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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?

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?