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Patti Bown played big piano--but she didn't knock me out with it! My favorite comedian these days is Geo. W. Bush, who this week said: "No president has ever done more for human rights than I have." Yes, and...

And how does this relate to Schwartzenegger?

"Dean is sickening. He has defintely forgot about 911." Well, Bush and his gang did not forget about 9/11--they are shamelessly milking it for their own good. Fuck the people who died, let's use this to get into Iraq and get elected in 2004. That's what we are dealing with, I'm afraid--heartless, power-hungry appointees who think nothing of stooping below the bounds of decency in order to obtain their self-serving goals. This has nothing to do with us waging war on Germany and Japan in the 1940s--that was totally justified (Italy, too, for that matter), so analogies are silly.

"Now the fact of the matter is our country runs on oil. They got it, we need it." True, but have Bush and the other morons in his crime gang ever considered the fact that oil can be bought--one does not need to invade a country and kill thousands of innocents (including US military). There is no justification for that. We could just forget about it and go back to being farmers with horse and buggys. IMO, that certainly beats doing the Hitler thing!

So far, they seem to have outsmarted the appointed White House guy. Talk about not being smart...

Will they be broadcasting jazz music or Schaap blather?

Kathy Stobart--tenor (UK)

Try Benny Goodman, to start with.

BM said: "Leora Henderson, Fletcher Henderson's wife, occasionally played trumpet with the band. She is reputed to be the second trumpet soloist on Henderson's recording of "Blue Moments", a solo so incompetent that it was edited out when re-released on "A Study in Frustration" (according to Walter Allen)." Whether or not that trumpet solo was by Leora has never been ascertained (not even Walter Allen knew). In preparing the Study in Frustration reissue, Frank Driggs presented "Blue Moments" as a previously unreleased take, and gave it the "A" designation. It is, in fact, take "B." Frank, inexplicably, perpetrated a fraud by slowing it down and removing the solo. "Does anyone know anything about a 1920s trumpet player named Doll Jones?" As far as I know, trumpeter Dolly Jones only appears on a couple of 1926 sides by trombonist Albert Wynn's Gut Bucket Five: "When" and "That Creole Band." (The former has a vocal by Lillie Delk Christian). When I recorded Wynn in 1961, I specifically asked him about Dolly, but he couldn't give me much information about her. "Norma Carson plays trumpet on one track of the Clark Terry Verve Elite CD. The cut was from a mid-1950s album "Cats vs Chicks". Carson plays well, although Clark Terry overwhelms her with his technique." I was working at Keflavik Air Base (in Iceland) in May 1956, when Norma Carson came up with a USO group. She had her own quintet with Paul Bley, piano, Bob Newman, tenor, Jimmy Bonds, bass, and Al Levitt, drums. I remember only that she wore a sexy zebra-patterned dress, favored Fats Navarro and Miles Davis, and that she played rather well.

iPods are definitely pricey, but they have more than their looks going for them. The software is a big plus and--at least for Mac owners--so is the connectivity and compatibility.

In case some of you never saw the now-classic Ridley Scott-directed TV commercial that announced the Macintosh in 1984, here it is: Mac Commercial Those of you who have seen it will notice that something new has been added--keep your eye on the lady.

"As for your next question, yes, you plug it into your computer and download mp3's from your computer to the device, using the software that comes with it. If I remember correctly, recent versions of the iPod actually came with both Mac and Windows software. The Windows software was not iTunes, but in the future it may be." Apple now offers a free download of iTunes and whatever other software the iPod needs for Windows as well as for the Mac. The new iPod mini comes with both a USB and a Firewire cable.

Not a rumor. they really do have both ports. MGA, I meant to correct my post--4GB indeed, which makes buying the 15 for $50 more a sensible thing to do. The mini should have been around $100, IMO--I bet it either gets there before too long or is boosted up to 10GB

I have several friends who have had their iPods for a year or two, but none have had the mentioned battery problem. Where did you read this?

They upped the old 10GB to a 15, so now the mini is the 10. BTW it has both firewire and usb ports, and the Windows iMusic software is a free download.

BIG FAN

It's $249. Y'all should also check out Apple's new Garage Band app. It's part of a software package called iLife '04, which also contains iMovie, iDvd, iMusic, and iPhoto--all designed to interact. A lot of practical software for only $49! Jim, did you catch Jobs' keynote address?

Reciprocal for what?

If memory serves me right, Esmond subsequently produced at least one Smith session for Verve. Don't blame Bob Weinstock for Coltrane's presence on the Ray Draper session. Ray told me that he himself put that group together.

I think the big difference, Chuck, is that we have a history of political skulduggery (although the present regime is worse than any elected one). Denmark, on the other hand, is currently experiencing a regime that--in terms of inhumanity--exceeds any Dane's imagination. Am I right Victor? P.S. Det var godt at høre fra dig her. Man ved aldrig hvad der kan ske (jeg tœnker på KEK).

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To anyone who wishes to make a serious study (with minimum frustration) of Fletcher Henderson, I highly recommend this book, which is the result of the late Walter C. Allen's many years in pursuit of Hendersonia. No a bio, as such, but stuffed to the covers (651 pages of fine print) with pertinent data, all meticulously typed in on Walter's Selectric. Oh, if only he had a computer, but it was 1973.

I have never participated in such, but I have been on the other end of radio giveaways, so I know they work. The biggest prize I ever gave was on WCAU in 1958--a New Year's Eve in Paris for two. Must confess that I rather fancied that one myself.

Olympus Camedia C-3030 ZOOM (3.3 Megapixel). Here's another one that zooms in a bit. Dan, you probably flew right past my building.

"Big Eye" Louis Nelson was indeed a clarinetist, but I don't believe that he was ever regarded as one of the best. New Orleans owned the clarinet, and its streets often rang with some of the sweetest, woodiest sounds in the land. Alphonse Picou was, I think, a better player on that instrument--also bear in mind Johnny Dodds, Edmond Hall, Jimmie Noone...