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I won't hold the fact that you share Sinatra's bday with hin against y'all. Many happy returns!

I know, sorry; that's the only size I have this digital picture in.

Amen!

My wife and I last spring at a University function. . . .

Yeah, funny, the Mosaic box comes out, then. . . . RRRR said Mad John Cash!

Oh I agree, it's best read aloud and I've been reading about F W for a long time. One day I'll dedicate the attention that I know it needs. . . but probably not til I retire, honestly!

I guess I'm one of those jazz persons who read Joyce too. . .but I'm saving F W for my retirement. . . I've dabbled in it. I've read everything else. Stephen Hero is a favorite! I recently read a collection of writings about Joyce by people who had known him. VERY interesting.

I'm more of a collector than I want to be, but I'm a lot less of a collector than I had been even a few years ago. Now I just want the music, in the best sound possible. If I get a version that superceded another version I don't keep a duplicate. I'm finding duplicates and moving them out of the collection. It feels good. But. . . I still have a huge storage problem. . .that isn't going to get better.

Or even before, I remember twenty years ago seeing him on film shouting at a music video director and cameraman to "Keep the camera ON THE MONEY"! I saw the performance. My big impression was typical Sting lyrics and a big bass synth emphasis. . . . Didn't even NOTICE the drummer.

For about three years now I have been tripping to some Salvadoran style tamales made by a great family that runs a little restaurant that is up the street from me (and Brandon Burke), Elsi's. They are about twice as wide as Mehicano tamales, wrapped in banana leaves, and also have some potato within ---they serve pork, poblano pepper and cheese (my favorite) and chicken tamales. They only offer them on the weekends as part of a breakfast special that has the tamale, two eggs anyway you want 'em (I have mine scrambled) and either their back beans or their refired beans (both are excellent, but I go for the refried because I have rarely ever had better).

I think you would likely enjoy it. Clearly there is a strong case to be made, and he tries hard to make it, for jazz as modernism during the first few decades of its recorded existence. And he has some amusing things to say about Pops and Fats and Duke and Pres and some others. When it gets MOST interesting for me is the few times when he relates his PERSONAL experiences seeing a few of the artists in performance. . . I'd like there to be more of that. Where he loses me somewhat is when he compares some paitings to some recordings and vice versa. . . well. . . sometimes I think the comparisons have merit, sometimes. . . well who knows.

I read all kinds of things. A lot of the stuff I've read in the last few years has come from www.daedalusbooks.com . . . I like their prices and choices. Mainly books from their "religious" and "history" sections. The last few years I've been rereading favorites by Henry Miller, PKD, Jim Thompson, Raymond Chandler, and others. . . . It's amazing how a book can move you and how you can have different experiences at a different point in your life. More and more though I read nonfiction. . . . Biographies, history, religious history, jazz history. . . .

It's an interesting book by AA. Can't say I can really evaluate his criticism of paintings and other arts, and I think the man sees way too many phalluses and vaginas in artwork, but it was fun to read the jazz portions. . . .

It's an interesting book by AA. Can't say I can really evaluate his criticism of paintings and other arts, and I think the man sees way too many phalluses and vaginas in artwork, but it was fun to read the jazz portions. . . .

Many happy returns D!

Thanks for the information; it is so nice to learn of jazz musicians just ninety minutes away (I live in Austin). Listening to your father and your uncle on recordings is a joy!

John, I file my recordings under lock and key!

What's not to like indeed!

The HEP cd would be the recommendation I would make for Jack Jenney.

I like having it all for listening pleasure, not academic reasons, and I disagree aobut the sound; I think the new RCA double cd beats the original cd and the Classics gold cd to my ears on my system.

Hey I've known The Mule five or six years I think via email and I never made that connection between the Asimov character and the flesh and blood character! I used to be a big Science Fiction person in my youth (gad I really do feel as if my youth is gone, scary.) Some favorites were Pohl and Kornbluth, Anderson, Farmer, Niven, Delaney, Zelazny. . . .Though the deeper and deeper I got into Philip K. Dick (he was one of the first since I read the Zap Gun at age 12 in 1967) I moved out of the genre more into hard-boiled psychodrama and mysteries, deep into the generation of writers that Hammett and Chandler spawned, and true originals like Jim Thompon and David Goodis and Horace McCoy. . . and totally genrebusting people like Henry Miller and Thomas Mann. Then I embarked on a study of gnosticism and early Christianity that was partially fueled by PKD, and into a long period of mainly reading nonfiction and I'm mostly still in that phase. . . .

Hey Chris, this thread has a little bit of a head start on it! http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...est+album+cover

Evans amazes me with his piano playing in a way that Tatum does (but a totally DIFFERENT way). . . I've done a lot of listening and amazing and I don't really understand his work but I love it. I can listen to about an hour a week! It's so dense and deep that that does it for me. Going to have to get the Secret Sessions box one of these days indeed.

Chaos rules at casa Armstrong/Haggerty (or is that Haggerty/Armstrong---anyway my wife has not taken my name and I don't care.) I have some stuff all together by artist, but not much. Most of it is just strewn around the shelves and positions are changed. Helps me listen more randomly or makes me work for continuity which is a good thing.

My wife says I look like this guy, especially when clean shaven. . . . I don't believe her.