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Joe, I've listened only to disc 1 so far, but I thought it read 73 minutes when I put it into the player...will have to doublecheck tonight. Several standout moments on disc 1 for rarely-performed American songbook numbers--"How Deep Is the Ocean" and "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea," plus Duke's own "Ridin' On a Blue Note."

That looks interesting! A few years ago I did a taxi tour of the scenes of the Troubles in Belfast. I was amazed to see 40 foot high steel barriers separating the sectarian areas of the city. Most Brits have no idea of this and fondly imagine you have to go Israel to see such things! I'll second Bill's sentiments--will have to check this book out as well. Getting ready to start Kevin Starr's EMBATTLED DREAMS: CALIFORNIA IN WAR AND PEACE, 1940-1950:

One of my all-time faves as well. My mother-in-law worked for J. Walter Thompson in the late 1950s and early 1960s and says the office Christmas party scene was a pretty accurate representation of the culture at the time. I think I read somewhere that this film is required watching for the cast and writers of MAD MEN.

Stuck inside my head today for some reason: Neil Young "After the Gold Rush"

Boston made some great moves in the off-season, Dan. I think it's going to be a hell of a barnburner in the AL East this year. Matthew: I loved that pitchers-and-catchers countdown feature...I think that was on everybody's home-team page this year.

Timely revival of this thread--Harry's centenary is coming up on April 1.

I had two of the individual discs from this set but finally landed the box itself at an unreasonably-cheap price...the cardboard case is pretty scuffed up, but the discs themselves look like they've never been played before. Looking forward to listening to all four volumes over the next several days.

Hello all, I'm working on a Night Lights show and hoping to use 1-2 segments from Clifford Thornton's GARDENS OF HARLEM...if anybody here has it, could he or she contact me either via PM or at djohnso2001@yahoo.com? Many thanks!

Part 1 of the two-part Night Lights program I did on Monk with biographer Robin D.G. Kelley is now up for online listening: Thelonious Monk: From Man to Myth (Part 1) It covers Monk's early years and the Blue Note/Prestige period. Special thanks to Joe Medjuck.

I'm pretty sure that's the same listing that's been up for a long time, esp. given the publisher listed (it's no longer coming out through them). Sorry to heap disappointment on your post--believe me, I really want to read this book too.

Yeah, my favorite TV show of all time. I taped the full run when they were rerun on BET and am in the process of transferring them to DVD. Here are the opening credits, with a very familiar gent singing a very familiar song. The more I read about the show, the more it sounds like it was about 15-20 years ahead of its time...would've been right at home on HBO or some such in the last few years as a cable-network program. EDIT: music-rights issues again re: DVD release, according to quotes posted at Wikipedia:

Serrano's album Blues Holiday is lovely, and you get four Chicagoans for the price of one - Bunky Green, Jodie Christian and Don Garrett too. Thanks for the rec on BLUES HOLIDAY--excellent album. I'll be using at least two tracks in the sequel show, which will probably air in early-to-mid May.

Never saw it, but it's legendary.

Replied to your e-mail account--your PM came through, but I encountered the same obstruction when I tried to reply. Problem definitely on my end, not yours. I've contacted Jim about it with the error message.

Iirc there are music-rights issues with EYES ON THE PRIZE that have hindered its being sold on DVD.

Season 3 out on DVD (as well as Blu-Ray) March 23.

Hill Street Blues Season 3, but I don't think it's ever going to happen.

So is this new set a mix of the one above and the MacGregor transcriptions?

I've been trying to send you one several times over the past week and for some odd/inexplicable reason cannot get it to go through...could you try contacting me via PM, and I'll see if I can reply?

Manhattan Studio?

It was called Special Bulletin. I watched some of it again a few months ago on YouTube--it may still be there. Definitely made an impression on me when I was a kid (it was broadcast about a year before The Day After, iirc). EDIT: apparently not on YouTube anymore, but here it is on Google Videos: Special Bulletin ...and here's the attack scene from THE DAY AFTER

Excellent set, excellent notes. Hey Larry, the other day I went to pull a book from my shelves at home and noticed that (by the logic of my own internal ordering system) JAZZ IN SEARCH OF ITSELF was sitting between Martin Williams' THE JAZZ TRADITION and John Litweiler's THE FREEDOM PRINCIPLE: JAZZ AFTER 1958. I hope you're OK with that kind of shelf company.

If I won a lottery I'd snap up the Bear Family boxes in a sec.

This sounds fantastic, Lazaro. I'm going to be working on a program tonight but will try to tune in from time to time. Been thinking about doing a Night Lights related to Shelly, given that the 90th anniversary of his birth is coming up in June.

Edward Anderson's Hungry Men, a 1935 novel about hoboing during the Depression. Anderson went on to write Thieves Like Us, which I'll probably finally get around to reading after I finish Hungry Men.