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Here's a long and fascinating article about a short film Paul Newman directed in the early '60's. It will be shown on TCM in January, for the first time since 1962. The article touches on the Actors' Studio, David Amram, Lee Grant, and many others, evoking a now long-distant era in NYC's cultural life. http://forward.com/culture/354642/exclusive-paul-newmans-lost-masterpiece-and-how-we-rediscovered-it/

I have the album and listened all the way through, couldn't find a trace of Bob (though he is mentioned on the cover).

Why is it $2 more expensive than volume 1?

I've mentioned this one before in other threads. A very odd, yet satisfying date. It's just a trio: Dizzy, Toots on guitar only, and Pretty Purdie. Shouldn't work, but it does:

I hope I look as good at their ages.

I'd say these are out of character for Braxton...it's funny to try to hear him fit in with Hank Jones (there's two volumes, btw):

Here's an album I'm surprised I'm recommending. I don't think I like her voice or her delivery, yet I keep coming back to it, so there must be something about it...

There are bluetooth headphones specifically designed for runners. For example, Plantronics makes quite a few of them.

Bluetooth headphones don't have to be buds. There are lots of traditional headphone designs that are now bluetooth. Sennheiser, Bose, Sony, etc.

It's nice not being tethered to the phone.

This is the one that was originally on Artists House? discogs.com has quite a few used copies on sale; see https://www.discogs.com/sell/release/2634844?ev=rb

It's small, but you have to carry it separately, which is inconvenient. I'd say start shopping for bluetooth headphones, since you know other phone manufacturers will follow Apple's lead.

They supply a dongle with the phone.

Just to finish the saga, Apple wanted $149 to replace the screen on my iPhone 6+. So I had to decide whether I wanted to put $149 into a 2-year old phone, or to trade it in and upgrade. I chose the latter, getting a 32 GB iPhone 7+. I could live without the extra memory (the 6+ had 64 GB), and the price differential made this a good move. I'm very happy with the new phone - it seems peppier and more responsive than the 6+.

After doing research, I've decided on the Edifier e25HD Luna Eclipse speakers. They have an optical audio input, sound really good, and look great.

Excellent! Thanks for posting. Cool to see Ed Thigpen too.

I found this excellent album in a used record store for $2.99. Never knew of it before. Clark and Ben make a nice front line. Recorded June 17, 1963. Clark Terry tp+flh, Ben Webster ts, Roger Kellaway p+celeste, Gene Bertoncini g, Bill Crow b, Dave Bailey dr.

He died in 1974, so I'm not sure what "are late 1970s recordings from New York". Maybe something got lost in translation. A friend told me about a concert he saw, I think at Lehman College in the Bronx, maybe a year before Duke died. Ellington opened for Mandrill (!) (maybe it was Osibisa). Duke comes out and introduces the band, one by one. Then he says "And now, the youngest person in the band, on piano," and he sat down and began playing.

Both of these are on the Savoy LP twofer "Savoy Jam Party."

In the liner notes for the Savoy Fuller/Flanagan date I mentioned above, they interviewed producer Ozzie Cadena: Cadena surmises that Fuller was the "straw boss" of the session, by virtue of the fact that aside from the three standard tunes, all of the compositions are Fuller originals. "Curtis was very aggressive about doing recording dates," says Cadena. "He made a lot of dates and contributed a lot of tunes."

Per The Second Disc, the reissue in January of the first Grateful Dead album will include "an unreleased concert from July 29, 1966 in Vancouver, Canada on Disc 2." See: http://theseconddisc.com/2016/11/start-down-the-golden-road-rhino-reissues-grateful-deads-debut-to-launch-50th-anniversary-campaign/

DULUTH, Minn.—When Steve Goldfine heard that Bob Dylan wouldn’t be in Stockholm to pick up his Nobel Prize Dec. 10, he couldn’t have been less surprised. “It’s no different than he’s been for 60 years,” said Mr. Goldfine, a distant cousin of the rock ’n’ roll troubadour. He remembered Mr. Dylan behaving similarly during a Thanksgiving dinner he shared with Mr. Dylan’s family here in the 1950s. “I don’t believe he came out of the basement. He was playing music in the basement.” Mr. Dylan, the first musician to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, has proven to be quite a headache for the Swedish Academy, which awards the prizes. First, he took several weeks to acknowledge the award, sparking concerns he would be the first laureate in literature since Jean-Paul Sartre in 1964 to reject it. A Nobel Committee member called his behavior “impolite and arrogant” in an interview with a Swedish television station. More here: http://www.wsj.com/articles/bob-dylan-is-blowin-everybody-off-but-minnesotans-dont-mind-1480619528

Dusty Groove currently has a bunch of sealed Beehive LPs at reasonable prices ($4.99 - $6.99). They're listed under used LPs.

I don't think he was in the same league as J.J., but seemed to make a lot of great dates. I saw him once at the Jazz Standard in a group headed by Billy Higgins, with John Ore, James Spaulding, Don Sickler and probably some others. This was around 2000. He wasn't playing on the same level as the others; maybe he was just having an off-night. I remember someone, either here or on the BNBB, saying he only had one lung. But hey, all of those dates from the late-'50's onwards are so special, because they just don't make 'em like that anymore, that I'll still snap up anything I can find. I found this recently on a Savoy reissue LP. Cover says it's a Tommy Flanagan date, but the liner notes say Fuller headed the session: Original cover: