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IIRC, the other person was RCA and later Colpix producer Jack Lewis. The story is on Bill Crow's book and elsewhere. F

The Woody Shaw set seems to be available from Pop Market. Any feedback yet? F

Ethan Iverson blogs about Powell, and gives some space to Pullman, who talks about this project. http://dothemath.typepad.com/dtm/2011/09/buds-birthday.html F

Pullman's website is up now. You can read an excerpt of the book here. There's also a chronology, which should give an idea of the quality of Pullman's research. F

Straight from the horse's mouth: Source: Peter Pullman's blog. Website not quite up yet, but still, great news. F

Re: Sonny Boy II and Clapton, the latter seems quite paralized by the former here: F

Excellent story Marcello. Funny, his "After the Dead" (on Reel Time) has always sounded to me like a blues built on Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man". F

Not the first time they overlap, but never in such a prominent way. Anyhow, I did a quick check and the only difference seems to be that the FS has an alternate mono version of "Foggy Nights" (Budd Johnson album) that seems to be different (longer) from the stereo one. That and the slightly thicker booklet on the FS. Ah, and the FS has a tune called "Trade Winds" that is replaced by "Danzon D'Amor" on the 5-CD set (both by Rex Stewart album). I presume it's the same tune(?) F

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And on top of everything, one recording only is not representative of anything. Will have to listen to more of his stuff. F

FWIW, the first time I heard the YouTube video posted by Larry Kart it instantly reminded me of Ben Webster with Bennie Moten (1932). I compared them and it's not the same thing, but I'd go with the idea of a regional trait more than a personal one of Mr. Whitby. F

Lost, according to Cohen & Fitzgerald. From their discography: F

WOW, thanks! I knew of this, but had never seen/heard it. I'm writing a short piece for my blog. Sadly, Baker died a few months ago. F

It can be read on Amazon.com (with the aptly named "Look Inside!" option). It actually gets better (it goes on about this for three pages). F

Also from the same seller, although not a boxed set, this is a very nice 3-CD collection of jazz on Capitol records - for £3.44 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300585930318 F

"Wipe out" may not be the best choice of words, given the current state of affairs I agree that Real Madrid played better, but there are two things that may play against them later in the year: physical condition, Barça will get better, and Madrid will peak earlier in the calendar, and that quite obviously Barça has undermined RM psychologically. Playing like they did they could well win, but they seem to get nervous and resort to stupid tactics. F

FWIW, while I listened attentively, headphones on etc, to the Minneapolis tracks (and I compared them to the Masters of Jazz version), I didn't do the same with the Goodman recordings. Should go back and check, I guess. F

Could this be the answer? From Wikipedia F

Mmmm... That'd be interesting to see. There's a bunch of stuff that has not been released on CD. And then, there are things like the reissue of The Beat of My Heart (the album with Blakey, Candido, Jo Jones, et al) reissued with six extra tracks, but missing a track from the original LP ("Army Air Corps Song"). There was also some tweaking done in other tracks... as far as I can remember the intro to "Blues in the night" on the CD is not the same than on the LP. F

Don't know if this was known about. I knew about the gig (John Mehegan was the relief pianist) but didn't know about the recording. http://jazzontherecord.blogspot.com/2011/08/unheard-tal-farlow-eddie-costa-marian.html F

Gotta say, the sound on the Charlie Christian CD is remarkable. And I wonder what kind of sound equipment Frank Driggs has, because he says that Pettiford is barely audible on the Minneapolis recordings, and I can hear him alright. F

One has to wonder whether more people would go through the gates of jazz if WM weren't guarding them. F

I just received the Charlie Christian CD. I understand this is the first issue of the Minneapolis session from Newhouse's original acetates, not the dubs used by Columbia in their early 70s LP (and presumably source of many subsequent reissues) or the ones owned by Jerry Jerome (used at least for an Arbors CD, and presumably for Volume 9 of the Complete Edition of Charlie Christian recordings - these issues presented the unspliced "I Got Rhythm" and the complete intro to "Tea For Two"). As for the rest, it looks that everything has been reissued before, but this should be in better sound. Also, the 4/26/1940 "Sheik of Araby" here is the most complete version I recall. In previous reissues it fades during Guarnieri's solo, this has it complete plus almost a whole chorus by Goodman. If you don't have this music and you're interested, I think this is the way to go. "Tea for Two" is the only recording of this tune by Christian, IIRC, and it has one of his best recorded solos IMHO. Interesting to hear Oscar Pettiford's earliest stuff to, aged 17. And the booklet carries pictures of Frankie Hines (duly assumed to be "Earl Hines (p)?" in old discographies) and Newhouse I'd never seen. F PS Haven't read them yet, but the liner notes are by Frank Driggs (!)

Is that the info given in the Uptown booklet? The personnel and date of this recording, which is >not< a broadcast, had been long settled (see Leo Valdés's discography), not least in this forum by Chris Albertson. F

Ubu, can't help with actual info, but you may want to check Ruppli's Atlantic discography, his latest, which was released by Names & Numbers on CD-ROM some months ago. F