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Thanks, Larry, here's her husband...

Perhaps they thought he said he was a member of the Dance Theater of Hamas. Of course, they could simply be dance fans wanting a free performance. As a Jew.....oh, that one-drop rule may only apply to black ancestry. Sorry, I am just so confused now, and Allen hasn't been any help.

I was afraid of that, but I just wanted to come clean.

Where is the anonymous little jerk when I need him/her? Look! It's my great great grandmother, Frederika Broberg (nee Gotschalk) - and SHE'S JEWISH!!!!!! Oh, the humanity of it all! Allen, please advise....

Allen, you're not supposed to listen to the performance (that was back then), you're supposed to take in the aura that surrounds a legend. Presence, not presentation.

Then, you must be....... (Sorry to invoke super jerk)

Thanks Steve, I just wondered. Miles once said that some people thought he was a white chick, because that's what they put on his album covers.

When did Lucky T turn white? Did that extend to his playing here?

What is the average lifespan of a kanalog?

He hasn't posted in over 3 years, but today is Paul55's 80th birthday. Let's hope he is okay and wish him a good one.

I spent 28 years writing for Stereo Review. When a reader wanted to know what equipment we, the reviewers, had at home, an editor thought it was a reasonable question. We were all asked to submit a list, but when the editors and Julian Hirsch saw it, they cringed and decided that it should never be made public. I often wonder how many of the Hoffman posters actually listen to the music—it often seems to be something with which to test their equipment. Don't get me wrong, I have heard top of the line setups and enjoyed the sound quality, but the music is still what counts. Although I own a pair of "Pyramid" speakers that originally cost about $2,000 each, and are now probably hopelessly retro, my equipment would probably be considered unfit for audiophile ears, but it fulfills my needs. Sometimes "restoration" makes recordings sound worse than the original 78s (they can still amaze when spun on the right equipment), but we have recently seen great strides made and applied to such gems as the King Oliver Creole Jazz Band sides. That's good enough for me. There is a lot of good-sounding equipment to be had at a reasonable price, so, even when I could afford top-of-the-line stuff, I did not feel a need to go for it. I have never considered myself to be an audiophile, but I have always appreciated good sound.

To peddle one's organ is—in some parts of the world, Weehauken, NJ, for example—considered to be a gritty, soulful and funky thing to do.

...and very vinyl years ahead!

The New York Sun, which deposits a bunch of free copies in my lobby every day, may well go down for lack of funding. I have mixed feelings about that, because they have an excellent Arts section (including jazz coverage by Will Friedwald). On the other hand, this paper is about as biased, politically, as it gets—a print edition of Fox News, complete with dishonest reporting and outrageously Goebbels-ized editorials. So that part of it belongs in the "good riddance" dept., as far as I'm concerned. They should either clean up their act, politically and find reporters and editors with integrity, or just skip the slanted news and make it one helluva Art publication. They really are good in that department.—CA New York Sun newspaper could close by end of September Wed Sep 3, 2008 11:25pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Sun, a daily newspaper launched six years ago as an often conservative-leaning alternative to The New York Times, may stop publishing by the end of September unless it gets additional financial backing. The paper, which began publishing in 2002, has been losing substantial amounts of money, Sun editor Seth Lipsky wrote in a letter to readers published on the paper's website on Wednesday. The losses reflected advertising declines that are hurting nearly every U.S. newspaper amid wider economic problems such as the U.S. housing market slump and the global credit crisis. "Our losses, which are substantial, have been covered so far by a group of investors whom we would call heroic. And they are prepared to continue to back the enterprise with new capital," Lipsky wrote. "But as costs rise and the advertising market for newspapers generally tightens, keeping the Sun alive and moving it toward self-sufficiency will require broadening the base of investors beyond the original group." The letter did not say how much the privately held paper needed, but a source at the paper said the editors told employees Wednesday that it required a commitment of at least $10 million. Managing Editor Ira Stoll declined to comment on that figure. "In recent months, we have had discussions with a number of newspaper proprietors and other potential investors about possible combinations or investment relationships," Lipsky wrote in the letter. "Some of those are continuing. There is no assurance that any of our discussions will be successful, but we are hopeful." Stoll declined to name any of the possible investors or publishers. The Sun is co-owned by Lipsky, Stoll and a group of investors whom Stoll declined to name. Previous reports have named hedge fund operator and philanthropist Michael Steinhardt as an investor, as well as Bruce Kovner, founder and chairman of hedge fund Caxton Associates LLC and chairman of conservative think tank the American Enterprise Institute. The paper publishes five days a week and has a circulation of about 70,000, far lower than the million or so copies that the Times has. Unlike the Times, which covers the United States and the world with large reporting teams, the Sun focuses more on the New York City area, though it also covers politics, foreign policy and the arts. Many readers regard the Times's editorial pages as carrying a more liberal tilt on U.S. politics and foreign policy, while the Sun is a conservative alternative. Lipsky in his letter characterized its stance as "unpredictable." New York is a crowded city for daily papers. The New York Post, owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, and New York Daily News, owned by Boston Properties Chairman Mortimer Zuckerman, slug it out daily in a tabloid war dominated by racy headlines as well as intense local coverage.

Cosby has a history of using jazz and its players to promote himself or make himself appear "hip." When stripped of the hype and he is truly a disgusting person.

I felt sorry for the tree.

Check out this dummy in a tree.

Thanks again—I will sign up/ Here's yet another...

Thanks, Robert. Here's another one...

I once started, but can no longer find, a thread devoted to stuff found in closets, nooks, crannies, etc. It having disappeared, here's a new one. I'll start it with a concert program I came across this morning. As I recall, I had a good time at this one...

Arne Domnerus, one of Sweden's most influential jazz musicians, has died. He was 83. STOCKHOLM, Sweden: The alto saxophonist and orchestra leader died Tuesday morning after a long period of illness, his son, Leif Domnerus, told The Associated Press. He said Domnerus had heart surgery last year, after which he suffered pneumonia and a brain hemorrhage. Born outside Stockholm in 1924, Domnerus started his first professional orchestra in the 1940's. He played with jazz greats such as Charlie Parker, Clark Terry and Quincy Jones and often performed at the Nalen jazz club in Stockholm, where he led his own orchestra for many years. Among his most famous recordings was "Jazz at the Pawnshop," which has sold more than half a million copies. Johannes Cornell, a jazz critic at Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter, called Domnerus a heavyweight on the nation's jazz scene. "He administered the jazz tradition and dug deeper into it and he only got better and better. I heard him in later years and it sounded incredible," Cornell said. Domnerus regularly toured the U.S., Japan and Europe and became an ambassador for Swedish jazz. He often performed in churches, where he found a new forum for his genre. Domnerus is survived by his wife, Britta and his sons Leif and Tony. Leif Domnerus said a private funeral was planned for family members. He said a memorial concert would be held at Nalen on Dec. 20, during the annual award ceremony for a jazz scholarship founded by Domnerus.

If they are still breathing, it is reasonable to assume that they are among the living. One thing I have learned is to always double check obituaries—I produced two sessions with an artist whose obituary had been published ten years earlier. BTW, she had read it and was somewhat flattered by it.

I have always found Jerry Lewis to be exceedingly unfunny, annoyingly so. But, then again, I'm not French.

Then there is this.

And who among us hasn't occasionally wanted to do that?