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Collectors' Choice is having a sale on Heps this month--$12.95 apiece, $35 for 3. I just ordered 6--the Don Redman, the Earl Hines, both Joe Mooneys, the 1936-37 Artie Shaw, and Benny Carter's RHYTHM IS ALL THAT I HAVE. I couldn't get 'em to drop the shipping and handling ($5.95), but if you order $100 or more you can probably talk them into it. Even w/shipping and handling it all came to $75, which is about $11.99 per disc + the equivalent of sales tax--not bad for Heps, which usually retail for $16.
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uh, well... i couldn't care less about football, LOATHE the super bowl (& i'm all for secular holidays but could there be a worse possible one than this?), etc. etc.
clem (will definitely NOT be "watching the game")
Hear, hear!
I'm not much of an NBA fan, but what do you think of the Nets moving to Brooklyn, Clem? If only the Dodgers would come too...
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Hey Ghostie,
What's with sneaking in a baseball post here?
Baseball is boooooring! And you call yourself a patriotic American.
Blame your fellow conservative Berigan--he's the one who brought it up! 
Sorry--I suppose I could make it up to you by starting a "Pro Bowl" thread.
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What label is this on, Jazzman? I like Barbara Lea's singing. I think she showed up on the rare-Hoagy CD that Sudhalter & co. did a year or two back.
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Matthew, Powell really seems to have come back into vogue in the past few years... just last year I read an article about Powell discussion groups that had formed in the L.A. area. I picked up a used pb copy of V. 1 to see what all the fuss was about but haven't gotten around to reading it yet. I know that Alan Furst, a historical espionage writer whose work I've been enjoying of late, claims to have been heavily influenced by Powell's epic work. People sometimes tout him as the English Proust, which I'd guess is a rather reductive, specious comparison, but I'll be curious to hear your thoughts if you soldier on with the series.
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I to have given up on boxing, and football is close behind. Of course, it's easy to give up Football, since I never was a huge fan the way I am with baseball.
13 days till the camps open, buddy!
I just picked up a very cool book--BASEBALL'S PIVOTAL ERA 1945-1951, by William Marshall. It should prime me for spring, glorious spring.
Of course, baseball has its moments of brutal contact as well--beanings and the home-plate collisions (one of the first things I ever remember seeing on TV--and I was quite a youngin', maybe 4 at the time--was Pete Rose's collision with an American League catcher--Ray Fosse? The catcher in question never quite recovered from it). But brutal contact does seem to be much less at the heart of baseball than it is with football and boxing.
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Hey, thanks, Deus! I have definitely thought about purchasing an OOP copy online, and probably will some day when I set aside a bit of cash for that very purpose. In the meantime, it's nice to visit that site--and cheers yourself, you whippersnapper, you! B)
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Just finished John O'Hara's BUTTERFIELD 8, a book that must have been pretty racy for its time (1935); you can tell he was really running with the 1934 ULYSSES obscenity decision!
Currently meandering through a couple of books about Soviet purges and espionage in the 1930s: Walter Kirivitsky's IN STALIN'S SECRET SERVICE (he was one of the first high-level Soviet defectors, "suicided" in 1941, probably by an NKVD agent) and another book called THE ROAD TO TERROR: STALIN AND THE SELF-DESTRUCTION OF THE BOLSHEVIKS, 1932-1939.
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Man, what sad, sad news.
I wrote a short story set in Harlem in 1953 (Joe Milazzo and David Gitin have read it) and gave the protagonist the last name of Favors--done definitely as a tribute to Malachi.
Think I'll break out that AEC box as well.
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I was a Bob Griese fan as a kid and hence a Dolphins' fan. One of the greatest Monday night football games I ever watched was a Miami-Houston game that turned into a Campbell-Griese duel, with the Oilers taking the game in the end. If I recall correctly, Campbell got off an 80-yard touchdown run in that game and ended up with about 200 yards rushing. My little brother, who was a Campbell fan, was greatly pleased; I was not.
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A jazz photography book I'd like to get a copy of is Dennis Stock's JAZZ STREET, published in 1960, I believe. He's the photographer who took all the pictures of James Dean during his last visit to Fairmount, Indiana in February of 1955.
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Our thoughts go out to you, friend.
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Speaking of Orwell... this from Calpundit as a followup to the evolution story:
TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICTION DEPARTMENT....One of the great unreported stories of our time is how conservatives have made it almost impossible for liberals to make jokes anymore. Consider my previous post. After complaining about yet another attempt to remove evolution from state teaching guidelines I said:Next up: parents dislike the proposition that white people used to enslave black people, so the word "slavery" will be removed from the Georgia curriculum. After all, it's just a buzzword!
I guess I missed it, but in comments Dave Morgen points out that Georgia has a new high school history curriculum proposal too:
In the proposed changes, teachers will spend two or three weeks discussing the foundation of our country, with the remaining time devoted to studying events from 1876 to the present.
....Search in vain for discussion of the Civil War; that topic is off limits. In a course entitled "American History," students will not study our most devastating war. There is no mention of Fort Sumter, Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee or anything else associated with those years.
Dammit, I was joking! Or trying to, anyway. But how can you make a joke when conservatives continually manage to make real life stranger than fiction?
Anyway, it's probably just a coincidence that the period from 1800 to 1876 is the one that got dropped. We liberals tend to get awfully paranoid about these coincidences, don't we?
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Damn, Late, I was hoping you'd be offering!
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(I don't have an SACD player, but the Hoffman remastering is great on plain ole cd).
Lon, I know a gent in the Bay Area who can give you the skinny on all this SACD business.
Is this the Bainbridge album?
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I am now master of the groove, I kid you not!
Well, congrats! And it was even made in the middle of the day, you ol' vampire, you! B)
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Wasn't this Morgan's last recording?
I picked this up a couple of months ago and have yet to give it a solid listen... Thanks for the post, Conn, I'll try to pull it off the "unplayed" shelf in the next day or two.
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Just got this last night... man, why do I love this era so much? There's something about the late 40s/early 50s, when bebop, cool, and the beginnings of hard bop were all converging, that just gets to my sweet tooth. I truly could listen to this stuff for the rest of my life if I had to. I already had a Fresh Sounds CD of Miles live in '48 with Lee Konitz and '52 with Jackie McLean and Gil Coggins; this one falls in between those two dates and is in some ways even more enjoyable.
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New: JUKEBOX ELLA.
New to clearance:
Cannonball Adderley, CANNONBALL AND THE POLL WINNERS
Duke Ellington, THE OKEH RECORDINGS
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I heard Lovano talking about it when he was on WGBH a few months ago. He sounded quite pleased with the results, but he didn't say anything much beyond the description you've provided.
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I can't wait for Mojo's long-awaited second album: MO MOJO.
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Any connection, I suppose, with the MyDoom virus? (Sounds like a bad perfume!)
I meant to say, "Sounds like a bad perfume for goths."
Things seem to be moving just a bit better now, but still a tad sluggish.
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I'll bet Our Man in Phoenix--aka Catesta--could help you out with that.
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OK, as a kid I had an 8-track tape player and owned several dozen titles--mostly rock, Led Zeppelin, Boston, the Ramones, etc. The technology changed way before I ever got into jazz, but I found myself wondering the other day if any fellow board members ever had, say, KIND OF BLUE on 8-track, and if they, too, hated how numbers would "segue" from one channel to another. In any case, here's one I found on the web:
Notes by Malcolm Riviera:This month we're featuring a cart by my favorite jazz artist: John Coltrane. Tons of killer jazz was released on 8-tracks, but we've never really given it much mention here in 8-TH. From what I can tell, almost every significant jazz artist from the 50's, 60's and 70's have large numbers of releases on 8-track, including lots of Miles Davis, Yuseff Lateef, Charlie Parker, Dizzie Gillespe, and even Sun Ra. For more modern sounds, everything from Chick Corea's Return to Forever to the Mahavishnu Orchestra is pretty easy to find on cart format.
The great thing about jazz on 8-track is that I can put on one tape and listen to it for hours; it's just really well-suited to the endless loop format. Lots of jazz ended up in the cutout bins due to low sales, and one musician buddy of mine said that's how he learned about jazz in the 70's, from all the cheapo 8-tracks he bought at Woolworths. It was easy to take a chance on those 2 for a dollar close-out specials! I've found it a great way to fill the gaps in my vinyl & CD jazz collection without dropping the hundreds of dollars it would take to fill my wish list. Plus recently I'm discovering great jazz albums I've never heard before: Prince Lasha & Sonny Simmons "Firebirds," Alice Coltrane & Carlos Santana "Illuminations," Art Farmer "Crawl Space," John Abercrombie "Gateway," and even the 8-track of the Moment was new to me. My point here is that once again, 8-tracks are providing me with an influx of previously unheard music at a bargain price!
Ode to the Hep label
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There's also a new Woody Herman 2-CD Hep out--ROAD BAND 1948 V. 1 AND 2, which includes a number of 1948 broadcasts and a Nov. 1949 Carnegie Hall concert. I'm holding off, though, because I think I may already have a bunch of the 1948 material.