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Didn't Dexter have a jazz connection? He signed Stan Kenton and I seem to remember some writing about jazz.

It's the greatest thing since sliced bread. (Even if it is one of the factors sending film profits down the tubes.)

By my count nearly 1/3 of their box sets are on back order! That's scary. BTW The Monk/Coltrane Carnegie Hall Lp is described as "limited edition/unlimited copies". What's that mean?

I'd like to see a box set like the Bill Evans at the Vanguard box where the numbers are in chronological order.

BTW Does anybody use the "test to speech" function? I find it sort of creepy. It could even read a lecture I was giving that I had put on the Kindle. I thought I might just stand there and let it speak for me.

I've had a fair amount of time with a couple of Kindles and have some thoughts. I didn't buy one but was given it. We use them a lot in my office because because it's a lot easier to take home one kindle than several scripts. We all upgraded to the new large one because it translates pdfs and gives you pretty well one page per page of script. I've read several books on the KIndle now and found it quite satisfying. I finished an Alan Furst book while traveling in the country in Europe and could immediately order another one. If the type is too small for my aging eyes I can enlarge it with a click. That's one advantage. Another is that despite what someone said earlier, I don't really want to take War and Peace on an airplane in book form. And I do read several books while traveling. My favorite things about it are the dictionary (just place your cursor beside a word and a definition pops up) and the search function. While reading the Furst books if one of his characters re-appeared and I couldn't remember who he was I just searched and found every mention of him in the book. I even went back to the earlier book to see if they might have been in it. I got so used to the search function that I'm frustrated that the new Thomas Pynchon book is only available on paper: characters keep popping up and disappearing for a while and I can't remember who they are. More interesting is what it's done to my need to own books. After I'd read my first books on a Kindle I seriously considered buying them on paper so I could add them to my already sagging book shelves. I've fought the urge. Soon I may not feel a need to burn cds of music I've downloaded. At my age you do start to wonder about all your physical possessions. BTW The biggest downside of a Kindle is that illustrations don't show very well and I guess you can't get autographed copies of books.

I was just listening to a Jimmy Witherspoon record where he was accompanied by a small group with Ben Webster on tenor and Gerald Wilson on trumpet. Wilson's very good. (I never tnk of him except as a composer/arranger/band leader.)

Scott Wenzel reassured me fairly recently that the Ellington Mosaic will be out next year. greg mo Glad to hear it--my most recent contact with them had left me wondering. Listened to the Ivie Hep V. 1 last night, and it's great...now, if I can only track down V. 2. V.2. (All God's Chillum...) is available as a download from Rhapsody. For some reason v.1 is listed as a single and hence costs 99 cents.

Hey this record is the KCBX (San Louis Obispo) featured record of the week this week!

Dumb question perhaps but do you have a center speaker?

Saw Susan Tedeschi last night. Didn't know anything about her before hand but went on the recommendation of many friends. Great show, though for some reason I feel no compulsion to buy her cds. Maybe I think it will be a disappointment after her live performance.

My cd copy is on the Candid label distributed by Black Lion. Bought it in the UK. Doesn't seem to be a needle drop to me. Edit to say after further listening I think I'm wrong and it might be taken directly off an Lp.

Been listening to Ole recently. Love the 2 bases.

Long piece on NPR this morning. Several factual mistakes but they're corrected by Lewis Porter in the comments section. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.p...oryId=112255870

I've started Pynchon's new book. So far not liking it as much as I thought I would.

how is it? while i have huge respect for isoardi's work and am really thankful that he does what he does i found myself enjoying the oral histories on the web much more than the two books i've read (the buddy collette and the dark tree), don't know, somehow those books were rather dry, had a tendency to repeat themselves and i was also missing some hard information added to the information from the oral histories (like yesterday when i tried to find out how long tommy trujillo was with tapscott, all the book says he moved in when he was 18 but not when he was born or which year that was or how long he stayed, where he went from there...)... could have said this better, i guess - simply, while i find the subjects real interesting, the books bored me quite a bit (though at least i could finish them...) Because of the picture (Obama as the Joker) I though this was from Berigan and thought it was nice to see him posting on something other than politics. Can two people use the same picture?

I think Sandler's huge fund of barely-disguised hostility would have made him good for the role, but his hyper-recognizability would have made him terrible. So I'm glad he wasn't used. And I could have done without Mike Myers.

I just read in the Hollywood REporter that UMG had secured international rights to 38 Sinatra albums from Warners' Music Group. Perhaps these are the same albums but Concord doesn't own rights outside the US.

I was at the very first screening of the film (at Cannes) but I suspect that doesn't count. I think I haves one friend who was at the actual event.

I saw it with a large crowd and I think it was about 40% female.

Spoiler alert: I wasn't upset that they rewrote history (actually I liked it) but when I started to wonder whether they were going to or not it took me out of the film. BTW Unlike most of the other posters I found this way more joyful than Kill Bill.

My father-in-law talks about seeing Feldman in London when he was a young prodigy (on drums?). I feel stupid because near the end of his life he used to play near me at a small club in Sherman Oaks and I never went to see him.

IIRC the first Lp edition I ever had of the Ellington Fargo concert was from the BoM.

I just got back from seeing it. I really enjoyed it, but I've always been a Sergio Leone fan. Loved most of it but felt a bit "endistanced" near the end when I started to worry about whether they were going to re-write history.

Uhhh. Can I request that someone repost the info as to how to to the Westbrook Records site? (I tried Google but I kept getting their "my space" page.