paul secor

The rule is there. Jim must have thought it was important. If you're looking to pick up a bootleg, it's simple enough to look elsewhere. The internet is a wide, wide world.

Perhaps others, like myself, were hoping that it wasn't as serious as it seems to be.

The fact that it was released on a record label doesn't make it legit.

Not long ago I went on a Muriel Spark binge and read probably the great majority of her fiction. A lot of the time I felt she was inspired by grudges and settling scores. She also seemed to me to be afflicted with some residual British empire racism. But her characters are so vivid and her satire is so juicy and her humor is so sly and mainly that she wrote so very well, that I'm afraid I can't resist her An addiction. This is the second of her novels I've read. I've enjoyed both and plan to read more.

John Phillip Sousa John Phillip Law Johnny Law

The Real Bud Freeman 1984 (Principally Jazz)

Bumps Blackwell Richard Penniman Robert Zimmerman

Muriel Spark: Momento Mori A novel which concerns old age, illness, dementia, and death. Surprisingly, it has many comic moments.

I have the Speakers Corner Mingus. Don't have and have never heard the AP 45. The Speakers Corners issue sounds fine, so I have no need to go for the 45. I also don't want to have to turn a record over every ten minutes. The last is probably just pure laziness on my part.

Buck Hill Quartet: This Is Buck Hill (Steeplechase) On this recording, Buck Hill plays like a man who's thrilled to have a first record date under his own name - which this was - and like a man who wonders if there will be other record dates in the future - there were. I'm glad that he played with that kind of happiness and urgency.

A.M. Homes Hugh Laurie Lauren Chapin

Dizzy Gillespie: One Night in Washington with The Orchestra (Elektra Musician)

AEC AACM Muhal

Lets keep the $ coming and perhaps Jim won't have to ask for donations for another year.

Duke Jordan: Midnight Moonlight (Steeplechase)

Miss Toni Fisher The Big Hurt The original Frank Thomas

Cedar Walton: Piano Solos (Clean Cuts)

Hopalong Cassidy Skip Spence Tracey Ullman

Karl Berger & Edward Blackwell: Just Play 1976 (Quark)

Gamal Abdel Nasser Lord Buckley The Marquis de Sade

John Banville: Prague Pictures

Dusty Rhodes Da Bastids Groove Holmes

Doc Cheatham and Sammy Price: Doc & Sammy (Sackville)

One of my favorite Ben records, MG.

Happy Birthday!