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Ok, now there[s this...the Le Jazz Cool records ended up in the Complete Charlie Parker Records box that Membran put out, and I'm reading in that book about the history of ESP records that Bernard Stollman once represented Doris Parker. So since some of this stuff also came out on ESP, maybe that's a lead on (or towards) who got paid by Macy's.

These came up here: as being first released on Le Jazz Cool

The Incredible Mister Limpet The Fabulous Baker Boys The Fantastic Johnny C

I think a reasonable parallel would be Warhol & soup cans, another iconic image appropriated for "artistic commentary". No laws were violated, and Campbell's was appropriately grateful for the publicity. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091102213654AAn4dOL http://clancco.com/wp/2010/08/warhol_copyright_campbells-soup/ I get that the soup can involved trademarks and the Bloop thing an image, but still, I find this photographer's actions almost thuggish, and definitely reeking of a shakedown. The Bloop guy didn't use the image, he referenced it. Big difference.

Hamilton Burger Hamburglar Beef Thief

I think a rift in the BBWA is not dissimilar in its amusement than is any other rift in any other "critical fraternity"...and the notion of sports writers being essentially music critics for sports is one that just dawned on me after reading this. A few days later, though... DAMMIT DEREK!!! http://www.lonestarball.com/2014/1/10/5296940/derek-holland-surgery-holland-has-knee-surgery-out-for-start-of-season If ever there was a perfect, possibly even preordained, match between goofy player and goofy off-season injury...here it is. Dammit.

The Dutch Masters The Little Dutch Boy Dyke & The Blazers

I think Sonny, even before Coltrane's death, realized that he had his own problems/barriers/what have you, that they were not nor would be Coltrane's problems/barriers/what have you, and that the best way for him to deal with his problems/barriers/what have you were to just keep playing and to keep living long enough to do so. I'm sure it seemed simple at the time, and it still does in theory, but I think we all know that that is in no way a simple proposition. Apart from that, the music found a way to move on past its own problems/barriers/what have you, at first by actually doing so, and then by carpet-bombing the world with do-overs, so we'd never have to be bothered by all that again. And yet, still (nothing lasts forever), Sonny Rollins. When he is dead...there will be no do-over for any of that. I'll shed some whole lots of tears, but not because Sonny Rollins ever stopped being Sonny Rollins. He might have stopped making earth-shattering records, but that's just a marketing concern. All (or most of) what I was saying/trying to explain is that you might have felt somewhat differently (as some of us did) if you had been there at the time. Not that we were necessarily right in feeling that way back then but that our puzzlement/disappointment -- again, at the time -- was not I think a matter of mere arrogance or ignorance or lack of human feeling on our part. We'd been stunned and enlightened by Sonny and wanted and needed more, especially given a musical landscape that clearly was in the midst of considerable upheaval. BTW, "just a marketing concern"? Whew. P.S. A possible oblique link to the emotional stance outlined above was the impact in 1956 of the death of Clifford Brown, a break in would-be continuity that seemed near unimaginable at the time. And then the death of Booker Little in 1961 at age 23. I understand that it was different if you were there at the time, I really do. But I wasn't...and the best I can do is imagine what it was like. But I can, and do, know what it was like for me where I was, and when when I was. And I do understand that it's also different. No real "right" or wrong" necessarily, because it's still Sonny Rollins, and no matter where we were/are, he's done what he's done, all of it, and somebody who is born after he's died (and god, I hope that's a way off still) will hear/deal with it even differently than us. At least I sure hope so. (btw - the "marketing concern" thing...that just was an "inside joke" relating to a mini-ongoing back and forth between Chuck & me in a few other threads over the last few other days...I'm not above trying to be in more than one place at the same time, and that I can credit very specifically to Sonny Rollins, because I've seen him actually do it, for that, I was there...and there...and when we came back together, there too!).

Cousins, at least...

Gabby Hartnett Gabby Douglas Gabby Giffords

Ann Romano Cristy Lane Lois Wilson

The Critical Establishment flexes its muscle! Dan Le Batard has HOF voting privileges stripped by BBWAA: http://www.lonestarball.com/2014/1/9/5292630/dan-le-batard-has-hof-voting-privileges-stripped-by-bbwaa

Osie Johnson Ray Conniff Julio Iglesias

I'm not one to say "died too young" or "died too soon", because,you know, there are no guarantees, no pre-configured maturation dates, but this is one guy I just expected to have around for a while longer to keep things going, and...guess not, which is something that sure seems to me to be too soon. Cosmos, explain yourself on this one. That's the least you can do. We give you most of the rest of them, not much else we can do, so the least you can do is explain yourself on this one, dammit - explain yourself.

I think he's been somewhat "irrelevant" for a little bit now, but it was a gradual fade, and when he was relevant, he was wholly relevant.

Well, this sucks, in so may ways.

Looks like it might be... http://www.systemrecords.co.uk/advanced_search_result.php?manufacturers_id=23606

I missed this the first time around. For real? Osie Johnson? I've long wondered who that was playing on those records, the drumming always had a little "personality".

How did this Barcelona Bootleg go out of print like this one did? Son of a B****!

Face Roy Head Torseau

It didn't make the dude who made it laugh...he licensed the music but didn't secure rights for the photo (which technically, I don't think he really had to)) and got sued out the ass: http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2013/06/fair-use-fearmongering-coming-from-friends/ and/or http://vimeo.com/62839607

whoa,,,,where were these guys for Vegas Stakes?