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On 8/4/2024 at 9:49 AM, Teasing the Korean said:
Here is some cool footage of Tony and Jack Jones in a small club, or possibly a set designed to resemble a small club, from a 1966 Jack Jones special.
Nice find! Both singers at the top of their respective games.
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Just got this one. HOW on earth did I not have it already?! It is absolutely beautiful!
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On 7/13/2024 at 2:23 PM, ghost of miles said:
Disc 2.
I'm listening to disc 3, liking better than disc 2.
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11 minutes ago, JSngry said:
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Just saw "Fly Me to the Moon." Clever and enjoyable rom-com. But it is a rom-com.
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As I watched that vid of the James band with Buddy Rich, it struck me once again what a great trumpeter Harry James was. He had such great power and range. A box set of all of James's recordings with Rich (for Capitol and Verve, I think) would make for a great listen.
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On 7/18/2024 at 7:26 PM, JSngry said:
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That's a GREAT movie!!
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I'm coming to this discussion late (been on vacation). I think it's great news. The V-Discs have been reissued all over the place for years, and the Vanguard material deserves to be reissued in an organized way. There are at least two cds worth of Vanguard things by Jimmy Rushing alone. I assume those will be part of these new sets?
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Continuing to explore this wonderful singer
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1 hour ago, tranemonk said:
I am still waiting for mine to ship. Is there any domestic folks (US) who have not gotten theirs yet?
No sign of mine in Oregon.
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On 7/3/2024 at 5:28 PM, jlhoots said:
Watched, great, look forward to season 3.
There will be season 3 based on the 2nd novel, The Vampire Lestat. As I recall, in the novel he becomes a rock star!!!
Elements of that one were incorporated into the execrable "Queen of the Damned." We'll hope Season 3 is *far* better than that mess!
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Released during the golden age of Columbia Legacy reissues:
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Enjoyed the finale to "Interview with a Vampire" last night. Cool ending.
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Sooooo, went to see "Kinds of Kindness." I liked "Poor Things," but this one, not so much.
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Listening to some prime Bud Freeman:
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I'm 70, and my son knows he'll have to deal with it someday. I'll be past caring. So, we don't talk about it. He doesn't particularly want to think about it, and I don't want to tell him that, well, I'm still buying cds............
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On 6/26/2024 at 6:59 PM, JSngry said:
A few days ago, I found a semi-clickbait teaser talking about 10 Great Westerns You Probably Haven't Seen, and it turns out, I had seen maybe just 3 of them, so hey ...
This one was the oldest on the list, so it was the first one watched. Really well done with not a lot of "lens shifting" needed at all, which for 74 year old Western ain't bad at all, imo.
The one up today was not so luck. Bend Of The River from 1952. Good core story, well-told, but also with a whole lot of period trappings that are just distracting and uncomfortable.
I like Westerns, especially the ones that don't have really happy endings for anybody.
Me too. "The Searchers" is a case in point. I think Duke's character knows that this happy ending won't last, and that a young woman raised in a tribe won't be happy coming back. Of course, that may just be me, but I do love that great, great Western!
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On 6/25/2024 at 3:12 PM, JSngry said:
Great minds?? I'm watching that one tonight!
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Loved him in so many movies, but for me, it's Oddball in Kelly's Heroes. He is such great fun in that!
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Back home after a long trip and reading Hentoff again, which meant listening to these two, each of whom gets a chapter.
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Which Jazz box set are you grooving to right now?
in Mosaic and other box sets...
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Discs 1 and 2 of this one, accompanying a reading of Friedwald's musical bio.