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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!

I think you win.

Ditto

77 for the next couple of months. Am I the oldest old fart here?

In fairness to the guy he didn't know what year it was from.

In the liner notes the guy who found the radio taps says he wasn't sure at first that it was Sonny. Not to suggest that I would have recognized him right away either and given that we didn't know the date of the recording, who else might it have been?

I remember this got a rave review in Downbeat. I bought it but never really liked it.

Got Roy Bird (Byrd?) in it too. That's Professor Longhair to most of us.

Has "Focus" been mentioned and I just missed it?

Date?

Well Happy Birthday, Dimitry, Michael and Ghost. IS this a record?

But you've already heard it. I've got something to look forward to.

High Geek factor here. Look forward to hearing it someday. (I'm only 77.)

I think that top one is one of the only Birds I don't have. How is it?

When I saw him live (a couple of times) with The Trio, I was surprised that nearly every bass solo was arco.