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When it comes to music industry stupidity, there is truly nothing new under the sun. They've been pulling essentially the same dumb stunts over and over for many decades. The action in the 1940's actually stemmed from the musicians' union, calling a strike against record companies. The union felt that radio and jukeboxes were taking work away from live musicians, and they felt that record companies ought to compensate musicians for airplay. They won, and to this day, radio stations are required to pay licensing fees to music publishers and to the union. I'm not sure how the jukebox issue was settled, but I'll bet it's a similar deal. I know they pay publishers. I didn't think they paid the union. (I could, of course, be wrong.)

I would never have bought a Kindle but I was given one. I like it a lot. Especially because I'm traveling right now. Not only do I have several books on it but I have a bunch of scripts I have to read. Saves me about 30 pounds. I agree with the technical points in the above 2 postings (though I don't reallY understand them). However I still think they're too expensive.

Allen: To repeat a question I asked in a separate thread: you ever hear of Jimmy "Babyface" Lewis.

That's my story. I wonder if we all ordered from the same website. I was lucky in that they used an expired card.

Same thing happened to me just now but it was the Clickandbuy(US)..

I'm traveling from the south of France to Tuscany and the only city of any size I'll be in is Florence. I'm looking for several European released cds. Anyone know of any cd stores in Florence that might be worth checking out?

Amazon tells you how to send files to your kindle at no cost. (It does add one step.) It also offers many pd books for free.

Happy B'day! Remember that the original EKE loved you madly.

Hound Dog: The Lieber-Stoller autobiography. Good stuff. More jazz references than I would have suspected. Stoller studied with James P Johnson and gigged with Chet Baker.

Wow. I used to know Len in Montreal in the early '60s.

How big does a book have to be before it becomes a coffee table book? I have a bunch of books of jazz photography and find that when they get too big I hardly look at them. The Taschlen edition of the William Claxton "Jazz Life" is so big it's unwieldy (and quite a bit bigger than the original edition). I find that within in a year of their first release large photo books are often remaindered. The they go out of print and start to get very expensive.

At a July 4th party the hostess was playing a cd that at first I thought was a compilation because sometimes it sounded like Chicago Blues but at times a bit like Charles Brown. Turns out it was all by one guy: Jimmy Babyface Lewis. Unfortunately she was playing a CDR from a friend and so I got no info from it. He's not even listed in AMG and there were only a couple of sites when I googled him. However one of them was http://www.bluebeatmusic.com/index.php?mai...df1251d47825745 a site I'd never heard of and they have a cd for sale from Bluemoon of his complete recordings. Before I order this is he as good as he sounded to me or had I just had too many marguerites?

Happy B'day and many more!

Happy B'day!!

Parts of shows have turned up on cds/DVDs. There's some good stuff on the Coleman Hawkins 100th Anniversary disc as well as on a Billie Holiday collection. (I'm not 100% sure of all this. I'll check my collection when I get home.)

I hope we're all linking to Amazon through the board. Some one gave me a Kindle and much to my surprise I like it-- especially when I'm traveling. I just ordered the Lieber-Stoller autobiography.

Wow, it pays to check this board every day. I thought there was no mail delivery today. I read these posts, rushed out to my mail box and sure enough there was my package from CD Baby!

Sometimes recordings were announced but never took place. Verve actually took photos for the cover of a Bill Evans, Gil Evans session that never happened.

I have vague memories (as many of my memories are) of 2 stories: 1) When Phil Woods was married to Chan Parker he played a gig using one of Bird's altos. Mingus came to the club and harassed him about it (took it form him? stood in front of the bandstand staring at him? yelled at him?-- I forget). 2) Jimmy Blanton's bass was left to a cousin of his who later played with Ellington. Both the stories could be apocryphal or some sort of acid flashbacks.

I guess they're not related to " Blue Moon" records which definitely released copyrighted stuff.

I got my replacement disc yesterday. Very impressive customer service.

And done again.

I wasn't that impressed with Vineland. REminded me of Tom Robbins. However a freind of mone who's a big Pynchon fan posted a Reader's Guide to Vineland: http://www.mindspring.com/~shadow88/http:/....com/~shadow88/ I much preferred Against the Day. It even has a quote from Monk as an epigraph.

Me too.

It's a short story by his standards.