BruceH

I like Schifrin.

Cloudy and foggy.

That sounds right, from what I've heard.

What is the new release you are working on? Some people on the board might be interested.

"Sonny Rollins---The Freelance Years: The Complete Riverside and Contemporary Recordings" Came in yesterday.

I believe it was. Some "real jazz fans" were outraged that Ellington's likeness could be used for such blatantly commercial purposes. They must have been really pissed in the 80's when the post office put him on a stamp.

That really looks good!

Blue is my favorite Joni Mitchell album.

I don't know...the closest thing to a main character, "Don Draper," has his moments.

"Republicans"?

I quite like that Chicago Sound album---some good stuff on there.

I think DVD sales are declining parallel to CD's.

I've always liked the Yahoo news page.

"Fireball" (thanks to Craig Ferguson)

Now those of us who grew up buying LPs and CDs (even 78s) will just seek that music via other means. But what about those who never went through the CD buying stage? One big thing that has changed is that when I first started buying records if you heard a track you liked you had to buy the whole album...and often bumped into something quite unfamiliar as a result. Even 'Best of' discs were not that common. Today you can download the single track you want. That kind of serendipity has been steamrollered by technology it seems. Just walking ever further into the digital fog.

I guess the assumption is that he still might be lurking. But I wish he would come back too.

Hope you have a happy one, Chris!

Rockford is the best. For my money, anyway. (I also did love all of those shows, though.)

Imagine that you buy a book (the old-fashioned type made of paper) at a brick and mortar bookstore. Some time later, the store gets to know that the book was not duely licenced and is therefore considered counterfeit. A store clerk breaks into your appartment, gets the book from your bookshelf, puts the price you paid in cash onto your table and leaves with the book. That's what happened on the Kindle. In the non-virtual world, a store that sold counterfeit goods has to pay damages to the rightholder, but cannot claim the goods back from his customers. It's the customers who have the right to get their money back from the store, but it's their decision. Oh, for the days of physicallity...

He got around, that Perkinson.

How Orwellian...

In the same way that I am Spartacus. Art Farmer AND Benny Golson were not present on a Jazztet album? Could be the start of a conspiracy rumor...

Doesn't this all come under the Freedom of Jazz Information Act?

Jazz Impression of the USA just came in. Very nice. I'm a little surprised that this is such a relatively obscure, hard-to-get Brubeck title. I had to buy an import CD. It certainly sounds like it's in the "big middle" of his output, quality-wise.

The study that showed cell-phone use affected your driving focus as acutely as alcohol abuse applied equally to "hands-off" and "hands-on" use. It's the concentrating on your conversation, not your hands.