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thanks for your knowledgeable comments. you clearly have deeper insight and understanding on this than i do.

sorry--thx.

good or bad???? my first instinct is bad. jazz, to me, should be a music of the people. relegating it's artists(and ultimately its patrons) to the cool stilted rarified chambers of academia doesn't sem to be the way to go. to think that the only jazz musicians who survive will do so because of their positions in academia would seem to be stifling and, with a few exceptions, place limits on their creativity. link

I was six but remember clearly going round to my grandma's to watch the coronation on her brand new tv, we didn't have one of course. It was quite an event, all the neighbours were crowded into the tiny front room, the men in suits and ties, the women in their best frocks, sherry, beer, salmon sandwiches and coconut macaroons. Just like a Mike Leigh film. yes yes yes--thanks for the recall. in the early 50s, there was a small tv in my school's janitor office. they took us to see a few moments of president eisenhower's inaugural parade. that was likely my first look at tv.

strangely, no one mentioned tv helicopters following OJ's vehicle. the lakers shut their basketball game down, as i recall. that was an absorbing few hours. another awesome moment was ambassador stevenson confronting his russian counterpart at the UN during the russian missile crisis, clearly his finest moment. edward r. murrow's cbs person to person did a live session with fidel castro and his young son after the revolution. he came across to me as a really smart neat guy.

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they are WONDERFUL. thx.

"In a slightly different vein, summer of '73, the summer between h.s. & college, I was glued to the TV for the Watergate hearings." that was some of the most incredible broadcast drama ever. the characters are uniquely and forever drawn. i hung on every word(by npr).

i was in a warehouse with no tv on 9-11, but heard it more or less live, strangely on sporting news radio, from the much maligned jay marrioti, who summoned great quantities of class, reassurance, and understanding. when i hear jay blasted, it hurts me.....

prime for me is president lyndon johnson's speech in 1968 announcing that he would not stand for reelection. think of that--a man putting his country above his personal goals. i don't expect that EVER to happen again in this country. the 1963 sunday morning shooting of lee harvey oswalt by jack ruby is a close second.

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in the old style "WEST ORANGE — Sheltered from the summer sun by the red and white tarp of a carnival tent, Jerry Fabris set his ancient machines spinning. Musicians jostled for position around him, pointing horns at a brass recording bell. A pair of phonographs — two beauties built by Thomas Edison’s laboratories more than a century ago — were the stars of the afternoon. A crowd of 50 people had gathered at Thomas Edison National Historical Park to watch the soft-spoken Fabris commit a musical performance to wax, and to do it just as the famed Wizard of Menlo Park himself might have. With the care of a chemist raising a beaker from a laboratory desk, Fabris drew a fresh wax cylinder from a cardboard box. He’d exposed the box to daylight to warm up the cylinders inside and get them ready for a scrawl from the stylus."

he was here at graham's, looking really good, in mansfield ohio, about a month ago. sadly, graham ran short of teddys. this was very near a heavily wooded area, and the many deer may have sniffed..........

some cbs radio stations archive their broadcasts through itunes. i don't want, like, or need itunes. is there a way other than itunes to grab these shows?

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long live george jefferson. thanks for the millions of laughs and fine fine times.

Sunday's walk-off win was the first time in 40 years the Oakland A's completed a four-game sweep of the New York Yankees, and the first time ever the A's did it at home.

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i don't recall seeing audrey on the lily tag...............

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dead air talking "So much for expectations. Marian McPartland, doyenne of the 33-year-old "Piano Jazz," stopped recording new segments in 2010. Indeed, the radio airwaves are alive not just with the sounds of departed hosts—but dearly departed hosts as well. Think dead men talking."

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