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I remember when he was on the Hit Parade.

Oh, the Washington sessions. I have them on another label. Thanks for the info. I got excited that there might be a series of live Prez dates I didn't know about.

I didn't know about the Prez on Pablo. How many volumes were there and what are the recording dates?

You're probably right but I was sort of happy that I didn't have to listen to The Sidewinder for the millionth time.

I met Chris Matthews in Washington when he was a reporter for a San Francisco newspaper. His wife was a local well known Washington newscaster. That may have inspired him to get into broadcasting.

From http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Artists/Blakey/chron.htm October 1966: Chuck Mangione-t; Frank Mitchell-ts; Chick Corea-p; Juni Booth-b - Town Tavern, Toronto, Canada (one week October 1966) [Toronto Star, October 4, 1966] [db 11/17/66 p.53] The Town Tavern was a fairly small, narrow, but classy room. The band seemed very loud there IIRC. I wasn't as impressed as I had been when I saw him at a theater in Montreal with this group: Lee Morgan-t; Wayne Shorter-ts; Curtis Fuller-tb; Cedar Walton-p; Reggie Workman-b Probably spring of 1964. Reggie Workman knocked me out. Not sure of the details and the gig is not listed in the chronology. In those years I was a bit snobby and snotty about The Jazz Messengers. I was wrong: they were more distinctive than they seemed at the time. (Does that make sense?)

Thanks.

Is this available in the US?

Phooey!

To quote Ricky: "Yes, if you’re curious, it will contain tons of bonus tracks and previously unreleased material from Handy, Fats, the “Mack the Knife” session and more."

For what it's worth: Ricky Ricardi mentioned in his obit for George Avakian that he (Ricky) and Scott Wenzel were planing a Mosaic box of Avakian produced Columbia Armstrong studio material for release in 2019.

IIRC there was supposed to be a Gil/Bill record on Verve and a cover photo was even taken but the recording never happened. The cover photo was used on a glossy jazz magazine that only lasted an issue or two. (Can't remember the name of it.)

Are yo listening on Apple Music or iTunes? You should have downloaded it to iTunes but I'm certainly not an expert. (I think Apple Music is for streaming. If you bought the download it would go ti iTunes-- I think. )

Last "track" should be "Digital Booklet". It's a PDF but should have downloaded with the music and be in iTunes. Try searching songs for "Digital Booklet."

A lovely man. I had a brief e-mail correspondence with him over a couple of pieces of trivia and he was graceful, generous and patient in his answers to my rather silly questions.

Calgary: 40.

I've only seen the first one all the way through and it's pretty good. Seen parts of later ones and they look silly but many people I know really like them.

I think that it was in a simpler cover but now I have another (vague) memory that it was later issued in The States. John could have had some influence on the Canadian Columbia because of his work at Sam the Record Man.

I have a vague memory (many of my memories are vague) of Columbia Canada issuing a 2 Lp set of Wilson sessions that was never issued in the US . I think John Norris had something to do with it (or maybe he was the one who told me that it was only issued in Canada). I've always regretted not buying it so I'm making up for it now by pre-ordering.

One of the times the bandstand was so full that Hiram Bullock sat at a chair at my table. Also I met the owners of the club who told me that the records were coming out but I didn't hear about the "complete" set until years later.

I'm jealous. But I can console myself knowing that I saw the band there a couple of times.

Not unheralded here. In fact I'd love to have the big box with a couple of cds worth of music I don't have.

He definitely made the right decision. They're great.

Do you mean the Toronto and London shows when you say "bonus 2cd live show" or is that something I missed. If so where can I get it. Also I bought the 2cd set but dowloaded the "deluxe" set to get the rest so I don't have notes for the extra 6 discs. Where was the Toronto concert? Massey Hall? I like the horns he rehearsed with but doesn't seem to have used after that. Otherwise I find the rehearsals a bit desultory. A couple of the unreleased songs are great. And was "Let's Begin" released before? I think it's lovely. Because I pre-ordered I got a couple of downloaded songs before the official release but with no notes. One was the live The Groom's Still Waiting at the Alter. After I listened a couple of times I told my wife (a guitar player) she had to hear this guitar solo though I didn't know who it was by. It's really good. When I got the cd, I discovered it was Carlos Santana.

Wow that show sounds great. If I was in NY I'd definitely be there.