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Hey, welcome back, keep on typin' and Merry Xmas!

Do you mean "District 9"? If so I agree. I liked Avatar and had a good time but in some ways (even technically) was more impressed with District 9.

Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year!.

Only had a chance to play it once so far. Even my too hip for the room (but hopes to be music producer) son liked it. Merry Xmas and all the best for the new year!

Finally finished Roberto Bolano's "2666". Liked the last book the best, but can't really recommend the investment of time it takes to get through all 900 pages of the entire book-- though some friends think he's the great writer of our time. Then blew through Alice Munro's new book of short stories "Too Much Happiness". I think she's the great writer of our time. Then because I was in an airport with nothing to read bought and re-read "Up in the Air" which I first read several years ago when we began work on the film version. Sort of surprised to realize just how much the film differed from the book in tone as well as plot.

Is there still a box that links to Amazon or CD Universe so that the board gets a royalty?

It's on the Ember "Complete Bird at Birdland Vol 1" 4 disc set but it's edited to feature only the heads and Bird's solos.

Birdland with Fats Navarro and Bud Powell. (There's controversy about the date-- probably May 1950.) I like Rockland Palace at lot also.

True. My only complaint re-iPhone is I can't fine the "view new Content" on it. Maybe one of the computer guys on the Forum can make an Organissimo app. (I can't even set the alarm clock in hotels.)

Happy B'day and many more.

I love it!

Just came from visiting my mom who's almost 102-- but she hasn't composed anything that I know of.

IIRC Lieber and Stoller say they produced it so that Johnny could play drums.

I agree, but it is complicated. I think there was an accepted attitude about blacks that even the most sympathetic whites let creep into their way of thinking. And we shouldn't think we're so sophisticated that we would have been wiser. Some of this was discussed in the thread about Johnny Mercer and racism. A few "probes" as Marshall McLuhan used to call them: Isn't Hoagy Carmichael sort of doing a black dialect when he writes and sings "Lazy Bones"? Apparently most black listeners didn't know Amos & Andy were played by white men until the film Check & Double Check was released. (And that movie is really weird-- white men in blackface intercut with documentary footage of Harlem and certainly worth seeing because of Duke Ellington's performance-- during which Barney Bigard and Juan Tizol wore dark make-up and when the band does 3 Little Words some of them step forward to sing but the soundtrack is Bing Crosby and the Rhythm Boys!) Did emcees on radio shows refer to white musicians as "boys" as often as they do to black musicians? I find Freddy Slack's version of "Further on Up the Road" (Is that the correct title?) disconcerting because it seems to be in black dialect but Amos Wilburn had no problem covering it and even including the reference to Freddy Slack that's in the lyrics. I bet I'm the only person on this forum who ever actually performed in a minstrel show. (I wasn't in blackface-- I was Mr. Interlocutor.) And perhaps more shocking, despite what Lieber and Stoller think I prefer Elvis Presley's version of Hound Dog to Big Momma Thorton's.

Happy B'day and many more!! (How's the Jazz Loft book?)

Maybe I missed it but has no-one mentioned Fred Katz with Chico Hamilton?

"the most influential jazz musician of our time" yet "essentially a minor artist". I've read this carefully and I don't think that you've explained away the obvious contradiction. The attempt to differentiate between "the pretty" and "the beautiful" seems a little condescending. Having said that (anyone else see the last episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm?) Pettinger makes a good point when he suggests that Evans coasted for a long time on the goodwill generated by the Village Vanguard trio. (Though I thought he retained his chops with Chuck Isreals (sp?) and regained them with Eddie Gomez. ("Chops" is probably the wrong word to use. "Inspiration" might be better.)

I remember when the bargain bins were full of copies of the EKE "All American". I think I never got it because I'd read a bunch of dismissive reviews. (Or maybe I was just being snobbish.) Maybe Mosaic can do a single (or have they stopped doing those?).

I bought the Art Farmer and Blakey ones--The Farmer is fantastic with Jim Hall, Steve Swallow and Pete LaRoca! Really great set full of variety--and LaRoca/ Swallow are tippin! The Blakey is cool, but did not blow me away like I'd expect from 65' Freddie...but still very cool to see/hear Jaki Byard with these guys! I agree about the Farmer-- it's great. Always liked that group. Sound and image are both terrific.

I can't imagine restricting myself to 3. I was just re-listening to a cd of '38 Cotton Club broadcasts and loving it more than I remembered from earlier plays so it seems to depend on my mood. I would list "Ellington Indigoes" though I know not every-one here likes it. (I love it but I may be influenced by the fact that more than 40 years ago it was the first of the 300 EKE records I've gotten .

I got them. So far watched Hawkins, Smith, the bonus DVD and Herman. All very good (I admit I'm not a big Jimmy Smith fan and this didn't turn me into one). The biggest surprise to me was the Woody Herman. I saw this band around the time the DVD was made and I liked it but it didn't impress me as much 4o years ago as it does now. (It's also a bit weird to see a big band from 1965 with no black faces.) The Hawkins has a good concert that I think has never been seen on tv. It's not well photographed but the 2nd concert which has some great Sweets Edison is very well shot.

Or maybe they'll release "1969 Miles Festiva De Juan Pins" which Sony originally released in 1993 but only in Japan.

Didn't a 3rd member of the Charles band die around that time?

This is obviously not the order of the songs. Each set is quite well balanced.

In SF: Swan's Oyster Bar for lunch. If you get as far as the Hearst castle keep coming to Santa Barbara. It's worth taking highway 1 south from Monterey. You can get from the Bay area to Santa Barbara in a half day if you take the boring 101 but the 1 is spectacular. If you do go the the Hearst CAstle make a reservation and plan to spend more than a couple of hours.