ghost of miles

Great news, TTK! I have a fair amount of the original (and prefer it to the 2004 version), but I'll definitely opt in for the 2-CD release.

Rescuers scramble as Japan tries to cool reactor Rather worrisome passage here: The article also mentions that four whole trains have disappeared. Even with our relatively recent Katrina experience, it's hard to fathom just how devastating and destructive this much-more-encompassing and speedily-engulfing tsunami was.

This ranch not big enough for the two of us? Rangers CEO Greenberg leaving organization

Thoughts and prayers for those in Japan and across the Pacific. Massive quake, tsunami hits Japan The death toll's said to be in the hundreds and growing.

Chris and Paulie vs. the Russian

Amazon Marketplace has two new copies listed currently for $70 apiece,which--iirc--is a little less than its retail list price when it was in print (around $90): Beauty Is a Rare Thing Several used copies as well that sound as if they're in reasonably good shape, for around $52

Any Dick fans here seen THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU yet and have any comment on it and/or the original short story? (called "The Adjustment Team").

So what's your ending preference, the movie or the book? The movie. Maybe Raymond Chandler's contributions jazzed it up for me? Plus Cain's Phyllis gains with Barbara Stanwyck's portrayal IMO; I didn't find Walter's motivation in the novel quite as credible as it is in the movie. I liked the book, but I'd rank the film as even better.

Finished James Cain's DOUBLE INDEMNITY last night and am about halfway through this:

Bill, Jazz Women of the 1960s should be good to go now--thanks again for the note.

Thanks for the heads-up, Bill. I told our web person about the problem, and we're looking into it.

Ceremony now webcasting.

Hey fellow O posters, here's the weekly program update for Night Lights: In the 1960s, as the civil-rights movement and other cultural changes gained momentum, a generation of women artists made their way through a jazz world that had long been less than hospitable to their aims. Singers such as Nina Simone and Jeanne Lee, composer Carla Bley, organist Shirley Scott, harpist Dorothy Ashby and fellow harpist and pianist Alice Coltrane, and trumpeter Barbara Donald all left behind some notable recordings from this time of change. It's Jazz Women of the 1960s this week on Night Lights, now archived for online listening.

May you have a day worthy of a deep and life-affirming CTI groove!

Wasn't sure if this had been posted already or not: Sonny Rollins receiving National Medal of Arts The ceremony will be webcast at 1:45 p.m. EST today.

A teaching moment with Tony Soprano.

Thanks for posting that, David. I knew about a possible Coleman Hawkins Select with his RCA recordings from the late 1930s onwards, but I'm glad they changed their mind and are now planning a big set that will include 1920s to mid-1940s Sony and BMG-owned dates and several sessions that are now in the public domain. Good news about a big set with the Jimmie Lunceford Decca sides too, especially for those who don't have the OOP French Masters of Jazz CDs which cover the same era (and more). Has there been public mention already of the Lunceford Decca set? I thought that there had been, which is why I described that item as an update.

I've posted some Mosaic news on the Night Lights site that may be of interest to youse guys.

We re-aired Black Vocal Harmony Groups of the 1930s and 40s last week, and it remains archived for online listening.

Dave, I came across that link myself not too long ago. It's a day's work to look into, but it certainly does make a compelling case that the last scene in the finale is a hit on Tony. And if that's what Chase is telling us, it's yet another reason why I doubt we'll ever see a Sopranos movie (that and Gandolfini's ongoing reluctance to participate in such a project). I suppose they could try to do some kind of prequel (will become more difficult as actors and actresses age), or go with the notion that Tony was indeed hit in the last scene but somehow survived...but I actually hope that they don't try to make any kind of movie and simply let the series rest on the legacy of its 86 episodes.

Gandolfini also played Bear, the stuntman/muscle in the film adaptation of Elmore Leonard's Get Shorty: Get Shorty clip Came out around the same time as Le Nouveau Monde, I think.

I think this came up in a baseball thread within the past year or two, but since we're on the topic of Winfield and the Padres--the classic Jerry Coleman call:

This one's for you, Matthew: Ozzie Smith 1978 ...and this one's for me and Dave : The flip

Does anybody here on the board happen to have the Feb. 2011 issue of Vintage Guitar Magazine? I'm trying to obtain Jim Carlton's article about Mary Osborne that's in it...unfortunately, our local bookstore carries it but just dumped the Feb. issues a couple of days ago.

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