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For the cover alone!

Also picked up Kids---the Lovano/Jones album mentioned by Giddins in the New Yorker. It's good!

How extraordinarily RAITRE. And is an "Ontet" the same as a "Nonet"?

Happy Birthday!

Change---Andrew Hill Not so much for the music as for the shirt.

I'll have to put on that "Real Gone Gal" vinyl comp I got back in the 80's. Always liked her. I'm glad that she lived so long and seemed to have such a successful life. RIP

I checked around the internet the other night to try to find a copy of "Plectrist." I couldn't find anything under $40. Then I recalled this post from back in April and surfed on over to Walmart.com. Lo and behold, there it was for $14.88. I pulled the trigger, then thought I'd try to order an extra one, but they wouldn't let me. I received a shipment confirmation this morning. I surfed back to the site and they're now listing the disc as "Out of Stock." So it looks as though I got the last one! God, that fucking figures.

I own the entire British version of "The Office." Definitely a worthwhile purchase, as I've watched them all the way through at least five times. I can say the same about "Freaks & Geeks." And if the idiots who control the rights to "The Larry Sanders Show" would finally put out a complete package of that show, I would automatically have to buy it.

I probably still mispronounce "Henri Cartier-Bresson." And proudly so. BTW, when I found out that my older son had a membership on myspace.com, the last thing in the world I wanted to do was actually LOOK at his damn page. Nooooo, thank-you.

The market spoke, Mosaic listened. If the LP sets had sold back when they were issuing both, Mosaic would have kept it up, for sure. Michael Cuscuna does listen to a lot of vinyl. They way the world of reissues is going, we may see Mosaic doing vinyl again. It's much easier to reissue a record than a new digital version. Warner Brothers just started an LP reissue program that should let everyone know what that market is like. There are some sets where I kind of wished I had bought BOTH. But I never felt rich enough.

The absolute best! Thanks, good to hear that! Wow, I even got a shipping confirmation over night - not something you usually get from marketplace sellers, do you!? I've had excellent service from marketplace sellers in general, but Newbury comics is the best. Sometimes I get things from them seemingly overnight. I must add that their warehouse is a block away from my house, but still, they ship almost immediately, as you have seen. I ordered all the Eno albums (that I didn't already have) on CD from them, and they were fast and reliable. They must be if you'd rather order online from them than walk one block. On the other hand, I don't know if they sell to people who show up at their warehouse. Probably not. Never mind.

Good article; unlovely art. Giddins must not write for the New Yorker very often. I hadn't noticed til now. Just bought and re-watched A Great Day In Harlem. Hank Jones' commentary for that is hilarious! He gives a run-down on who in the picture has gained weight since, and how much.

Yes, you're starting to make me feel really lucky!

Quite true; you're in effect getting two records on one CD, which is nice.

Wow. My local Amoeba had all of them on day of release. I guess there's a reason to live in this town after all...

...And don't forget that Army of Shadows Criterion!

That was profoundly disturbing. I think I need to take a shower. Why are they all grinning like that? (Shitfaced?) And why does the big sign suspended above the orchestra say "Dodge"? And how in God's name do you make a majestic instrument like the Hammond sound so bad? (Maybe trying ever-so-hard not to upstage the accordions?) They make it sound like a novelty instrument. Time for a shower.

Hell, Elvis commissioned at least one black songwriter.

The Fleischer Popeye's are considered classics, and yes, TV is where I first saw them, too. The cartoons are one thing -- well-animated and amusingly voiced, if repetitive -- but the original newspaper comic strip by E.C. Segar is one of the all-time greats. Jazz and culture critic Martin Williams once wrote a nice tribute to the strip. It's currently being re-issued in nice-looking volumes by Fantagraphics Books (the same folks doing the complete Peanuts -- and, by the way, Charles Schulz was a fan of Segar's Popeye, too). All part of Fantagraphics' "For everything good in comics, you'll have to come to us!" series.

Have a happy Birthday.

You might like to try some Karl Kraus. Actually, I read a book of his ages ago, on the recommendation of an erstwhile roomate.

Happy Birthday Kev---ah, Kalo!! Of all the guys born in June 1961, whose mother was born in 1939, and who lived for a time in Allston, MA...you are one of the best!

Right. Always look before you post.

No. Guy There was the Byrd/Watkins Transition sessions, the Don Wilkerson, the Kenny Burrell, the Sonny Criss Imperial sessions, as well as others I'm forgetting I'm sure. The 2-disc Mulligan/Baker Quartet, I think that might have been a Conn. ...Or it might have been a double West Coast Jazz, now that I think of it.

I found this used at a fairly reasonable price. As such, I'm happy with it, but I wouldn't want to pay more than, oh, $15 or $20 for it. Also, up til recently, I would have said that eventually EVERYTHING on Blue Note will be reissued as an RVG, but now with the sale of EMI, who knows.