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Thanks.

I really like Ray Crawford on Katanga, Out of the Cool and the record he did as a leader on Candid. Are there other recordings that feature him besides the ones with Ahmad Jamal? (Just listening to the Jamal Quintet record which I don't find very interesting and on which Crawford doesn't get much solo space.)

IIRC Ben Webster and Roy Eldridge play on a couple of cuts of Belafonte Sings the Blues. (Does not show up in the extensive Ben Webster discography book.)

Well I love hat record.

He's safe and sound in Toronto and curious about the reaction to the Mosaic Desmond of which he got number 001! (He thinks that was through the intervention of Don Thompson.)

He was involved in a discussion on the Duke-LYM list-serve about 10 days ago so I think he's ok but I'll e-mail him.

I don't hear it. I hear a sustained note on the vibes over which the solo begins. But I do think I hear two flutes in unison at the beginning of the head. So maybe Lasha plays during the melody and kept playing while Dolphy began his solo.

I Know who he is. He sometimes publishes under his real name but hiding behind the pseudonyms he often wrote misogynist bullshit. And at least once it was aimed at a friend of mine.

Just name them. Just name them.

Wow. Were you trying to make a record with him? He made too few.

Yes but Ray Crawford afterwards is even more interesting.

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?