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I think that's where I saw Art Pepper (though it may have been Carmello's-- they were both still around when I moved to LA in 1980.)

of "Red Rubber Ball" fame Also "Turn-Down Day"! You mean they actually recorded more than one song. I have a vague memory that they were managed by Brian Epstein and were one of the acts opening for the Beatles during the '66 tour of America.

I saw Jackie Byard there.

Does anyone know which box set (or single cd) contains ""Flèche d'or", Django Reinhardt, January 30, 1952?

I saw him during that period and thought it was one of the best sets I'd ever heard. Made me realize that a lot of great jazz men were not well known but could still knock you out.

The group in Copenhagen was Ted Curson, Bill Barron, Herb Bushler (bass), Dick Berk (drums), no piano so Kenny Barron was not with group, who was playing a three week gig at Jazzhus Montmartre. Vic I'm sure you're right but I don't remember Curson who I'd seen a lot in Montreal around then. This was the summer of 1964. (I don't remember a lot things from 1964.)

I was hoping to get it for Xmas. Then maybe for my birthday. At this rate it may be a Father's Day present.

This must make me a big thinker.

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.