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I haven't seen this in years. Good score, spinlps!

And that's exactly what is happening at http://www.wkcr.org at least until midnight today, edst. Checking out WKCR right now. Thanks, 7/4!

I think I'll be getting this.

Didn't remember that it was Monk's day until I saw this thread. Funny thing is, just before logging in to the forums, I put on Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane(Jazzland/K2). (Been working my way through my recently arrived trove of Concord blow-outs.) Monk was one of the main reasons that I got into jazz in the first place, and is still probably my favorite jazz artist ever (though Ellington is close or even with him).

as far as i know... fuck no! HOWEVER-- yes, interior scenes were shot here on a soundstage, which is to say they could have been done anywhere. while i believe ya'll who enjoyed this film on its own terms, the more i think about it Scorcese's career of last 20+ years, the less impressed i am. he's just NOT that bright a guy & while fully capable of crafting entertainments, the limits of his vision are ever more apparent. doesn't change past accomplishment but i propose he's more like a rock guy (more goddamn tiresome Stones music pls, my how creative) with relatively limited peak than Duke. side Q1: can any Bostonians or Boston people say where ('hoods i mean) the exteriors were done? side Q2: are there are George V. Higgins readers here? unless i missed something, last Scorcese outside scene shot in Brooklyn was DeNiro near end of "Goodfellas" (Henry Hill's wife visits him at warehouse?) a fine film DESPITE his presence. make mine DON SIEGEL, gracias, c I share your esteem for Don Siegel, Clem. I just looked at some of the articles about The Departed and they contain references to the interiors mostly being shot in New York. I was misled by the headlines of tha articles, all of which said something like "Scorcese Boston film shot in New York." You mean I have to actually read the articles, too?

This sounds like it's really good. (Richard Davis and Louis Hayes!) Now you've got me launched on the quest.

me too! (on the strength of a recent BFT cut!!!) Got this as a promo a few months ago and was pleasantly surprised. Time to listen again...

I just ordered this one from Concord which is still having there 'blowout' sale. An easy choice based on the positive feedback here. Just got that from Concord myself. Will put it on right now.

That figures. At least he didn't shoot it in Toronto!

Hey B, I read somewhere yesterday that much of the shooting was done in Brooklyn! I'm a King of Comedy partisan, too. After that I'd put Mean Streets, Goodfellas, then Taxi Driver. I loved After Hours at the time, though I wonder how it holds up. I have to admit that I've skipped a lot of the Scorcese flicks over the years since then. And the ones I have seen, such as Casino and The Age of Innocence were less than successful, I thought. I'll probably check the new one out, though Nicholson is a deterrent. He's been such a ridiculous caricature for so long that I'm almost afraid to go back to movies I once liked, such as Chinatown, for fear that they've been spoiled retroactively. I had hopes for About Schmidt, but found Nicholson to be unable to escape the straightJACKet of his persona even when actively trying to deny it.

What first turned me on to Maggie was his 1945 sideman appearances w/Coleman Hawkins on the Capitol sides which have been collected on LP and CD under the title Hollywood Stampede." Hawkins is great on these beautifully recorded performances with not only McGhee but also Sir Charles Thompson, Oscar Pettiford, and Denzil Best.

I'm glad the boy's OK and best wishes to the mom-in-law. I loves me some Bourbon, too...

A snifter of Pierre Ferrand Ambre 1er Cru du Cognac. Last night I had a dram or two of Ardbeg 10 Year Old Single Islay Malt Scotch Whisky. The weather's turning cold up here and it's time to break out the spirits...

Just started Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrook.

I must admit that the ending to this series of novels was a let down for me -- it had too much of a sixties flavor (in a bad way) for me. Also, the plot twist of having the first image and last image of a character be running, was too contrived for me. Still, all-in-all, I enjoyed it much more the second time through than the first. Still thinking of reading it for a third time. A third time? So how bad could it be? I'm going to jump into this soon. As soon as I finish Proust. (Not even joking here, either, as I'm two-thirds through Marcel's opus and hope to finish it by year's end). I'm shocked, SHOCKED, that Brit engineers/programmers don't know who Powell is. Bet they know who Neil Gaiman and Alan Moore are. I work in the wine department at a wine and spirits store in Boston and I sometimes mention to new employees that I sold wine to Saul Bellow several times. Very few of them show even a glimmer of recognition at the sound of his name. I guess the Nobel Prize ain't what it's cracked up to be. You sold wine to Saul Bellow?? Didn't I tell you about that? I also sold wine to Ross McElwee, Ran Blake, J. Geils frontman Peter Wolf, and Tatiana Ali (who I didn't recognize, but the cashiers at the store were very excited and informed me that she was on the TV show Fresh Prince of Bel Air).

School Days is a great one. For Lacy on Monk, don't miss Steve Lacy Plays Thelonious Monk/Reflections(New Jazz/OJC), rec. Oct. 17, 1958. Apparently the first ever album of all Monk tunes, and still one of the very finest. Lacy's accompanied by Mal Waldron, Buell Neidlinger, and Elvin Jones.

It is a good one, but still unmistakenly "Lacy" Don't miss this one. Great entry into latter day Lacy for the more mainstream-minded.

And the winner is.... Did I not make myself clear?

I dig Chris Connor as much as I do Peggy Lee. I'd hate to have to choose between 'em. I happen to know that Ran Blake is a big Chris Connor fan.

I liked those lines, too. As for your final question: No. I guess I should have tried, but I just couldn't bring myself to. And I wasn't gettting paid to subject myself to swill, like the Slate.com guy.

Sepia Scarlatti?

Better than "Sepia Sinatra" or even "The black Baudelaire". MG Shouldn't it be "Black Bach," just for the sake of the alliteration?

Sorry, but this is just plain stupid. Do you think that the station that promotes "Motown Mondays" doesn't play Motown any other time? None of these stations "ignore" black music - people are just pissed that they don't play a wider variety than the a few "tried and true" hits. Well, welcome to the modern radio industry. To be clearer than I was in my first post: I don't have personal experience of "Motown Mondays" here in Boston, and maybe it's a local thing, but the "Classic Rock" radio stations here don't play black music at all, just crappy '70s BTO/Foreigner/Boston type stuff. The Oldies stations do play the same old Motown hits over and over. Luckily, we have several college stations in Boston that will play obscure R&B tunes, especially the MIT station, god bless 'em.

Just found out about this myself and will try to attend.