Stompin at the Savoy

Thanks, was not aware of this.

I like him and enjoy the stuff with Dizzy. I used to love those tv themes like Mannix but am not sure I want to go the whole 16 disks. What are his best jazz albums? Is this euro-compilation good?

One thing that never fails to amaze me about Ellington is how different the arrangements of a tune can be at different performances. Seems like he and Strayhorn were always tinkering with arrangements and sometimes drastically revising.

Great stuff!

Well, if you made sure caps lock is off and tried your regular password on both ids you're kind of stuck. Mac has this "Start up from macOS Recovery" process you could look up. Or you can reboot and try the reset options in the login window. That's about as far as my expertise goes - there are probably some mac folks here who can help.

Try to verify that you are logging in to the correct account for the password.

Do you mean you type a password and it says wrong password or wrong password/id combination? Do you have more than one user account on the machine?

The word I heard from pretty reliable a music store friend at the time was Joe had a habit. I don't know if that's true; I saw him a few times in the nineties and he was always on time, professional and performed well. But he didn't look too well.

Henderson died about a year later. Hutcherson lasted quite a while after that but was already having health problems then and was using oxygen when I saw him and got badly out of breath while playing. Nevertheless both played well.

Yeah, I went through a Benny Carter thing a while back and I remember wishing there was a Mosaic of the early stuff. I have some euro-compilations of Benny Carter albums, one with eight and one with 4 albums. Also some Chronologicals for the early period. There is also a 1946 Benny Carter Quintet recording on disc 9 of the Keynote Collection. It's hard to find a bad album. Carter is really a man of many parts, a multi-instrumentalist, composer and arranger too. I'm fond of the Basie album, The Legend - From the Pen of Benny Carter.

I happened to catch Joe Henderson and Bobby Hutcherson together at an engagement at Jazz Alley in Seattle around 2000 or just before. Both men were looking quite frail but they played great.

Maybe partly because my eyesight is not great but I have never understood the appeal of accessing the internet on a smartphone. I have an iphone and love it because it's a phone, an alarm clock/stop-watch, a decent camera, a compass, navigation system for car, an ok music player in a pinch with headphones, etc. But I don't generally look at things like photos or even mail on the phone. If I take photos I look at them on a pc. Email - pc. Social media - pc. You-tube and spotify - pc. Newspapers - pc. Those phone screens are too small, the speaker sound is horrible, and it's hard to maintain good posture while using them. If I'm gonna squint I'll squint at something bigger like a biggish monitor. Leaving the device aside, I agree with you about all the distraction of phone/social media etc life. These last few years I have spent so much time doom-scrolling. Recently I got very fed up with being over-stimulated and frustrated and have begun to go back to my old, pre-internet habits of reading books all the time. Stories are good entertainment and they provide a comforting way for us to see a bigger picture from a lofty vantage point where the beginning, middle and end are available to us, unlike our moment to moment experience which is just now and where the endings of things are unknown.

Another suggestion for you: The Rose of Tibet by Lionel Davidson. A very fun romp!