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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?

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. )