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Happy birthday. Enjoy!

I'm going to lean a broom against a chair and have some dry toast to celebrate.

Saga of the Outlaws arrived today. ... beautiful.

Looks like the Definitive releaseis the only way to get this? But ... stumbled across another Definitive, "Giant Among Giants-Complete," which are live recordings from the Pershing Hotel Ballroom in Chicago in 1950, and include among the band Von Freeman. Anyone familiar? New copies from cdimports are fairly inexpensive. I believe that all of the 1948 Onyx material is on the Mosaic Benedetti box. Bird on 52nd street on Fantasy is also Onyx material. There is also an excellent earlier 1948 concert from the Three Deuces on that box. The Perishing Hotel concert from 1950 is fantastic. Part of that concert has been around for a long time as "An Evening at Home with the Bird," and later as "One Night in Chicago" on Savoy. The rest of the recordings are only heads and Bird solos, but some of them are extraordinary, and the sound quality is not bad for the vintage. I highly recommend this one. The saxophone player is most likely Claude McLin, not Von Freeman. As was discussed on another Bird thread not long ago - one of the greatest more recent discoveries of Bird is the Open Door from 1953. Those are also only heads and Bird solos, but they are just incredible. The Definitive (which arrived today) I now see is comprised of material recorded at the Onyx between July 6-11, 1948, not the same dates that Hardbopjazz was referring to above. The 2-CD set starts off extremely rough but improves noticeably as it goes along. The Pershing Club recordings (also arrived today) are indeed very nice, and were recorded much more clearly than the July Onyx.

Reader comment below the article: "I heard a jazz record once. Load of rubbish. Sounded like they were just making it up as they went along." Also this, from the article: "Wynton never planned on it going public," says Jono Gasparro, the star's assistant, who asked the Guardian to help track Gisbert down. Lets keep this on the down low. Call the Guardian.

Moving on to some Bud Powell, Compete Verve. Tremendous, mind-blowing stuff on this first disc ('49) with Roach and Brown.

Going to be up for a while, again. Have some Dolphy on now -- Last Date. Thinking about a midnight snack. Some leftover pizza in the fridge.

That view is not universally held. Understood.

Allen's point isn't that difficult to see. Marsalis certainly seems to be taking a sinister pleasure in all this (if the story's true). And I thought we had already stripped the term "Nazi" of any power it once had. The term "soup Nazi" is part of the lexicon now. If you laugh at a Nazi, he's got nuthin' but his accessories. Kinda like Wynton, maybe?

A psychologist in the clip speculates about that. Kind of the way a 4-year-old's mind works. Maybe his dad told him the guys that dress up as women in prison are really popular.

me neither ...

I take it this Barry guy had some problems with "snow"? Snow, cocaine, whatever you want to call it.

Apparently the Chiefs are now playing by flag football rules.

That's terrible. Sympathizing with the wacko who called the cops on Ochs? Yeah, brilliant fucking idea. Yeesh

Thanks Chuck. Grabbed the Commodore solos.

Wonderful thread. I'm just now getting into some stride, primarily through Fats Waller's Proper box set. The man could do some amazing things on the piano. Have James P. Johnson's Smithsonian / Folkways release on the way. I'm very much looking forward to that. Also attempting to sort out where best to begin with Willie 'The Lion' Smith. The Chronological Classics seem a bit out of reach price-wise. Then again, just about everything he has listed at amazon is pretty pricey. We'll see. Great thread though.

All I know is, I'm sitting here in flip flops and shorts while freezing winter descends on much of the rest of the northern hemisphere. I'm happy. I do agree that the "tourist" Florida is tacky, that if you're not on the coast you're toast, and that population is an odd mix of "native" rednecks, retired Republicans from Ohio and twisted castoffs from all corners of the globe who either already are, or soon will be, on the FBI's most wanted list. Other than that, it's great!

Recently: James P. Johnson -- "The Original James P. Johnson 1942-1945" (smithsonian folkways) Charlie Parker -- "Complete Jazz at Massey Hall" (jazz factory) Charlie Parker -- "Complete Onyx Recordings" (definitive) Charlie Parker -- "Giant Among Giants, Complete" (definitive) Fats Waller -- "Fats Waller and His Buddies" (rca) Fats Waller -- "Handful of Keys" (proper) Clarence Williams -- "Vol 1 1923" (epm) Clarence Williams -- "Vol 2 1923 - 1925" (epm) Clarence Williams and the Blues Singers -- "Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 2 1923-1932" (document) Clarence Williams -- "Dreaming the Hours Away" (frog) Charles Tyler -- "Saga of the Outlaws" (nessa)

Listening to the Fats Waller Proper box, which contains the four tracks from this date. Amazing. 'Handful of Keys" (Waller, solo) 'The Morning Drag' and 'Harlem Fuss' (Charlie Gaines, tp; Charlie Irvis, tb; Arville Harris, cl, as, ts; Fats Waller, p; Eddie Condon, bjo) 'Numb Fumblin' (Waller, solo) This is really enjoyable, with a wonderful variety of music -- solo piano, cookin' small group, Fats' vocals. Great stuff.

When I make them at home it's with chopped onions and a little soya sauce mixed into the ground beef, patties pressed as flat as I can get them, then pan fried fairly slowly. Topped with mustard and, if I'm really going to town, banana peppers. Bun warmed in the oven.

The "Complete Live Performances on Savoy" box lists different personnel for the Sept 4, 1948 tracks: Miles; Parker; Tadd Dameron, p; Curley Russell, b; Max Roach, d On the Jan. 1 1949 tracks it lists, as your's does, Dorham, t; Parker, as; Haig, d; Potter, b; Roach, d.

It's on the Ember "Complete Bird at Birdland Vol 1" 4 disc set but it's edited to feature only the heads and Bird's solos. I have the 4-disc "Complete Birdland" Ember set, but also a 2-disc "Vol. 1" that contains the Feb. 14, 1950 and May 15-16 1950 recordings, if anyone is interested in it. It's duplicate material for me, so I'd trade it for something reasonably interesting. Just throwing that out there. Hate to have it sit idly on a shelf here when someone could be enjoying it.

That is a great photo.

Full-page newspaper ads showing otherwise seemingly attractive women wearing white Santa beards. The stuff of nightmares.

Been meaning to get this 'complete' version without the Mingus overdubbing. You get the additional Bud Powell trio material as well. Done. Thanks for the reminder. Looks like the Definitive releaseis the only way to get this? But ... stumbled across another Definitive, "Giant Among Giants-Complete," which are live recordings from the Pershing Hotel Ballroom in Chicago in 1950, and include among the band Von Freeman. Anyone familiar? New copies from cdimports are fairly inexpensive. I believe that all of the 1948 Onyx material is on the Mosaic Benedetti box. Bird on 52nd street on Fantasy is also Onyx material. There is also an excellent earlier 1948 concert from the Three Deuces on that box. The Perishing Hotel concert from 1950 is fantastic. Part of that concert has been around for a long time as "An Evening at Home with the Bird," and later as "One Night in Chicago" on Savoy. The rest of the recordings are only heads and Bird solos, but some of them are extraordinary, and the sound quality is not bad for the vintage. I highly recommend this one. The saxophone player is most likely Claude McLin, not Von Freeman. As was discussed on another Bird thread not long ago - one of the greatest more recent discoveries of Bird is the Open Door from 1953. Those are also only heads and Bird solos, but they are just incredible. Thanks John. The Benedetti is something I'm waiting (and waiting) for Mosaic to make available again.