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He said he wanted to sound like an entire big band, and he does! His long-time agent, Martha Glaser, said there were two Garners: one who played for himself and another one. This is the first one. If you can find it, check out "Erroll's Blues" somewhere in his vast recorded repertoire. It's a hig...

Yeah, the camera operator is an idiot.

the basks: Too bad you didn't see Tatum playing piano at the Onyx (or anywhere else, for that matter). You can still listen, though. Never too late!

Miles is great up-tempo with a standard he explored for many years. Mobley is lost; awful. Kelly is sublime.

Thanks, but Pep ain't shown here with Miles's great 50's section--Garland, Chambers and Philly Joe. Those are the greats he recorded this tune with.

One of Pepper's best sessions. Coltrane said Pep had a gift from God. "Art Pepper Meets The Rhythm Section" when he recorded with Miles's great mid-50s section--Garland, Chambers and Philly Joe--is just one of the best jazz albums ever. If you haven't, do.

acuriousyellow: glad to hear people like this tune when they first hear it. Shorter's a wonder.

Silver composed many fine tunes, but "Pretty Eyes" is to me his best and seems about as perfect as a musical piece can be. The Henderson-Shaw front line is one of the best. "Pretty Eyes" is a classic.

Not nearly as good as the version on one of the four Prestige albums a p.o.'d Miles cut almost nonstop in the mid 1950s to finish obligations there and move on to Columbia. Red Garland plays a great solo on the Prestige cut.

Hokusai's is a great, mythic painting of the precarious but exhilirating Human Condition, Homo sapiens prevailing in powerful, impersonal and beautiful-if-deadly Nature through skill, technology and daring: those puny fishing boats and the huddled fishermen. Burke's "tweak" is impertinent but ins...

What a glorious, inspired, tight, beautiful version! Everyone sounds wonderful!

"American Lullaby" is a marvelous CD with Jewkes playing sublimely and Greensill comping wonderfully. I guess Jewkes is a stay-at-home, understandably, when there is now hardly any of the world that has not forgotten jazz. I'm an optimist...jazz probably will have a renaissance one of these days....

Noel sounds great, as usual. Vuckovich has reverence for great tunes. Maxine, whoever you are, thanks for uploading this.

Mike, Stick to piano. Noel, we need to hear more of you; you're one helluva player!

Jewkes is a superb jazz player. No previous comments here means that as Artie Shaw said, There's an inverse relationship between good music and popular music. The Tin Ears = 99% of the population. Let "em gag on Lady Gaga.

blueguitarblue: Yes, Mecir is a name that will not live down the ages.

I think Tilden was around 46 years old. I wonder why we don't have more film of him in match play. It's good to have this Odsal coverage, but basically it's silly...there's little continuity, we don't need to scan the crowd when little actual tennis is shown, and the person filming can't know jac...

Mr. Tolesi: Thanks for the reference to Fatha Hines. I'm looking forward to checking it out.

wachita 15, not sure I understand you, which may be my problem, not yours. By "form" I mean stuff like Bird, Trane, Garland, Miles, Pepper and others repeating the main theme during solos to anchor their improv and also, if it's a good tune, use that tune's basic beauty. Such gives form. Besides,...

daisymocc, Nabokov holds beautiful art is our only refuge--see last words of "Lolita"--including Tilden's tennis artistry. During Humbert Humbert's and Lolita's 1940s odyssey, Lolita takes a tennis lesson from a "grizzled veteran" Humbert recognizes from the 1920s, "Ned Litam." Spell backwards. ...

Her singing is good, but her piano playing...that's it! Wonderful stylist in which you can hear Nat Cole and Oscar Peterson. I think her idea to reprise some of the great hits of the Cole Trio was her legacy-maker.

Paul Keller, base. Russell Malone, guitar. And, of course, the Great Diana, piano. She married Elvis Costello and had a child or two. She came in from the Jazz Cold. Keller now gigs around in Minnesota, among other places, I think.

Jerome Moross's theme for "The Big Country" is one of the most inspired in filmdom. Like the score for "The Bad and the Beautiful," and just about all that Herrmann composed for Hitchcock, it brought greatness. Score art doesn't get more sublime.

Makes you gag on Lady Gaga.

Too bad but expected that there are few views of this classic: Artie Shaw once said that there is an inverse relationship between good music and popular music.

Sondheim in his "Finishing the Hat" is hard on himself as a lyricist but nitpicks the earlier greats like Hammerstein. He isn't near the...

Took tennis lessons in 50s from Jan Kozeluh, Karel's brother. ("Teeldin best!!!!) Have read DeFord, Riggs, others. Have seen them all play in person except Tilden, Vines, the Musketeers (tho I think Toto went to Oz). Probably know that "Ned Litam" in Nabokv's "Lolita" should be spelled backwards;...