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Hey John, you have and have read more about Dylan than I. I've read some of what you have and have come to the conclusion. . . we'll never really know what I'd really like to know about Dylan, and there's so much myth-building and appropriation and camoflauge in what we do have that the rest is just better left to my imagination and my own interpretation. I think "Positively Fourth Street" was the most revealing to me and a springboard to understanding his methodology of obscuring and trickily revealing his facts and personality . . . .

Count Basie Orchestra "Basie in Europe" LRC cd

Nah, I'm not a fish. And though I live a half a mile from a lake I don't even fish. I'm going to start rewatching the latest season of "Better Call Saul"--AMC is rerunning all nine episodes today and my DVR is at work.

Helen Merrill "Sposin'" Japan cd Followed by Kenny Burrell "Tin Tin Deo" Concord Records cd

Yes. . . eye-opening material here.

I'm not taking the bait. Now watching "I'll be Gone in the Dark" episode 2.

I'm not that dismissive and enjoy different ways of storytelling. This is a very different way than Boardwalk Empire, and different subject matter as well. and not quite as you describe and dismiss.

I just don't see a huge lot of Boardwalk Empire connections. This is California, this is roughly the same time period but the coastal differences were huge then. Neither the writing, the production nor the storyline seem similar to me. Whatevs!

Well, if I recall correctly there's no reason it COUDLN'T be a prequel--I don't think in the novels Mason's history is spelled out in ways that would preclude this being a back story. I have tended to just think of this as something else. Another character, not the Mason we know (which could be like "Better Call Saul" in reverse--this is a Saul Goodman who later becomes more of a Jimmy McGill). That's easy enough to do as the three main Gardner characters, Perry Mason, Paul Drake and Della Street, don't really resemble the Gardner delineated personalities, and one could imagine they haven't morphed into those yet, or simply these are not those characters. Then again, Mason in the books (my only real source, I never watched the TV series nor did I listen to the radio shows or watch any movies) is described by the most prominent DA thus: ""You're a better detective than you are a lawyer. When you turn your mind to the solution of a crime, you ferret out the truth." So. . . it's neither implausible nor out of character entirely for Maso to have BEEN a detective previously, that would explain his traits as a lawyer with his clients. His past is really never precisely addressed in the novels. It's sort of my cup of tea and I'm sipping it with some pleasure.

Yeah, I've kept up with it. It's a sever re-imagining and not as smoothly executed as it could be. I like that they made Drake a cop and a Black cop at that--I love that actor that's one reason I'm still watching, there are a few actors here that I really like. I'm not a big Perry Mason fan, but I'm a big fan of another series of Gardner's, the B. Cool and Lam Detective agency series of the cases of Bertha Cool and Donald Lam. Those are funny and for their time a bit edgy. Nothing like these HBO episodes. I'm guessing that this series COULD be viewed as a precursor to the Mason mythos we have officially. Mason could have been in WWI, he could have been a PI working for a lawyer before he became a lawyer and Drake could have been a cop before he became Mason's PI. It's nothing like Gardner's conception, but I do like its attempt at gritty realism and its spin on hard-boiled reality of the past, which reminds me of Hammett more than other crime fiction. And I'm a Hammett fan. So. . . I'm watching. I think it's one of those you have to watch several times and I think I'll rewatch these three before going further. And I like Mason's girlfriend, she seems like someone real I know.

The rather strange reboot of Perry Mason.

Johnny Griffin (and members of the Kenny Clarke Francy Boland Big Band) "Lady Bottom Heavy's Waltz" I'd forgotten how good this one is. Clarke and Clare both on drums driving this small group along! Followed by Helen Merrill "Chasin' the Bird" Gitanes Jazz cd version. One of my favorite Merrills. Japan is reissuing this and a few other great Merrill cds at budget prices today.

Check out discogs.com Bluesnik, some possibilities there.

Disc 2 of The World Experience Orchestra, then Myriam Alter, "Alter Ego"

I had my suspicions.. . thanks.

World's Experience Orchestra "Beginning Of A New Birth/As Time Flows On" On Now Again Records 2 cd set, disc 1. I've liked work by some of these cats before, and the price was very tempting at www.dustygroove.com . . . I gave in and gave it a try and glad I did. Photo of LP version pictured, I have the cd edition.

Julian Arguelles "Tetra" . . . quite a nice quartet album and recording.

It was released in 2004 and is out of print as all the Fantasy titles released before Concord are. It can be had cheaply though in the used market.

Inspired me to put on this LP which I like a lot.

No issues here today.

I managed to sneak this one in, the new MQA/UHQCD or "Duke Ellington and John Coltrane" from Impulse! Japan. Sounds awesome! And followed it with this: Miles Davis "Four and More" MoFiSACD

Thanks for this!

Thanks! I've sent a PM.

I'd love it my friend if you are willing. The "Easy Winds" are the gold I'm sure! (Love that song).

Actually there's a number of posts in the thread about the Workingman's Dead 50th Anniversary Deluxe edition.