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I sent them a minor correction once. Never heard back and the correction wasn't made.

And now when I tracked it they say it will arrive by this Friday!

Just got an e-mail from Amazon saying it would be arriving on Monday the 12th!!! (But they've teased me before.)

Review of a new documentary about Lee Morgan: http://variety.com/2016/film/reviews/i-called-him-morgan-review-1201851587/

I don't quite get the Lee Wiley comparison but because you wrote that I bought "Livin' the Blues" and I'm glad I did because of Benny Carter's trumpet playing. I don't know of another record (though I'm sure there are some) where he plays so much trumpet and I really like it.

Well they announced it as shipping last Friday, then they said it was out of stock. I just got an e-mail saying it would ship Tuesday, September 13, 2016 - Wednesday, September 28, 2016 Huh? I guess it's not coming from them.

I saw him when he toured with Paul Simon. Simon gave him a featured spot to play Bluesette.

Weren't top 40 stations everywhere? But I remember driving to Florida with my parents in 1958 and coming across a station that kept playing the top 10 over and over. Fortunately one if the hits was Chuck Berry's School Days.

And I suspect in the case of "Sometime's I'm Happy" an alternate take when Lps were issued.

I notice that the alternate take of the Keystone "Sometimes I'm Happy" on the new Mosaic Prez box set is 3:44 long. They did do a 2nd take that is faster and hence shorter but is this possible because the recordings were cut on a larger disc and then transferred? And why does the alternate take have "(BD)" after it's listing?

On election night 1992 I was in Washington working on "Dave". Some of the cast and crew ended up traveling from gathering to gathering as the results came in: The Democratic National headquarters, some group with Gloria Steinhem and finally at McLaughlin's apartment where we were when the first announcement was made that Bill Clinton had won. McLaughlin, who was a staunch conservative Republican, immediately got to his feet and proposed a toast to the new President of the United States. I didn't agree with most of his views but remember thinking that showed a lot of class.

Agreed on all these plus the music on the three French CBS Lps "56/62" .

How about the complete output of Mercer Records? (Though I'm not sure that would be enough to do a box.)

Happy Birthday young man!

All the singles Ellington did for Columbia that are not on cd. (Did I write this once before?)

The question: Is this a new Miles Davis composition we've never heard before?

What's "Blues in F"?

Amazon seems to have lowered the price and moved up the release date.

Well I guess Loren would have access to that.

Couple of questions: 1) Schoenberg mentions a live Famous Door recording of Blue and Sentimental with a vocal by Helen Humes. Anyone know if this is available anywhere? 2) On "I'm Fer It Too" from the Dicky Wells December '43 session Freddie Green takes an introductory solo. Does he solo on any other recordings? (I know he does at the Goodman Carnegie Hall concert-- supposedly unwillingly. )

It's directed by Jerry Lewis! The Jerry Lewis!!???

Happy B'day!

I just remembered that when I moved to LA I lived in The Valley and Johnny Guarnieri played nightly for a couple of years at a bar/restaurant just down the street from me and I never got around to going! Victor Feldman performed several times at a small jazz club near me and I never saw him either. Fortunately shortly after I moved there I did see Art Pepper, Harry Edison (with Bob Cooper) and Teddy Edwards. They were either at Donte's or another Valley club the name of which I've forgotten.

Have fun today!

There's a lot about him in Tommy James' autobiography "Me and the Music and the Mob". Actually it's called "Me, the Mob and the Music."