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Up for broadcast in about five minutes.

Fantastic news, Jim!! Hope some of our Texas-area members are able to catch you in action again.

"Songbirds" tonight, featuring Helen Ward (her earliest sides with Benny Goodman and two she did with Krupa in '38), Kitty Kallen (music from her tours with both Jack Teagarden and Harry James' big bands), Helen Forrest (later recordings from 1949 and 1950) and Ella Fitzgerald (several with Chick Webb). It airs on WFIU at 9 p.m. (6 p.m. California time, 8 p.m. Chicago time). Next week: "Duke Ellington--the Treasury Shows April 1945."

"Crossbows for Christ" does have a Pythonesque ring to it, doesn't it?

Doonesbury, July 1974:

R.E.M.'s MURMUR and the first disc of COMPLETE BUD POWELL ON VERVE... a toss-up.

Same here. I've never been all that taken w/Audrey Hepburn, but she pushes all the right buttons in this one. My wife and I have had a cheapie DVD edition of this for about a year and finally got around to watching it the other night... Wow!! Great cast, great chemistry between Hepburn and Grant, lots of sharp, witty dialogue... much fun. Why was Hepburn nearly always paired with much older men? Bogart in SABRINA, Astaire in FUNNY FACE, Grant in CHARADE... even Gregory Peck in ROMAN HOLIDAY seems at least 10 years older than her. The only movie I can think of where her romantic partner is approximately the same age is BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S (George Peppard, and in that one the chemistry definitely ain't there IMO).

Somebody on that Speakeasy thread referenced a Christian archery bulletin board (crossbowsforchrist.com) shutting down because the members began to threaten one another... I tell ya, what's the world coming to?

AHA! Who does that sound like, friends? 3D and Deus, working in tandem?! Beware the tag-team hackers! B-)

I bought the Schneider, and with shipping etc. it came to about $22. Not a problem--the music is worth it and I'm happy to support her, glad she's getting a much bigger cut. And if Organissimo charges $19.95 a pop for the second album, I'll gladly pay that as well. Never spent $35 on a single CD in my life, though, and doubt I ever will. In any genre. That's just pricing yourself out of the market. I think it's important to back up your passion with your bucks, which is why I often buy things that I could get for free as a DJ; just today I bought a book, SATCHMO BLOWS UP THE WORLD, that I'm sure I could've scored off Harvard Press b/c I'm doing a show tied into it, but I want to support the market for cultural-studies books about jazz. If I spend $35 on Danilo's CD when, more realistically, I should be paying $20 at most, that's $15 less I have to spend on other jazz artists, other jazz writers... I just can't justify it.

I think it'd be cool to have more folks here who are into modern improv, etc. Wouldn't want to see it come at the price of closing down Speakeasy, but if it does close... hope some of 'em come here.

Am I looking at the right site? Seems like it has to be--but the price is at $24.95.

Was thinking about this the other day as I worked on The Big Bands... obviously Ellington & Herman come to mind, as well as Basie and Rich (maybe not so obviously for some folks )... what others? For me, Gerald Wilson and the Mulligan Concert Jazz Band... Clarke-Boland... Don Ellis... Fischer... who am I leaving out?

I bought the Sun Blues box about seven years ago from a local record-store owner, who told me Decca (?) had gotten involved and had seized a number of the Sun Blues Charly boxes on what he seemed to believe were thin legal grounds. Not to say that Charly hasn't been on thin legal ground as well... anyways, it was all quite mysterious, and he really played up his "connection" for getting the Charly sets. The Sun box is indeed a marvel--gave me my intro to Joe Hill Louis and others.

Not this session, but what was the Konitz/Marsh one around the same time where they were arguing about how to pursue a tune, prompting another musician to pop his head in the door and say, "Why don't you guys ask the witch doctor?"

You might want to check this site. It will answer some, but not all, of your questions. http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...ghlite=petrillo Garth, Couldn't get the link to work. This one, right? Mike, I picked up the Chevigny book used recently and look forward to reading it. I also understand that there's some discussion of the NYC laws in Peter Pullman's Bud Powell to-be-published (crossing fingers) Bud Powell biography. Petrillo is routinely villified in most jazz histories that I read, but, as Jim pointed out in the previous thread linked above, the initial recording ban was actually a victory for musicians.

O holy man, I bow before thee!!

Much respect to Pete Welding and all of the efforts he put in for the music, but I found the liner notes in general to be disappointing--not just the Sheldon remarks. I had the original CD issues and had forgotten how unilluminating and rather vague the liners seemed to be.

I think I have all three--APRIL IN PARIS, THE KING OF SWING, and BASIE SWINGS, JOE WILLIAMS SINGS. I'm sure that other material has surfaced elsewhere on CD, but I think those are the only straight-up album re-issues on CD.

Yes--ironically enough, a couple of music-loving friends and I were discussing this very list at breakfast yesterday. One of my friends said that an acquaintance of his, upon seeing the listing of DELIVERY MAN, had said, "What, did he lose a bet?!"

What was the old cartoon about the cat and dog chained together at the wrists and on the lam? At the end they hang suspended from a railroad bridge so that the train will cut their chain... fall into a dump and leap up shouting, "We're free! We're free!" only to discover that their ankles are now caught together in a pipe... and go hopping off into the distance as sirens erupt again.

I've got a solution that will please all parties: A Mosaic "Reject Select."

Agreed here too. Ah yup.

I like this Fantasy single-CD compilation: Also Jackie Cain and Roy Kral's work with Charlie Ventura. (Haven't heard their post-Ventura material, but hope to, one of these days.)

Very relieved... when I saw the title of this thread, I thought it was delayed fallout from all of last week's upheaval. Good luck with the move, man!