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a bunch of my friends just recommended Erik Larson's next book-- the one about the US ambassador to Nazi Germany. I haven't read it because though I was fascinated by Devil in the White City I thought the writing was cheezy. MY friends assured me that his next book was great. And he has a new one out about The Lusitania which sounds good.

People in Santa Barbara are complaining that Netflix DVD deliveries are no longer coming the day after being ordered but there seems to be a consensus ghat this is netflix trying to ween us off atoms and on to bytes.

I immediatly thought of this one and i was wrong.

Here's info on Charles MIlls: http://www.discogs.com/artist/1500077-Charles-Mills and http://composers.com/charles-mills and according to IMDB he did the music for the early indie film (documentary?) On the Bowery. However there is no bassist listed on the cd, soo..... BTW The "orchestral direction" is by Seiji Ozawa.

Having lived with the Canadian Post Office for (still, though barely) most of my life I find the USPS terrific. And I love their stamps.

Which version? For some reason I liked the Scandinavian one much better than the Fincher version.

I downloaded it for instant gratification-- which I got. (Gratification that is. A lovely record.)

Laurie's freebie this month is Mr. Dom a cut from 1964. It's one of the few recorded examples of Art's Coltrane influenced period.

Psycho! Of course, how could I have forgotten.

What Canadian league? The CFL?

The 39 Steps LA Confidential. The Godfather

BTW The Mingus Debut box set has one cut (the last one in the box) that they way was done for the film, not used in it, and never before released.

Happy B'day!

Wow! I think I have many of these but no where near all. Thanks for the heads-up.

Wikipedia says this about Shadows: "Cassavetes shot the film twice, once in 1957 and again in 1959. The second version is the one Cassavetes favored. Although he did screen the first version, he lost track of the print, and for decades it was believed to have been lost or destroyed. The 1957 version was intended to have the jazz music of Charles Mingus on the soundtrack, but Mingus failed to meet various deadlines set by Cassavetes. The contributions of saxophonist Shafi Hadi, the saxophonist for Mingus's group, proved to ultimately be the soundtrack for the film." I don't think this is true. I think the music was for the 2nd version. Gary Giddens wrote this about it for the Criterion release (as part of a long essay on the film). "Cassavetes signed the incomparable Charles Mingus, who insisted on written arrangements. The irony of a world-class improviser notating the score for a film otherwise afloat in improvisation may have been lost on Cassavetes, who tired of Mingus’s delays. In the end, the director settled for a few minutes of Mingus’s solo bass and several more minutes of Mingus’s alto saxophonist, Shafi Hadi. Mingus never completed a single arrangement for the film, but his sketches were later extended into such jazz classics as “Nostalgia in Times Square,” “Diane” (or “Alice’s Wonderland”), and “Strollin’.”"

http://www.jazz.fm/index.php/component/content/article/11648 I've heard his sow late nights in Toronto and on some Southern California stations. Always liked them.

Has this one ever been reissued on cd? I have it on an ancient Alamac LP. gregmo Yes. It was available briefly.

Pops Staples https://youtu.be/G87AbQZqYPI

Saw him with Vusi Mahlasela a couple of nights ago at UCSB. He talked, sang, and danced as much as he played but it was a great show that had everyone up dancing. Mahlasela explained that the ANC national anthem had been banned under Apartheid but that Johnny Clegg had written a song that had the anthem hidden in it.They introed the song with a brief, quiet version of the anthem and a group of white South Africans in the audience all stood up. I found it very moving.

And the Birdland sets with Fats.

Saw him in Long Beach in the '80s. He was still pretty great.

Amen!

It's possible that the Jimmy Smith in the tv shows in the early '50s was a different actor.

Yes it's called A Day with Satchmo and contains the masters as well as the alternates. You mean this one I assume: https://thejazzword.wordpress.com/2014/08/01/one-day-in-the-studio-with-satchmo/ Yes.