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Happy Birthday Nate!

RIP. 20-75 was one of my favorites in 1964. I played it just the other day. I'll listen to it again tonight.

I heard Vonski Speaks (the title track) on Sirius Thursday evening. The dj Les Davis spent a moment to talk about Freeman and Chicago.

Happy Birthday 2010 m!

Thanks TTK! This goes on my wish list.

Have Gun Will Travel was the only TV show made into a radio show during the golden years. Gene Roddenberry wrote the scripts of many of the early shows. I don't want to be a downer here, but I bought the DVD box of the first season, and I was sadly disappointed. The TV show's first year was I think 1957-58. The next year, they started the radio show, using the scripts of the TV show's first season. Not so great. However, the following year, the radio show used its own scripts (many by the great Anne Dowd [sp?]). They were terrific! The second year of Have Gun is my favorite radio show. The radio show was directed by the guy who directed the Gunsmoke radio show (Norman MacDonald?). Everyone with Gunsmoke was disappointed that they were not allowed to be a part of the TV show. So the radio show director took special delight in proving that he could do Have Gun better than the TV show guys could.

Happy Birthday 2010 Marty!

I have a problem with Pandora. I like jazz vibes, particularly Cal Tjader. But they don't have him down as vibes but rather as Latin. So I can't hear Tjader there unless I am willing to hear a lot of Latin, which I am not.

I'm sorry to hear of your loss, medjuck. But it's good to learn that she led a full life with a loving family.

Of course I meant Sun Tzu. I think that Lao was the fellow who said, "The long journey begins with but a single step." And it's Walden! I must have been tired when I made that post!

LOL That was why I watched! I love a football game played in the mud.

It's on my calendar. In the interim, do you guys need me to pick up anything from the supermarket while I'm out? TTK, you're making me laugh!

Second! I forgot about this! Since everyone has dropped the ball about reminding the rest of us in early November, TTK I appoint you to do so next November.

Happy Birthday Tony!

OK, I've found out what NPR is doing. Anat Cohen, John Pizzarelli, Irvin Mayfield and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. It will be on WBGO, so we can listen to it on the internet. http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=46923 Anyone know of anything else live on the internet?

In the past, NPR has broadcast live jazz New Year's Eve performances. A couple of years ago they had Joe Lovano and McCoy Tyner at Yoshi's but I couldn't stay up that late. Does anyone know if NPR or anyone on the internet will broadcast live New Year's Eve jazz concerts?

Happy Birthday L!

I used to feel that way about the Richard Twardzik date which was released on PJ as The Last Set, but since it was included in the Mosaic PJ Trios Select, I guess it doesn't qualify anymore.

Here's a Christmas Day article from the LA Times discussing the growing popularity of rabbit ears. In the LA area, many stations are broadcasting in foreign languages, which has stirred immigrants to go the over-the-air route. http://www.latimes.c...ars25-2009dec25,0,5668446,full.story I can't get the link to paste properly. I'll ask Jim what the problem is.

Happy Birthday 2009 Alexander!

ejp, if you have the patience, it will certainly be rewarded. The current devices have glass screens which crack easily. It is expected that plastic eInk screens will be released in 2010. They will be much more durable. We will know a lot more about what is in the pipeline in two weeks when the Consumer Electronics Show is in Las Vegas. I throughly researched this (with special thanks going to clave for steering me to mobileread.com) over more than five months. I ran out of patience. My jetBook Lite wasn't released until perhaps three months after my research began. But you can be sure that no matter how long you wait, there will be something better and cheaper expected another six months after that.

I got a jetBook Lite for Christmas! I will soon learn how to download books and transfer them to my device. In the meantime I am reading a couple of books which came included - HD Thoreau's Waldon Pond and Lao Tzu's The Art of War. My impression of the JetBook Lite is very favorable. It has a 5" screen which I thought might be too small, but it is fine. The Toshiba screen is very readable. It did not take me long to figure out how to navigate through the system. Some eBook readers are counter-intuitive.

It's 2009! Happy 40th jmjk!

medjuck, my memory is the same as yours. But I remember once reading in Time Magazine, "Only suckers pay list price." In New Orleans the LPs were discounted a dollar. One store sold monos at $2.59 and stereos at $3.59. I know that they were discounted even further in Washington, DC, where there was one level fewer of middle men. (For example, in 1968 in Washington, stereos went for $2.89.)

Here in Raleigh we have lulu.com which publishes as many/few as you would like. It is owned by Bob Young, formerly of Red Hat, and the owner of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. The price of their books is good, but they had a high shipping cost the last time I ordered from them.