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Somehow I doubt that they'll finish this in my lifetime. How many volumes do they expect to issue? 1000?

This sounds good. Herrmann is probably my favorite film composer; certainly in the top 2 or 3. I once saw Hermann speak at the British Film Institute. Someone from the audience asked why he continued to work on The Magnificent Ambersons after the studio took the film away from Orson Welles. Given the subsequent careers of both men I thought his answer was amazingly poignant and ironic. He answered "We thought it was just a movie. We thought we were going to makes lots of them."

Tom Nolan's biography of Millar/Macdonald is good but depressing. Myserious Press publiohsed a wonderful book of essays about him called "Ross Macdonald's Inward Journey." I read it just before I moved to Santa Barbara. Taught me a lot about the place.

Is this a new book? I thought I had all of Hammett. (Includng a book of comic strips he wrote.) Yes--I have that SECRET AGENT X-9 book as well. LOST STORIES came out just last year; I stumbled across it at our local Borders last week. It's not "complete," as far as I can tell; it doesn't contain the very last Continental Op story, "Death and Company" (which I've been searching for for some time), or several early 1930s stories I still can't find ("On the Way," "Albert Pastor at Home," and "His Brother's Keeper"). It does have "Night Shade" and "This Little Pig," plus a # of 1920s stories I've never read, so I bought it. The book is rather padded with biographical commentary. \Arghh I just went looking and discovered I no longer seem to have what used to be the most commonly available of his books of short stories: The Continental Op and The Big Knockover. I think while Lillian Hellman was alive she kept anything else from being published. However I did find "His Brothers Keeper" in an old paperback called "A Man Called Spade". If you just want to read it I can scan or copy it (I'll have to do either very carefully) and send it to you. If you want to own it you ight be able to find the same paperback. It's Dell 411.

OK I admit it: I can't hear/understand about haalf of what Mingus says. Is there a transcript anywhere? (Something like what Peter Losin does on his Miles discography.)

Well here's another example of how knowing people's race affects our perceptions: The original version of the song "Further On Down the Road"is by Will Bradley and it it's great but it reeked of blackface to me because I presumed that the Bradley band was White. Amos Millburn covered it and had a big hit singing exactly the same words. His version isn't quite as good but the the words no longer seem condescending because he's Black. (I think he even makes areference to piano player Freddie Slack that's in the original.)

I edited an article on Stepin Fetchit that never got published because the magazine for which I was an editor went under. (It was Take One-- for any of you film fans old enough to remember it.) My memory is thatt I was shocked by how popular he was amongst the Black community and how financially succesful he was. (We were going to run a picture of him in front of an airplane he owned and flew.)

Check and Double Check is one of the strangest movies ever made. I ordered a copy on VHS because I love the performance of Old Man Blues so much. I was stunned when I saw it. You get white guys in black face, interspresed with documentary footage of Harlem with people who really are Black .Then Amos and Andy drive the Ellington band to a party and Barney Bigard and Juan Tizol are in blackface! 3 of the band members step forward to sing 3 Little Words and the sounds of the Rhythm Boys-- 3 White guys (one of whom is Bing Crosby)-- comes out of their mouths. This is the weirdest film I've seen since Starship Troopers. BTW I did some research: the film was a big flop. Supposedly many of the Black listeners to the show didn't know it was done by White guys. They were outraged when the film made it obvious. And I guess White audiences just didn't want to see it.

Ornette is definitly quoting "If I Loved You" (it jumped out at me on first listening) and he could be familiar with the lyrics. I'm not, but then I can't remember the lyrics to anything-- and I was even in Carousel in a high school production nearly 50 years ago.

I'm amazed that this thread has such a large response. i was telling my wife abouat it and she reminded me that 2 years olds often get hysterical and go stiff! you canlift them over a shoulder like a board. Our daughter only did it once, fortunately. Jim and Alison, hang in there. They grow out of it. Before you know it she'll be a teenager. Arghhhhh!

If memory serves me right (unlikley) CHUM-fm became the first rock fm station in Toronto around 1967-68. (I think it was a classical station previously!) It was on everywhere I went that year so I have a pretty good memory of the records that were played a lot and I never hear any of them when I accidently tune into an oldies station: the first Richie Havens, Jimmy Hendrix and Country Joe Lps, the first Jefferson Airplane with Grace Slick and It's A Beautiful Morning (Was that really their name?) plus some local groups like The Paupers.

"Music from our youth!!" I was middle-aged by the time a lot of these artists made their mark. Meanwhile I'm obsessed with music from before I was born.

I'm starting to collect enough music (especially Jazz) DVDs to make me think that a discussion of them might deserve its own forum. Anyone agree?

I'll nominate "When You Got Trouble" which I think is only on Anothogy 2.

Am I correct in thinking that the Lee Wiley only contains one track (Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans) that's not found on the RCA reissue entitled "As Time Goes By"?

I have a vague memory (you may notice that many of my memories are vague) of buying "Songs for Rainy Day Lovers" because it got a 5 star review in Downbeat by (I think) Leonard Feather. Taught me to not trust reviewers.

Maybe it was your copy I found at Laurie's bookstore on 9th and Nicollet Mall. Or it may have been mine. I was once in an e-mail correspondence with a guy in Austria about a Hannibal Marvin Peterson Disography he was doing and he told me he'd just bought a Sonny Rollins Lp with my name written on it.

Ditto. Actually I think it was sold when I had John Norris auction off the Lps I'd left in Toronto.

I vaguely remember that one of the Billie Holiday Verve Lps was in stereo but they couldn't find the stereo tapes (or they'd been destroyed) for the box set release.

As I recall there were 2 bonus cuts on the George Russell RCA jazz Workshop cd that were in stereo but all of the cuts on the original Lp were in mono on the cd release. Presumably the stereo tapes of were destroyed in the making of the original (mono) Lp.

Don't know of any footage. I saw him with a jazz combo which he led with his feet. Not just exchanging fours (though he did do that) but really pushing them. At one point I was sure that he he was beating out Bird's "My Little Suede Shoes" but the rest of the band didn't pick up on it. He's returning to Santa Barbara this year but (unfortunately for me) dancing to classical music this time.

Ever see Savon Glover (sp?)? He dances to Bird and Coltrane.

Good Yom Tov to you too!

I'm confused: Which one used to be Aric, Clem or Chewy? And which one am I insulting?

I've found the "experts" in the press on stocks and technology to be about as knowledgeable as those writing about politics. Someone should do a similar column with all the press predictions made about the invasion of Iraq -- from both the left and the right.