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A few years back, I saw a documentary film on Capa--it was fascinating and I hope this discovery brings it out of the can again. Thanks for the Ghana slideshow, wonderful pictures, Wulfman.

More like Ruth Oy vey What I have heard so far instilled in me an urgent desire..... ...to hit the STOP button. Seriously I was ever so unimpressed and felt that I had heard it all before, only performed better. So, to answer the original question:

My personal experience with the BYG crooks tells me that Sunny Murray is probably not making this up.

Apropos things British, I have told my old friend, Val Wilmer about the big O and am trying to get her to drop in from time to time, when she gets her new computer. That will be soon.

I wish Ed Byrne would come over here. I hope that self-important "jazz critic" stays, along with "New Mike," "orronie," and a handful of others (if they, indeed, are still there. We occasionally have our flare-ups and differences here--that's inevitable--but the big O is a community that comes together when the need is there, as we recently saw. Can't imagine that happening on those other forums.

It has been quite a while since I chose to leave AAJ. It was a power-needy Forum Goon from Ottawa who made me decide to hop a one-way out of there. What happened this time? One thing I have noticed, it is driving the most desirable members into exile--good for us.

Don't recognize the tune, but that's a great short. Thanks for posting it, watermelon background and all.

She actually recorded music? According to Ken Burns' "Jazz", Anita O'Day's claim to fame was her drug habit. Well, well, well, just goes to show you that one can't believe everything one sees on TV.

I would love to hear what this one is all about...

I feel comforted by that bit of inside info.

What are you saying, Chuck--Wal-mart doesn't carry the Alto catalog?

Dude, standing on the stand right next to him while he plays is as closely as you CAN listen to him! Talk about a blessing, anybody who had that opportunity got one. Having SAT with both Miles and Prez, I can report that the experiences were equally daunting....and memorable.

Wearing my school blazer, cap and tie, I went shopping on Winchester's High Street with my Aunt Flavie while on summer holiday in 1946. A sales lady showed her an alligator (or was it lizard?) pocketbook the price of which would have paid for the term I had just completed at Kent College (Canterbury). My aunt, who married an Englishman in the early 1930s, did not appear to be very interested, but when she was told that Princess Elizabeth had one just like it, she snapped it up without hesitation. Aunt Flavie also had black borders around her stationery for a year after King George died. She was a total convert. My Uncle Christian (her brother) also married in England in the late 1920s, lived in Nettlebed (Henley) and had an office right off Hyde Park. He, too, became English to the core, but with a bit more sense. My mother's two other brothers lived their long lives in the Dominican Republic and California, respectively, and both assimilated, although the former never totally acculturated. My mother married men from different countries, but she remained Danish. Basically, I come from a family of chameleons, but I think there is something about England that makes people go all the way, as it were..

Looks good. Has it really been a year?

It ain't Nessa...verily so.

Very good to have you both back!

Not much jazz in this one, is there? Preservation Hall, I thought they had closed the old Jaffe Plantation--well, I hope they are at least paying the players decent money these days. Jazz may not be dying, but jazz festivals sure have bit the dust.

During a recording session at Columbia, Laura Nyro told the brass players that she wanted a "green" sound. "Would that be dark or light green, Miss Nyro?", a trombonist asked, with a straight face.

Huh?

Don't give them any ideas, MG!

C'mon Chuck, give us the legs up on Jacquie O--I know you can can

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If the business has an address in the state you are having the merchandise sent to, you pay that state's sales tax. Otherwise yoo don't, but there are useless politicians who want to change that so that we all pay a sales tax on just about everything.

His body was found around 3:31 PM, but you heard about it this morning. Could I have the name of your crystal ball gazer?

Well, an apartment owned by her...your wording suggests something else.