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I saw it as it happened, and I still love Dunlop, so that ain't it, necessarily. However, I didn't get to see Monk until Riley was on board, but not yet on record. Hated him, and it wan't until probably 20 years later that I had any use for him. I agree with Chuck about the "restored" live Monk albums - less IS more! And I did keep the LP's.

I gotta second that, but I think we agree that it isn't worth arguing about. -_-

Sorry, 11:30's just a little too late for me, but Kevin Bresnahan brought the guys by my store this afternoon, and I gotta say it was a treat to meet y'all!

Shadow's playing is the real revelation for me on this CD! My ears perked up when I heard "Epistrophy"!

I think this guy falls into the "get a life" category. I once had an inquiry from a prospective buyer who was willing to give me a big order if I could assure him that the jewel cases had a specific type of tab holding the booklet. Needless to say, I didn't persue it. Maybe it was this guy!

If and when they do reissue this session, I hope it's without the overdubbed applause.

True, up to a point, but I wouldn't dismiss the third set outright. It contains the complete Town Hall concert of 6/9/45 (Red Norvo, Gene Krupa, Stuff Smith, Teddy Wilson, Don Byas, et al)There are fine sessions by Jonah Jones, Wild Bill Davison, Eddie Edwards, George Brunies, Mel Powell, Bob Wilber, Ralph Sutton, Sidney Bechet, Willie "The Lion" Smith, et al, plus the best recordings by the legendary Peck Kelley. There's also a little too much George Zack for my taste. This set is significantly rarer than the the first two, so if you get it at a reasonable price, grab it!

An interesting article. Thanks for posting. In the audio samples, the Hawkins excerpt contains no Hawkins!! Didn't anybody listen?

This wouldn't surprise me. I haven't seen this kind of demand for a new release since the Bird & Diz on Uptown (which we couldn't get for several weeks). When a small store like mine gets several calls every day for something, we know it's going to be a hit. Also, I heard that the payout to the Monk & Coltrane estates was $250,000. They wouldn't have come up with this kind of scratch unless they knew it was a moneymaker.

You can't really know if this is true unless you see the complete unedited press conferences. Much of the the footage in "No Direction Home" comes from Pennebaker's "Don't Look Back", and I suspect that Pennebaker intentionally selected the footage that he found amusing, either for the dumb questions or Dylan's comical and sometimes caustic answers. I have to believe that a fair number of reasonable questions were asked and answered, but not included in the films.

I love this record too. Yes, they have mellowed over the years, but there is some profoundly beautiful music on this album. I'm glad RDK asked about the tenor players - I can't tell them apart either, although I liked all of the tenor work.

Much of the pre-air promo made it clear that this was to focus on the career up to 1966. I guess for those who didn't see any of that, they might have expected more. The fact that it focussed entirely on the years during which his greatest work was done (my opinion, but I'm not alone) is what drew me to watch it. Scorsese's involvement seems to have been to gather together all of the footage, and also to lend his name to the project, which certainly raised its profile.

My reaction exactly - WTF?????

As somebody who was a big Dylan fan back then, I was at the time repulsed by his arrogance, but also fascinated. I'm not so sure, and we may never know, what Dylan was like off-camera. "Don't Look Back" and some of the candid footage from the electric tour show a man that's under a lot of stress, and as the film demonstrates, needing to take some time off. And let's face it, most of the interviewers were completely clueless, and Bob didn't cut them any slack. I assume that the excerpts that ended up in "Don't Look Back" and elsewhere were the parts that the filmmakers thought were the most amusing. Bob does appear flippant, but how would any intelligent high profile person respond to such idiocy?

Where was it said, or been written, that Dylan broke off contact with his family? His personal life has always been well guarded, and that includes his wife and his children. All of this speculation just feeds the man of mystery myth that he and the press cultivated so well.

Interesting to me 'cause Vincent was the first "live" act I ever saw (Val-Air Ballroom, Des Moines sometime in the '50s) and the last "big" pop/rock concert I attended was Dylan and The Band in the Boston Garden circa 1973. ← "Gene Vincent At Town Hall Party" (Bear Family) is a nice DVD of several Vincent shows from 1958-59. Don't know if the clip in the Dylan film is from it. I saw Dylan just this past April at the Orpheum in Boston - pretty sad (my spouse loves him). Opening act Merle Haggard was really good, however.

Also, I was impressed that they didn't talk to a single critic or music writer. All of the talking heads were Dylan's contemporaries (or elders), so there was no analytical bullshit about his "significance".

Very amazed at how much vintage footage of good quality they came up with! Really interesting how matter-of-fact Dylan's comments were, considering his long time image as a man of mystery.

Art Tatum - God Is In the House Charlie Christian - I believe that there are several CD releases of this material.

The price is ridiculous, so I doubt he'll get any takers, especially since the material has been around for years in general circulation, recently issued on CD.

Another one I like a lot is by Jim Cullum's Jazz Band (Columbia) - they give the score a dixieland interpretation, and it works quite well. Of course, the Ella/Louis and the Miles/Gil are tops in my book. Who is that professor/historian?

This is the best I can come up with: My heart's on fire, but my love is icy cold, My heart's on fire, but my love is icy cold, Well, I'm goin' right to his face and get him told. I'll fix him if it's twenty years from now, I'll fix him if it's twenty years from now, I'll have him bellyin' (bellowing) just like a cow.

Don't believe any of the following have been mentioned: Buddy DeFranco Sam Noto Buddy Childers Charlie Mariano (above 3 with Kenton band) Lawrence Marable Dick Hyman (on film with Bird)

Ruppli agrees with the discographies, the first title is shown as Good King Daddy. Had this LP years ago, but didn't keep it. As fine as the Bluesville series is, I thought this one was a dog!

NO!!!! Not the JSO set!!! That one SUCKS!!!! (We said the JSP set.) ← ← Look down at your feet. Hear that rustling sound? That's the sound of your leg being pulled.