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Damn straight it matterered, suh! It means the Yankees will take Game 6 and the Series in New York rather than Atlanta.

There's very little for me that beats Magic Sam when it comes to live blues. And yeah, John B, BURNSIDE ON BURNSIDE is smokin'! Puts you right in the jook joint...

Last night I was prowling through our local used-bookstore for a copy of Le Carre's THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD. I finally found one, but, as usual, I came across a couple of other curiosities that I ended up purchasing as well. One of them was a 1984 Mysterious Press paperback by Nat Hentoff, entitled BLUES FOR CHARLIE DARWIN. It appears to be a crime story set amidst the jazz-world of Greenwich Village... anybody else ever read this?

I say one of us buys the Fresh Sound CD, burns a hundred copies for board members, and then each board member who receives a copy sends $10 to the musical estates of the session players. Or something like that--what are the ethics of burning a copy of an otherwise-unavailable Fresh Sounds?

Elliott Smith, FIGURE 8 Marshall Crenshaw, MARSHALL CRENSHAW (deluxe ed.) Benny Goodman, BILL DODGE RECORDINGS Anita O'Day, LET ME OFF UPTOWN

Thanks for the salivating update, Steve. It may not be complete, but it sounds like a set I'll go back to as much as I go back to the 3-CD Ellington that came out several years ago. I already have the Billie airshot and a lot of the Famous Door material, but I'm sure there's a lot there I've never heard before... and I'm guessing the sound will be really good, too.

Realized he might not see a PM if he's not checking in here, so I e-mailed him as well.

I think I'm gonna drop a PM his way. He is sorely missed by this poster--particularly in the "now reading" thread.

You can also hear a bunch of them on the Sweet Adeline website. Here's the link: liveunreleasedElliott

Been meaning to post this--it appeared a couple of weeks ago on the Sweet Adeline site: Here's the link for Suicide Squeeze, if anybody's interested in ordering the seven-inch. I've heard a live version of "Pretty" and it's a high-par, quite-catchy Elliott Smith song: squeeze

The Who, MY GENERATION (deluxe edition--get it if you're a Who fan!) Artie Shaw, EVENSONG (Hep collection of 1941-42 big-band-with-strings) Artie Shaw, 1944-45 (Hep) Teddy Wilson, COMP. VERVE TRIOS Benny Goodman, PLAYS FLETCHER HENDERSON V. 1 Rachmaninoff, RACHMANINOFF PLAYS RACHMANINOFF: SOLO WORKS AND TRANSCRIPTIONS. ...and a ton of Benny Carter. I devoted a three-hour program to him the other night.

I'll second the recommendations on the Gioia and Stoddard books, and yeah, Late, I've got that Fantasy JAZZ SCENE: SAN FRANCISCO record. It's a good 'un--the Jerry Dodgion Quartet sides feature everybody's favorite, Sonny Clark.

BURNT OFFERING on Black Saint (duets with Andrew Cyrille) and JUMP UP on Hat Hut (w/Sunny Murray and John Lindberg) if you can find 'em.

Chuck played this tape for me when I visited him up in Michigan. It's everything that Jim so expertly described--a real mind-blow, some of the best live Bird I've ever heard. The intro is a far better audio snapshot of a late Bird arrival than the JATP "Hey, man, where you been?" moment. But the music, good Lord! Primordial bebop.

Yeah, I realized that last night (that it had been posted at BN before), but thought I'd put it up again here for anybody who didn't catch it the first time around. I really think that Mingus Uptown is the greatest historical re-issue of all time.

We've knocked on the door... maybe it's time we banged? Or at least TP the house.

As I was prowling the Jazz Institute of Chicago tonight, I came across an interview with Chuck Nessa about the Mingus Uptown CD, conducted by Lazaro Vega, a very cool DJ I had the pleasure of meeting when I was chez Nessas last month. Great stories about all of the work that went into putting the CD together. I can't seem to get the article to link directly from the Institute's page, but I found it on AAJ instead: NessaonMingusCD

I srent off a politely-worded suggestion as well. Anybody heard back from them yet? Not that I'm on tenterhooks or anything...

Wow, so Chamber's doing a full bio, huh? I read what he's posted online a couple of years ago, but didn't realize it was part of a larger work-in-progress... That will be an interesting book. Always glad to see more coverage of the late 1940s/early 50's Boston scene as well.

I am all over THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD. I had signed up on Amazon's notification list for that one... really happy to see that so much is coming with it. My wife and I watch it every year on Thanksgiving Day, and I was really getting tired of hooking up the old VCR for the occasion. I'll definitely bite on TREASURE OF THE SIERRE MADRE as well. You're right about the CASABLANCA transfer, Berigan. If they've improved on the 2000 edition I'll really be impressed--only problem with these superlative transfers of older movies is that sometimes it's much easier to see how fake the sets can be! I've gotten used to it, but sometimes the fuzzy ambience of an unrestored pic can actually enhance the atmosphere for me.

Harold, This is what the new one contains: The one I bought last year, which came out in 2000, had this: I'd like to hear the radio production, and I think there are more outtakes in the special edition (I don't remember 10 minutes' worth in the first DVD edition). The commentaries interest me too... normally I don't go for movie upgrades, but I'm such an unabashed, unapologetic fan of this film that I think I'll take the plunge. Have you ever read Aljean Harmetz's book ROUND UP THE USUAL SUSPECTS? It's all about the making of the film--fascinating stuff. There were so many ways in which it could have gone awry. And it was originally cast with Ann Sheridan and Ronald Reagan!

I read it years ago when it first came out, and remember really liking it. I remember thinking that Dyer traversed risky waters and came back with some haunting, poignant stories.

Amazon has the Hazel Scott streeting Aug. 26. I'm definitely going to snap that one up--her early work has been hard to find.

I just bought the regular DVD of this a year ago, but I'll probably be a sap for the new one when it comes out in August. "Welcome back to the fight... this time, I know our side will win." CasablancaDVD

Could it possibly be their reluctance to endorse a site that's affiliated with a specific group? Again, far be it from me to defend Blue Note these days... Perhaps we should all use the "Contact us" function and suggest, in oh-so-loving-terms, that they add this board to their list.