Adam

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I can only reiterate that which has come above. I'm fortunate enough to live in Los Angeles. For those of you here, the UCLA Film & TV Archive is doing a Buster Keaton retrospective starting on 13 May, showing a whole lot of films. http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/public/calendar/calendar_f.html But then LA also has the Silent Movie theatre, dedicated to showing silent movies. http://www.silentmovietheatre.com/ All films should be experience for the first time in a theatre, I think. I wish there were more revival houses all across America, and not just in the big cities & college towns. A similar experience was when LACMA screened the Preston Sturges films a few years ago. In a full house, with everyone laughing - truly amazing. That wasn't the first Sturges series in LA in my life - I remember an earlier one at the Nuart, and the New Beverly often shows pairings. http://www.lacma.org/ http://www.michaelwilliams.com/beverlycinema/

Wow!!! Me too! And me. Entr'acte is already on one of the Rene Clair Criterion discs, but it will be very nice to have the Leger & Dulac. A nice DVD of all of Germaine Dulac's films would be a marverlous thing.

It might make it more likely for one to be written. But it probably will make it tougher for it to be PUBLISHED. Publishers generally will see another book on that topic in the stores, and ask whether the market can sustain another. Granted there are plentiful exceptions. But honestly the history of Blue Note is a rather specialized topic.

I saw something which sounds like this, but is different. They slap a cyclist, who goes down, and it is the cyclist's head that is hit by on oncoming car. In other words, the totally innocent person got double hit. The guys who do it film the whole thing, with their faces. they all get shocked, drive on for a minute, then turn around (maybe to help?) The whole idea of using cameras, video cameras, and cell phones to capture assaults on innocent people is a very disturbing trend.

Same band, and similar sounding show, as at Disney Hall in Los Angeles last month.

I caught only the end of it as well. But it seems their "got to for quotes" guy is Billy Taylor, who gave some generic comments about Grimes that made me wonder whether he's really heard him in a while.

Tonight on NPR they had a story about Henry Grimes in their "aging musicians" series. One thing they said is that Grimes is probably better off than many other musicians of his age. Since he took 30 years off and did manual labor, he had a reasonable amount of money put into social security, so he can draw on that. Many musicians don't have that much.

I just went back to Atomic and asked after the Venuti/Lang box. A closer look revealed that this box was numbered (2537), and Artie Shaw wrote his own name in above that. Two CDs still wrapped, 2 unwrapped, everything there. He offered it to me for $100. I bought it. So there's one that won't be hitting eBay. It's still in print, so the good price. And I did want that box. I'm rather happy, although I really shouldn't be spending money right now. But you all can still look forward to Vol 1 & 2 of the Commodore Sessions.

Seeing them tomorrow night (Thursday 4/21) at UCLA Royce Hall. I don't think it's sold out.

Sorry. Amoeba in the Bay Area (Berkeley and San Francisco locations) has been around for many years. Amoeba in Hollywood opened in 2002 or 2003. Maybe 2001, but I think it was later than that. Not sure if Record Connection is still around. But there is still the Record Trader and a couple of other places on Pico by Barrington in West Los Angeles. Also Rhino Records. That's if you want to do the West LA circuit.

Amoeba has been arond for only a couple of years. Maybe three. Chances are that he went to Tower Sunset, whcih is still there. Also perhaps Aron's, which is not on Sunset, but close, and also worth a visit from you. Although while you are here please take more time to enjoy our perfect weather. Better than the record stores.

Hi medjuck, i saw them in inverse order in Los Angeles a couple of days before you. SF Jazz at Disney Hall; Wayne Shorter at UCLA. And my response to both was almost the exact same as yours.

That book is still in print. There is an almost never seen film from the 1970s of Tapscott. i just got a screener of it. I need to track down the filmmaker. If everything works out, I'll screen it at Los Angeles Filmforum next Fall. I did see Tapscott several times. Always a delight. There was one truly magnificent show with the Art Davis Quartet at the Watts Towers Arts Complex. And another duet show with just the two of them at LACMA. Those were some of his later shows. There must be lots of people in Los Angeles who saw him dozens and dozens of times dating back to teh 60s. I only saw him 5 or 6 times, from the mid 1990s. Sidewinder, I was also at the "fundraiser turned into memorial" concert. That was an emotional day.

I'm back from a brief and interesting tour of the items from the Artie Shaw collection that Atomic has. Rick at Atomic, who went to Shaw's house in Newbury Park, told me about teh experience. It was being run by an estate liquidator. No heirs mentioned. He had to get an appointment, and he was allowed one hour (!) to go through the record collection. Also in the house at that time, for example, was someone looking at the books, and someone looking at the art. There was a wall full of African masks, for example. Rick said that unfortunately he was not the first record buyer in there. He was second. The first one got some real goodies, such as all the original Capitol LP issues of the Beatles albums, all sealed. Also lots of classic Atlantic LPs, still sealed. One item that he decided not to get was a "never released" Billie Holiday acetate, for which the liquidators wanted $2500. He also said that there were all the various Artie Shaw acetates. By the time he got there, there were about 1000 records to go through. Atomic Records does have all three of the Commodore boxes, along with several other Mosaics. Not a huge number. He also obtained lots of Lee Konitz, Warne Marsh, Jimmy Giuffre. Some is already on eBay; others will be next week. A nice Babs Gonzalez side. A sealed 10" of Artie Shaw & the Gramercy Five (already on eBay). The Konitz albums were used. Commodore vol. 1 was open; vol. 2 still sealed. He showed me the booklet in one of the other Mosaics (and I'm blanking on which.). Instead of a number of an "X" where the set number usually goes, it says "Artie Shaw," as though Mosaic sends out sets regularly to various people and lists their names there. I asked if they might consider selling me a Mosaic without it going to eBay, but he's going to check with his brother. He had a couple Mosaic CD sets that are missing a CD (Woody Shaw, Taylor/Neidlinger). The Mingus Candid LP set. And a few others as CD sets. The first buyer picked up more.

Atomic is a block from where I work! think I need to go pay a visit.

I just was shown a site yesterday that has a variety of MP3 loaded CD-Roms and DVD-Roms, along with regular CDs for sale. One I noticed was The Pogues Anthology, containing every Pogues album and Shane MacGowan album, all on one CD-Rom for 12.99. My guess, not legal. I'm blanking on the name. www.txxxxcd.com, but I can't remember went into those "x"s. These are the sort of things I buy on the street in mexico for $2 to get an introduction to a band, and then I look for the real things. But openly selling it on a website?

So what are the sort of things on it?

Just saw this on Salon: The venerable Smithsonian Folkways label has opened a digital music store, Smithsonian Global Sound -- the most exciting online music happening in quite some time. The site is beautifully designed, and the Web interface is elegant and easy to navigate. The music's the thing, though, with the entirety of Folkways' vast and astonishing collection of folk music from around the world available for download at 99 cents a track. I'll be digging through the store in the coming weeks, and would welcome pointers to anything especially delightful. http://www.smithsonianglobalsound.org/

This won't quite make the averages above, I think. And I don't feel like really doing the math. But what about the last Heath Brothers album? According to AMG, that's probably Jazz Family (1998, Concord) Percy Heath Jimmy Heath Tootie Heath Jeb Patton Joe Wilder Tony Purrone Earl Gardner Tom Williams

I think that's it for Claremont for the immediate future (well, this semester). They had listed only those 3 concerts this semester. I missed Cyrille, Harper, et al. Only made it to Dewey Redman. That weeknight start time is problematic.

I think it's pretty clear that Adrian Beltre took a few years to bring it all together. I've heard his work ethic has been great in spring training, and I think it was a stupid stupid mistake for the Dodgers not to sign him. Piazza, Lo Duca, Beltre. I don't understand why new owners make a point of trading the best hitters that the team has.

You forgot the LPs The price is also rather high ($15), but many vinyl fans will be delighted that these are available on LP at all. What is a "custom CD"? ($20) Is it a CD-R? http://www.pmrecords.org "Custom CD" probably is a CD-R in the model of Smithsonian Folkways. Did you know that all albums from Smithsonian Folkways (or perhaps it's all from a particular collection - Ashe? Lomax? It's still a lot) have to be available, as part of the terms of the donation? But Smithsonian doesn't keep them all in print. If you want some old LP for which a CD doesn't exist, you can order a custom CD made, with liner notes, for $20.

My apologies. I should have looked it up first. It's on Tracks, which I've never picked up. Oh, in answer to the original question, I'm sure it's some album best forgotten from when I was young. And I don't obsess over albums the same way anymore, it seems like everyone else. But two that are in the running of more adult vintage The Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues - 1st CD I ever bought The Pogues - If I Should Fall from Grace with God Along with the typical array of Beatles And Springsteen - Born to Run or Darkness on the Edge of Town

Great question, but not one that is easy to answer, well at least for me. It would be easier if you had asked 'which track or song?', and could have said 'Hard Land' by Bruce Springsteen. "Hard land"? There's a song called "Heartland" and "The Promised Land" One of those?