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I wholeheartedly agree. Check out "Ballad of the Sad Young Men" on Gil Evans's Great Jazz Standards LP - it's a beautiful performance (and arrangement). Also - he's all over Dinah Washington's For Those in Love; his performance there was partially responsible for his Emarcy contract.

Pea-shooters don't help unless you have something to back it up. It seems to me in the pictures I've seen of him that he played medium-sized horns. One looks like a King 3B, and the others like some sort of Conn. I also read that Benny Powell lent him a Conn 88H for a while, which is quite a large horn. I think Cleveland just had great control of his tounging and flexibility. Thanks for the info! Do you happen to know the name of this particular episode? Each of the episodes had a seperate subject that they dealt with. University of Miami

The title is Jazz Trombonist Jimmy Cleveland: A Bio-Discography and Analysis of his Style - I think I bit off a bit more than I can chew doing this two-part thing, but I'm chewing hard. Actually - there are a few reasons for 1960 - 1) Cleveland's major sessions as a leader on Emarcy were all in the 50's, ending with Rhythm Crazy in '59; 2) He left for a European tour playing the musical Free and Easy with the Quincy Jones band in early 1960 - this lessened his output in that year. 3) It's a nice, round number.

Cleveland was certainly active in the 60's and beyond, but I'm doing this as part of a doctoral essay, and I have serious time (and space) constraints - I hope to complete the full discography sometime later. Mike- Thanks for your generous offer. I'll be in touch.

Wow, you folks are fast!

Thanks, Mike - I'm definitely going to check out your book - congrats! So this series has never made it to a commercial release on video or dvd?

Thanks for the hospitality! I'm assuming the tracks on the Fresh Sound release are from Rhythm Plus One (Epic LN3297) and After Hours Jazz (Epic LN3339), recorded June 25, 1956 - does it include all four tracks that Cleveland played on? I'm not exactly sure of "the story" behind these, but I think it was a way to show off Epic's "house" rhythm section, using some great soloists of the day (Gene Quill, Seldon Powell, and Conte Candoli were the others on Rhythm Plus One), essentially as promo for Epic's jazz department. Fresh Sound - what a great label! Do they have a webpage? I remember looking for one awhile back to no avail . . . Oh, and about myself . . . I'm a jazz trombonist/pianist/bassist - I'm working on a DMA at U of Miami - I teach at UM and FIU - even though I got an iPod for xmas, I'm hopelessly addicted to vinyl - they're taking over our house . . .

Hiyall- I'm working on a discography of Jimmy Cleveland during the 1950's - anyone got any info or recordings not in the published stuff? Any help would be greatly appreciated - Thanks.

Howdy all- Anyone happen to know if any episodes of The Subject is Jazz TV series (from '58) exist outside of the Library of Congress, etc.? I believe I saw the one with Jimmy Rushing available, but what about the others (13 total?) I'm specifically interested in the ones with Jimmy Cleveland. Thanks!