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The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival may have been inspiring. It had been around for a while but in 1970, when George Wein took it over, this festival started featuring some of the biggest names in jazz. It's just a thought I had--New Orleans never ceased to be a jazz permeated city, but Wein's input gave the festival an international flair that just might have inspired young local, budding musicians.

I'd let the dogs lie and enjoy the mystery aspect of the photo while not giving up my search for true identification..

Here she is with Jimmy "Lover Man" Davis

...and many more (under happier circumstances)!

Louis' and Lil's love for each other truly lated until death did them part...

You mean... The ELECTRAS with JOHN KERRY?

My good friend, the late Karl Emil Knudsen (Storyville Records) had an impressive jazz library. One of the books would definitely qualify, but I don't recall its name--if there was one. Perhaps someone here has come across this very unusual publication, which was put out by a very devoted and obviously very well-to-do Japanese Louis Armstrong collector. He had amassed a sizeable collection of Armstrong recordings in just about ever format. Each LP, each 78, each 45, each CD, each reel of tape was photographed professionally and the print reproduced on high-quality glossy paper in a beautifully bound book. Excessive? Absolutely (the individual tape reels photos being a demonstration of that), but it was indeed unusual and rare--I would guess that the book is a more valuable collector's item now than most of the man's Armstrong recordings. Anyone seen or heard of this?

Chan "Parker" wasn't exactly the epitome of virtue, was she?

Bill Dufty was merely relating to me the thought behind the decision of Doubleday's editors. I presume that he was told this by an editor, I did not get the impression that it was Bill's assumption. Charlie Ventura on roller skates?

There was another John Levy (also black) who came into Billie's life. This was an unsavory character and Billie came down hard on him in the original manuscript of Lady Sings the Blues." Bill Dufty (her co-author) told me that Doubleday edited all that out, thinking that Levy was Jewish and would sue. There were also very interesting stories about Billie performing for FDR at the White House, with Hazel Scott, feeding her drug habit there, and observing that the President was on drugs--it turned out that she was right. I saw that part of the manuscript and might even have a copy somewhere in my apartment.

Black Beauty, White Heat is marred by the fact that a great number of the photos contained therein were acquired without the rightful owner's consent or knowledge (i.e. outright stolen).

Wrong! I have never made such a big splash.

As far as music is concerned, the 16 speed didn't go anywhere. Prestige but a handful of albums out there, but nothing happened. I had a couple of them (0ne was an MJQ release) and they sounded OK by early 60s lo-fi standards, but the frequency range was obviously cut down.

I recognize the Paul Colin sketch but who's posing next to it? A friend of mine who used to do my taxes, then moved to Texas. (unrelated facts )

I took this one a few years back...

Relax...that picture is simply part of the new All-Music "true or false" game. You are supposed to guess--the entire database is based on that premise.

I read the whole thing and, if I understood correctly, the cost was only 10 Swedish crowns--not a lot of money for something that obviously did represent an enhancement of sorts. At first, I thought this was about a placebo audio device. Of course its still fraudulent, isn't it?

Lew Tabackin was a big Jacquet fan. I thought I'd share a photo Lew sent me of the two of them. It was taken in the Spring of 2003, at the annual JVC press party.

And here's the Monk photo...

And here is another, from 1960. Duncan Schiedt's photo of Monk is worth repeating (in the post that follows)...

The Henderson book is great for research, but not something one cuddles up with, if you know what I mean. Here's one from 1959 that I seldom see... it has interesting photos.

I guess the people at Duke University didn't think so. It would appear that price is the main reason why many people buy an iPod alternative. I have yet to hear anyone say that another machine is otherwise more desirable.

I think Claude and Guy underestimate the inherent iPod possibilities.

If they, indeed, were mere toys, I would agree with you. The iPod has many uses beyond its obvious entertainment value, some are mentioned in the news item, but there are many more and you can be sure that students will come up with some surprising ones.

Why do you regard this as ridiculous?