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Just a couple of weeks ago I pulled a CD-R I haven't touched in years out of its plastic sleeve--- and part of the top layer just peeled right off! This was an earlier CD-R with no protective coating on top. I wouldn't expect this to happen with anything made in the last few years. Surprisingly, the...

THE DUKE ELLINGTON READER!!!! columbia university press. not a bio, it's a collection of articles. and it's AWESOME. articles of all kinds from magazines of the time. there's one great one that follows him on a tour and he tells stories on the train. and musicological stuff. all kinds of articles. ...

What's the line between "derived from" and "blatant rip off?" Good point... As an example, Night Train was a blatant rip-off of Ellington's Happy Go Lucky Local. It seems that Duke would have been okay with that except that he never got writing credit when [forgot the guy's name...

I did a little research on the famous Great Day in Harlem Picture. According to allmusic, those are still alive: Emmett Berry Johnny Griffin Chubby Jackson Hank Jones (a bit of a stretch) A bit of a stretch that he's still alive? http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:zL1C-fzWPmQC:www.cox-internet.c...

Thanks! Elegy in Blue is a nice concept. And I'll definitely have to check out the O.P. album, I didn't know they recorded together... Looks like it wasn't the first time . It appears that most of his early 50's material is out of print, and I really like the album I mentioned above, from '57... Tim...

Swifty, you must counter with your request from last weekend.

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf600/f654/f65434bre2p.jpg My favorite Benny Carter album is Jazz Giant . I play How Can You Lose off of it often, great song. The Chron. Classics albums are also great. I have a couple later albums by him, but they don't stand out as much as the earlier one...

Hmmm...Guess no one here likes Ellington... Ha ha ha! I only didn't respond because it's an impossible question. Maybe if I was allowed to make my own mix CD, of all his different musical styles through the years, I'd be somewhat content. But there isn't any one CD I know of that has everything I w...

Andy Reid wrote:I have a DVD that has both of them on it:

Another dilemma over whether to get it or wait for the Special Edition... never thought I'd have this problem with a jazz film.

does anyone have this set and/or heard the quality of the recordings on it? its a german import http://www.geocities.com/topmusic_2/ebay/1686851.jpg Yeah I got that a few months ago. While this set is virtually complete up to about 1945, the sound quality is definitely less than stellar. I already ...

I rented that video once, A Great Day in Harlem. It was pretty sweet, there were lots of little anecdotes told about some jazz greats. Gives you a bit of insight into the perosonality of many Harlem musicians. A few weeks ago at the George Eastman House here in Rochester, the director, Jean Bach, m...

Does anyone have this set? Yup, I just got that a couple of months ago. I decided to finally get it after losing both of my copies of Recollections of the Big Band Era . The remainder of this set is at least interesting to hear, with a few good tracks for dancing. I'll have to relisten for specific...

Rayned, I haven't tried that... how would that improve the sound? Are some recordings unbalanced?

For a slightly different take on this subject, apparently Downbeat and Metronome used to do Blindfold Tests with musicians, seeing if they could identify other musicians by ear alone. Here's a link to a great one with Harry Carney and Russell Procope of Duke's band . Some great quotes from it for th...