Air shots of Earl Hines band w/Bird & Dizzy.

[Hardbopjazz]

Has this ever surfaced and made it to CD? In an old thread from last year it was mentioned that this most likely exists in some record company vault. If so, why hasn't this been dug out yet?

[AllenLowe]

doesn't exist -

[ghost of miles]

All right, Allen, enough holding back already--isn't it about time that you issued those acetates you've been sitting on (literally, I imagine) so that some poor, famished European bootleg operation could rip 'em off for a cheapo edition?

[AllenLowe]

well - I DO have some recordings of Gregory Hines appearing with Big Bird on Sesame Street - not sure, however, if those are the ones he's talking about -

[Hardbopjazz]

No, those are not the ones. I already have the ones with Big Bird Gregory Hines.

[Spontooneous]

Nessa hasn't found them yet. But he will.

(Love your new avatar, Hardbopjazz. I know it expresses my cat's innermost feelings.)

[John L]

I think they are somewhere in Allen's basement next to that Buddy Bolden cylinder and the Freddie Keppard Creole Band 1916 test recordings.

[AllenLowe]

well, I'm saving those for the post-nuclear world, when global warming and random missile attacks have killed everyone except for me and Pam Anderson. And than we will live happily with my little record player and will build us a new nuclear family and revive the recording industry in MY image -

Edited December 22, 2005 by AllenLowe

[Ron S]

well, I'm saving those for the post-nuclear world, when global warming and random missile attacks have killed everyone except for me and Pam Anderson. And than we will live happily with my little record player and will build us a new nuclear family and revive the recording industry in MY image -

I was ready to believe you, Allen, until the part about Pam Anderson being willing to live with you if you were the last man on earth. That truly strains credulity.

[AllenLowe]

well, would you believe...Barbara Bush?

[AllenLowe]

I always confuse those two -