[Harvey Pekar RIP]

Very fine piece. Thanks.

[Harvey Pekar RIP]

Harvey first contacted me about Von Freeman (he was a big fan and did an interesting piece in Jazz Times). My favorite phone call from him was to ask if it was ok to give my phone number to Leon Leavitt, who'd asked for it. Leavitt had been the major source for out of print jazz lps for years. Harvey explained Leon had been dumping his personal collection on ebay and now wanted to buy cds. After I said it was ok to pass on the phone number, Harvey said "He's got plenty of money. Don't give him no deals. He will pay top dollar". The next day I received a call and sold one of everything I had.

Thanks Harvey.

After the movie and the illness he was more difficult to reach. Sorry to say I didn't have contact in the last couple of years.

You can read his VF piece here.

[MY NEW MUSIC PROJECT]

Black Macaroni.

[Original Album Classics]

Thanks.

["View New Content" leads to organissimo driver error]

I'm on a Mac too.

["View New Content" leads to organissimo driver error]

Fine here with Firefox 3.6.3.

[Lester Young Aladdin LP Covers]

Time for an intervention?

[Lester Young Aladdin LP Covers]

I had the yellow/red one and another with a David Stone Martin drawing (trio w/Nat).

[Ellington 1930s big-band Mosaic]

This was a reissue based on a 6 lp set issued in 1983 titled "1947-1952 Recorded Works In Chronological Order". I still have that box.

[Unforgettable TV shows or moments]

"Hot Water Soup" scene on an old Green Acres episode. Eb was killin'.

[Is it just me or does anyone stare at the BN logo on covers?]

Yeah, I thought of that,

but wasn't sure if anyone

would recognize it on it's own.

another eyecatcher from the 70's:

Always fun to slip that one on the changer.

[What's a reasonable time to wait in a doctor's office?]

I'd have pissed on the floor. Then someone would have paid attention.

[Joe Harley restores damaged Song For My Father Blue Note]

I was just saying the work could be done relatively easily without all the "hoo-haw". Been there, done that without any press releases.

[Joe Harley restores damaged Song For My Father Blue Note]

Don't know why it wasn't done before. It would be the producer's job to listen and correct.

[Joe Harley restores damaged Song For My Father Blue Note]

Seems to be a bunch of mumbo jumbo for a simple fix. All to sell expensive new transfers.

[Comedy Record Corner]

He's leaning on the cross. Where else?

It is the focal point of the pic.

[Comedy Record Corner]

Also owners of the Candid label. Can you imagine a Vaughn Meader/Charles Mingus date?

[Records You love That You Bought "Blind"]

Starting around '58, this Iowa farm kid bought all jazz records blindly for about 4 years. I understood the music was called "jazz" and there were bins in the record store labeled "jazz". This is how I was introduced to Miles, Trane, Dizzy, Rollins, Bird, etc until I got to college and met folks with similar tastes.

[Records You love That You Bought "Blind"]

Fantastic idea for a thread. This will take some time for thought.

[2010 MLB Season]

Last 2 White Sox losses were to the Cubs. Small consolation for the Cubbies.

[Digression thread: Coherence is overrated]

yes there is.

[Digression thread: Coherence is overrated]

Wow, bow.

[Artists you know well but have never really liked]

Clarence Williams

I am a CW fan and understand Swede's post. He was not a "great artist" but taking all his work together....Damn! I confess to having close to 20 CW cds, not counting much of the vocal works.

[Entire male Marsalis family among 2011 NEA Jazz Masters]

Maybe neglected artists can apply for adoption.

[Fred Anderson - RIP]

Services are on Tuesday June 29th at Leak and Sons Funeral Chapels, 7938 South Cottage Grove Avenue, Chicago, IL 60619. The wake is at 5 and the funeral Is at 6.