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Interesting. I definitely thought he meant he got no royalties from them (in the interview I read 50 years ago and will never be able to find) but he may have meant that he got more royalties from RCA. I vaguely remember him saying something about it being better to be with a big company but Columbia was a big company.

I remember an interview where he said RCA was the first label to actually pay him royalties when they finally released Tijuana Moods. At the time I presumed that he was taking a shot at Columbia and Atlantic.

For me the archetypical Mingus album was Mingus Ah Um but it was the first one I owned.

I dunno, seems to capture 2018 pretty well:

OK 6 is from a cd called "Duke Ellington, An Intimate Piano Session". It's one of the versions of Le Sucrier Velours done on August 25, 1972. (There are two takes and I haven't compared them to this yet.) I know about the session because a friend of mine told me he was present at an Ellington recording at which his brother was the engineer. He described it in detail and it didn't sound like anything I knew of. I contacted the brother, Jeff Lesser, who said it was never released but he remembered the studio and the approximate dates. After some research I was able to get the exact recording info and discovered that it was on a Duke Ellington Music Society tape that the late great Sjef Hoefsmit had sent out. With some difficulty I got a copy and made a digital version for Jeff and his brother. Shortly afterwards, of course, the cd appeared but it gives no credit to Jeff and in fact makes it sound like the engineer was the guy who I suspect engineered the "bonus tracks" which are from Rotterdam 1969. I'm going on about this just to give some credit to Jeff Lesser. BTW Sjef's tape has even more "dialogue" than is found on the cd. And Track 1 sounds like a live session by the Lincoln Center Jazz band, or someone of that ilk, with a guest pianist. (That's not meant to be a put down-- I've at times enjoyed them. )

6 Sure sounds like latter-day solo Ellington to me and 7 like Ben Webster.

Has anyone mentioned the Charlie Parker sides with vocal backings arranged by Gil Evans?

I highly recommend watching the Bley section of the film "Imagine the Sound" which you can see on iTunes. The rest of the film (Archie Shepp, Cecil Taylor and Bill Dixon) is awfully good too.

Wow. I didn't even know they'd played there.

But Tim Hardin probably did. (And I think Richie Havens was on Verve too.)

Bill Frisell: Either "Guitar in the Space Age" or "When You Wish Upon a Star".

Glad I saw him as often as I did. (I think I saw him at least once in every decade '60s-2010s.)

Wow. I wish those photos came with sound.

The United Artists film catalogue is owned by MGM. I'm not sure anything new is released under the UA banner.

Don't remind me! I have outlived nearly every jazz musician I admire. FortunatelyI I really admire Benny Carter. Thanks for the birthday wishes.

I'm away from my home so I can't check for sure but I think some of them are on the Mosaic Columbia set.

Or the band with JJ Johnson

How about Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music which I believe was released on 1952?

He played with Benny Carter at one point. IIRC He's the jazz piano player John Cassavetes replaces on the piano bench in the title sequence to "Staccato" . It's confusing because there was another piano player named John Williams.

I saw the Capote stuff but what did he say about Bernard Herman?

Listening to this I was reminded of George Crater's comment "If I hear John Coltrane play My Favorite Things one more time I'm going to strangle Mary Martin."

Listening to cds of Coltrane's '61 European tour I was reminded of George Crater's comment "If I hear John Coltrane play My Favorite Things one more time I'm going to strangle Mary Martin."

I can certainly see why hearing this for the first time might lead to some hyperbole. There may be Bird performances that equal this, but I can't think of any that top it. 1952 is a good year for Bird. Also I wonder if playing in the afternoon had an effect. BTW Both Symphony Sid and Bird refer to Benny Harris is as the author of Ornithology with no mention of Bird being co-author.

Amazon has a 4cd set entitled "So Many Things: The European Tour 1961." The 4 discs contain almost everything on the first 5 cds of the 7 disc set. It's only $22.

Does that set also contain the Copenhagen concert where they play Delilah? I came across it on Youtube when I clicked on the link for the Helsinki concert.