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Right, and they were out earlier on Europe1 before they were out on Laserlight/Delta.

Don Pullen Select, disc 3

I love the instrumental edit used during the end credits of the film. Have to admit I did too. Not a Sabbath fan but that was cool. I've seen it twice now, and am going to see it again tomorrow. (It's just me being loyal to my friends. Four of us had planned to see it together, but it turned out we couldn't. . . I am seeing it with each of them. It was great to see it twice, I'm sure it will be nice again tomorrow.

Well, yes and no. This is definitely going to be "Sin City" part two visually according to the trailer. And I confess I loved the visual style and cinematogrophy of "Sin City." I've only read "Sin City," about one third of the published material, of any Miller stuff of late, and I have a sort of love/hate thing with it. I'm just going to hope that he's going to respect the material and not mutate it heavily. I think it's so fitting because Eisner really was the first person I ever noticed bringing a sort of cinematic style to comics. And when Miller hit the scene he strongly portrayed just that sort of an influence from Eisner, or at least that was how his work struck me. And now here is Miller bringing Eisner to the screen. For those reasons alone this is fascinating to me and I'll see it now matter how turkey-esque it may turn out to be.

Yes, I know you are! With. . Scarlett Johanson and Eva Mendes!

THERE IS GOING TO BE A "SPIRIT" MOVIE BY FRANK MILLER! Anyone else excited>?

Oddly enough, "Out to Lunch" is one of my least played Blue Notes, and a Dolphy recording I never listen to. Just have never really enjoyed it.

Jim, I'm so sorry to hear this. This is exactly how a coworker passed away a few years back, and it's hard because you don't ever get to prepare, to say goodbye, to spend those last precious moments. And if it's that hard with a coworker, it's infinitely impossibly harder with a parent. I'm no stranger to loss and can say that each day will bring change, for the worse as shock wears off, but for the better. Cherish his memory, and thanks for putting the love out here for us to see. You know you'll get love back.

Right, good experience on my end.

Why am I somehow not surprised to find this happened in Texas?

Lots of good recordings out there! I like his later recordings a lot on Arbor Jazz, etc. --- many of these are available on eMusic. The Mosaic Single is also quite good, as are the two volumes of recordings with Ellis Larkin that were available on Vanguard. The recordings in the Mosaic Columbia Small Group Swing collection are excellent, too bad they're not available separatel from the set.

I think it's more that they looked vivid on the four color "dot" pulp paper pages.

I guess, not sure. Hard to believe that the Happy/Pepper/Tony love triangle was the "heartbeat" of the comic for years.

Oh, and I must admit that Gwyneth looked really good as a red head. . . . Interesting that they at least managed to bring Happy the chauffeur / bodyguard into one scene. . . .

Well how we understand you, and how we like to think of you, can be two different things. I like to think of Kevin Bresnahan as an international diplomat, though. . . I know he's not.

The not fair part of that is. . . you presenting us with the image of Chuck Nessa tearing up! You know we prefer to think of you as more "Chuck Norris"- like!

Can't wait to see what they might do with Thor! Okay. . .I saw Iron Man today. It's a great film. I still think the Spidey series trumps it though in terms of making what felt like a sixties Marvel movie to ME. I was most excited by the Ditko run of Spidey and Dr. Strange, and the Kirby run of Thor and FF, those were the comics that really flipped me out when I was a lad. The Ramis movies captured the feel of the Spidey books to me and I have to admit I like the FF movies too for the same reason, only slightly less successful. (I really could have stood a different actor as Ben Grimm, sorry, and as Victor Von Doom). This Iron Man movie is GREAT but it didn't feel like any Iron Man I've known so it was odd in that way. Now I'm sure it probably is representative of some seventies, eighties, nineties or oughts Iron Man that I have absolutely no familiarity with, and so I don't have that nostalgic connection to the past to make and that removed a level of involvement for me. But it was a great superhero movie, really a blast.

Thanks! I haven't heard any Nick Lowe in a long time! (Doesn't have to be jazz!)

I think you're right it will be the two Davids, which would be a shame, I think Syesha deserves to at least be in the final two. . . And I really dislike that Archuleta dude. Maybe she'll get lucky. . .wouldn't hurt if she wore one more short skirt, would it? She looked beautiful Tuesday night! (Not a picture from Tuesday night)

For me, this week, it's "Eclipse" by Mingus as performed by Dolphy on "Out There." I've always loved this composition and I remembered listening to this version years ago that I had this idea to start a label called Eclipse and require each of my artists to record that tune on every other release or some such methodology, just to get to hear different interpretations of that. This version with the clarinet and the cello. . . just beautiful and stimulating. When Eclipse Records became a success, I was going to start Equinox Records and feature the same methodology using the Coltrane composition. Hey a fella can dream can't he? Anyway, this Dolphy performance made an impact on me this week. Anyone else want to share a track that socked them?

Better. Much better? Well maybe, I haven't heard that original cd for a long time. The box set sound is plenty good for Atlantic recordings of that vintage, straight honest transfer to digital. It's how I have all that material now and I never feel I need to find something better (and this has never been audiophile quality stuff anyway, but the music, man the music is something else).

Totally agree and am likewise mystified at the absence of this one. I have an "okay" lp copy. . .that could definitely stand to be replaced by a cd for listening.

Savoy did manage to issue about 70% of it on cd. I wouldn't hesitate on sound quality reasons, I'm sure these cds are going to sound more than fine.

Since Xmas I've a 32" Sony Bravia that Shawn helped me pick out. I'm in love with this tv.