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"Stringin' Along with Basie" on Roulette is a hoot!

King Oliver got my vote. Thanks for including him!

Many many more happy ones!

You are correct Ubu, JAY CAMERON was a great baritonist!

Since we're talking about Wilen on the board again these days, Wilen absolutely does a killing baritone piece on the Osaka Concert cd, "Sous les Ciels de Paris" ---I really love it. He really blows a nice baritone (he had a great sound and swing on the soprano, alto and tenor too!)

I've become a huge Wilen fan, mainly because of Kevin Bresnahan, who years ago sent me a disc he had grown tired of that reawakened my interest, and led to me seeking out all the recordings I could find. There really aren't bad ones. . . . I love the work he did in the eighties and nineties and want to find more. . . I need a few that haven't come out on cd yet, most notably the avantgarde titles. I have New York Romance with that other cover Ubu (Le Ca--can't figure out how to add the cedille) and I love it; mine is a gold disc that sounds fantastic. All those discs pictured are great. Mental Cruelty is worth picking up as well. Anyone have any details about artist Marie Moor Barney's girlfriend . . . she seems to be a celebrity of a sort in her own right. I've never been able to find the album that she did that Barney may have produced and did participate in. . . .

Hey Aftab, welcome! Good to see you; Lon Armstrong here. I just had a visit here in Austin from a penpal and jazz fan in Green Bay, Craig Turner. . . he's a nice man and a great jazz fan. . . . Hang around and post!

Yeah, we've done this before. I really feel it is apples and oranges. Different intents of the bulletin boards by their founders, and both groups have really made the boards they want to have. This one is tops for ME, probably for US, but the other one works for many another. So be it! Just let's keep this place HOPPIN'!

I have to find this somehow soon. . . I have a long deleted Columbia cd of jazz pieces rearranged and performed by classical musicians which I love; I know it's the flip side of the topic of this thread but I think it's great. I'm actually not really fond of jazz musicians playing classical. . . unless it's maybe Ellingtonians playing Ducal classical music. . . .

What Chuck said. The three cd version is a mind-fugger. Yeah the stuff with Elvin is great, but it's ALL great!

Okay, so maybe my favorite holiday song is really . . . "Yesterdays" from the Commodore days. . . . Oh and as an Xmas cd, well I really don't like Xmas music at all. Being a PK I've heard it all too too too many times. But I do like Marcus Roberts' "Prayer for Peace."

I've been living with this music for a looooooooong time as Jim has, and I pretty much have the same opinions about it that he has. I got in on the ground floor with Filles, In A Silent Way and Miles at Filmore. I can still remember what it felt like to buy Live/Evil when it was released and just FREAK at the sound. And then to see the "In Concert" band on the TV and finally be SEEING this stuff. And then to listen to "He Loved Him Madly" in a darkened room and just marvel. This electric Miles up to 1975 is a deep river in me of music memory and enjoyment. These recordings were what led me to jazz, following Miles and Wynton Kelly to so many great recordings, and seriously listening again and again to Duke because Miles gave him so much gravity and finally being swallowed by Duke's and Strays' musical world. I owe this music a TON.

I've never heard the Zodiac and Prof. Leary releases. . . mythical beasts, I've only ever seen them on ebay for far more than I would spend! Le Grand Cirque is indeed a great one, though L'Auto Jazz, an earlier similar date with (even more) racing sounds mixed in seems more avant garde to me. . . .

Ha ha. They aired the outtakes over the radio and tapes/cdrs circulate. . .

AMEN!

My favorite Holiday song may be "Fine and Mellow". . . .

Yes, this is amazing stuff, but I prefer his final decade or so of work, ultimately; it is varied and yet always wonderful. BUT really flippin' hard to find, at least at a reasonable price! I really love almost all of those with girlfriend Marie Moor on the cover!

Lawrence that is indeed an excellent book (which can be bought at a nice price from Daedalus books) and you are right, a lot more credit is due Strays than he'll ever receive. A fascinating book in so many ways! (Just like the subject, the man and music, Billy Strayhorn.)

Classic bossa nova . . . I can dig it JimR!

Well, from what I can quickly tell (and hey, I'm supposed to be at work auditing work orders in this verdamnt new computer system we bought. . . a pig in a poke if you ask me!) you sir are correct! My bad memory at work. . . Here's one blurb I found: In 1958, Ellington took his orchestra to an arts festival in Leeds. There, he was introduced to Queen Elizabeth at a reception, and each party appeared to be charmed by the other. Upon his return to New York, Ellington decided to express his admiration in his own regal way---he recorded The Queen's Suite at his own expense and had a single pressing made and delivered to Buckingham Palace. He never sanctioned the recording's release during his lifetime.

I don't think so. . . I'll see if I can find out for sure.

This is not the original recording though, which was a privately pressed recording purportedly only for the Queen herself (though you know the Duke had copies for some other of his royal ladies spirited away). . . .

Yeah, I was once working on a novel that included a religious sect sortof used Amway as a model (from personal experience of working with someone deep into the scam). . . I called it "The Church of the American Dream" (CAD). Those CADs!

I think you're going to enjoy hearing his playing evolve over the years, taking the lessons he learned from Newk and Pres and that spark he always had from the stat that was HIM, and becoming more and more a saxophone master (and I mean of all the horns save maybe bass and contrabass!) and an elder European jazz statesman, and a proliferator of French music as well. . . . Keep me posted on your Wilen journey (and I can probably help out here and there too.)

Good mentions guys. Cuber was really burning on those Hampton tracks on video. . . . I really like his Xanadus as well. And Payne was someone I should have mentioned. I think his recordings as a leader really should be heard more, the Delmarks, the Charlie Parker Records, the Stash, and more (?) . . . Good call.