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On 12/5/2015, 12:44:08, sonnyhill said:
I am looking to read a high quality mystery novel. I am not interested in series or genre fiction -- any recommendations? The last book I finished was Pamuk's My Name is Red.
Sundidos and Mojo Snake Minuet by John Litweiler are both, in their ways, mysteries and both are said to have some literary merit. (see goodbaitbooks.com)
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Happy Felsch
Eddie Cicotte
Knuckles O'Toole
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35 minutes ago, Chuck Nessa said:
Astounding. Jazz is indeed dead.
Astounding in more than one way if this is a real help-wanted ad and not a joke. Currently you are the social media manager for Nessa Records and I am the social media manager for Goodbait Books. It's cheaper than paying for ads and, in my experience, just as unproductive.
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On 12/5/2015, 12:44:08, sonnyhill said:
I am looking to read a high quality mystery novel. I am not interested in series or genre fiction -- any recommendations? The last book I finished was Pamuk's My Name is Red.
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
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In recent months reading had seemed more like a nervous habit than something very rewarding or memorable. Rereading "The Good Soldier" (for the 3rd or 4th time) was a necessary and great reminder of why literature exists at all, of why writing and books were invented. "It is queer the fantastic things that quite good people will do in order to keep up their appearance of calm poco-curantism....I think it would have been better in the eyes of God if they had all attempted to gouge out each other's eyes with carving knives. But they were 'good people.'" Ford's sentences, his structure, his characters, especially the ostensibly naive and innocent, but actually agonizingly observant narrator - it's all a wonder. And lately I learned that some Tory friends have been living a similar story (I mean the 2015 U.S. equivalent of actual Edwardian Tories).
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White Sox just hired a catcher who hit .191 last season, will pay him $2.5 million. Insert sarcastic comment.
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11 hours ago, Gheorghe said:
should I start to write reviews about albums I didn´t know about *lol*
Yes you should. I took Oscar Wilde's advice and never listened to an album before I wrote the review. Didn't want to get prejudiced.
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On 11/20/2015, 1:07:57, JamesAHarrod said:
My history of Herb Kimmel's Jazz:West label has finally reached the marketplace. Die hard Art Pepper fans will find it of interest.
Sorry for the shameless promotion.
https://store.bookbaby.com/book/JazzWest-Records
Jim
Not shameless. Looks like a good read, thanks for letting us know.
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4 hours ago, MomsMobley said:
some of my favorite 'make out' music
Thanks, Moms. Make-out music indeed. Imagine the resulting babies.
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Bluto
Pluto
The Platters
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40++ years ago when I was desk clerk at a mainly residential hotel (around 300 rooms or suites) in Chicago, the post office would every day deliver a handful or 2 of pieces to us instead of the correct address. A few times, the majority of the mail we got was misaddressed - usually it was meant for an insurance company several miles away in Chicago.
I'm worried - Leo Records tried to mail me a package and it got returned to them by the post office here.
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On 11/3/2015, 5:44:57, ejp626 said:
I also saw the Motley exhibit in Chicago -- I liked it quite a bit..
I really loved that Motley exhibit, which is apparently now traveling. Less fanciful, more (to me) American in style: the African-American artist Jacob Lawrence's roomful of 1940 Black Migration paintings at MoMA last summer - wonderful. Every schoolkid in America should be taught this history.
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Pinky Lee
Pinko
Comsymp
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This song has a verse, too:
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I just learned that my cousin in Paris and her daughter are OK, thank God.
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1. Let's not underestimate the importance of Anderson, Vandermark-Corbett, and Reed on the Chicago jazz renaissance. 2. It helps that Mike Reed grew up in the Netherlands and knew some European musicians even before he moved to Chicago. 3. It helped that Fred Anderson made friends all over Chicago as well as on his travels around the US and Europe. 4. Often enough when Vandermark gets inspired, there's an energy about his music that grabs me. 5. Larry's liner notes on the new Josh Berman Trio CD are so right in emphasizing Josh's sound, it's as if each cornet note is sculptured. 6. Week in, week out there's a certain amount of AACM players mixing with north siders. 7. With all the excitement of new players arriving and emerging in Chicago earlier in the century, there's been quite a leveling off after, say, 2009 or so - I mean, fewer new folks these days. I hope I'm wrong about that.
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On 8/14/2013, 8:55:14, Chuck Nessa said:
John Ludy
John gave me some interesting tapes of his piano improvising but I haven't heard his composed music. Has any been recorded, have any of his music mss. been published?
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5 hours ago, A Lark Ascending said:
Northumberland, UK: A view of the Milky Way near Hadrian’s Wall
http://www.theguardian.com/news/gallery/2015/nov/08/the-weekend-in-pictures
Trick photography, surely.
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Nicky Hill
Rudy Vallee
Lester Flatt
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Yes, a perfect solo, as perfect as "Easy Does It" even. What is the date in 1937, January or so? If I remember rightly, that's when the Basie-Chatterbox album was done. Quite a difference in YOung's style between that and in the Smith-Jones quintet (Nov. 9) - again, between the Smith-Jones and the Jan. 25 Billie Holiday sessions. It's also fun to listen to Frank Trumbauer solos and try to imagine what Young sounded like in the years before he first recorded.
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My favorite (Annie Ross on "Jackie," one of Wardell Gray's totally perfect tenor solos):
I sat / one night / right / in the middle of a glass of coca-cola
And thought how / I'd now / go for / some biscuits and a slice of gorgonzola
When I felt / a twitch / which / seemed to come from something under my ear
I wondered if / I was high / or / if it was merely a hallucination
I turned round / and found / something I thought was my imagination
On my blouse / a mouse / sat / and this is what he started to say:
If you want to hear the story of a mouse in all its glory, let me tell you 'bout the time that I was giggin' with a band
And all the cats thought that I was really the end
They'd come around and listen to the sound that was
Coming from a crazy little creature who was sitting on the bandstand, and that was me-ee
etc.
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Rocket Richard
The Pocket Rocket
Rockin Johnny
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John Bull
Uncle Sam
Sam the Sham
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Mrs. North
Eddie South
Frank Wess
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I think Ballard wrote much better novels than "Crash" later, when he got angrier: "Hello America," "Super-Cannes," "Rushing to Paradise," "Millennium People" for example. Otherwise, his cold, almost clinical style and his recurring incremental plotting could be off-putting.