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Hooray!

Just came back from seeing the Mark Morris Dance group and at the piano was Ethan Iverson who had written the original music for the evening and arranged the rest of the music which was by the Beatles.

What are the late 40s Jazz Messenger sessions?

WOW that all sounds great! I love Jazz Fest even though I didn't hear that much jazz the year I went.

This sums up what I think pretty well even though it's by Scott Yanow: https://www.allmusic.com/album/further-definitions-mw0000335476 I bought the Lp when it first came out and it was one of the first cds I ever owned. (Admittedly because, along with a couple of other Impulses, it was one of the first cds I ever saw discounted.)

They do own the Benedetti recordings and though I can understand them discontinuing the box set, perhaps they could release a single or double cd of some of the more or less complete numbers. And they could make downloads available of the whole thing since the sound isn't so great to begin with.

Where do you see these? !

I have the three inch cd. I was going to ask how to play it but at least one of my DVD/cd players seems to have the indented area in which to fit them. (I have 4 other 3 inch cds: Frank Zappa, Bruce Springsteen, Sting with Gil Evans and Billie Holiday. Obviously haven't played them in a while.)

Tully.

He seems to borrow from that arrangement on his album Further Definitions especially in the last chorus.

They join Fred Astaire about half way through this: I met Fayard at a Duke Ellington Society meeting in LA a couple of decades ago. Was that originally released as a Coleman Hawkins record? I always presumed it was under Benny Carter's name.

Wow! I didn't know that. Always thought Bill Smith was still involved.

And used to be the case with Errol Garner.

Wow I might get this before I get the Mosaic Savory set. Do you have this one?

I've thought of spending a couple of days doing it for myself on my computer.

It was sort of fun to have the vocals in one channel and the instruments in the other on the early Beatles stereo releases.

I'm happy to see that cd 2 of this volume is from 1944 at the Hurricane rather than 1953 at the Blue Note. Makes me more excited to get it.

I have that one. Saw him a couple of times with the Neville Bros and (IIRC) once with The Meters.

Apparently the Ellington estate is handled by some lawyers who are very difficult to deal with. Sometimes Duke's granddaughter and nephew are able to able to get them to approve of things but since this involves money it may be that, as with the Goodman holdings, if you want to hear them you'll have to go to Harlem.

He did a couple of records of Fran Landesman compositions. They're good.

He's on a Gil Evans concert DVD done in 1983.

It won't help if you peruse the board via "activity" as I do. (Why is this in italics?)

I gotta admit that I prefer Spector and Wilson in stereo. They sound compressed to me in mono. But then again I never heard them on 45s. I was too old for that when they were new.

Supposedly shot in two days.

But they must have eventually sold them all....Or did the license run out? Was it the same as the cd set which they still have?