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Wasn't Connie Kay a regular on these recordings?

What private company would send a letter to Alaska for the price of a stamp? Not everything is done to make money.

NeVer knew a "complete edition" existed.

I'm helping a friend out at a 2nd hand bookstore. People bring us books and sometimes we go hunting for them at estate sales and Friends of the Library sales. We're mainly looking for classic and recent paperbacks since we've found that our customers are reluctant to buy hard covers even when they're about the same price as paperbacks. We have come up with some interesting finds: first edition signed books by Tom Robbins, Alan Furst, Margaret Millar and Sue Grafton (she was a local girl so they're a dime a dozen though we only have a couple from before ""H" is for whatever it's for..""). But we've found a lot of great old paperback by Ross MacDonald (another local), Chandler, Hammett etc. Also things we're enthusiastic about even if our customers aren't: Pynchon, Joyce etc. (Actually we do eventually sell most of them.) But we're still looking for that elusive Ben Hur, 1860, Third Edition, the one with the duplicate line on page 116.

I remember an earlier Mike Hammer tv series starring Darren McGaven that used Harlem Nocturne as as a theme.

I'm an idiot. Charles Lloyd does a concert at a local small theater pretty well every year. I skipped one year and it was the concert at which he recorded Sangam-- a record I love.

Right.

Two old movies on TCM: Valiant and Safe in Hell. The former only interesting because it's Paul Muni's first movie and is an early talked from 1929-- which means it's really static. Safe in Hell is something else again. A pre-code William Wellman film, I recommend it highly.

I think (I don't really know) that record companies receive a payment from YouTube for any ad revenue. Most YouTube posts now seem to have ads attached at the beginning. Also not sure, but I think that if you prove ownership you have the choice to receive the money or have the post taken down.

Thanks.

What record is it on? (Though I'm sure you're right>)

I actually have that, but it was advertised as such.

Sound like good advice. Anything else you might suggest doing?

The "default" settings on new tvs suck. This helps: https://deadline.com/2018/12/tom-cruise-explains-fix-motion-smoothing-problem-tv-1202514413/

I was once at a performance by Irma Thomas when she stopped because she saw someone recording it.

I checked it out but there didn't seem to be that much jazz content. Is there a sub-forum I missed? And did people leave or were they driven away? And you're proud of that?

I think I guessed right: He just posted this on FB: RED ALERT: We have discovered an unknown 37-minute reel of “Mack the Knife” outtakes, rehearsals and alternate takes, the full making of Louis’s 1955 hit!! Just have to find a place for it on the set but it WILL happen. (Dig that interlude!) Joy!

Man he's becoming prolific in his old age, but I'll no doubt buy this when it comes out. (I'm amazed he sold out The Santa Barbara Bowl-- it was really expensive.)

Seriously, I think your avatar affects the way people perceive you. As to the topic here: I think everyone should compare the Will Bradley Trio's version of Down the Road Apiece with Amos Wilburn's and Chuck Berry's and guess who wrote it and which came first.

Ricky Riccardi is now posting pictures of him with the master tapes of the Pops Handy and Waller Columbia Lps. Looks like it's going ahead. I'm not sure what else will be included though I would guess it will have the recording of Louis teaching Lotte Lenya how to syncopate Mac the Knife.

Saw him with Frank Strozier at a club in Montreal more than 50 years ago. One of the best nights of jazz listening I've ever had.

Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul. All rock bands should have a horn section like this. (The girls too.) . This was last Monday. It took me this long to figure out how to post the photo.

What do you pay on a federal loan? The government is borrowing money at about 2%. They should be lending it for things like this at about not much more than it costs them.

WTF! Those rates are usurious.