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From: th@cci632.cci.com (Tim Hinton)
Newsgroups: rec.music.bluenote
Subject: Re: Patitucci Leaves the Electric Band
Date: 9 Apr 92 16:46:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: cci632.1992Apr9.164637.5493
Reply-To: th@op632.UUCP (Tim Hinton)
Organization: CCI, Communications Systems Division, Rochester, NY

In article <1279@hydra.bucknell.edu> cwalker@canopus.tmc.edu (carleton walker `93) writes:
>In article <JANNE.SALMI.92Apr3032718@psykoman.hut.fi> Janne.Salmi@hut.fi (Janne Salmi) writes:
>>
>>NO!!!!
>>
>>Hope that Dave Weckl still stays with them.
>
>	Patitucci is more established (Weckl only has one solo album,
>Master Plan). I'm sure that Jimmy Earl is a great player.
>	Can you imagine what jazz would be like if Miles kept all of
>his original players?
>
    Could you imagine what jazz would be like ** Miles & Art ** kept all of 
their original players??

Tim
From: dank@blacks.jpl.nasa.gov (Dan Kegel)
Subject: Blues clubs in Palm Desert / Palm Springs?
Organization: Image Analysis Systems Group, JPL
Distribution: ca
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 19:38:00 GMT

I'm planning a short vacation to Palm Desert, CA, and would
like to hear some blues while I'm there.  Anyone know of places
with live blues in the area?
Thanks,
  Dan Kegel (dank@blacks.jpl.nasa.gov)
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From: smehta@kwela.nynexst.Com (Sandeep Mehta)
Subject: Re: Black Saint availability (was: Random Thoughts - ROVA, Wire, new stuff)
Reply-To: smehta@nynexst.com
Organization: Speech Technology, AI Lab, NYNEX S&T Inc, White Plains, NY
	<1992Apr13.165948.16815@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
Date: 14 Apr 92 12:01:30


> mingus@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (Damballah Wedo) writes:

> Make sure you ask them if their buy-10-get-4-free offer is still
> valid.

Sorry folks that ended in Jan-Feb. Jerry Bulyk tried in March and
they said it was over.

> Note that they are a bit sleazy in that they will sell you Polygram
> Special Import leftovers (i.e. remaindered, i.e. CHEAP!) at the
> full price. Complain, complain, complain. First because this is
> illegal (yes it is; this is misrepresentation of the product) and
> second because if you are loud enough, they might send you 1-2 free
> things to shut you up.

Yes it is illegal and yes they do it not only for PSI cutouts but
also DIW leftovers. After some haggling, Dennis said he was going to
sell me 4 DIW's for a "I'll make you head spin" (his words) $14.98.
Hah!! Good thing I never took him up on his "offer". And as Marcel
sez, they'll try to throw in a bone or two to keep us jazzbo's happy
:-)

But then again, simply having the entire BSR/SN catalog available in
this country is a boon.

/sandeep
--
smehta@nynexst.com
--
"An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs."
	-- Edgard Varese
From: milliken@scofield.Corp.Sun.COM (Gary Milliken)
Newsgroups: rec.music.bluenote
Subject: Re: Kenny Kirkland - info and albums
Date: 6 Apr 92 14:32:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: exodus.ku0o70INNmqv
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
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In article <1992Apr5.065550.21171@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> gidi@Hilbert.Stanford.EDU (Gidi Avrahami) writes:
>> BTW, does anyone have a list of other people's albums he's played on?  
>
>Here are two that you missed:
>
>Miroslav Vitous, FIRST MEETING (ECM 1145).  The lineup is Vitous (b),
>Kirkland (p), John Surman (ss, bcl) and Jon Christensen (dr).
>Recorded May 1979, which makes it pre-Wynton.
>
>Carla Bley, HEAVY HEART (WATT 14), Sept-Oct 1983.
>
>
>--Gidi

This sparked my memory and I recalled one other cut that Kenny is on:
the Carla Bley selection from Hal Willner's Thelonious Monk tribute
album "That's the Way I Feel Now".  The Carla Bley number is
"Misterioso" and Kenny does a hilarious solo on it.
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From: wjh@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (william.j.hery)
Subject: Re: Coltrane Village Vanguard Japanese ReReleases
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 03:13:25 GMT

>A while back someone posted a complete track listing of the 
>Japanese Releases of the Coltrane Village Vanguard
>sessions. Would anyone care to post (1) the track times
>and per disc times and (2) the original Impulse! release that 
>each of the Japanese tracks appeared on. Thanks!

Here's the original posting listing the cuts per CD plus my
notations (marked with --->) on additional materail released elsewhere
but not on the Japaness releases and title discrepancies. I've added the
Impulse album number for the original release oof each:

>Live at the Village Vanguard 11/1/61: 
>   single disc:
*--->	India
9325>	Chasin the Trane
9361>	Impressions
9325>	Spiritual
?>	Red Planet
9361--->  Miles' Mode instead of Red Planet (is Red Planet an alternate title
                 used elsewhere for Miles' Mode?)
9361>	Naima
9325>	Brasilia [listed as Untitled Original on 9325]
>
>Live at the Village Vanguard 11/2/61:
>
>   disc 1:
9361>	Chasin another Trane
10>	Softly as in a morning sunrise
10>	Chasin the Trane
>
>   disc 2:
*>	India
*>	Spiritual
9325>	Greensleeves
9361>	Impressions
>
>Live at the Village Vanguard 11/3/61 and 11/5/61:
>   disc 1:
10>	Spiritual
*--->  Naima
42>	Impressions
42>	India
9361>	Greensleeves
*--->  Miles' Mode
>   disc 2:
9325>	India
9325>	Spiritual

10= AS-10= Live At The Vanguard
42= AS-42= Impressions
9325= AS-9325= The Other Village Vanguard Tapes
9361= IZ-9361= Trane's Modes [Mastery of JC/Vol IV
* No Impulse release that I know of (listed as "rejected" on the list in 9361
? Not listed in 9361, but apparantly an alternate title for Red Planet.

I don't have the Japanese CDs, so I don't know the times they list (I assume
you want to compare them against the Impulse times to look for editing.

Bill Hery
AT&T Bell Labs
201-386-2362
hery@att.COM
From: bweiner@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Benjamin Weiner)
Newsgroups: rec.music.bluenote
Subject: Evan Lurie disc?
Date: 14 Apr 92 19:41:13 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

Speaking of John Lurie :-)

I saw a Evan Lurie CD recently, can't remember the title,
but the group had a bandoneon player (_not_ Piazzolla),
and I think a cellist as well.  I don't think any of the 
players except Evan were Lounge Lizards.  Has anybody heard
this?  It looked interesting but my cheapness won out,
temporarily.

(For those who don't know, a bandoneon is a sort of Argentine
(orig. German) Concertina from Hell, a squeeze-box accordion with
over 30 buttons.)

Ben Weiner
Newsgroups: rec.music.bluenote
From: rardin@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
Subject: Re: JACO PASTORIOUS LIVE CDs (was: Weather Report CDs)
Reply-To: rardin@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 04:45:17 GMT

In article <1992Apr9.212410.26681@cunews.carleton.ca>, 
wcsanil@alfred.carleton.`
>While we're on the topic of Weather Report CDs, I've seen *many* live
>Jaco Pastorious CDs listed in various catalogs. Most of them are
>from Japan and Italy. But there's an american released called
>"JACO LIVE IN ITALY" that I'd like more info about. There are other
>discs with titles like "Live In NYC pt. 1, 2, 3" "Honestly Solo Live"
>among others.
>
>Any info is greatly appreciated.
>
>Anil Prasad
>wcsanil@ccs.carleton.ca
 
The 3 volumes of LIVE IN NEW YORK CITY (Big World 1001, 1002 and 1003) are
pretty poor as far as sound quality goes.  The larger group material is
especially bad--the horns sound like they're playing from backstage.  The mix
is not too great anytime.  Volume 1 (PUNK JAZZ) is based on the trio of Jaco,
Hiram Bullock (g) and Kenwood Dennard (d), with the addition of Alex Foster
(s), Butch Thomas (s), Delmar Brown (synth), Michael Gerber (p) and Jerry
Gonzalez (t and congas) on 5 of the 8 cuts.  Volume 2 (TRIO) features the
Pastorius-Bullock-Dennard trio.  The trio work on Volumes 1 and 2 is not as
bad sonically and some of the performances are pretty exciting.  There's no
indication of when these recordings were made.  Does anyone happen to know
when they were made???

The Jazzpoint recordings were made while Jaco was on tour in Europe in March,
1986.  Here are the that 3 I'm aware of:
 
"HONESTLY" SOLO LIVE (Jazzpoint 1032)
"LIVE IN ITALY" (Jazzpoint 1031)
STUTTGART ARIA (Bireli LaGrene and Jaco--Jazzpoint 1019)
 
These recordings are much better sonically than the BW recordings.  HONESTLY
features Jaco playing live solo performances that are totally improvised, but
incorporate bits and pieces of his songs and other tunes.  These recordings
are not from a single concert, but are a collection of Jaco's solo 
performances from the tour (as I understand it).  LIVE features Jaco with Bireli
LaGrene (g) and Tom Borocz (d).  ARIA is a studio recording made in Stuttgart
and features LaGrene and Jaco, as well as Vladislaw Sendecki (keys), Jan
Jankeje (synth. bass on 2 cuts), Peter Lubke (d) and Serge Ringolf (perc).
I can't tell from the liner notes whether this recording was made before or
after those made in Italy (they all say March, 1986).  The following claims
are made in the liner notes: "Several records of live concerts with Jaco
Pastorius have been released since his death.  But buying most of them is a
risk because of their bad sound quality.  The tracks on this album were
recorded on one of his last tours through Italy, using real studio equipment,
not a walkman."  I guess from what I've heard, I would have to agree.
 
-Lynn Rardin (rardin@auriga.rose.brandeis.edu)
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From: kamine@is.rice.edu (Jorge Hershel Kamine)
Subject: Irakere
Organization: Rice University
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 18:18:16 GMT

	Please send me any information on where I can purchase
the re-releases of Irakere stuff.  Please send any regarding info
to kamine@is.rice.edu

						Thanks
					     Jorge Kamine

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From: axel@gambln.enet.dec.com (Mike Axel)
Subject: Re: Tonight Show Theme Song
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Distribution: rec.music.bluenote
Date:  7 APR 92 16:33:46    


>In article <1992Apr4.062857.23254@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> booyacht@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Ryan Lucas) writes:
>>>>  The jazz saxophonist Branford Marsalis, who takes over May 25 as
>>>>musical director of "The Tonight Show", 
>>>
>>>Does anyone know who else will be in the band?
>>>-- 
>>

I heard Branford and his TRIO (Bob Hurst and Tain Watts) in Feb at UConn. On
the first 2 tunes, a Cole Porter standard and a Hurst original, Bob Hurst
started his solos with the "here's Johnny" theme and a big grin on his
face.

Mike
From: dadoun@cs.ubc.ca (Nou Dadoun)
Newsgroups: rec.music.bluenote
Subject: Re: Mingus + Lacy
Date: 6 Apr 92 20:46:59 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada

>In <7325@brchh104.bnr.ca> jgthomas@brchh530.BNR.CA (John Thomas) writes:
>
>>Can someone tell me if the RCA CD _New Tiujuana Moods_  has all the
>>music on the original RCA LP release???  It appears there is about
>>a little over 30 minutes of original titles + extra takes on songs
>>already on there -- I am not sure what the total length of the disc is.
>
>This is what the notes with the compact disc say:
>
>  This compact disc, digitally remastered from the original 2-track
>  session master tapes, presents the original Tijuana Moods (the album
>  Charles Mingus called "the best record I ever made") side by side
>  with, except for "Ysabel's Table Dance," full-length, alternate
>  versions of each selection.
>
>This is not going to win a lot of points from the plain language
>people, but I think it means all the originals are there and there is
>an extra version of everything but Ysabels' Table Dance.  (As it
>stands, it could mean that Ysabel's Table Dance is not included at all,
>but it is, so...)
>
>
>Stan Jones (sjones@carleton.ca)

What this actually means is that the re-issue certainly has all of the
tracks from the original release; the double-album (vinyl) reissue
had newly-released alternate takes for all tracks but not all could
fit on a single cd, so the alternate to Ysabel's Table Dance was dropped
(I think it's still available on the cassette).  The same sort of thing
happed with Sonny Rollins Quartets  with Jim Hall in the same series; they
managed to retain all of The Bridge but dropped some interesting other tunes
along the way.

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From: acp@arcadien.owlnet.rice.edu (Adrian C Penisson)
Subject: Clifton Chenier
Organization: Rice University
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 18:31:45 GMT

I read the other day that Clifton Chenier had recorded a version of St. James Infirmary.  Does anyone know on which CD this appears?

Thanks in advance,
Adrian Penisson

Newsgroups: rec.music.bluenote
From: leclaire@dxcern.cern.ch (Bruce Leclaire)
Subject: Levine's Jazz Piano Book
Organization: CERN
Distribution: rec.music.bluenote
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 21:06:45 GMT


FYI (especially to those who can't access this book at their local
     music store- the following gives a very good idea of what this
     book is about).

The Jazz Piano Book, by Mark Levine

Table of Contents:

	       About the Author
	       Acknowledgements
	       Photography Directory [has great photos!]
	       Introduction and a Note
		  on Terminology and Chord Symbols
Chapter  1:    Intervals and Triads---Review
Chapter  2:    The Major Modes and II-V-I
Chapter  3:    Three-Note Voicings
Chapter  4:    Sus and Phrygian Chords
Chapter  5:    Adding Notes to Three-Note Voicings
Chapter  6:    Tritone Substitution
Chapter  7:    Left-Hand Voicings
Chapter  8:    Altering Notes in Left-Hand Voicings
Chapter  9:    Scale Theory
		 o Introduction: why scales?
		 o Major scale harmony
		 o Melodic minor scale harmony
		 o Diminished scale harmony
		 o Whole-tone scale harmony
Chapter 10:    Putting Scales to Work
Chapter 11:    Practicing Scales
Chapter 12:    So What Chords
Chapter 13:    Fourth Chords
Chapter 14:    Upper Structures
Chapter 15:    Pentatonic Scales
Chapter 16:    Voicings, Voicings, Voicings
Chapter 17:    Stride and Bud Powell Voicings
Chapter 18:    Four-Note Scales
Chapter 19:    Block Chords
Chapter 20:    Salsa and Latin Jazz
Chapter 21:    'Comping
Chapter 22:    Loose Ends
Chapter 23:    Practice, Practice, Practice
	       Listen
	       Appendix



--Bruce
Newsgroups: rec.music.bluenote
From: sjones@alfred.carleton.ca (Stan Jones)
Subject: Re: Night in Tunesia / Interlude
Organization: Carleton University
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 01:29:49 GMT

In <92099.145324KXN2@psuvm.psu.edu> KXN2@psuvm.psu.edu (Karl Nordstrom) writes:

>When was Dizzy Gilespie's Interlude, (Night in Tunesia) first recorded?

The compilation tape I have has a version recorded February 22, 1946
with mtx number PD6VB-1683. 

>Which lp did the famous Charlie Parker explosive rif first appear on?

I don't know, but imagine it was on a 78 rather than an lp.  (Your
age, or lack of it, is showing Karl.)

Stan Jones (sjones@carleton.ca)
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From: wjh@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (william.j.hery)
Subject: Re: Dave Holland
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 03:13:38 GMT

>  He also did a solo bass album (I think around 1976) called Emerald Tears.

...and a very interesting solo cello album called LIFE CYCLE (ECM 1238)

Bill Hery
AT&T Bell Labs
201-386-2362
hery@att.COM
From: joey@berkeley.edu (Joe Hellerstein)
Newsgroups: rec.music.bluenote
Subject: Re: Jon Hendricks in White Men Can't Jump
Date: 15 Apr 92 18:01:58 GMT
Article-I.D.: elysium.JOEY.92Apr15130158
Organization: Postgres Research Group
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In-reply-to: mjs@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM's message of Tue, 14 Apr 1992 17:55:55 GMT

In article <17570275@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> mjs@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Marc Sabatella) writes:

>  Miles, of course, stars in the recently released "Dingo", plus he had a Honda
>  commercial a few years ago.  I vaguely recall him playing a drug lord or some
>  other equivalent bad guy on Miami Vice.
>

I've definitely heard a story of Miles doing toothpaste commercials in
Japan, where he's more widely recognized than here.  True?

Joe Hellerstein
From: jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca (John Henders)
Newsgroups: rec.music.bluenote,recmusic.cd
Organization:  One of these days.
Subject: Weather Report's 8:30 availability on CD?
Keywords: Weather Report,CD
Summary: Does anyone know whether 8:30 is available on CD?
Followup-To: poster
Reply-To: jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca
X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.00 Rev. Jan 16 1992
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 11:23:42 -0600



        I've been trying to find out if 8:30, the live Weather Report
album, is available anywhere on CD. I've tried all the local stores 
who specialise in imports, and they have told me variously: It's not
available, it's available in [Germany][Japan] but we can't get it, or 
variations on the above 2 themes.

        So, if someone, somewhere in the world, knows a store that has it
in stock, I don't care if it's in Germany, Japan or Australia, could you
please mail me a name, address, and possibly telephone number for the
store.
        Thanks.


-- 
       John Henders      jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca
    I think your "evolutionary scale" needs an adjustment.  Either 
      that, or you've got your thumb on it. -> (lefty@apple.com)
From: bweiner@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Benjamin Weiner)
Newsgroups: rec.music.bluenote
Subject: Eugene Braxton
Date: 8 Apr 92 22:57:56 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

Eugene Braxton?  Yeah, Anthony's long-lost brother, who spent
the last 20 years studying at the feet of the Masters of
Mongolian Intermodalities, stopping on the way back to jam
with the tenor sax-playing King of Thailand ....

Seriously, has anyone out there listened to the Braxton /
Northwest Creative Orchestra "Eugene" record?  Could I
hear some opinions/prejudices?

Ben
From: bh1t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Burt N Holzman)
Newsgroups: rec.music.bluenote
Subject: Marc Russo
Date: 9 Apr 92 08:42:53 GMT
Organization: Freshman, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


Does anyone have a discography of the alto saxophonist, Marc Russo?

-B
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From: gidi@Hilbert.Stanford.EDU (Gidi Avrahami)
Subject: Joni & Vincent
Organization: Brotherhood Of Breath
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 16:14:42 GMT

plummer@cs.swarthmore.edu (David Barker-Plummer) writes:
>On the live Joni Mitchell album "Miles of Aisles", people in the
>audience are calling out requests to her between songs, and she makes
>this remark in response.  It got a laugh at the time, and made it onto
>the album...

Except that the implication -- as I read it -- in her words is that
the requests, or at least the ability to sing the same song over and
over, is something that makes song writing "better" than painting.
(She paints a little, as you know).  She sort of says, Van Gogh did
his masterpiece once and that was that, but I can sing The Circle Game
time and time again, and every time it's like I'm creating it again.

Of course, Van Gogh died shortly after painting Starry Night, so we
don't really know whether or not he would have wanted to paint it
again, by request or otherwise.


--Gidi
From: bweiner@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Benjamin Weiner)
Newsgroups: rec.music.bluenote
Subject: Re: Mingus, "New Tijuana Moods"
Date: 6 Apr 92 18:52:27 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

>Can someone tell me if the RCA CD _New Tiujuana Moods_  has all the
>music on the original RCA LP release???  ...

I don't have the CD, but someone posted that it has alternate
versions of all the songs, except "Ysabel's Table Dance".

However, the original reissue "New Tijuana Moods" (confused yet?),
a double album (on RCA/Bluebird I think) had the original album
plus alternate versions of all the songs.  So the CD is short one
alternate version.

If anyone is reading this who has never heard the album, it
is a high point of small-group jazz, including some fine
trumpet and sax-playing, and the incredible bass of Mr. Mingus -
and his excellently catchy tunes.  Although he probably called
most of his records "the best I ever made" at one point or
another.  Go, get it.  You'll like it.

Ben Weiner

Re:  Sony/CBS CD re-reissuing:
"Hegel says somewhere that all CD's occur, as it were, twice; 
the first time as tragedy, the second as farce."
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From: ujwb@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Jeff Beer)
Subject: Re: Herbie Nichols
Organization: Educational Computing Network
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 21:34:06 GMT

The Mosiac set was issued as a double LP in the 70s and called THIRD
WORLD. 

His tunes are the greatest.  In one of my bands, we play 2300 Skiddoo,
Terpsichore, and Blue Chopsticks.

Jeff
From: sik@grosz.esd.sgi.com (Seth Katz)
Newsgroups: rec.music.bluenote
Subject: Jazz Events in New York June/July
Date: 16 Apr 92 23:46:46 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA

I'm trying to schedule my yearly trip to 
New York.  You bluenoters in New York can 
help.  I'd like to go in June or July.

As I recall, last June was a great month 
for jazz in New York- Knit Fac fest, Ornette
at Carnegie Hall, etc.   Will it be again?

Anyone know if/when there'll be another 
Knit Fac Fest?  Any other notable jazz 
events coming up in June/July?  

Help me decide.
Thanks,
Seth
From: mjs@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Marc Sabatella)
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 17:55:55 GMT
Subject: Re: Jon Hendricks in White Men Can't Jump
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: rec.music.bluenote

In rec.music.bluenote, brian@grot.ca41.csd.mot.com (Brian Smithson) writes:

> For that matter, are there other unexpected treats in other movies out
> there?  You know, like Miles Davis as one of the parking lot attendants 
> in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"? (just kidding :-)

Actually, that reminds me, when attending a World Series game at Candlestick a
few years ago (actually, I never got to see the game - it was the infamous
Earthquake game), there were a whole bunch of people out directing traffic
through the parking lot.  All were young/middle-aged black men wearing white
lab coats.  The one who directed our car had glasses and a goatee.  My friend
and I joked that it was a Lester Bowie lookalike contest.

But to answer your question:

Dexter Gordon, in addition to starring in "Round Midnight", had a role as one
of Robin Williams' patients in "Awakenings".

Branford Marsalis was Billy Crystal's neighbor in "Throw Mama From The Train".

Miles, of course, stars in the recently released "Dingo", plus he had a Honda
commercial a few years ago.  I vaguely recall him playing a drug lord or some
other equivalent bad guy on Miami Vice.

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