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Ironically enough, I'm listening to Johnny Richards' take on "Theme from the Concerto to End All Concertos" as I read your post here. Mike, I remember the Piscopo send-ups, and they were pretty funny. I think SNL also did a satire of the DUET sessions in the 1990s. As for Paul Anka, it's been all downhill ever since Girls Town afaic.

I dunno, Lon... you've piqued my interest here.

First rave at Stonehenge?

The 2,000-year-old-man turned 1000... right?

Allen, I actually mention this story in the show and attribute you as a source--can't quite remember where it occurs in the program, but I gleaned the info from a previous post you had made here on the topic.

"Decca Jazz Studio 5 & 6" is now archived.

Yael's here at the station tonight and says yes, she's had Camilla's chicken & it's well worth trying--she says it's "fusion cuisine." She describes it as "moist, multicultural, and succulent."

In other words--we're getting half a Half Note.

She ( ) may have indeed... I'll check w/her. She's about to give birth any day now.

Oops--my mistake. Pardon my rather salacious interpretation!

Has THE COOL WORLD ever come out on VHS or DVD? I have the Verve Dizzy soundtrack (not the same, I believe, as the version that you have, Chris).

Yikes--shades of Aric's "jazz meets porn" thread!

Yep. Just got it last week, and it sounds great. Wonder if Mosaic will ever do a Select of Mr. Roach--wasn't his output for the label around 5 LPs?

Heard about this on NPR this morning while driving into work. You can hear the audio file here. (There's also a link to an earlier story on Betts.)

Very sad to hear of this this a.m. Of the Big Three, Jennings was always my favorite. On 9/11 we had just moved into our new house and had no TV--it was Jennings I listened to on ABC Radio, and he did an incredible job of covering the horror almost literally right in front of him. RIP and thanks for all the class.

Just told my co-worker and fellow announcer Yael about this--turns out Yael is friends with the Chicken Queen herself!

Check out Mike Fitzgerald's Andrew Hill discography at his discography page.

C'est moi... I'm adding this one to the wish-list.

Sounds to me like she's winging it.

Digging into my Hoosier literary roots with Booth Tarkington's THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS.

This week on Night Lights we conclude our summer tour of the Decca Jazz Studio series with the fifth and sixth (and final) volumes. V. 5, led by pianist and arranger Ralph Burns, includes trumpeter Joe Newman and little-known alto saxophonist Dave Schildkraut, who was once mistaken for Charlie Parker by Charles Mingus during a blindfold test. Selections include Burns' originals "Cool Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" and "Nocturne," as well as Alec Wilder's "I'll Be Around." V. 6 was led by French hornist/pianist and Jack Kerouac collaborator David Amram along with tenor saxophonist George Barrow; both were members of Charles Mingus' Jazz Workshop, and this date bears a highly modernist stamp. "Jazz Studio 5 & 6" airs Saturday, August 6 at 11 p.m. (9 p.m. California time, midnight New York City time) on WFIU. You can listen live, or wait until Monday afternoon, when the program will be posted to the Night Lights archives. Next week: "Alexandria the Great." Late 1950s/early 1960s recordings of jazz singer Lorez Alexandria.

This week on The Big Bands it's "Duke Ellington: Treasury Shows August 1945." In that month the United States' war with Japan ended suddenly, and the war bonds that Ellington promoted every Saturday on "Your Date With the Duke" turned into "Victory Bonds." In this program we'll hear broadcasts of "Work Song, ""The Blues," and "West Indian Dance" from Ellington's Black, Brown and Beige Suite, "Creole Love Call," the World War II song "He's Home for a Little While," and "Blue Skies." The show airs Friday, August 5 at 9 p.m. (7 p.m. California time, 10 p.m. NYC time) on WFIU.

I'm surprised that Mystery Science Theater 3000 never sent this one up... or did they? They did another one, with a guy keeping a woman's head alive in a lab. Might've been THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE. No jazz that I remember in that one, though.

John Mayer?! Must... resist... urge to use vomiticon... No disrespect to anybody who likes the guy--his singles always struck me as third-rate inspiration from the movie SINGLES. He is one of the few artists who causes me to immediately switch the radio station while I'm driving.

May life always return to you all the good will and feeling that you bring to this board and any community of which you're a part. Thanks for all the knowledge, intellectual camaraderie, and jazz-fan esprit de corps that your presence here provides. As my good friend the Red Menace has observed: "A man who always has more Mosaic sets than years may well live forever!!!" It's an experiment that I'm eager to continue, anyway... and quite doable if the company keeps up its present output.