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Sonny Liston Paul Bryant Grizzley Adams

I didn't know his work, but that's a terrible way to die.

Andrew White: Seven Giant Steps for Coltrane (Andrew's Music)

Otis Spann Frank Bridge Dummy Hoy

Duke Ellington's Far East Suite (RCA/Speakers Corner)

on "Ad Lib on Nippon" - a tour de force

Has anyone who hasn't heard Dave Grusin missed very much? (Guess I'm in a curmudgeonly mood today.)

Bugsy Siegel The Crickets Max Roach

James Hanley: A Kingdom A beautifully written book by one of my favorite authors

The Burger King Roy Orbison Oprah Winfrey

Happy Birthday to Mr. Weston - a living treasure!

Cesperdes is a very good left fielder. He's not a center fielder. The Mets should have taken care of that situation in the off season and not have him play out of his natural position.

Talk can be cheap.

I have everything I want from that list - in many cases for years. I wish they'd record some new music - I should say some new music worth listening to.

Willie, Hamp, and Tallulah - I'd like to catch that trio.

A couple of inches of snow here yesterday - no big deal. I imagine that it will all be melted in a day or two.

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday!

Postwar/which war doesn't mean much to me. However people take that term is up to them. I was interested in the fact that David Remnick's comments about popular singers seemed to only include r&b and soul singers. My first thought was, what about country singers? - Hank Williams, Merle Haggard - gospel singers? - Rev. Claude Jeter and Sam Cooke (actually, there are many, many gospel singers I'd rather listen to before I'd want to listen to Aretha singing gospel) - or singers from non-American cultures? - I immediately thought of Cesaria Evora - and Billie and Louis can't be denied. If someone thinks that Aretha is "the greatest" - I wouldn't go there myself, there are just too many fine singers who are still with us and who have left us - that's ok for them, but I feel that there's too large a musical world out there to make that statement. I enjoy listening to Aretha Franklin at times, but I feel that she's been riding on the coat tails of her Atlantic recordings from the late 60's since that time. Just my opinion on that.

Listening to it the other day, I felt I had a sense of what recording these songs meant to Jimmy Rowles.

Dumbo Bugs Bunny Clark Gable

"Moon Song" from: Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson

When I saw the Amazon link, which began "Amazon.com/Kings-Rhythm", I thought it was a box release of the Kings of Rhythm, Ike Turner's old band. No such luck.

I'm working my way back rereading his novels from last to first. The Doomsters was the first disappointment - except for The Ferguson Affair, which was not a Lew Archer book. I shall see if the earlier novels are disappointments. There's much to be said about "the same book over and over", but I still enjoy reading them for their different quirks.

Vietnam was a war fought by the U.S. and Vietnam - and mostly by economically poorer people in the U.S. WW 2 was a war fought by most of the world. And I'm with what John L said above. As for Jim's statement: "And I'm sure that most adults of our kids' age have a whole other conception of "postwar", so really, all this notionality about "postwar" being some shorthand for post WWII is some kind of chrono-myoptic narcissism.", I doubt that most young adults of today - I'm talking 20 somethings - have any concept of any war, except for the limited actions that have taken place in Iraq, Afghanistan, and wherever. (I expect that Jim will expound mightily on the above.)