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Spotify is producing their own music because what they pay out is divided amongst any music that gets more than a 1000 plays (I forget over what time period) and the amount they pay out is a percentage of their total income. The more they pay to themselves the less they pay others. It sucks. However, I'm on Spotify a lot but almost never passively. I usually pick an album but there are also playlists like the one that has nearly every record with a Lester Young solo-- including some air-checks. It can take most of a day to get through it. When my choices do run out I often have gotten fairly good followups.(After I played some Charles Lloyd they continued with Coltrane, Dolphy etc., at one point making a perfect segue from one to another that was so good I presumed it was done by a real person-- of course shortly after that they fired most of their programmers.) Once or twice I have heard what sounds like an AI mix of Bill Evans, Bill Charlop and Eric Satie-- it was pretty awful. Is it really "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most"? I know you can't can't copyright a title (e.g. Blue Haze) but Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most is such an idiosyncratic use of words you'd think the composers could sue.

I think they were all issued (i.e. no new discoveries in the film. A couple (at least one) were originally with Lennie Tristano.

IIRC that stereo cut was "Lester Leaps In" and was used by Clint Eastwood in "Bird".

It also has one cut in stereo (done by using a 2nd tape recorder that was present along with Chan's.)

Whatever the X means to you, have a merry one.

I thought this might be about Elmer Bernstein or Jimmy Smith.

Great story. I've always been impressed that the editors of Esquire understood that they were living in a Golden Age.

I interviewed Willie the Lion in the mid '60s when he was in Toronto for a CBC tv show playing duets with Don Ewell. They made an Lp around the same time for a private label which was eventually re-issued on Sackville. I'm embarrassed to say I didn't know much about him at the time but of course he was a delight. (Around the same time I saw Lonnie Johnson performing at a local coffee shop where I'd gone to meet a friend. I didn't comprehend his importance either. What a jerk I was.)

True, but not just about fusion: I've read notes where the writer took advantage of his platform to attack all kinds of music that was irrelevant to the music at hand.

IIRC at the time the mere concept of Monk having a greatest hit's Lp was thought to be pretty funny.

I didn't know about this record. They did a good one for Reprise that I believe was never released on cd.

IIRC Terry Adams (or one of NRBQ) wrote the liner notes for a Columbia Monk album of unreleased numbers. (Away from my cds and can't remember the name.)

I'm in but I'm computer illiterate. How/where do I subscribe?

IIIRC (and I often don't) the color movie was taken by Milt Hinton's wife with his 8mm camera.

What! I just phoned and asked them to hold it for me until after Xmas since I'll be away after the 16th.

I didn't expect the sonics to be so much better than the Off the Record release and in fact probably wouldn't have ordered the set were it not for the extra cds of music that Pops and King Oliver might have heard. They turned out to be even more interesting than I expected.

I have a 2 cd set of Chappaqua Suite issued by Sony France. Don't think it was around long. Glad I got it when I could.

I just ordered it used from Amazon for $8.

That's where I first heard the Elvis too. Not sure where they found this version but it's even longer than the one on "Reconsider Baby".

Pianists Joe Turner and Aaron Bridgers.

For the better? IIRC the film was shot in VistaVision. Not sure about the VistaVision sound system.

How was Vertigo revised? And BTW Eva Marie Saint is still alive and 100 years old. I thought she had died because I came across her name along with her husbands on a gravestone in a cemetery near where I live. However it turns out she had had her name engraved beside her husband's when he died.

Did anyone mention "We Free Kings" by RRK yet? Or this?

Do they at least have the Dec 24th session with all the dialogue? Just checked it out on Spotify and they have the session including the dialogue.

Wow! There's a rumour/myth that one of the versions of Bob Dylan's first single, Mixed Up Confusion, was with a "Dixieland band". Given that John Hammond was the producer, if it really happened it might have been pretty interesting.