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I think the massive RCA Ellington set was the most expensive music I've bought but that was a necessity so maybe not really an indulgence.

Dos she know if she's in line for an early vaccination? (I hope so.)

Black and White label.

Is To Bird with Love mainly a picture book?

Funny these threads got put together because Dean Jones was one of the veterans I worked with (0n "Beethoven"). He apparently had been fairly wild in his youth but was now a born again Christian. I remember him thanking me for making a film that had no swearing in it-- something I hadn't noticed. He also told me that every one of the kids who'd been in the Disney movies with him had eventually had a bad time, often as drug addicts.

I just started reading it but love that his father was a Quebecois whose name was originally DuBois. Amazon offers 3 books by Chan. There's also https://smile.amazon.com/Conversations-Jazz-Journal-Number/dp/0938331256/ref=sr_1_6?crid=2QAK2E6MP16WY&dchild=1&keywords=chan+parker&qid=1609306404&sprefix=Chan+Parker%2Caps%2C230&sr=8-6 and https://smile.amazon.com/Bird-love-Chan-Parker/dp/2903577005/ref=sr_1_5?crid=2QAK2E6MP16WY&dchild=1&keywords=chan+parker&qid=1609306429&sprefix=Chan+Parker%2Caps%2C230&sr=8-5 I have the former, which I bought for $4.95 when it first came out. Has anyone ever seen "To Bird With Love"?

Headline is a bit misleading. He doesn't just "claim" it happened-- he's got a video showing it happening.

One of the greats.

IIRC so did Chan.

Years ago I remember thinking: if everything is available all the time do I need to own it? Well, not "everything" is available, but close to it. (Members of this board would probably find many things they want to hear or see are not on streaming platforms.) BTW Does that report mention radio? Has on-demand streaming cut into radio's audience?

Great. I've just listened to a dozen Breuker cds I bought from Michael. Not sure it's jazz but I enjoyed all but a couple of them.

Just opening Xmas presents and discovered my son had sent me a copy of this book. (We've never talked about it but he knows me pretty well.) Haven't read a word yet but it's worth having for the pictures alone.

I'll stick with the woman I've been married to for 40 years.

When my son was studying sound engineering he read a book called "Perfecting Sound Forever" by Greg Milner wherein, after a long diatribe against compression, he ends with a story about a guy who does acoustic recordings on cylinders and thinks that gives you the purest sound.

Dmitry gets political again. I guess he's only against it when it's anti-Trump.

That is lovely. I wonder if he ever did anything like that for Zappa (who I have to admit was my introduction to Varese.)

There's a lot of praise for Billy Hart in the novel "The Bear Comes Home". (Why am I writing in italics?)

As did Mel Gibson. BTW There's a director's cut of Payback which is worth looking for. Some completely different characters a many plot changes. But IIRC the book of the Grifters doesn't have the great scene with the computers (or lack thereof).

There's one Dortmunder book where Dortmunder reads a Richard Stark novel and tries to copy the crime. I like most of the Westlake I've read under any name but my favorite was called "Dancing Aztecs". He also wrote the script for "The Grifters". In the interview we ran, he points out that Parker has been played by a white man (Lee Marvin), a black man (Jim Brown) and a French woman (Anna Karina), to which he added "I think the character lacks definition."

I've been re-reading a lot of John O'Hara short stories that I originally read 60 years ago.

Thanks. Didn't know that. There's a great introduction to one edition of The Hunter where Westlake explains why he created Stark and Parker. I once worked on a magazine where we ran an interview with Westlake that was done via mail because the interviewer was in prison. (He'd been on the FBI's 10 most wanted list. )

Is that Richard Stark as in Donald Westlake? I only know about the Parker novels.

I was on the Blue Note Board but I don't remember how I found this on. Was it announced on the Blue Note Board?

Where's here?

Who apparently had never played together or rehearsed beforehand!