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Great piece about Stinson that features long quote from out own David Brett Johnson: https://thebluemoment.com/2024/10/25/the-lost-genius-of-albert-stinson/comment-page-1/?unapproved=42579&moderation-hash=1f43a4ed4550a0617e96470226ef1935#comment-42579

Ted Curson?

Thanks. It worked just as you say. My box was in Secaucus NJ as of this morning. It will probably arrive at the same time as my "Bird in LA".

Oh, oh mine says "completed" but I don't see a tracking number and haven't gotten a shipping notice. Should I worry?

Hmmm I checked in at the site and see that I ordered Sept 25 but it's still being processed.

IS this the same Michael Brooks who (with Cuscuna) put together the "Complete Billy Holiday on Columbia 1933-44" set? I remember his notes on several other reissues.

But isn't Fletch Won the first one chronologically in Fletch's life though not in order of publication?

Wow maybe this will arrive before Bird in KC.

Wow. Didn't know about this record. I saw Perry some 60 years and was really impressed. IIRC I have one cd of his on an obscure Canadian label.

What is this record? What does CBC stand for?

When I first started listening to jazz in the early '60s I asked a friend what "mainstream jazz" was. He thought for a second and replied "People who used to be in the Basie band."

Who's that good looking guy with him?

I tried to figure out how to frame the jacket for the 2 disc Ellington Black, Brown and Beige but because it's a fold out, I couldn't figure out how. I guess I could cut it up and display all 4 sides. (The actual 78 records got broken when I moved to Santa Barbara.)

Don Was and the Pan-Detroit Ensemble. They played music by Henry Threadgill, Yusef Lateef, Hank Williams and Curtis Mayfield (amongst others). My only complaint is that it was in a beautiful small theater with no dance floor. (Some people danced anyway.)

The Savory Collection does contain performances with Christian though not for any numbers not available elsewhere-- but I'd sure like to hear his unissued solos. Not for anything published before 1930. An awful lot of music, books and films are going pd in the next ten years. Unfortunately not many recordings.

Would that time period include anything with Charlie Christian?

Nathan Van Cleave wrote and recorded some cues that were used as well as some overdubs on what EKE had already recorded. Frank Comstock "arranged and orchestrated" Van Cleave's work. (Van Cleave had worked on The Twilight Zone so we're sort of on-topic here.) BTW Ellington used an orchestra with 8 members of his band as well a LA musicians including Buddy Collet and Bud Shank.

IIRC in the '50s he was known as a "serious" writer of such tv productions as "Requiem for a Heavy Weight" and "Patterns" (both I think originally on "Studio One"). He's also the screenwriter for the fairly bad "Assault on a Queen" which I've studied because of the (butchered) score by Ellington.

Could one really march to that beginning?

Saw him with a local Montreal rhythm section in the early sixties. IIRC saw Art Farmer with same rhythm section a few weeks later. Maybe the only time I saw either of them.

IIRlC there are several Eno interviews (or at least one long one) in a Danial Lanois documentary called "Here is what it Is". There's also lots with and about Brian Blade in it.

IIRC (and I often don't) not every cut on "Always Know" has been released on cd. Similarly not every cut on the Hal Wilmer produced Monk tribute 2Lp set "That's the Way I Feel Now" was included on the single cd release. (In both cases I burned a cd to replicate the double Lp from whatever cuts were on cd plus the ones on Lp only.)

Konitz and Braxton played together on Dave Brubeck's "All the Things We Are" Lp. Did Braxton record with Konitz or Marsh elsewhere?

This is why you should never repeat other people's opinions about art till you've experiences it yourself. I used to go crazy listening to opinions about movies from people who hadn't seen them but had read Pauline Kael's or the NYTimes" review. Is that online? (the night of coverage)

There is a feature length documentary about him called "Sergio Mendes in the Key of Joy". When it was shown at the Santa Barbara Film Festival Mendes introduced it and performed with his group.