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Discovered the other day that some (all?) of Bernstein's Omnibus shows were up on Shout TV, which I get on my Roku. So I'm thinking, hey, didn't Miles do "Sweet Sue" on that one, wasn't that the genesis of that? So, ok, there's a LOT of different playings around with of "Sweet Sue" on that show, but it's all (I would suppose) members of the CBS house orchestra (and who might they have been, anyway? some faces "look familiar"). No Miles. But, and here's where things get fuzzier, didn't Columbia release a LP called Jazz Omnibus in conjunction with this show, and isn't that where the Miles "Sweet Sue" showed up on record? Oh, I guess they did, but no, it wasn't http://www.discogs.com/Various-Jazz-Omnibus/release/1380519 I'm sure I've got this little factual minutiae stashed away in some liner notes or something somewhere, but it's easier - and more fun - to ask here. So, how did Miles come to do "Sweet Sue" of all things, was it planned for the Bernstein show or what? That's not really the best of tunes, I think, although it might well be one of the more functional.