommon psychological and philosophical insights (especially about sex), share many themes and even have similar structures but Shosha is much more heartening. From these two books I'd say he deserved the Nobel Prize he won.

Thanks. I'd always remembered it being in a basement or (for some reason) a parking garage on the East side. Didn't remember that Bluiett was the 2nd horn. Saw the band at the El Mocambo the night they played Happy Birthday for someone.

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.