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  1. OK, I'll go along with the Sy Oliver crowd here.
  2. Trumpeter has too little hair to be Benny Bailey, who kept most of his until the end. I'd guess Bill Coleman, but he looks a little stout for Bill.
  3. Hats in the Sky ... In A Silent Hat ... Chapeaus de Kilimanjaro ... Bitches Hat ...
  4. It's not a Dameron dream band without Fats Navarro. Mine has Johnny Hodges and Harry Carney. Gotta dream big.
  5. Trane held on to his music from the "Mating Call" session. The pages were in the big Christie's jazz auction a few months back.
  6. Does anybody know if a better-than-TV-quality audio master even exists? The show was broadcast live, so they had plenty of other issues to worry about besides the sound. If a better tape exists, it would probably be a legal nightmare to work out a legit release with all the estates (Basie, Monk, Holiday, Hawkins, et al.).
  7. I know Columbia did at least one lp/cd with performances from The Sound of Jazz.
  8. Ratliff's reaching back to the '20s. Steve Brown was a mofo bassist who made an enormous difference in the sound and feel of the Jean Goldkette and Paul Whiteman bands.
  9. It was September '97, and Jay Mac brought his sextet (former students all) to the Gem Theater in Kansas City. In the first set, they played "'Round Midnight." In his cadenza at the end, Jackie suddenly stopped, raised his head and shouted, "Thank you, Thelonious, for the most beautiful ballad ever!" And finished the cadenza beautifully.
  10. It's just like the shite in the Ken Burns movie about how Bix must surely have learned to play by hearing Louis on a riverboat.
  11. Yes, but I don't think Crouch is making that case. He's just looking for a quick way to get through writing the obituary. (This viewed through the lens of someone who's had to write thousands of obituaries.)
  12. Allen's right about that "experience in the South" BS. And Crouch wrote more paragraphs about the heroin years than about the decades of mastery that followed. It's another piece of Crouch hack work.
  13. And if "Garcia's Salmon-Colored Toilet" isn't a band name, I don't know what is. Obviously, I don't know what is.
  14. Ever mindful of Kansas City's reputation as a jazz center, our local PBS station has buried this show in the coveted 12:30 a.m. time slot.
  15. Let me get this straight. Albert King played the Flying V guitar, and Freddie King had the Flying V collar, right?
  16. He wrote a tune for a friend of mine. The framed sheet music is his prized possession.
  17. Aww, I kinda liked the piece. It's over the top and wrong, but I think Lebrecht knows that. Does anybody else think the instruction at the end to "Play the Leningrad Symphony" is ironic?
  18. Erik -- my copy of that Evan Parker disc has the same problem!
  19. Great news! Just when I was trying to get over my '73 Dead jones ...
  20. Y'all should have heard him play "Star Eyes" last night. That was something else to celebrate. Happy happy, Paul!
  21. Not yet (I'm broke), but looks intriguing. I recently grabbed "View from the Vault II," recorded a few nights earlier than the new download, from the cheapie bin at the used-disc place. Didn't have high expectations for the performance. And I was blown away by it. The second set, with a "Slipknot" that crests at least four times and a "Dark Star" that clearly surprises everyone on stage, got me excited about 1990s Dead in ways that no other performance ever has. So I'm ready for more prime '91 Dead.
  22. Same problem on this end.
  23. Not news, but great anyway. Somebody please correct me if you have better info: Apparently this film was an aborted Norman Granz attempt to make a sequel to "Jammin' the Blues." The Bird segments surfaced, without a soundtrack. in the '80s, I think. Then people figured out that they synched up very nicely with the commercially released performances of "Ballade" and "Celebrity." Granz's way of filmmaking at this time was to record the music first, then film the musicians mimicking it later.
  24. Evidence suggests that a few glimpses were released on Pablo: link here But that's the best I can come up with right now.
  25. Is it the one that goes "Bah-bah BEEEE, deedle-deedle-deedle uh"?
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