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Me either (Neither?). I hope it's because they're busy shipping the Savory set.

Not me yet.I think they should ship them to oldest orderers first. At my age every day counts.

There's (an apparently apocryphal) story that the storage capacity of the cd was developed so that it could contain a complete performance of Beethoven's 9th.

I don't know. I think there were at least some takes issued on the original cd release of the WC Handy record that weren't on the later cd. And then there's Pops teaching Lotte Lenya how to syncopate Mack the Knife that's on an Avakian produced Kurt Weil cd.

Ricky Riccardi has suggested that they're thinking about a set of the George Avakian/Columbia/Armstrong studio recordings.

But you obviously have a better memory than me.

I saw the Pullen/Adams group twice in Toronto: once at a benefit for Ed Blackwell in what I recall as a basement or ground floor room in a large building and once at the El Mocambo. I recall Adams spinning around as he soloed and that they played Happy Birthday for someone at the Elmo. I remember Bill Smith saying that MIngus chased him around the club yelling "You're stealing my piano player" because Bill was about to record a Pullen solo recording for Sackville. The recording session was done as a small concert which I attended. In each case I was knocked out by Pullen and Adams.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY1

Especially in 1976.

I've loved this song since I first heard Tony Bennet sing it backed by the Basie band. That and Miles playing My Ship led me to become a Kurt Weil fanatic.

IIRC sometime in the '70s there was a published rumor in the UK that Jack Bruce was putting together a band that included Bley and Mick Taylor as well as a couple of other interesting players who I can't remember. it wasn't clear what kind of music they would be playing. Of course it never happened.

I think Ricky Riccardi found some video of one of the Pops with Dukes of Dixieland recording sessions.

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.