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But does the clarinet? Can anyone ID that instrument in the Hogarth print? A recorder?

Mmmmaybe.

I wouldn't be without it. Fats was the capstone of stride piano, among other things.

Plankton.

What a player! I'm glad I got to see him several times in his last decades. He kicked Phil Woods's ass when I heard them together in Boston!

Yep. Oh, yes! Essential TV on DVD. I've been watching the Mr. Show DVDs again. Amazing stuff. Some of the best sketch comedy ever; a true successor to Python.

DUKE ELLINGTON! It had to be said.

Dankworth. A perfectly Dickensian name!

Fats was one of the few jazz musicians who was truly a "popular artist" without tarnishing his jazz credentials a whit. He balanced entertainment and musical substance as well as anyone ever, including Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, and Django Reinhardt. A joy forever.

Didn't realize it went back as far as Hogarth. How soon before a Zorn or associates disc appropriates the title "Jew Flute"? Song of the Thin Man is a weird flick. Nick and Nora seem very out of place in the 1940s, especially with film noir femme fatale Gloria Graham lurking about...

Amazing thread. You have all given me much food for thought. These are the kind of fireworks that sucked me into this board in the first place. Passionate, thoughtful WRESTLING with these esthetic issues. It's clear that Max was one of THE jazz drummers. He was right there at the white-hot center of the music for at least a decade, if not two or more. I was lucky enough to stumble across a solo Max gig in the late '80s, when I was visiting a college buddy who lived on Manhattan's upper West side. My friend and I were walking past his local Tower Records and he off-handedly mentioned that there were, on occasion, live performances at this record store. We looked at the poster in the window, only to realize that Max Roach would be appearing at this location, on this very day, in a mere 15 minutes! Max was well into his Soul Note/Bridgewater period, and the men in his band were in attendence, but Max played the gig solo. His drum kit set up on the simple stage, he proceeded to perform a solo tour de force, culminating in a tribute to Jo Jones, who, as he explained, had upstaged his rivals in a JATP concert in the '40s by performing a lengthy solo entirely on the hi-hat. Tribute to Roach's mastery was the fact that the small children at the edge of the stage were as mesmerized by the display as any of the jaded jazz fans in attendence. I was happy to be able to shake the great man's hand after the performance and thank him for all the great music he'd been a part of over the years. And, YES, I say YES AGAIN, to Roach's amazing duet recording with Cecil Taylor, which got me over many a motivational hump in college and after.

Hey, y'all. Can't we band together somehow and see that some of these books come to fruition? I'm envisioning "Organissimo Editions," sort of our own "Library of America," with the first three volumes being Allen Lowe's tome on 1950s Jazz, Holy Ghosts' poetry, and the collected BNBB and Organissimo posts of Jim Sangrey. What's stopping us?

Thanks for that. I saw Weston in Boston earlier this year and the guy looks great. If someone told you he was 60, you'd say he looked good for that age! It's cool that, at 80, he appreciates the "Africa" in hip-hop. I look forward to the forthcoming autobiography and the banjo and tuba session. Long may he live!

I love this soundtrack, especially for the Geeshie Wiley cuts.

I'm sure that there's a region 2 disc available. Try Amazon.fr

Where's the authoritative critical biography of Thelonious Monk that I'm sure we'd all love to read?

Like WD45, I have only one LP. What are we supposed to do?

Not all today, but in the past week I went on an OJC binge: Johhny Griffin Sextet Blue Mitchell Big 6 Blue Mitchell - Blue' s Moods Blue Mitchell - The Cup Bearers Charlie Rouse Quintet - Takin' Care of Business Zoot Sims Quintet - Zoot! Leroy Vinnegar Sextet - Leroy Walks! Wilbur Ware Quintet - The Chicago Sound Plus, for good measure, this one: Cecil Taylor & Italian Instabile Orchestra - The Owner of the River Bank

Food and wine.

Look again: it's listed as "Charlie Rose groovin' the alto sax." Perhaps an early gig by the PBS talk maven? Groovin' and playin'? Who the hell is writin' these Concord blurbs?

Who won?

Can't get much beyond 72 meters on the first game. I found the second game to be a good deal less appealing graphically.

Not enough trash cans in my neighborhood, either. I'm always picking up trash in front of my house (rental) that others just toss there. I guess that this is just the sort of thing that gets people motivated to engage with local government. I'm on the verge, I must say.

Just finished The Westerners by Dee Brown. I've become more interested in the history of this period of as I've become more interested in the Hollywood movies about this time. I plan to read Brown's I Buried My Heart at Wounded Knee in the near future. My book group will be reading Garry Wills's Lincoln at Gettysburg for our next meeting, so I thought I'd finally read James McPherson's one-volume Civil War history Battle Cry of Freedom for background. So far, it lives up to advance billing.

This might be my favorite film ever. I'm very glad to own the Criterion edition. I do wonder what someone who hasn't seen his other films would make of Playtime, especially on a small screen at home. I highly recommend seeing this in a theater first if at all possible. I was lucky enough to see this for the first time at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston projected in 70mm.