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That Teagarden was a score! Check out current prices for that on Amazon

"eat more beef" Less meat on those suckers than there was on Katherine Hepburn.

Didn't Chet Baker do a Tijuana Brass knock-off?

Happy Birthday. It's a good one (I should know).

Hey, thanks guys! It's a weekday, so nothing much fun planned until this weekend.

Intriguing stuff. Thanks, Allen!

But who's your vote for best Blakey trombonist, Free For All?

We truly live in an age of wonders. Who ever thought that that would ever be dredged up again (let alone knew that it even happened in the first place). Not exactly Frank's proudest moment.

Blasphemy? Not at ALL! Gould's vocalizing drives me nuts. Always has. So that's what drove you nuts. I always wondered.

That was profoundly disturbing. I think I need to take a shower. Why are they all grinning like that? (Shitfaced?) And why does the big sign suspended above the orchestra say "Dodge"? And how in God's name do you make a majestic instrument like the Hammond sound so bad? (Maybe trying ever-so-hard not to upstage the accordions?)

Me too. I'm surprised.

Same building, yes? Who do you think Joe's looking at? That lady, of course.

I had heard that Page paid Wilie Dixon for robbing his tune, but I didn't know the full extent of his theft- holy cow, he's a great guitar player but a thief!! And he's not even that great as a guitar player. I had heard that Page paid Wilie Dixon for robbing his tune, but I didn't know the full extent of his theft- holy cow, he's a great guitar player but a thief!! That was Whole Lotta Love. From the PSF article: And people say that Elvis stole from black folks!

Would you repeat them?

...and Buddy DeFranco gets my nod for best bass clarinet player on a Blakey album.

Man, this is hard. I mean, Mobley, McLean, Golson, Shorter... I nominate Curtis Fuller for best trombonist...

He plays with his feet?

The absolute best! Thanks, good to hear that! Wow, I even got a shipping confirmation over night - not something you usually get from marketplace sellers, do you!? I've had excellent service from marketplace sellers in general, but Newbury comics is the best. Sometimes I get things from them seemingly overnight. I must add that their warehouse is a block away from my house, but still, they ship almost immediately, as you have seen.

Ain't that the truth!

The Fleischer Popeye's are considered classics, and yes, TV is where I first saw them, too. The cartoons are one thing -- well-animated and amusingly voiced, if repetitive -- but the original newspaper comic strip by E.C. Segar is one of the all-time greats. Jazz and culture critic Martin Williams once wrote a nice tribute to the strip. It's currently being re-issued in nice-looking volumes by Fantagraphics Books (the same folks doing the complete Peanuts -- and, by the way, Charles Schulz was a fan of Segar's Popeye, too).

You might like to try some Karl Kraus.

Hah, you don't even have the faintest idea what you're missing there! mine's on order! it's also online for free (see my web favourites) but you have to register. Kraus' monstrous play "Die letzten Tage der Menschheit" (the last days of makind/humanity - the end of the world, in fact) is one of the important literary texts to document the madness that was World War 1, and his "Fackel", a publication he led for years, first with texts of himself and others, later exclusively written by himself, is one of the important periodicals of those decades, and it contains virtually his complete works, including texts not doomed fit for inclusion in Suhrkamp's collected/complete works edition... he's definitely one of the most sarcastic and fascinating personalities of 20c german (austrian, to be exact, very decidedly austrian) literature. Hey, I'd be interested in an English version. I've been a Kraus fan for years. Have several anthologies of his writings in English translation. I even participated in a staged reading of "The Last Days of Mankind" here in Boston a number of years ago. I'll definitely be checking out your site. Man, I'll bet you're even into Little Lulu. How'd you guess? I've always thought of John Stanley as the Karl Kraus of mid-20th Century American children's comic books.

Thanks for posting that! Never seen it before.

Hah, you don't even have the faintest idea what you're missing there! mine's on order! it's also online for free (see my web favourites) but you have to register. Kraus' monstrous play "Die letzten Tage der Menschheit" (the last days of makind/humanity - the end of the world, in fact) is one of the important literary texts to document the madness that was World War 1, and his "Fackel", a publication he led for years, first with texts of himself and others, later exclusively written by himself, is one of the important periodicals of those decades, and it contains virtually his complete works, including texts not doomed fit for inclusion in Suhrkamp's collected/complete works edition... he's definitely one of the most sarcastic and fascinating personalities of 20c german (austrian, to be exact, very decidedly austrian) literature. Hey, I'd be interested in an English version. I've been a Kraus fan for years. Have several anthologies of his writings in English translation. I even participated in a staged reading of "The Last Days of Mankind" here in Boston a number of years ago. I'll definitely be checking out your site.

2500 Unfortunately, vinyl only... These sets are heavy. Literally! (That's a lot of vinyl.)