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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).

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.