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OK I just looked in my Pepper Adams discography and not only does it give 1956 as the date but has a couple of quotes from Curtis Fuller that make it clear they thought they were getting Mile's group but Red never showed. (The quintet was at Storyville that week.) So just ignore my first posting here.

I listened to the Music Jazz channel one night and was surprised to find it pretty good.

That's weird in that Cuscuna is the producer of this cd. OTH 1956 makes more sense to me now that I've listened to the cd.

I just noticed that only 2 Trane discographies I've got access to list this date as being from 1956 not '55 as the cd notes say. Is there a definitive discography?

I just got the Blue Note cd from an Amazon seller and haven't listened to it yet but looking at the notes I realized that the 3 cuts from the Transition session are from before Chambers, Philly Joe and Trane joined Miles. Only Philly Joe had recorded with him before but only once back in '53. Tom Wilson seems to have put together most of the first great quintet before Miles did. I've never read that any of the three had recommended the others to Miles but.....

For some reason she never allowed the release of a concert film that the late Sydney Pollack shot. I think it was the concert that was the basis for the "Amazing Grace" Lp. BTW I think her Columbia recordings get a bad rap. Didn't John Hammond produce them, or at least sign her?

I've been thinking about artists who go through many changes at the beginning of their careers but settle into groove they like for the last half of their life that may seem less adventurous than what they were doing at the beginning: Miles, Dylan, Sonny, Dizzy-- anyone got any other examples? Who knows what Coltrane would have done in the last twenty years he should have had. And I think I saw Sonny in every decade since the '60s. The only time I was disappointed was in '64 or '65 when it seemed to me he was too influenced/intimidated by Coltrane. IIRC he was accompanied by Grant Green! (Did I hallucinate that?)

Harmonica Frank for example. To whom, both Griel Marcus and Allen Lowe give credit. And speaking of "God Didn't Like it": Allen, did you ever release or post the "soundtrack" to it? And I agree that "What Was the First Rock and Roll Record" is a great read. And "Blues part 2" from the first JATP concert is the first and earliest record they list. (Though I believe it wasn't released till several years after the concert took place.)

My copy of the cd jewell box has a hole punched in it so I must have bought it remaindered.

Did they pick up the whole band when they did shows in the west? How long would this group have been together?

OK, but who are they? Or rather what else have they released? (Am I just showing my usual ignorance here?)

Yes. He died. There was a thread about it on this forum.

Who are those guys? (To quote Butch Cassidy)

Well I may have the year wrong. I'm not very good on the chronology of my life 1967-1970.

I knew Zal after he had left The Spoonful and was driving a cab in Toronto. For a while he was a radio dj but got fired for playing The Beach Boys and Buck Owens. (This was probably around 1969.) Wim Wenders' first feature film is called Summer in the City. All I remember about it is that it's in black and white, there's snow on the ground in almost every scene, and that at one point the entire song is played while someone trudges through an urban winter landscape.

I'm still waiting for a cd that contains "The Asphalt Jungle Twist". I'm not sure All American and Midnight in Paris have ever had an official CBS cd release.

Thanks.

Is this music available on cd or download?

Ahhh.... that explains why I've never seen his recording of it.

Well I didn't see that tour but I did see him in Los Angeles around that time.

I like the earlier stuff better than the later cuts on this cd. It's as if Eager followed Prez so much that he got weaker as (I at least think) Prez did in the '50s. Nevertheless an essential cd.

Thanks for posting this.

I just looked at this thread. Shocked to see how many of my favorites are on the original list. (Also a couple of selections I just never liked.) I'd agree with all who suggested that were some compilations of 78s that made their mark when they were first issued and mainly I'd add some Gil Evans. I also must admit that many of my choices are because they were the first Lps I bought of particular musicians. Hence, for example, I'd take Mingus Ah Um over The Black Saint or Tijuana Moods.

This is an example of what I'm talking about below, as compared to:

No Lloyd Price!?