Pete C

Well, Stanley Crouch did punch Howard Mandel.

Tom M., remind me, do you have a website for your photos? They're worthy of a book.

Hows the sound on the tracks from 1919?

Max Beerbohm Donald Rumsfeld Brandy

The Diddy Men Ken Dodd Richard Dadd Moms Mabley Hank Mobley Moby

He actually bought the Tatum masters back from MGM. He tried to buy the whole label back but failed. Was that when he started Pablo, so he could release them and do them the justice that obviously hadn't been served?

Somehow Fantasy was able to have the rights to release that Trane European box set back 10 years ago or whatever it was. Maybe it doesn't need to be Universal (because I can't see them doing it). Those were Pablo masters. Yeah, Granz has the tapes or the rights to them from the shows he produced after he sold Verve and started releasing them when he launched Pablo. Then it appears that the rights went to Fantasy when he sold Pablo, including stuff he hadn't yet released. I've always found it interesting that he somehow managed to hold back the Tatum stuff when he sold Verve.

Yes, but it was la dolce vita loca.

Yeah, but I think the trio of percussionists (Chancler, Mtume & Alias) is really wonderful. Were they only together for that tour?

Annie Sprinkle Annie Oakley Berry Oakley

This set is old news already. Now I'm waiting for the Fall 1971 European Tour. That was one hot band.

Here's the setlist of a recording from Berkeley in April of 1967 (with Albert Stinson on bass): DJ Intro 00:18 Gingerbread Boy 09:08 Stella by Starlight 10:17 Dolores 07:08 'Round Midnight 09:44 So What 08:47 Walkin' 08:54 Theme 00:31 DJ Outro 00:27 From Newport: July 4, 1966 Track 01. Introduction/Gingerbread Boy - 9:10 (11.7MB) Track 02. All Blues - 11:17 (14.4MB) Track 03. Stella by Starlight (cut off during piano solo) - 7:32 (9.6MB) July 2, 1967 Track 04. Gingerbread Boy - 9:00 (11.9MB) Track 05. Footprints - 8:11 (10.8MB) Track 06. Round About Midnight (faded out) - 4:16 (5.6MB) And this one: Stella by starlight 9:53 Agitation 9:26 Autumn leaves 10:49 Miles Davis trumpet Wayne Shorter tenor sax Herbie Hancock piano Richard Davis bass Tony Williams drums Recorded in Portland at Oregon State Collage, May 1966

All right, make mine Blind Lemon Lik-m-aid.

Can't blame a busy touring band for having a relatively fixed repertoire, and each audience was different--they weren't thinking about a box set! From what I've heard online, Antwerp sounds much better than the release I have, "His Greatest Concert Ever."

Mary Hartman Louise Lasser Frank Loesser

Dr. Hackenbush Lou Hackney Wade Legge

There's a special place in my heart for Sam, as I was a regular at Rivebea when I was 18-19 years old. There was the music, of course, but also Sam & Bea's hospitality.

The Smith Brothers The Brown Sisters Johnson & Johnson Anthony and the Johnsons The Brothers Johnson Dr. Joyce Brothers

Waiting for mine. Antwerp & Copenhagen are up on Spotify, but not Paris--I guess ORTF may have withheld the rights for this form of distribution. This weekend I listened to Rotterdam--the sound is good--I wonder why this wasn't included.

http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/amplifier/89928/funk-legend-sly-stone-is-living-in-a-van/ This article mentions that he was screwed by Jerry Goldstein. A lot of people were, including the members of the "Low Rider Band," most of the former members of War.

Hagar The Horrible Ed Balls Mrs Balls Wonder Woman The Happy Wanderer Bolton Wanderers Officer Joe Bolton Captain Jack McCarthy Uncle Fred Scott (you had to have grown up in NY in the '60s)

Rocky Raccoon Rocket J. Squirrel Alexander Pushkin (I skipped 2 steps)

Bobby Troup Maria Von Trapp Carl Maria Von Weber

Felix Frankfurter Jay Berliner Wolfgang Hildesheimer