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And if ten people did it......

Oh, I heard it on a Spotify playlist which (checking on Amazon) overlaps a lot with the cd. Perhaps my favorite record along with KOB and Ellington Indigoes.

It cries out for exclamation points. ( I restrained myself-- once I started I knew I'd never stop.) Yes, Ruby Keeler, surrounded by prostitutes and an opium den, but it ends with the Stars & Stripes and FDR.

And The Staples Singers version of Hard Rain is pretty great too.

This movie is wild in so many ways. Can't believe I've never seen it or even heard much about it before. If you get a chance, watch it, or at least the Shanghai Lil number at the end.

Sounds like a good idea if they'd leave the key. Sucks if they don't. Do you every see your mail person?

This is probably a stupid idea given how little artists and composers are paid for being played on Spotify but could we help artists we like by keeping Spotify playing their works constantly whether or not we're present to hear them?

And has this happened with other recordings? The only one I can think of is the Gil Evans/Helen Merrill record that was redone with the same arrangements decades later. (IIRC Evans's last record.)

This looks great. What does RTE stand for?

What's a parcel box? Me too. I've had more problems with UPS and Fedex.

Yes, both books have many pages of footnotes.

Laurie and I at the Martello Tower where the first scene in Ulysses takes place. I think I've read everything by Joyce except Finnegan's Wake. Like it all but love Ulysses.

The first has too much sociology but is worth buying just for the chapter on the Blue Devils. The second is lurid but fascinating. Both have many footnotes that are easy to access because the page numbers they refer to are listed at the top of the pages in the footnotes chapter. Is this a new practice or just something I haven't noticed before (or don't remember).

Ndugu?

My wife just e-mailed me that recipe and suggested we try it. (Think it was in the NY Times.)

Thanks. I remember when that show was first broadcast. Then, IIRC, Columbia capitalized (no pun intended) on it and brought out an album with a similar title. I didn't realize it wasn't his first on Columbia.

Were they in Chico Hamilton's quintet together? Didn't this lead to a a contract and record from Columbia records?

I saw him once at a club shortly after I moved to LA in 1980. Then I ran into walking on my street after I moved to Santa Barbara. Turns out one of my neighbours had once been his manager. This was shortly before he died.

Then it is indeed a gorgeous package-- most gorgeous of the series.

Someone actually published this?! How did you find it? Google stupid uses of "roughly"?

Was going to ask that. So it's the same package as the original release. Or is this leftovers from the original release?

I think this got more attention than Vol 1 because of when it came out and because of the cover drawing. And then The Stones covered Love in Vain......

Love that song. Maybe because it references my late friend Zalman but also because even James Michener was impressed by "Busted, disgusted, agents can't be trusted."

Like Fred Zinnemann, he had no distinguishable style or themes. Just great story telling skills.

For some reason, amidst all the shit going down, this got to me the most: https://www.npr.org/2020/06/03/868933655/the-louisville-community-who-loved-david-mcatee-has-questions-about-his-death?fbclid=IwAR1Lwtey-G3mLcvvKFovuD3Tb0lge1dh_G_T85j_IEEcDDQSeQ4yhaaf8I0 The reason there were demonstrations in Louisville at the time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Breonna_Taylor?fbclid=IwAR01_ivPdS9hzVhvF8-TZEvB2asKuR_4hlyxqwKyrZAZ2-n3IkUJo2MVfKk