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You guys are a tough crowd! I think he writes pretty well, and he's very good at obits, which, to be fair, are pretty hard to write well. He does review modern and contemporary things, and he occasionally even likes them! gregmo

I spent the better part of a day listening to it a couple of years ago. There's some wonderful stuff there, including a lively little performance from Herschel Evans. I hope lots of it gets issued, including the BG stuff. gregmo

I like the album with Bley. Haven't heard the other one--might have to give it a listen! gregmo

"Dynamite!" was issued on cd as a two-fer with "Chasin' the Bird." The combo cd was called "Supersax Originals," and is now a bit pricey, but available. I like all of the Supersax albums, not least, of course, because of Rosolino, who remains my favorite trombonist. gregmo

Hines did some fine work in the 60s, including a couple of fine albums with Johnny Hodges for Verve. Now, if only Mosaic would get around to those....... gregmo

Thanks Ubu! gregmo

To me--I was never a big boxing fan--Ali was always so much greater than his sport. The moment when he lighted the olympic torch in Atlanta was truly unforgettable. RIP gregmo

Hackett always had particularly lovely tone, whether he was playing on his easy listening strings albums or the jazz stuff like the classic 50s albums with Teagarden. My personal favorite is "Creole Cookin'" on Verve, but there are lots of choices. Of course, unlike you, Larry, I always thought "Emily" was kind of a pretty tune! gregmo

The Basie and the Cole/Jones do look new to me. At least, I can't remember seeing them issued anywhere else. I'll be in Paris next month, so I'm thinking of picking one or both of them up. Has anyone heard them? Ubu? (Were they issued before WW1?! ) gregmo

I have a bunch of 78s too. I know this question must have been answered a couple of zillion times, but what turntable would people (now) suggest to play them? gregmo

Thanks! And Ubu, are you sure it's not new, at least to cd? The last JATP concert I have on disc is the Seattle concert from '56. gregmo

This sounds interesting. Do you have a url or something on it? Where did you see it?! gregmo

Thanks for posting this ghost, and kudos to Storyville for continuing this series! No sign of it yet on Amazon US, but I guess it will show up there eventually. gregmo

Oh we're all VERY good at inventing those particular rationales! I've been doing it for, uh, a LOT of years! Welcome to the Board Tony! gregmo

Sinatra liked Leonard, interestingly enough. gregmo

Thanks for posting this Marcel. So, *none* of these were on the "Complete" Bird Verve box? Looks like a fair number of false starts and breakdowns, but still. Between this one and the Strings reissue, one wonders how the people who put together the "Complete" box defined the word! gregmo

Many happy returns Chuck! gregmo

And still is. Rickles is still with us at 90 and apparently still performing. As for Sinatra, Jim has a good point. He was a man of...contrasts! gregmo

The Sinatra is not new. You can find it on "Sinatra and Sextet: Live in Paris" on Reprise. gregmo

Kaplan tells that story about Shecky and also about the whole business of his falling out with Sinatra. It's interesting to read what jokes about himself Sinatra could take and laugh at and which ones he took offense at. Don Rickles, for example, regularly ripped him a new one, but he liked Rickles and thought his stuff was funny. Go figure! gregmo

The first exchange between her and Bogart is one of my favorite in that great, great film! gregmo

I went by as soon as I read this, and there are a good number of sets there. I picked up two old ones I didn't have (the Ike Quebec/John Hardee set on cd and the Ike Quebec 45 rpm set also on cd). I told them while I was there they'd sell them quickly if they put them on line, but the guys at Music Millennium are, to say the least, laid back! I didn't make a written list, but I saw the Gerry Mulligan/Chet Baker tentette set (which was the second set Mosaic ever did), the Mulligan Concert Jazz Band, the Roy Eldridge, the Sidney Bechet Blue Note (cd), the Baker/Freeman set, the Herbie Nichols, the Getz/Raney, the CBS Woody Shaw, the Serge Chaloff, the Buck Clayton (I think), the Capitol Benny Goodman Small Groups, the Peggy Lee/June Christy, the Piano Moods, the Johnny Hodges '56-'61, the Bunny Berigan, and a couple of older Fantasy/Riverside boxes (Pepper Galaxy box). There may have been a few I'm not remembering. I asked if all of them were out, and they said yes, though they also said they had a few more a couple of weeks before! Arg. Probably missed out on the chance to get the Albert Ammons/Meade Lux Lewis cd set at a good price! But so it goes. gregmo

Well, based on the Kaplan bio, I sure wouldn't put it past him, Larry. If you could say one thing about his personality, it's that he could really hold a grudge. And that was definitely a very critical review! Kaplan mostly agrees with you, though, in that very short last chapter. I think I read somewhere that Kaplan didn't have nearly as much access to Tina and Nancy, Jr. for that final period (Barbara Marx Sinatra, the "last" wife, comes off very badly in the book), so maybe that explains some of it, but I think ghost's argument that he had a deadline makes good sense. Too bad too, because Sinatra did some interesting film work in the last period, and *some* of his concerts, if not that one in Chicago, were pretty good. gregmo

I've seen a mention or two of this monster (nearly 2,000 pages in two volumes) in one or two threads, but no thread devoted to it. I just finished reading through the whole thing, and I'm curious if I'm the only one to make that marathon. It has a breezy "show-biz" style that sometimes put me off, but I do believe that if Sinatra broke wind, Kaplan wrote a paragraph about it. I liked parts (Johnny Mandel's account of Sinatra in the studio), but I thought Kaplan let Sinatra off the hook a bit too much about his cozying up to the mob. That said, Sinatra's warts-and-all personality is completely on display. Oddly, I thought the last chapter seemed rushed and superficial, given the detail in the rest of the book. What did others think?

Finally saw the film last night, and like many here I was surprised that I liked much of it. The whole stolen tape/car chase stuff was nonsense (though I adore Michael Stuhlbarg, who played Junior's scuzzy agent), but I thought Cheadle did a pretty good job (he looks like Miles), and I liked the musical things, especially the scene with Gil Evans. That scene makes a nice contrast to "Born to be Blue" in the sense that it demonstrates why Miles would indeed have contempt for Chet Baker, who couldn't read a note of music. Of course, again like many here, I came to the movie with pretty low expectations, but it is nice when a movie turns out to be better than one thought it would be! gregmo