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I read the Complete Shorts Stories and found them very depressing.

One of the best rock shows I've heard in the last 60 years. (No exaggeration on the time: I saw Bill Hailey and the Comets about 1958.)

The Raconteurs at the SB Bowl. Jack White is the real deal.

IIRC (and I often don't) Martin Sheen comes out of the cave after killing Kurtz and the tribesmen are now all bowing down to him.

I think (don't really know) "final cut" might mean yet another version which Coppola thinks is definitive. I saw it in Cannes when it was first shown there and I don't think that version was ever screened again. IIRC it had a slightly different ending than later versions. The sound at the screening was amazing.

I remember him being on the Canadian version of Your Hit Parade playing Swinging Shepherd Blues.

No.

https://www.hotclubny.com/radio?fbclid=IwAR0mg6Fw7ggJJO2pQpI0XJr6nRuD5oMyycCmzQnIy2lk5ip_ChB-VRQzdyY This is a new website for a program called The Hot Club on New York. the whole show is pretty great but at the 1 hour and twenty minute mark they play an uncirculated Benny Goodman and his Sextet featuring Charlie Christian playing a long blues solo!

Tears in the rain: https://news.sky.com/video/like-tears-in-rain-rutger-hauers-famous-line-from-blade-runner-11769910

IIRC there's a Benny Carter recording where he plays with several "guests". And also Benny with Phil Woods and with Marian McPartland. For strictly duo I like Gil Evans and Lee Konitz but I'm not sure Gil's really a "solo artist".

Mingus Big Band at Jazz Standard last night. Good stuff.

NOLA seems to be losing a generation of musicians this year.

Serious, non-rhetorical question: What are the best takes that were eventually released but originally unreleased in favor of other takes. (Hard sentence to write so that it sort of makes sense. ) I'd start with the recently issued alternates from the first Basie/Prez session. And are there any whole sessions that were supposedly unreleased because of quality that now seem worthwhile.

Whenever I've come across pre-Capital Cole I've never found much that was strictly instrumental. Anyone know if this package will be mainly vocal?

Going to see them in a couple of weeks.

It is indeed on Amazon. Or at least 3 Volumes of it. (How many were in the box set?) Streaming only it appears.

I like the jazz version.

The Bing Crosby was in an edition of 20,000! If they printed that many, it's definitely their biggest seller. I think the Armstrongs are indispensable and though Larry Kart would disagree with me I really like the Braff which I think of as a Pee Wee record.

And Duke loves you madly!

Wow! I didn't know that wire recorders actually used ahh.. wire! (Seriously I presumed that it was a metal reel that looked like a roll of narrow audio tape.)

So they were both 6 track with 5 of the tracks up front and mono surrounds. I remember (wrongly I guess) it being more directional. I'm surprised there is no sub woofer. In the ''80s when we made 70mm prints of anamorphic 35mm films the main attraction was the subwoofer. The three films that made the greatest impression on me in terms of sound were Grand Prix, West Side Story and The Guns of Navarone (which I believe was shot anamorphic 35mm but blown up to 70mm with 6 track sound for big cities). In each case I remember them being more directional than they probably were if they were mono surround. In the case of Grand Prix it was probably just loud in the surrounds.

I used to think his decline began with the second half of The Long Goodbye and reached its nadir with Playback. It is based on an unmade screenplay he wrote a that doesn't involve Marlowe, which may explain its deficiencies. (That screenplay was published by the Mysterious Press under the title "Raymond Chandler's Unknown Thriller". ) Reading Long Goodbye more recently I like it a bit better but still think the end of the movie is more satisfying and makes more sense. Black Eyed Blonde follows the book not the movie.

I like it much better than the acclaimed "last"( I guess until he goes pd) Philip Marlowe novel: "Only to Sleep". I still haven't read "Perchance to Dream" the sequel to "The Big Sleep" which Robert B Parker wrote.

https://jazztimes.com/blog/jazztimes-exclusive-a-new-statement-from-kenny-burrell/?fbclid=IwAR32fxl4i1lW3dKHEErCouVrkuPV6gSQYolUF42Ghf6rHXByDmbNe5Fsj7I The Post story is behind a paywall so I'm not sure which came first.

I think the ending is better than that of the book. I just wish Altman hadn't gone around saying he was deconstructing the book (or words to that effect). BTW Has anyone else read The Black Eyed Blonde? It's a sequel to The Long Goodbye commissioned by the Chandler estate.