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Mary-Lou Williams and much more. I hope this will become a weekly event-- though I wish they had more from the '50s.

FWIW I've digitized Carnival Sketches.

What re-union? '58, or the tour of Europe in '60 (or was it '61)?

Am I correct that only one of his records as leader is available on cd?

IIIRC we had a set called The Book of Knowledge" which sent out yearbooks every year too.

Thirty years ago a friend of mine tried to get Britannica to start producing things for computers. He says he gave up when he realized they thought they were in the furniture business.

Sorry to ask again but where do you see the results? (It's probably right in front of me on the FB page but I'm not seeing it>)

Where are you guys seeing the results of the poll?

Hey I live in Santa Barbara! If I can be of any help let me know.

I really liked this book, maybe because I arrived in Toronto the same year as Lonnie Johnson, lived on Yorkville in the late '60s and have many memories of the era the book invokes. o And the academic that's still in me appreciates the full documentation of sources that Miller gives. A brief but very enjoyable read.

Same here. ditto

Wow! What's that from? ( The "Sunday Night"tv show Hal Willner did with David Sanburn?) I think Sonny's solos were completely appropriate.

Maybe these will show up on Wolfgang's Vault, but if the tapes that were lost were the official tapes, probably not.

Happy B'day and many more!!

Will The Sun's Page 3 Girl be next?

Different label. Listening to the Wes right now. And? And it's good though the sound leaves something to be desired. I was just about to name "After Hours Blues" as "The Best Track I Heard This Week". The notes say "This may be the funkiest Wes Montgomery on record." Fron what I've heard there's no "may" about it.

I remember when this concert was my holy grail. As a result it sort of underwhelmed me when I finally found it on cd. (I wanted to post this in the "mp3 bargains" thread but I couldn't find it. What category is it under?) (

Different label. Listening to the Wes right now.

The Museum of Broadcasting in New York has a Kinescope. And last year a copy was sold at Skinner auction for $652. Who knows if it ever shows up. I'm pretty sure that there's no extant colour print.

Yes, he would. Much BN work is registered to one or other of BN's own publishing companies. The percentage split of the publishing royalty (between BN and the composer) was negotiated on a case by case basis, as I understand it. Musicians with enough clout to insist that their work was published by their own publishing companies were not under the obligation to negotiate, of course. But that obviously disadvantaged the labels, which is why composers were compelled to pool their work with the label's company if they wanted to record a tune. Variations of this are still standard practice. There are complexities that others will be better placed to explain. On top of publishing royalty the musicians would receive a royalty for copies sold. But thereby hangs another tale. There are some books about this Chewy, including on various Blue Note artists ... I believe that the publisher gets half the income from broadcast rights but the composer always gets half and can't negotiate that away. (I may be wrong about this but I think it's what I've been told.)

Don't feel guilty. This is something most of us will have to face and our kids will have to face with us. You did the right thing.

Thanks for reminding me. Just did it.

So if we hear someone say "let's lynch the nigger" we should meditate? Personally I'd rather say "fuck you" to the speaker and to anyone who defends his rights to say it--even if it leads to charges that I'm a silencer. I've been in that situation, actually, and more than once (the oil fields of East Texas in the 1970s, where I had a summer job for three years) were full of..."talkative" people). You respond according to the level of real danger. If it's some old fat drunk cracker who's blowing off impotent steam, you just roll your eyes and figure he'll be dead soon enough. If it's a younger guy who's just gotten riled up, you talk sense to him, at least as much as you can.. If you think it's real danger, you proceed accordingly, up to and including calling the police (and where I lived then, that was by no means a guarantee of anything good happening, but...you took your chances). And if you're lucky, you can get into a conversation where the real cause of the anger is coming from. Swear to god, I was working with a lady one time who told me point blank, "I don't like black people." "Oh really, why is that?" "they're so loud all the time. "Do you like loud white people?" "No, I don't". "Do you know any quiet black people?" "Yeah, a few." "Do you like them?" "Yeah, they're fine". "So it sounds like what you really don't like is loud people." looooonnnngggg pause "Yeah, I suppose you're right. I never thought of it that way before." I swear to god, it was that easy. I have no illusions about how long or how deep it went, but if you can leave a situation better than you found it, if you can plant even a seed of discombobulation into those ignunt racist heads, you've done about all you can do at any given moment, short of slitting their throats and killing their babies, which, I think we'll all agree, is not a particularly good idea. And I don't think that saying "fuck you" plants seeds of anything too much more than determination to keep on keepin' on, which in the case of gut-level (or otherwise) racists is also not a particularly good idea. Now, if you need to feel better, go buy some new shoes. I'm loving my new Vans. Better support and more comfort than shoes costing many times more. Or you could make the speaker of such shit the poet laureate and put him in Warren Beatty movies. But your attitude is probably smarter than mine in that over the last 70 years I've probably been in more fist fights than you have, some of them because someone called someone a "jew boy" or a "nigger". And on a more important note i do indeed have the new "Yo Gabba Gabba" Vans for adults.

So if we hear someone say "let's lynch the nigger" we should meditate? Personally I'd rather say "fuck you" to the speaker and to anyone who defends his rights to say it--even if it leads to charges that I'm a silencer.

I don't claim to speak for all Jews but speaking for myself fuck him and fuck you.