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Uhhh...where do I find "New Posts"?

I paid for mine (25 cents?) at a brick and mortar Towers.

RE: Fargo. agree, though I'd say more anti-climatic than cool.

Happy B'day!

I loved this book despite the silly subtitle and that it's more than I really wanted to know about Sam Phillips. Amongst other things I learned: Sam used Phineas Newborn on at least one of his early recordings.

PM re: Pops and Blues Singers.

I downloaded "Sue" from ITunes a couple of days ago. I'm a big fan of Schneider, but though this is recognizably her, it's far from her best work.

I still haven't listened to this, but a friend on Facebook who I don't think is a a big jazz fan wrote the following: "I almost never discover music on airplanes. And lately, frankly, I've been finding it difficult to discover exciting new music anywhere. But yesterday, on my way back from Warsaw, Poland to Pittsburgh, PA I did. These days, it seems to me, record labels are using airplane "stations" to promote whatever they want to promote. (They've probably always been doing that.) So most of what you get to hear on planes is just that -- the tracks the labels want you to hear, which is of course whatever they think will find the largest market, which isn't necessarily what's most interesting. (Duh.) But can be. The classical channel tends to be filled with "greatest hits" that I know backwards and forwards. The classic rock channel -- same thing, and most of it, I don't like. The hip-hop, pop, etc. channels -- well, you get the idea. So, as often happens on these flights, I ended up on the jazz channel. And there I discovered this new record by a guy named Kamasi Washington. The record is called "The Epic." I listened to it twice all the way through, a third time, partially. It blew my mind. Sometimes I like to share my enthusiasms." What I think is interesting is that my friend wasn't influenced by any "hype", he just heard the record and liked it.

Happy B'day!

Long Short story with references to Sonny Rollins practicing on the Williamsburg Bridge. http://harpers.org/archive/2015/11/williamsburg-bridge/

I saw him at Massey Hall in Toronto in the '70s. He was great but his accompanist wasn't too good. I told my friend Josef Skvorecky who was a Czech dissident in exile in Canada that I thought it was nice he obviously used a friend even though the guy wasn't too good. Josef scoffed and said "That was the KGB agent whose job was to make sure Rostropovich didn't defect. "

Important book. (Even Miles cribbed from it.) I wish someone would publish an update. Scarecrow only let him add a chapter at the beginning.

Happy B'day!

Can you still get some money for the forum when you buy at Amazon and if so how?

I am. I don't think it's better than last year's just different. The last episode had the best mis-direction I think I've ever seen on tv. Set's you up for something and then completely turns it around.

Edmonton 30.

I remember Dobell's from the summer of 1964. IIRC I went upstairs there and found piles of Dial 78s on the floor. I don't think they were vintage.

I always thought it was Dorothy Parker but according to Google you're right.

I was thinking (hoping)that too.

I just got an e-mail announcing that Mosaic was offering a 5 Lp package of the Mulligan sextet on Mercury. I guess since they aren't doing the Selects anymore this may never appear on cd. Too bad.

That's what interests me the most.

Am I just reading the papers wrongly? The accounts say there were 7 or eight terrorists, and that 7 were killed. But none of them seem to be the killers at the restaurants. Are they still on the loose? Please tell me I'm wrong.

Guitar Slim, Guitar Shorty, Trombone Shorty Or Guitar Shorty, Trombone Shorty, Shorty Rogers

Oscar Hammerstein wrote the lyrics after the Nazis took Paris.