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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.

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).