Adam

And the remaster Jack Johnson is out tomorrow, 1/11!

Wow, I produced a whole program on archaeology site theft that featured Oded Golan & the ossuary. It aired on the History Channel several months ago. (The show was "Tomb Raiders: Robbing the Dead" - lousy title, but not my choice). This announcement was made by the IAA last summer. Alexander, is that an old story that you posted? The other piece that Golan is involved with is the Jehoash Inscription. And it seemed to be an open secret among antiquities dealers in Jerusalem that Golan had a nice little operation making high end items. But when he was busted at his house (I believe that he's currently out on bail), the ossuary, insured for over a million bucks, was found sitting on top of a toilet tank in an upstairs bathroom, not exactly the safest climate controlled environment.

In searching for a book on movie serials by Gene Fernett (Next Time Drive Off the CLiff) I found reference to two other books by him: THOUSAND GOLDEN HORNS: THE EXCITING AGE OF AMERICA'S GREATEST DANCE BANDS (Midland, Mich: Pendell Co, 1966) SWING OUT: GREAT NEGRO DANCE BANDS (Orig Pendell Co. 1970; reprint by Da Capo Press with Intro by Dan Morgenstern, 1993) Do any of you own either or have opinions? Are they of their time? Still useful guides? Just collections of photos?

hehe I think Louis-Dreyfus went to the Merchant school - Natalie was doing this long before Seinfeld. Or did Louis-Dreyfus dance that way on SNL?

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4259503 Last American Audio Tape Maker Closes Morning Edition, January 5, 2005 · Employees of the audiotape manufacturer Quantegy in Opelika, Ala., started the new year looking for work. The company shut down without notice, surprising everyone in town. The company's closing could signal the end of the audiotape industry. NPR's Scott Horsley reports.

Hi Chuck, If you are interested, I have Freddie Redd's current phone number. He's in Los Angeles, and not doing very well. He was borrowing money from a mutual friend recently. Adam

From that review, I wonder whether Appel read anything besides the Armstrong and Ellington section. What do you think?

I put Various at the end, after Z. Quartet at Massey Hall is under Parker, because I originally read about it in a description of Charlie Parker music, so that is the assocaition that has stuck in my mind. Sonny Clark Memorial Quartet is under Sonny Clark ("C") and I can always find it. I have a separate section for soundtracks, and they go in alphabetical order by title of the film. But it's only about 20 CDs, so it's no big deal if the alphabet gets mixed up. And the Jazz in Paris "Jazz et Cinema" just gets thrown in there somewhere.

I don't have my R&B and country separate. So all the Ray Charles can go together. Pop, rock, soul, world, and country all live together. Jazz is another section. Classical a third.

... You get something from this Amazon list: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/listm...8375516-0383944

I think the Ayler box was issued too late for eligibility this year. And congratulations Phil!

Ah, but would it be a worthy purhase for my mother, who probably likes both the jazz & the pop singing of Dinah?

Yes, I know Lisa Joffrey, who is playing Diane. I also saw a presentation of some footage at a Jazz festival in LA in May 2003, if memory serves. I actually think Laurie has some interesting ideas for this. But no way to see whether she has the skills to pull it off. Casting 7 art direction seem good. I really respect everything she's doing to try to do it.

Havana Club 7 year as well. Introduced to it at the jazz festival in Havana in 2000, and try to get it when I'm in foreign lands. Just brought one bottle back from London; got one from Peru two years ago.

I doubt that he is playing. He has a band which he introduces, and even arranges for, but doesn't play. Unless something has changed in the past year, but I've heard nothing to the contrary.

Wow, I was at one of those shows. It was great, and I'm happy that it was recorded (which I didn't know at the time).

Ah, c'est la vie, but I have seen his trio in L.A. Anything else going on in London those days? Or should I ask that in the Live Shows forum?

What exactly are the London dates? I'll be there from 17-19 Nov. Anything going on those days?

Hi Barak, I'm here now, in Tel Aviv at the Melody Hotel. Actually went with a friend to see a concert at the Concert Hall tonight with Slide Hampton & several Israeli players, but the program is only in Hebrew. It was all right. Genres - something a bit more out than what I saw tonight would be nice, but it was clearly a bunch of standards chosen due to short "visiting artist" syndrome. Good trombonists. And I realize that I probably won't have much to do much else, but it would be great to meet you. I will mostly be in Jerusalem. I have a cell number temporarily while I'm here. 052-464-1359. Or send me an email with your number. Adam

I'm off for Israel tomorrow (1 November) for work. Got a couple of days in Jordan and 3 days in London on the return as well. (London is 17-19 November) Anything going on? Thank you! Adam

I bought a copy of "Ready for Freddie"once (not the RVG, but the issue from a few years ago) that had two copies of the CD in it! Both played fine, same music. Gave one to a friend.

I saw this trio at Villa Aurora in Los Angeles last Friday night. It was billed as the trio of teh drummer, as he was an alumni of the Villa, which is an Artist Residency program based in a big house in Pacific Palisades. Really a superb trio. The setting was a living room in the villa, with an ornate ceiling, hors d'oevres. Brotzmann was dressed casually, not like his smart green coat in which I saw him with the tentet at Tonic a few years ago. He started on soprano sax with us, then tenor, then bass clarinet. They played one piece for about an hour, then a very brief encore. Great fiery waves of music with subdued interludes, sometimes all three, sometimes their solos. Wertmüller and Pliakas were also great. Can't recommend Wertmüller enough. And Pliakas played electric bass, from which I normally shy away, but he produced marvellous sounds from it, repeating figures, accompaniment to the others, almost the piano role

I'm actually seeing a production of Othello this weekend at UCLA, so I think I will read it... but not yet

Extremely creepy, that Willie Wonka movie. The first time I saw it was when my son was 3 or 4, and my father got it for the grandkids. I thought it was very S&M toward kids, tempting them with candy and then punishing them for it. As for the Wizard of Oz, the scariest parts for me were the talking trees, and when Auntie Em in the crystal ball dissolves into the Wicked Witch, cackling "Auntie Em! Auntie Em!" But the Wizard of Oz seemed morally coherent about who were the bad guys and who were the good guys. Willie Wonka, though -- what a quagmire! That's what makes the movie so great. A kids movie that actually punishes the kids for behaving badly. It's just weird & wacky, and I wonder what Tim Burton will do to it in the remake. (Another film that needs no remaking, but is being made nevertheless).

Not the piano-playing father of the group, but his father, not a musician. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...u/obit_marsalis ----- Music Patriarch Marsalis Sr. Dies NEW ORLEANS - Ellis L. Marsalis Sr., the patriarch of a family of world famous jazz musicians, including grandson Wynton Marsalis, has died. He was 96. Marsalis' son, Ellis Jr., is a prominent New Orleans pianist and music professor who mentored crooner Harry Connick (news) Jr. as well as four musician sons: Wynton, the trumpeter; saxophonist Branford; trombonist Delfeayo and drummer Jason. Ellis Sr., who died Sunday, was involved in the civil rights movement through ownership of a motel in suburban New Orleans whose guests included the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., New York congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr., future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and musician Ray Charles. He was born in Summit, Miss., and had lived in New Orleans since 1921. In 1936, he became the first black manager of an Esso service station in the city. Marsalis opened the Marsalis Motel near the Mississippi River in 1943, a converted barn that featured a restaurant, lounge and swimming pool. The motel's business dwindled after civil rights legislation in the 1960s allowed blacks to stay at formerly all-white inns. The motel closed in 1986 and was later demolished. He is survived by his son, a daughter and seven grandchildren.