Pete C

& lest anyone forget, he's the narrator on Mingus's The Clown.

When I first went in 1989 they didn't sell Coke at all. It was a planned economy with major import restrictions, so if you wanted cola you had to drink Campa Cola, or Limca if you prefer Sprite & 7-Up. Then they liberalized the economy and Coke was everywhere. In Beijing, in 1994, I was forced to listen to the entire Kenny G Breathless album at the most famous Peking duck restaurant, and people were selling bootlegs of the CD on the street all over town.

Froggy Andy Devine Father Divine

No doubt you do, but then I couldn't start with Jerry Blavat Jesse Belvin Harold Melvin

I think a lot more than you think. I've been to both countries several times in the '90s, and could see it happening then, so I can only imagine what it's like now. You underestimate American cultural hegemony.

Shanachie and some other labels, I think. Here's what's in my queue. Sorry about the wysiwyg formatting. Muddy Waters: Got My Mojo Working Play Rate 5 stars Rate 4 stars Rate 3 stars Rate 2 stars Rate 1 star Music Until 8/15/12 Masters of the Country Blues Play You rated this movie: 3 Rate 5 stars Rate 4 stars Rate 3 stars Rate 2 stars Rate 1 star Documentaries Until 8/15/12 Mance Lipscomb and Lightnin' Hopkins Play Rate 5 stars Rate 4 stars Rate 3 stars Rate 2 stars Rate 1 star Documentaries Until 8/15/12 Son House and Bukka White Play Rate 5 stars Rate 4 stars Rate 3 stars Rate 2 stars Rate 1 star Music Until 8/15/12 Alberta Hunter: Jazz Masters Series Play Rate 5 stars Rate 4 stars Rate 3 stars Rate 2 stars Rate 1 star Music Until 8/15/12 Art Pepper: Notes from a Jazz Survivor Play Rate 5 stars Rate 4 stars Rate 3 stars Rate 2 stars Rate 1 star Documentaries Until 8/15/12 Konkombe: The Nigerian Pop Music Scene Play Rate 5 stars Rate 4 stars Rate 3 stars Rate 2 stars Rate 1 star Documentaries Until 8/15/12 Carlinhos Brown: World Music Portraits Play Rate 5 stars Rate 4 stars Rate 3 stars Rate 2 stars Rate 1 star Music Until 8/15/12 Lightnin' Hopkins & Roosevelt Sykes Play Rate 5 stars Rate 4 stars Rate 3 stars Rate 2 stars Rate 1 star Music Until 8/15/12 Rainbow Quest: Johnny Cash/Roscoe Holcombe Play Rate 5 stars Rate 4 stars Rate 3 stars Rate 2 stars Rate 1 star Music Until 8/15/12 Rainbow Quest: Stanley Brothers/Doc Watson Play Rate 5 stars Rate 4 stars Rate 3 stars Rate 2 stars Rate 1 star Music Until 8/15/12 Traditional Music Classics Play You rated this movie: 4 Rate 5 stars Rate 4 stars Rate 3 stars Rate 2 stars Rate 1 star Music Until 8/15/12 Webb Pierce & Chet Atkins Play Rate 5 stars Rate 4 stars Rate 3 stars Rate 2 stars Rate 1 star Music Until 8/15/12 Sinatra: The Classic Duets Play Rate 5 stars Rate 4 stars Rate 3 stars Rate 2 stars Rate 1 star Music Until 8/15/12 Country Blues: Gary Davis & Sonny Terry Play Rate 5 stars Rate 4 stars Rate 3 stars Rate 2 stars Rate 1 star Music Until 8/15/12 Times Ain't Like They Used to Be Play Rate 5 stars Rate 4 stars Rate 3 stars Rate 2 stars Rate 1 star Music Until 8/15/12 High Lonesome: Story of Bluegrass Music Play You rated this movie: 4 Rate 5 stars Rate 4 stars Rate 3 stars Rate 2 stars Rate 1 star Documentaries Until 8/15/12

Learned Hand Rollie Fingers Pinky Lee

(a trio I saw recently) Esperanza Spalding Geri Allen Terri Lynne Carrington

Hot Lips Page Joe Guy Dizzy Gillespie

I was one of those kids with Jean Shepherd under the pillow. I suspect he's one of the reasons I became a writer. I read In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash as an 11-year-old. http://jeanshepherdpodcast.blogspot.com/

Jews up the wazoo.

The Tin Man The Thin Man The Fat Man Keith Haring Benjamin Franklin Keith Edward F. Albee

Let's match up Jerry's telethon to Jim's vaccine denialism... Maybe he'll reach you the third time.

Toshiko Akiyoshi Charlie Mariano Cesar Camargo Mariano

I think so, though Rick Moranis as Mel Torme may have been a little funnier with.

Well, the first film version can only be considered an anomaly, to say the least. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casino_Royale_%281967_film%29

Ferlin Husky Chubby Newsome Little Jimmy Scott

Yeah, but part of it was shot in the movie theater of my childhood, the Kent, at Coney Island Avenue & Avenue H. That should count for something. Still, I'll take The White Sheik any day.

Femi Kuti Seun Kuti Death Cab for Cutie

"He is seeking joint custody but does not want to pay his estranged wife spousal support." If she had to listen to his music all those years the court should award damages.

Ennio Morricone Nino Rota Nino Benvenuti

Scooter Libby Libby Holman Montgomery Clift

It's good stuff, but with so much live Evans in better sound I rarely listen to it.

James "Mtume" Forman Jimmy Heath Tootie Heath