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I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen. A good and well written biography but may be more than you want to know about Leonard Cohen. Gets most of the details right but not very good on Canadian geography. (Where have all the editors gone.)

Alice Munro's "Dear Life". Probably the last book by the best writer in the English language, and one of her best. (How's that for hyperbole?)

http://franklivewire.wordpress.com/2013/01/14/please-help-legendary-musician-julian-priester-his-family/

You're right. I was confused. The book I have is My Life in E-Flat. There is also a long interview by Will Thornbury that was published in book form. It appears to be the first of a series entitled Conversations in Jazz but I'm not sure any others were published.

Sounds like the two are the same book with different titles.

http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/clifford-brown-and-max-roach-quintet/concerts/newport-jazz-festival-july-16-1955.html

Wolfgang's Vault just released it. Has it been available before?

The Freewheeling outtakes are pretty interesting. I think they're planning to release some of them on a new "bootleg" release.

I've liked some of Balliet's writings but I'm always leery of reviewers who praise someone by putting down someone else who's not even the subject of the review. I imagine the artists being put down as seeing themselves as the victims of a random drive-by shooting.

I wonder if they'll do this with Miles? They've already emulated Dylan with the "bootleg series".

HAPPY B'DAY!! and many more.

Bon voyage! I recommend the Acme Oyster bar in the quarter.

Has the music from Shadows ever been released before? Are these actually the ones used in the film?

Me too--I'm really looking forward to this set! gregmo Ditto!

Maybe it's my mood, but I agree with your son.

I dunno. A friend of mine opened for him at The Hollywood Bowl a year or so ago so I went to see her and the place was pretty full.

http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/neh-preservation-project/2012/oct/03/benny-goodman/#.UNY0_1DH1KQ.facebook According to the excellent "Solo Flight" web site some of the numbers here with Christian solos have never been released.

Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker, Gene Krupa?

If'd known aobut it I would have. Sound is very good. And why am I writing in italics?

I heard about this cd on the Duke-Lym list serve and got it (at great expense) because it has a bonus track of the Ellington band doing The Clown with narration by Ellington and I've always wanted to hear that. That track is good but the bonus for me is the Mingus concert. There are very few recordings of Mingus between '65 and '70 and this concert is a great addendum to the Mosaic box set. For me it's even more exciting than any of the concerts on the box set. The "great expense" is because it cost 9 Euros to get it from Europe via snail mail. One hopes that it will be available in North America soon. But for those of you in Europe......

Most people don't like it. I sort of enjoyed it because of the music and because I saw it as a commentary on the book. Somehow in the movie Dean Morriarity comes off as even more of a prick than he does in the book. (Though I liked the actor.)

Amen!

I was checkin out the music credits at the end of On the Road and noticed that Charlie Haden and Brian Blades got a special credit (as did one other musician whose name I forget). Then when I left the theater and looked at the poster I saw that they were even listed there. Getting your name on the poster is a big deal in the film business. Can't remember when I last saw a poster credit for a musician who wasn't the composer of the score.

Happy Birthday 6 years later! Hope you have a good one. (I'm taking advantage of being on the West Coast to be the first this year-- it's still Saturday Night here. )

For Bird I presume you mean his studio sessions. Or do you have most of the live bootlegs too?