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This is considered the standard text for jazz musicians in films. I just used it to discover that Bud Shank was the flautist in the jazz club scene in "Night Tide", a lesser known Raksin film score.http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/jots/jazzscreen-home.html Yes, David Meeker is the best source but it was really hard for him to get the line-up for every film score recorded. I once had lunch with him and he began to take notes after I mentioned that Larry Bunker had been the percussionist on virtually every film I'd worked on. But of course I couldn't remember all the jazz musicians I'd met at scoring sessions or which films they'd worked on.

Maybe that's just polite Canadian applause.

Happy B'day and many more!

I couldn't find it. 5 other pieces by Bird but no "Segment".

Belated birthday greetings. I was away from my computer for the entire long weekend, but not wishing you a happy birthday is about all I regret.

I'm all for the Teddy Wilson sides without Billie. IIRC Sony Canada (maybe it was just Columbia then) once released a 2 Lp set of Teddy Wilson that included some of the Billei sides but a lot of other material. I stupidly didn't buy it at the time.

I ran into Pat Martino in an elevator in a NY city hotel a couple of months ago. To be honest I didn't recognize him but since he had a guitar on his back, I asked if he had a gig and where he was playing. When he replied, " Birdland," I was suitably impressed and asked him his name. I should have recognized him since I've seen a film about him and his remarkable recovery.

Happy B'day and many more!!!

Swisher's not a stud, and if you look only at BA, he appears average. Ho does do a good job of getting on base and his OBP is usually very good. I saw an article in a local paper about Kazmir(former Met), and it sounds like his mechanics were a wreck, due to injuries and not knowing much about his own form. He's only 29, so if he gets it together he could turn out to be a good pitcher. I went tio the Cleveland game this afternoon. They looked pretty good.

I think the other Pacifica stations have had similar problems.

Wow! you're even older than me! (By about 6 months.) Happy B'day!!!! and many more!

Any collection by Alice Munro.

Josef lived in Toronto. He passed away last year.

Wow! How great. I Gotta admit i'd never heard of the place but it looks great and sounds like it's doing important work. I'm interested in design too (used to teach in an architecture school) but not as passionately as you. Congratulations!

Is that the one where he plays with the Ellington Band? How is it? I read that the sound is really bad. True?

IIRC I there were piles of Dial 78s on the floor there in 1964. Not original pressings. (To be honest I may be conflating my visits to Dobells's that summer with visits to other record stores in London, but I remember piles of 78s on the floor.)

Hmmm I don't see that offer.

I used to see him around town in Montecito where he and I lived. He once sat down with us at lunch and talked non-stop for 45 minutes. (He did say he was off his meds.)

Nothing like having used the Canadian post office for 37 years to make you appreciate the USPS, but I remember living in the UK when there were 2 deliveries a day!

He was the filmmaking equivalent of Chris Strachawitz (sp) and Arhoolie Records. In fact I think they sometimes worked together. Great fillmmaker.

I love that he manufactured in New Brunswick (my home province). Not much else made there.

Happy Birthday young man.

I saw him at a concert in Santa Barbara as part of an Arts and Lectures series at UCSB. Good stuff but I'd rather see him where you could dance.

Today's LA Times Sunday Crossword has the following clue: "Saxophonist-composer Jimmy, known for his big-band arrangements for Benny Goodman and Count Basie"! The answer maybe obvious to jazz fans but pretty esoteric for most puzzlers I would think.

Finished The Holy and the Broken: Leonard Cohen , Jeff Buckley and the Unlikely Ascent of "Hallelujah" by Alan Light. Really a long magazine article published as a book and probably more than most people want to know about the history of one song, but I liked it. Also The Tin Horse by Janice Steinberg. A novel about a woman who makes a brief appearance in The Big Sleep. Philip Marlowe makes a guest appearance here but it's not a noir mystery- or even a mystery really.