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Good luck, man.

There was a great film at the Toronto film festival called Heavy Metal in Bagdad. I think it's on DVD now. Worth seeing and I don't even like Heavy Metal.

Saw it this afternoon. I liked it but my advice would be to wait and see it in Imax if possible. (There is no Imax theater here in Santa Barbara so I'll probably see it at one in LA. That I'm willing to see it twice is a pretty good indication of how much I liked it.)

Came across the following on the Variety website: How much power can an email have? Quite a bit, especially when it affects the livelihood of a jazz musician, Henry Grimes and his wife Margaret Davis Grimes are learning. The music community, and it probably extends to all arts, want to see the overlooked and undercompensated given a fair shake and treated properly. We saw it play out internationally with John Lee Hooker and dozens of other musicians on smaller scales. The re-emergence of the great jazz bassist Henry Grimes, 70, is nothing short of miraculous. In the last five years, this legend of 1960s free jazz has gone from living in a one-room apartment in Los Angeles far removed from music to an in-demand player based in New York. His return, sprung from the gift of a double bass from William Parker, has led to a string of activity, much of it on the East Coast and in Europe. He has been performing with Marc Ribot, Dave Douglas, Rosewell Rudd and others. What Devendra Banhart did for Vashti Bunyan, William Parker has done for Henry Grimes, who has a record being released this week, “Going to the Ritual” on Porter Records. Grimes' wife sent out an email alerting fans to two upcoming gigs with the Symphony for Improvisers Double Quartet (Dave Douglas w/ J.D. Allen, Henry Grimes, and Andrew Cyrille; and Roy Campbell, Jr. w/ Mixashawn, Hilliard Greene, and Hamid Drake) performing Aug. 24 in Saalfelden, Austria, and Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy,on Aug. 28. She included a PS mentioning the re-release of "The Call," noting that Grimes was paid $10 for the recording and has not received a cent from Stollman or ESP since. Henry, she wrote, is owed 40 years of royalties. She's hoping attorneys who are fans will help her with her cause and that fans, she wrote, "if you feel you must buy this re-release, please contact musicmargaret@earthlink.net to arrange to send Henry Grimes some money for your purchase." ESP has sprung into action. The label's general manager, Tom Abbs, contacted Ms. Grimes, telling her Henry would receive everything he is owed. They will have to move quickly to remove the scars of the last 40 years, but a few checks to Grimes and other musicians from Stollman would go a long way toward patching up the label's problematic past. "Just in case there is actually something new under the sun, I'm discussing things with Tom at ESP now, and this may or may not lead to something good for Henry," she writes. "The Call" was recorded by ESP and released in 1965. It is a beauty, a trio recording rich with a multitude of colors and moods. Listen to it and you want more, especially if your tastes run toward Albert Ayler or Don Cherry, two other artists who recorded for ESP. Grimes is actively looking for bookings and residencies. He has continued to lead several of his own groups, and has played, toured, and/or recorded with Rashied Ali, Marshall Allen, Fred Anderson, Marilyn Crispell, Ted Curson, Andrew Cyrille, David Murray, Cecil Taylor and others. In addition, he has published a book of his poetry, "Signs Along the Road."

Harry James: I Had the Craziest Dream.

I bought some cheap device a few years ago that I've used on unplayable cds. Worked fine though the surface of the disc looks different.

While checking out the New Yorker website to see what kind of shit they were getting for their latest cover I noticed a story called "The Spirit of Eric Dolphy". It's a review of a David Murray/Mal Waldron duet cd done in 2001. Makes it definitely sound worth getting.

Saw him a couple of times playing around LA. Always happy I did.

Me too. And I think it would have been interesting.

I'll take the Ornette. Paypal on the way.

The placement (and size) of speakers has led to many divorces. For some reason women often don't understand their importance.

Just found something called The Stanley Dance Session on Amazon that seems to contain this plus other cuts that I haven't figured out yet.

Do you have any unused video inputs into you tv? Looks like you have an unused s-video input. If so, why not run the spare DVD player's sound into one of the amp inputs you're not using (eg SACD) and use an s-video cable into the tv/monitor?

Lance Travis. They're hardly great literature but I like that he gives the provenance of the songs and points out how briefly some were in the band's book. But what does he have against "I Ain't Got Nothing but the Blues"?

Moosehead is indeed from New Brunswick-- as am I. However I think it's owned by the Olands who are a Nova Scotia family and make Olands beer in their home province. When I moved to LA I was shocked to see Moose advertised as a gourmet beer. I think it was the only one you could buy in NB when I was growing up. An American writing a book about Canada used the fact that you could buy Moosehead in every state but in only 4 provinces to exemplify the independence of provinces vs the feds as compared to that of states vs the feds.

Can I get dibs on it?

Anyone ever see it around? Was it issued under Strayhorn's name?

Topsy Part 2 was one of the only records by a Black musician played on the only radio station in my home town when I was growing up. And I don't think it was racism-- they played Mugsy Spanier's version of Party Doll instead of the Buddy Knox version. I think they just had a very limited music library. (They mainly played country and western music.)

I saw Petra with The Foo Fighters.

It's a term I heard as a teenager and I recently came across it again but not not in a context that explained what it meant. (It was in reference to a rock n' roller who had formerly been in a "show band".)

The Bruce Conner film I remember was "Cosmic Ray" which used Ray Charles on the soundtrack.

Buddy Collette has spoken highly of these sessions on which he also played. I tried to track down the original Ellington score. Never did get it but was able to obtain a a couple of cds of the music which was finally used in the film. Some of it is pure Ellington, some EKE with overdubs and some just studio musician playing music not by EKE. It would be great if Shank has a copy of all the original Ellington material.

There's the Ruby Braff session that remained unreleased until it appeared on the Mosaic Columbia Small Groups box set.

It seems to me that most of these stereotypes are now archaic which takes the sting out. What are the new offensive Jewish stereotypes?

The Masters of Jazz Charlie Christian series added a Volume 9 made up only of new discoveries.