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The disease is dementia. I keep hoping that one day the "legal limbo" will be solved and Mosaic will after all be able to release a Garner set. Thanks for pointing out the typo. This so-called "legal limbo" will not be sorted out in Ms.Glaser's lifetime. M. C. has worked long and hard for this one for a long time.If it does come out I may not be the first to purchase,but I won't be far behind . If he has no heirs what happens when she dies?

Will Thornbury, who taped the concert, was a great DJ-- very knowledgeable. He was still on KJAZZ (or whatever it was called then) when I moved to LA in 1980.

I saw him at Snug's Harbor in NO during the Jazzfest 2 years ago. He didn't look like he'd been hurt by Katrina. He played a straight ahead jazz set with only a bit of NO R&B flavour in one number. I think he used to lean more towards the R&B. I hired him for a wrap party years ago to play for dancing.

Visiting my Mom in Fredericton New Brunswick and discovered a Jazz & Blues festival in progress. Los Lobos (whom I love) are already sold out but last night I attended an intimate concert with Phil Nimmons and David Braid. Now 86 Nimmons only ever performs with pianist Braid (who is 34). They play completely free-- no obvious structures-- but they tend to be rather lyrical, though not always (at times they sound a bit like Jimmy Giuffree (sp?) with Paul Bley.) Very nice and Nimmons really seems to enjoy it. Claims his taste as broadened in his old age.

Actually I think Netflix works so well because the USPS works well. Take it from someone who lived in a country where the mails really don't work (Canada). In fact I've found USPS more reliable the UPS or Fedex and obviously much cheaper.

He also appeared on the Dinah Shore show with Mulligan-- something Mulligan seemed not to remember as he complained about the show being cancelled before they could appear.

I've got a hard cover of the discography and can check when I'm home next week. He did record with Johnny Otis but that may have been in the '40s.

I see your point, but would like to add I've really enjoyed the Jimmy Witherspoon and have listened to it repeatedly. I bought both of them.

Allen: My son is interning at a studio in Brooklyn which might fit your requirements. I'll e-mail you off line.

I have a memory of Sinatra's paying for a jazz musician's funeral. Willie Dennis maybe?

These are all from EMI aren't they? Don't they own part of Mosaic? Is this an example of why private companies are more efficient than government run agencies?

Didn't Dexter have a jazz connection? He signed Stan Kenton and I seem to remember some writing about jazz.

It's the greatest thing since sliced bread. (Even if it is one of the factors sending film profits down the tubes.)

By my count nearly 1/3 of their box sets are on back order! That's scary. BTW The Monk/Coltrane Carnegie Hall Lp is described as "limited edition/unlimited copies". What's that mean?

I'd like to see a box set like the Bill Evans at the Vanguard box where the numbers are in chronological order.

BTW Does anybody use the "test to speech" function? I find it sort of creepy. It could even read a lecture I was giving that I had put on the Kindle. I thought I might just stand there and let it speak for me.

Having some people over today so spending the morning cooking jambalaya, making lemonade and a cake. Actually my wife is making the cake, a friend is making the jambalaya so all I'm doing is squeezing lemons.

I've had a fair amount of time with a couple of Kindles and have some thoughts. I didn't buy one but was given it. We use them a lot in my office because because it's a lot easier to take home one kindle than several scripts. We all upgraded to the new large one because it translates pdfs and gives you pretty well one page per page of script. I've read several books on the KIndle now and found it quite satisfying. I finished an Alan Furst book while traveling in the country in Europe and could immediately order another one. If the type is too small for my aging eyes I can enlarge it with a click. That's one advantage. Another is that despite what someone said earlier, I don't really want to take War and Peace on an airplane in book form. And I do read several books while traveling. My favorite things about it are the dictionary (just place your cursor beside a word and a definition pops up) and the search function. While reading the Furst books if one of his characters re-appeared and I couldn't remember who he was I just searched and found every mention of him in the book. I even went back to the earlier book to see if they might have been in it. I got so used to the search function that I'm frustrated that the new Thomas Pynchon book is only available on paper: characters keep popping up and disappearing for a while and I can't remember who they are. More interesting is what it's done to my need to own books. After I'd read my first books on a Kindle I seriously considered buying them on paper so I could add them to my already sagging book shelves. I've fought the urge. Soon I may not feel a need to burn cds of music I've downloaded. At my age you do start to wonder about all your physical possessions. BTW The biggest downside of a Kindle is that illustrations don't show very well and I guess you can't get autographed copies of books.

I was just listening to a Jimmy Witherspoon record where he was accompanied by a small group with Ben Webster on tenor and Gerald Wilson on trumpet. Wilson's very good. (I never tnk of him except as a composer/arranger/band leader.)

Scott Wenzel reassured me fairly recently that the Ellington Mosaic will be out next year. greg mo Glad to hear it--my most recent contact with them had left me wondering. Listened to the Ivie Hep V. 1 last night, and it's great...now, if I can only track down V. 2. V.2. (All God's Chillum...) is available as a download from Rhapsody. For some reason v.1 is listed as a single and hence costs 99 cents.

Hey this record is the KCBX (San Louis Obispo) featured record of the week this week!

Dumb question perhaps but do you have a center speaker?

Saw Susan Tedeschi last night. Didn't know anything about her before hand but went on the recommendation of many friends. Great show, though for some reason I feel no compulsion to buy her cds. Maybe I think it will be a disappointment after her live performance.

My cd copy is on the Candid label distributed by Black Lion. Bought it in the UK. Doesn't seem to be a needle drop to me. Edit to say after further listening I think I'm wrong and it might be taken directly off an Lp.

Is there a source for the pre-'41 live sessions he draws these solos from?