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I don't recall it gaining any coverage on American websites (pacé the wider media), but Paedophiles have been the source of much hysteria in the UK; it isn't something the UK could be said to be lax about. In one notorious incident, the external walls of a Paediatricians apartmernt had the word Paedo sprayed on to it.

On the Amazon site in the UK, the Los Angeles Times quote is identified as being by Leonard Feather: "The most devastating, provocative, and enlightening work of its kind ever contributed to the annals of jazz literature." Feather, as we know, had a habit of settling scores; but not here. Perhaps it would have seemed too absurd. As some restitution, before the comment is removed, I've voted against its usefulness on the Amazon.com site (it reads like one of HB's efforts); thankfully it has not spread to the UK version. It would be unethical to suggest that anyone else does the same...

Brownie, Lewis Porter interviewed Bob Weinstock for his Coltrane biography. After an unsatisfactory take the tape was rewound and reused. Weinstock asserts that this was for ethical reasons.

SFAIK, no one has asked him about his apparent resistance to allowing Coltrane to record with Monk on other labels.

Moved in to this category in the last day or so.

Their are also reports accessible via Google News, but buried in stories on this development, that the relevant banks have agreed terms whereby Warner and EMI may merge. Hope the authorities in the EU scuper these developments, as they have earlier attempts at "rationalisation".

Wonder what Harry Belafonte's experience was?

I thought this thread would ask about the number of members it takes for the software to implement flood control!

Anyone any inside information? Like the Jacquet and just ordered the Ellington.

Your Wyndhaming up! (One of the other three is on Wyndham Lewis.)

A number of the CDs in this series (Don Ellis' "Electric Bath", Giuffre's "Free Fall" and "It's Monk's Time") have turned up in US editions with additional material.

Johnny, the Jazz Journalists Association did a nice tribute.

The Jazz Scene, originally published under the pseudonym of Francis Newton (the trumpeter Frankie Newton had communist leanings).

I've found on smaller orders that the surface option is perfectly acceptable. It takes about four weeks to the UK rather than under a week using Airmail.

This comment contains a spoiler, so be warned. Unfortunately, both Double Indemnity and The Lost Weekend are absent from this list (possibly Wilder's best films). The Apartment probably suffers from overlength; it is take too long for the Shirley MacLaine character realise that Lemmon's character loves her. The Front Page is only worth watching if you have a taste for gallows humour. As for The Great Race save the tape for something else; it's one of those anonymous big budget efforts. Hope this helps.

Phographs of Jazz musicians are used as an inspiration for stories about them, around these the journeys of Duke and Harry Carney, across the continental United States, are used as a framing device. No user of the board would be unmoved by this book.

I'd begun to assume that he'd be the next Jazz Musician to make it to a Century.

Got a suspicion that the second series featuring a sequence set in a pub using the name "Village Vanguard." The name has not been licenced out, and given Lorraine Gordon's reputation...but perhaps this is starting to sound conspiratorial.

But this would be reminiscent of the Goodman and Master Jazz Piano sets which briefly became available again a couple of years ago, assuming this is not a red herring.

What's your source of information? Later: Proven to be a malicious imagination.

LP or CD or simply a seedy thread.

Come back as soon as you can!

Check this Tubby Hayes item or this one.

Chuck's "last 500" comment was on the BNBB last January. He also mentioned then that the set was on sale at Tower.com, but in the end they could not send one to me. I know such an experience is not uncommon with Tower... BTW, the set is no longer listed on the Music Resource site.