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With Alpha in, I think, Paris.

One of his embellished tape boxes.

"Modulate boy. . .modulate!"

OH YOU DOG!

I'm getting a lot of good presents this year! B) Thanks Catesta!

Thanks guys. I'm looking forward to a quiet evening at home with Helen and Marge (the tortoiseshell cat) and nothing more, my favorite place to be. I used to like to go off on my own on my birthday and reflect on my life, but not too long ago that got way too depressing to do!

I hear ya loud and strong. He was such an amazing PERSON. His writing. His collages! His warmth and joie de vivre. A real genius, who bestrode the world like a collosus!

Ah Soul Station, you know the way into my heart! THAT might be worth becoming President for! Thanks for all the good will and wishes folks. I've made so many great friends amongst y'all and have had so much fun (and comfort) as a member of this community! Now play some Pops! I've got "Ambassador Satch" spinnin' right now!

The early material on Classics is also quite good, at least what I have heard of it (I have those which contain the material that Blue Note had leased and released.)

This has always been a favorite picture. He's got that grin, but he means business!

What, no "Commander of the Mother Ship" choice? A bassplayer I used to work with, King Vivion Wilson, used to tell me "If you're upsetting someone, there's something you're doing right!" There's definitely something to that!

All the Evans boxes I've heard are great. . . I really like this one for the clarity of the recordings and the variety of the sessions. I put all the discs in slimline fourbangers---my set really hasn't corroded further, but I'm not crazy about the other packaging aspects of the set.

I personally feel that I owe him so much! Happy Birthday Pops!

Wow, getting paid to go to Church. . . I'd be a millionaire by twenty if that had been in place fifty years ago! I grew up in an integrated church, my dad the white preacher and a predominantly black church (and neighborhood.) Sure wasn't Baptist though. They'd have to pay me a lot. . . .

Looks as if Daedalus has finally sold out of Jazz on the Barbary Coast! That's a shame.

I saw this the day it came out and enjoyed it a lot. I haven't seen the original, maybe I will some day, but this was an intelligent film, so unlike the usual trash that gets good ratings. Maybe most don't want to think when they go to the movies, but I'm always delighted when I'm invited to.