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Hmmmmm. What's meant by the "Africa" comment? (Sorry, I'm genuinely stumped.) I've been to almost every contry in Africa, except "Disney" Africa (safari countries and tourist-friendly). I've had ample opportunity to be busy or do nothing.

Doing nothing - even watching television or a movie or sitting on a beach - would kill me. Painfully.

One of the site's creators, Professor Varden, is also the keeper of the great Fats Navarro website. Still work to be done on the Gray site - he advises and you will quickly discover - but it's a nice start and deserved tribute.

"3" owners unite! Really great value cars.

Have a great birthday!

Happy Birthday, Jim. Hope you made it out of Seattle before the rain really set in again.

The bad news/good news for me is that I'm going to have to/get to retire "early". And I'll be enjoying Boiled Shoestring Soup in my Golden Years.

I'm not even sure what country to place myself in, but my "timesheet" for October 2007 through March 2012 shows 92 hours a week. Yeah, I'm lovin' life.

I like Goold and Riley as two distinctive sounds on today's scene. If I can get a high-speed/listening connection, I'll have to "tune in".

Nu-cle-ar.

If your neighbour's gone amphibious I suspect it wasn't yellow balls in the blue sky but rather the prolonged absence of same. As for me, my second week in Seattle has turned "Seattle-normal" and I'm checking my toes for webbing.

Hooked? Not me. I can quit anytime I want. My gateway was playing: junior high school stage band. Hefti/Basie charts.

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Gotta join the choir for a round of Happy Birthday to Chuck in one-part disharmony.

I haven't heard it in a while, but New York Jazz Sextet - Group Therapy (Scepter) Art Farmer, James Moody, Tommy Flanagan, Tom McIntosh, Tootie Heath and (help me out here..) Richard Davis? 1965 or so.

Shepp/NHOP "Looking at Bird" is relly a great album - my favorite post-1970 Shepp. You can sense his love for Bird, even though there's no emulation. NHOP swings.

Janiva Magness, tomoow night at Jazz Alley, Seattle

I'd have characterized Jessica Williams as the Keystone's house pianist, for many years. And Eddie Marshall as house drummer.

Same experience here - no shrink wrap on individual CDs

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I didn't notice them just a few days ago*. I've posted this because I think they just came in, so there are a bunch still on offer. * Perhaps they were there and I missed them.

Academy in Manhattan (12 West 18th Street, (212) 242-3000) has a dozen or more Mosaics in the window. Some of the "big boxes" are up in the $350 range, and two OOP Selects are $180 each. I left them there for you. http://www.academy-records.com They do eBay, so I imagine they'd mail order.

Happy Birthday 2012, epistrophy007!

I have it & agree! I've got about half of the material on other sources, but the box remains on my want list for the portion I don't have. This was prime Webster.

I deleviered the "bummer" news about the Smalls freebie ending. So I'll make a small attempt at self-redemption. The Village Vanguard now had a free srchive. Much smaller (that word just keeps coming up) than the Smalls (I told you) archive. And, if you're like me, you prefer the kind of performer that Smalls had in their archive. But, for that it's worth: Vanguard via WBGO Archives