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This story reminds me the American Artifact's shop in P. K. Dick's novel: The Man in the High Castle.

Sorry, I can't agree with you. If an athlete has enough guts to throw away his career in the name of human rights, like Tommie Smith and John Carlos in Mexico 68, well...chapeau! China is not my preferred democratic country.

F. Schubert - Symphony N. 8 'unfinished' - Boehm, Berliner Philarmoniker, DG. Sometimes, a masterpiece is deservedly famous.

W. A. Mozart - Complete String Quartets - Philips, Quartetto Italiano, disc 1

I dunno......but the way you're dressed, just make sure that when you land the NBC job next week, you don't even say the word 'Chelsea'!! NBC? Why not? My look would be perfect for sport news: lots of guys without any real knowldege about the subject they are talking about and I could say 'Chelsea' and 'Manchester United' too.

What sort of films do you do, exactly? I'd call them 'artistic'

Did you really believe that I got all those original BN and Prestige pressings with a legal income?

How was the remastering?

I wrote it in Winehouse's thread, but I write it down here again. I think her parents are naive and wrong, and trapped in mediatic circus. I bet that nobody here, and nobody with some common sense in general, with a drug addicted son, though famous, would go to the newspapers in search of help with such idiotic request of help. Maybe they are poor and ignorant people, but, man, do you really think this is the best way to help your daughter? Maybe you're THE problem of your daughter. About arts and drugs, it would be a long discussion, like art and artist. Picasso was a hell of painter and a great SOB as man, Louis Ferdinand Celine was a great writer and a racist, so what? I am not St. Peter who decide who's going to hell and who's going to Paradise. I like Picasso's art, I don't have to like the man. More in general, like everybody here who worked in show business at every level know that the public image of an actor or musician or an artist is a mediatic construction. I meet nice people that I thought they were bastard only because of their public imagine and the gossips, and viceversa. So it's hard to say who Amy Winehouse really is. A waste of talent? A victim of success? A abused child growned too fast? A helpless and oversensitive soul? A spoiled child with some talent? I am not her psychiatrist. For sure you have to be a thought guy to survive in this business and you need some luck.

Good News! Hope they don't kill the sound with too much compression.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7234002.stm Winehouse denied visa for Grammys Amy Winehouse will not perform at this year's Grammy awards ceremony because her US visa application has been rejected by the embassy in London. The singer was arrested for marijuana possession in Norway last year. A spokesman for the troubled star said she was "disappointed", but had "accepted the ruling and will be concentrating on her recovery". Winehouse has been nominated for six Grammy awards ahead of the ceremony in Los Angeles on Sunday.

After practicing Karate for several years in my youth, I just start to practicing Aikido from January. Not bad, but pretty difficult at starting.

Ray's being in Covent Garden. Shaftesbury Avenue (or did it move from an earlier location in Covent Garden?). There was a folk and blues store in the basement. Now spinning Herbie Hancock 'Maiden Voyage' (BN NY USA mono, DG side 1) Thanks guys. I remember the Ray's that was in a corner building with two entrances. A bit of nostalgia over here too. Funny, I am thinking to spin that Herbie, after Morgan's Search Of the new Land, NY mono, will end.

There was a Ray's jazz shop in Charing Cross too, or it's the name of Dobells?

Sorry, no house at the "end" of Penn Ave, NW.....just a small shade tree on a tiny plot of earth near the intersection of Penn & 28th St, NW. I could get over there tonite with a shovel and dig it up....possibly sell it to you for 200 Euro and 3 kilos of Ubriaco (getting tough to find here!). That work? Do you still think that the small house is at the beginning of something?

"Cheryl" and "Underdog" are by a quartet whose personnel is given as Gil Evans (arranger/piano), Jimmy Knepper (trombone), "probably" Bob Cranshaw (bass) and "probably" Charlie Persip (drums). The recording date is given as c.1963-64. My good friend, Brian Priestley (name dropping again!) says this in his learned sleeve note: "The existence of two Gil Evans quartet pieces comes as something of a surprise. Jimmy Knepper, who played with Gil's working band of 1960, is recognizably the trombonist and, since the names of Cranshaw and Persip have been added to the collective personnel, there seems no reason to doubt that it is they on bass and drums. However, the track which was code-named 'Isabel' is actually a song by Al Cohn called 'The Underdog' (with words by Dave Frishberg, the composer of 'I'm Hip' and 'Peel Me a Grape') although Cohn's original instrumental version went under the name 'Ah Moore'. And, finally, what was issued in the States as 'Blues in Orbit' is not 'Blues in Orbit' but Charlie Parker's amazingly inventive line 'Cheryl'. It's fascinating to think of this as a reduction of a full orchestral Gil Evans arrangement, and indeed the bass-part after the opening theme and before the out-chorus makes it hard not to think in these terms. Is it taking guesswork too far to imagine this as a sketch for the album Gil was to have made for Verve featuring Bill Evans, but which was never recorded?" Thanks. Sounds tasty, do you know if these tunes are available in some other form, a part the twofer?

I advise you: don't do it! You start with one snort and after a while you're in the streets smuggling drug in order to pay one of these beasts!

I didn't know this one. I have "The Individualism of GE" on a Speakers Corner reissue, and it's a single LP, plus I have the cd with the bonus tracks. What's on the twofer? Record 1: Side 1: 1 "The Barbara Song" 2 "Las Vegas Tango" Side 2: 1(a) "Flute Song" (b) "Hotel-Me" 2 "El Toreador" Record 2: Side 1: 1 "Cheryl"("Blues in Orbit") 2 "Spoonful" Side 2: 1 "Concorde" 2 "The Underdog" ("Isabel") 3 "General Assembly"("Barracuda") It looks like a British pressing of a Verve album. I bought it at the once-famous Dobell's jazz record shop in Charing Cross Road, London in the 1970s. I also have that very UK Verve double album ! Bought in my case at Mole Jazz, Kings Cross. Dobells site on Charing Cross Road - now a takeaway (or something like it) I believe. Ages ago I lived in London for a couple of years. In the rainy and cold winter I used to wasting my free time in places like these. Never bought anything. No money, no TT, I mean that I wasn't Oliver Twist, but I thought that I could spare several ££ of heating, sniffing between the shelves in a warm room, listening to good music. Now spinning: Thelonious Monk/Sonny Rollins Prestige 7075 50th NY label.

Hey Weizy, how much does it cost in euros that small house with gardern, but without pool, at the end of Pennsylvania Ave NW?

Usually the Get Back reissues are mastered from a digital copy of the master. I avoid them.

I'd gladly do it, but my digital camera died in summer vacation. (R.I.P.) Sorry. Anyway the table is exactly like this: http://brinkmann-usa.com/lagrangeturntable.php Clic on the picture for a larger view Gorgeous. Would love to hear it... Indeed, I find it even sexy.

I'd gladly do it, but my digital camera died in summer vacation. (R.I.P.) Sorry. Anyway the table is exactly like this: http://brinkmann-usa.com/lagrangeturntable.php Clic on the picture for a larger view These germans are so maniac that they provide a genuine leather mat for the clamp, so you don't damage it when you lay it down on the rack.

BillF, seems that my stuff lacks the following tracks: 1 "Cheryl"("Blues in Orbit") Side 2: 2 "The Underdog" ("Isabel") 3 "General Assembly"("Barracuda") Assuming that "General Assembly"("Barracuda") is Time Of The Barracudas on the cd, may you provide some details about the other tracks?

Thanks BillF, I'll check it out with my stuff.