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I agree with Joni. There were several songs re-cut and most are at least slightly inferior.

I think I first learned that the record had been released when I heard "A Single Petal of a Rose" used briefly as background music in the film "Rising Sun".

Where? Why? And is it worth looking for?

The Thrill is Gone: And of course the blues sung by BB King and others. And Leonard Cohen had one.

Do we still have the link to Amazon? I buy a lot from them.

Ditto

I saw him last year. He's the real deal. (BTW IIRC he played something by Coltrane.)

Well then, Merry Xmas. (You can see why the thread title might have confused me-- and it doesn't take much to confuse me nowadays.)

Hey Garth, Happy B'day!

Me too.

Huh! What!!? Do you have a link to it? I can't find it on-line. Thanks. And do you have the dates of the recordings?

Doesn't one of the Mosaic sets duplicate what's on the Decca set? (My pedantic side revealed again.)

The non-Coltrane material from Some Day My Prince Will Come has never been boxed.

Like Kurt Weil.

What's strangest is that something like this happened in the tv show Treme in which Irvin played himself as a musician involved in shady dealings.

Happy B'day!

The great cover photo probably had something to do with its popularity too. For some reason I was really taken by the un-cropped version where you can see more of his saxophone. By the time I was aware of it Mosaic was sold out of the prints but I was able to find a poster on-line and then bought another Mosaic print from a different angle that must have been taken a few seconds earlier or later. Then still later Mosaic offered another, smaller, unlimited print of the original.

I think it was about the 15th Coltrane album I bought. I did so because I was reading a novel (can't remember what) where the female narrator breaks up with her boyfriend and says she stayed home and listened to Blue Trane over and over again. No other suggestion in the book that she was a jazz fan. Made me think it might be interesting.

I'd say about 60%. I think I have every known extant CC recording except the Savorys but I can't really check because the fires in Santa Barbara have forced me to evacuate. (A good reason to have all your music on a hard disc-- which I don't.)

Especially considering how little there is now.

Sounds like they're carrying on the Goodman tradition.

http://www.vulture.com/2017/12/jazz-icon-sonny-rollins-on-giving-up-playing-and-his-legacy.html?utm_campaign=vulture&utm_source=tw&utm_medium=s1&utm_campaign=nym&utm_medium=s1&utm_source=tw

On Well You Needn't in the concert Monk quotes "The Girl I Left Behind Me". Does he quote it anywhere else?

IIRC I liked the book a lot. As to co-incidence: Last summer I read Zadie Smith's book "Swingtime" wherein I first read the name Jeni LeGon who, along with Fats Waller and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, is in the great film number "Living in a Great Big Way" which I have seen many times never knowing the female dancer's name. A few days after I finished the book I got an e-mail from David Palmquist in which he wrote about his late friend Jeni LeGon. Now I don't believe in anything except the law of averages but shit like this keeps happening.

Is that music commercially available?