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The Moffett is an LP that's not well known and deserves to be reissued. The others are my favorite Bobby Bradford recordings - though perhaps others might not care as much for the live recording, since it's more straight ahead.

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I'm waiting til everything is set and settled.

I love a good long browse too but browse less these days because of the temptation to actually buy books and read them at home. Re the Guardian article, I've been to 3 of those stores: Strand (I'll go back when I'm in NY next month), Shakespeare & Co. (a purportedly American literary bookstore that [shock!] didn't have WC Williams' Collected Poems) (it has been said that there's a superior English-language bookstore elsewhere in Paris), and City Lights, a disappointment, a tourist trap. As compensation, not far away, there's a very good second-hand bookstore in mid-Berkeley, don't recall the name. New Yorkers - are any bookstores that specialize in poetry trucked away somewhere in some of the boroughs? How about second-hand bookstores that have a lot of good old noir / hard-boiled / golden-age sf paperbacks? I wonder if the Berkeley book store was Moe's or Pegasus. To be honest, I usually only go into Half Price Books, which is right near the campus, but I can browse for a long time when in the mood. It looks like Mercer St. Books is still there in Greenwich Village (206 Mercer), but I haven't been in there in ages, so I don't know if it still holds up. It used to be my 2nd favorite bookstore in New York after the Strand. I've never been to Mercer St. Books, but their Facebook page is fairly current, so it seems they're still in business. Looks like a very good and interesting (in the best sense of that word) bookstore.

http://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf/2015/06/harold_battiste_dies.html

Happy Birthday!

He might have been the funniest of those guys. R.I.P.

Inspector Lewis - watching the entire series. Just finished set 5. I've seen them all before, but it's enjoyable to revisit them.

He's always wanted to be part of the upper classes and still considered a rebel. Doesn't work.

Long time since I read it, but I recall it as one of the best of the Greenes I just started, but there's from the get-go that understated scene and character-setting mastery that really impressed me in The End of the Affair (the only other Greene novel I read). Yes, I like End of the Affair too. I've read almost all of his stuff, but the other ones I go back to are Gun for Sale, Confidential Agent and Ministry of Fear and from a later period, The Quiet American. I liked the book, but it's not a favorite. My Goodreads review: "Duty, duty, duty. It will do you in."

I've had his second recording for a number of years. Guess it's time to move on to his third.

Calling Jeff.

Steve Kerr's father was murdered by Islamic jihadists in 1984 while serving as president of the American University of Beirut.

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http://www.wmur.com/entertainment/mighty-sam-mcclain-grammynominated-blues-singer-from-nh-dies/33610568 His "In the Same Old Way" is a classic.

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I didn't have a horse in this race but, ten years from now, it will just be in the record books that the Warriors were the 2014-15 champions. Hardy anyone will remember the injuries to Cavs players. Injuries are part of the game and teams have to live with them.

I'm sure that the Cardinals will deny any involvement, just like LaRussa denied that McGwire used performance enhancing drugs.

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Beautiful piece. Thanks so much for posting it.

In the late 60's, I remember seeing a film called Who's Crazy that Ornette did the soundtrack for. Marianne Faithfull sang an Ornette tune (I believe that it was "Lonely Woman", but it's been a long time). Can't find anything on You Tube or even any mention on the web of Marianne Faithfull doing this.

The music, however, is anything but grumpy.

I had never heard of Margo Guyan before, but it seems as if she had an interesting career: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margo_Guryan

I'll be interested to read comments about this. I never bought it because I thought there was other Garner out there that would appeal to me more.