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Great stuff! The complete list of Dream Band arrangers (culled from the six CDs) follows: Albam, Manny Brookmeyer, Bob Cohn, Al Flory, Med Hensel, Wes Holman, Bill Johnson, Sy Niehaus, Lennie Paich, Marty Rogers, Shorty At least 15 of the Dream Band charts are still available. I'd be happy to furnish information.

The Jimmy Giuffre piece, "Fugue," appeared on the 10-inch LP, Shelley Manne and His Men, Contempory Records C 2503 (1953).

"Dancing Nitely" [sic] is a Bill Holman, not a Willie Maiden chart.

I think Claude means not that he is "researching" this Kenton material but rather that he is "searching for" this material. The confusion arises with the French word "chercher," which means "to search for" or "to look for," not "to research."

Is it possible that Mulligan used "Utter Chaos" only a brief signature piece or theme to signal the end of a set? If it's only a few bars, then the recording may not include the tune among the selections performed. "Utter Chaos" is one of the tunes included in the Mulligan collection of published duets. It's a full-fledged tune, but he may not have always treated it as a performance piece.

If you want the definitive portrait of Bill Perkins, see Steve Voce's extensive interview at http://jazzinstituteofchicago.org You have to click on JAZZGRAM, then click on PEOPLE, then scroll down to, and click on Bill Perkins.

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