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Okay, I have heard the cd today, dug it out from my hundreds of Ellington cds. . . It's Django with Duke Ellington Orchestra, Chicago November 10, 1946. The material appears on the excellent two cd set The Great Chicago Concerts, on Music Masters. Track 11 on this J Bird cd is "Ride Red Ride" on the Great Chicago Concerts cd one, and track 12 is "Honeysuckle Rose" on the same Chicago Concerts cd. (Also on the Chicago Concerts cd as mentioned above is "A Blues Riff" and "Improvisation #2". . . .) As far as I can tell even though he had appeared with the Orchestra in Cleveland before this and Stl Louis and possibly other cities after this, this Chicago show is the sole known recording of Django with Ellington.

Went to see this today. Wasn't as bad as I feared it might be. Was a lot of fun actually. The worst thing about the rewriting of the story to include Von Doom as a victim of the radiation and mutation is. . . he was a lot more sinister as a Latverian ruler with no super powers that we didn't know that much about before he appeared. He's more Green Goblin than Latverian monarch here. . . . Still I think they sort of captured the beginning of Strange Tales Ben and Johnny sparring and Johnny Storm was truly amusing. Sue Storm was someone you really wanted to remain visible. The others. . . they did okay. I was actually happy they put Stan Lee in there as they did. . . it was nice to see him as that character th at we did see in the early issues of the comic as partial comic relief. So who you do you think will be showing up along with Dr. Doom in the next one as villain du jour?

Hans. . . I think overall the remastering is very good on this set. And I'm not sure that one ought to shelve down that Stitt sound. . . . I do know that in a nearfield listening setup with your ear less than six feet from a tweeter. . . on some of the sessions one word: OUCH!

Youngsters! Well, understandably you're still celebrating birthdays, so HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

I guarantee: there will be cover art! You heard it here first!

I think that piercing quality is in Stitt's playing. . . . I feel it and hear it too. It's at the core of his personal sound. . . . I've never heard it live but I bet it would be there strong. I just think that the remastering sometimes can also make the unpleasant piercing be prominent and hard to handle on bright systems. The sound of some of the discs on the Mosaic does mean I grab for them less than I might otherwise. . . .

Hope it's a wonderful one Guy!

Sorry you don't get it. No one is going to be able to explain it to you. You either like them or you don't. I don't enjoy everything you do, and I don't need to.

Shorter's "Allegria" shipped, so next up on my queue is Ornette's Skies of America.

Okay, last disc I am spinning tonight is "Stronger than Pride." Talk to y'all tomorrow.

I'm sure mrjazzman will order a cool dozen or two.

I'm pretty sure this is Django, from that tour. I haven't located my copy of the cd, but that is what is sticking in my head as a memory. . . . Maybe someone whose collection is not in perpetual chaos can give a more definitive response. If it sounds like Django. . . well it likely IS.

I think she qualifies. . . .Just my opinion. I don't own any of her stuff, but there's worse out there, and she's easy on the eyes and ears.