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I had a couple of picture records like that when I was a kid they may even have been Vogues. Did anyone else do similar discs?

I think they gave credit to Boridin.

It's not Dexter? Who's LTD or what does it stand for?

I saw Barron in 1964 in Copenhagen, IIRC with Kenny on piano. Made an impression on me then though I can't really claim to remember it well. Didn't he play with Ted Curson a lot in the mid-sixties?

I once went to a wrap party where Etta and her band played for dancing. It was a thrill.

http://books.google.com/books?id=g7MDAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=En&rview=1#v=onepage&q&f=false I didn't know Google books had periodicals.

What's the follow up?

Night Train and Happy Go Lucky Local. And aren't Sonnymoon for Two and Bag's Groove at least similar.

Anybody here hear her Lady Day tribute album? I don't usually go for tribute albums but I heard a cut on the radio and it sounded pretty good. Should I get it?

Very nice! Thanks for this.

I read it quite a while ago and quite enjoyed it. He used to have a radio show in LA that I loved. He'd ask listeners to call in so I called and told him I'd just been listening to his band backing Ben Webster on Mercury.

Actually the Eames House was made of off the shelf materials and could be reproduced pretty cheaply. The Eames easy chair (or whatever it's called) is expensive and a lovely luxury if you can afford it, but most of their molded plywood chairs are so cheap they're in every high school. (I always hated them.) Judy Chicago has been mentioned a lot. (I always presumed she did most of her work in Chicago. Didn't know she's ever been in LA.)

IIRC it was a documentary with Brock Peters as narrator or maybe the voice of Johnson. But I'm far from sure

My guess (and it is just a guess) is that the film has never been available on home video because the filmmakers never cleared home video rights for the music. That's often the case for films made before 1980 and those rights are often very expensive.

I didn't really know anything about Cooper when I moved to LA 31 years ago, but went to see Harry Edison at a club in the valley and he had Cooper on tenor in his quintet. They both knocked me out.

I;m so old that I only saw him once and it was when he was doing Ziggy Stardust at the Rainbow in London. The opening act was Roxy Music and IIRC Eno was still part of the group. I liked it but I was more impressed by a one man version of Salome done Bowie's mentor Lindsey Kemp that I saw in Toronto a couple of years later.

Sackville Records used to do that. I paid to be present for the Don Pullen solo record.

This is an exchange I had with an old friend on FAcebook: Kay: Last night I saw Sheila Jordan sing about her life & all the jazz greats she knew and loved. 82 years old & looking great.Ultra fashionable black/red nailpolish. She had total control of the band (local piano & base), got Jane Bunnett to come in for one song for a killer unscripted sax/vocal duet, and sang full tilt for over an hour. Joe Medjuck Wow! Lucky you. Where'd you see her? April 3, 2011 at 12:09pm · Like Kay Armatage It was a little gallery in the Sorauren warehouse district called Gallery 345 Sorauren - they probably have a website. They have a jazz series. She was here for the weekend & gave a singing workshop all day today (I didn't go as I don't sing). But she was fantastic. I found myself crying a couple of times, not because she was singing a sad song or anything, but because of the complexity & beauty of the aesthetic experience - jazz history, her own autobiography, infinitely generous anecdotes (imitiating Billie Holiday calling out to Miles at the Village Vanguard - she sang it: "Miles, Miles" - in Holiday's voice), all sung - 'making it up as she went along,' as she said, & then the incredible performances of the songs she introduced with each story. Funny, smart, voice bending all over the place, & this wonderful 'sung' autobiography. Apparently she comes to Toronto fairly often to give singing workshops, & the person who organized this has studied with her. It was just superb. DVD's 2 for $30 - all $$ to her, so are they discontinued? I don't know. Great event.

Cannonball's African Waltz and the Gil Evan's record on which he's featured ("New Bottle's, Old Wine"?).

Happy B'day and many more!!

I guess that makes her one of those job-creators whose taxes we shouldn't raise.

One of the things I'm most proud of is that The Bass Saxophone is dedicated to me. (At least in English.)

Josef ended an essay about playing jazz under both Fascist and Communist regimes with the following: "The old music is dying, although it has so many offspring, vigorous and vital, that will naturally, be hated. Still, for me, Duke is gone, Satchmo is gone, Count Basie has just barely survived a heart attack, Little Jimmy Rushing has gone the way of all flesh... ...any body asks you who it was sang this song tell them it was... he's been here and he's gone. Such is the epitaph of the little Five-by-Five. Such is the epitaph I would wish for my books."

I just got word today that Josef Skvorecky the author of "The Bass Saxophone" has died. http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2012/01/03/josef-skvorecky-obit.html