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I used to watch on Tuesday nights when they had "Jazz Classics" and "Duke Ellington". The trouble was they kept playing the same things each week. Recently "jazz Classics" has repeatedly shown an old film called "The Duke Steps Out" . Unfortuantely not about Ellington but a film starring Lena Horne. For a while The Duke show kept repeating "The Intimate Ellington" which was so good I got it on DVD so as not to have to put up with all horrible commericals. Jazz Classics also repeatedly played the feature length Dizzy revue film-- the name of which i forget but which has a lot of good Gillespie big band stuff between bad jokes and dancers.

Film producer. According to some on this board: corrupter of American youth. Used to be an academic and corrupter of Canadian youth.

Anyone know where one might find the Bing Crosby show? Duke and Jimmy Blanton appeared one but to the best of my knowledge it's only availabe on tape. I'd like to find it on-line or on cd.

I think I've never heard his stuff with Jamal but I love his work with Gil Evans, on Katanga and on his own Candid release. Aa very distinctive player: When I first got Katanga I put it on and left the room; when I returned it was during one of his solos and I thought I was listening to Out of the Cool.

I've got a hard copy of one up till 1953 by Piet koster and Chris Sellers. It's got some, but not many, airshots.

Was Have Gun a radio show before it was a tv show? I know Gunsmoke was but....

Wow. Is this available? Talk about an all star band!

Hey thanks. i think it was Scott Robinson and I think what I heard was Struttin with Some Barbecue which i presume is on the Louis Armstron cd.

Anyone else here old enough to remember Godfrey? (sp?) Anyway the new Storyville release The Sensitive Billie Holiday contains a version of The Man I Love on which, according to the notes by Scott Yanow, she was accompanied only by the "obscure pianist Archie Blyer". After about 30 seconds research I discovered that the paino player was Archie Bleyer who's hardly obscure. To Jazz fans he may be best known as the man who owned the Candid records. (It was a subsiduary of a larger company, the name of which I forget, but which made its money off of The Everly Brothers and Andy Williams.) However what made Bleyer famous was his work as band leader on The Arthur Godfrey Breakfast Club radio show and this performance was on that show. (Or at least some Godfrey show-- I think he may have had more than one.) He was very popular and I'm surprised that Billie was on such a mainstream program. BTW Yannow also misidentifies Fine and Mellow as Billie's Blues.

BTW Didn't something funny happen with the title on the record itself: "Old Bottles New Wine" or did it jsut reverse the order to "Old Wine New Bottle"?

The other day while driving I heard a recent recording by a multi-instrumentalist who at one point played a bass saxophone. Unfortunately I left my car before I heard who it was. I'd like to find a copy for my friend Josef Skvorecky who wrote a novella called The Bass Saxophone. I once got him a Roscoe Mitchell record where Roscoe played it briefly but I think his taste runs more to Adrian Rollini. The guy I head on the radio was at least mainstream. Anyone any idea on who it might havea been?

And I think Francis Davis if now the jazz columnist for the Vilage Voice. I think that's a venue that also gives you influence.

Otto Premminger, the director of the film, wanted to use Sophisticated Lady. Raksin asked for the chance to write his own theme. He went home and got the news of some personal tragedy-- his wife or girlfriend had left him. Wrote Laura that night. At least that's how I remember the oft repeated story. I think the film was a hit form the beginning. One of Premminger's best. BTW He eventualy did hse Duke's music in a film: Anatomy of Murder.

For better or worse I think that influence is dependant on venue: whoever is writing for the NY Times is influential.

I've got all of them throurh Vol 10 and was very happy with them until Vol 10. The sound on it is horribly compressed. Also the notes identify the last song on cd one as A Train when in fact it's Things Ain't What they Used to Be. Maybe the death of the founder has led to shoddy work on the part of Storyville.

Man, I'd sure like to have an improved and augmented version of the cd. One of my favorites. BTW I think I read somewhere that it's not a different take of Autumn Leaves, but rather that different verses of teh same take were used on the cd.

Probably read about Mosaic sets in Coda. First purchase was Mingus Candid. I bought it from Mosaic but I think my second was the Cecil Taylor/Buell Niedlinger (sp?) which I bought from Buell! (Yes I had him sign it.)

My only complaint about this set is that the liner notes denigrate about half the tracks. Makes you feel foolish for liking them. Even if you agree with the notes writer that Prez is often not up to par, the other musicians on nearly every track are in great form. As I remember it, especially Sweets Edison.

She lives here in Santa Barbara and my wife is a friend (or at least an acquaintance). I'll for- ward the reqwuest to my wife and see if Karla has an extra copy.

I resisted it for a few weeks because I thought I already had too many of the cuts on it. Then I read about the booklet and decided I had to have it. The booklet is great and it turns out I didn't have as much of the music as I thought and some of the best is by people I'd never even heard of before.

I think I read that the master tapes are in terrible shape. Too bad. These are two of my favorite records.

My cable system (Cox) offered a DVR cable box for $9 more a month. If you go HD the DVR is included. I expec that this is the wave of the future and will allow yo to avoid one set top box.

I interviewed Zappa re: 10,000 Motels once for a film magazine. He was backstage at a rock club in Toronto with his whole band and Blood, Sweat & Tears. They had all just heard of CTA (Later called Chicago) and were joking that if they could all play together they'd have a bigger band than Stan Kenton. Zappa was nice enough but I was shocked by how misoginistic he was. Kept talking about "strapping on"women. Good thing my feminist girl friend wasn't with me. I once interviewd Robert Mitchum who made a pass at her and she almost took his head off. Ironically by the end of his life his wife seemed to be entirely in control. Zappa also talked about getting letters from kids saying they were the only freaks in their town and his music kept them alive.

Which Manny Albam Sessions? West Side Story by any chance?

So they easily could have included the Dial sides. (Instead of the duplicates from the Bird set-- they do include the sides with Bird don't they?)