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I like the Payne/Drew score, although not as much as the one penned by Freddie Redd. Considering the fact that Payne has Clark Terry, Bennie Green, Duke Jordan, Ron Carter and Charlie Persip on hand, how can you go wrong? Was it ever reissued on CD? I have it as part of the Charlie Parker Records box. Probably not a legit reissue, but who knows.

To savor a list of songs composed by Burt Bacharach with lyrics by Hal David, who died Saturday at age 91, is to delight in the majesty of their achievement: "One Less Bell to Answer," "The Look of Love," "(They Long to Be) Close to You," "(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me," "This Guy's in Love With You," "What's New Pussycat?" and "What the World Needs Now Is Love"—and the incomparable string of hits they had with singer Dionne Warwick, including "Do You Know the Way to San Jose," "Don't Make Me Over," "I'll Never Fall in Love Again," "I Say a Little Prayer" and "Walk on By." Music lovers of a certain age can recall the melodies of those songs and, just as easily, David's lyrics, which are characterized by straight talk, vernacular, concision, a narrative flow, insight, an easy wit and a bittersweet take on love, in which heartache demoralizes but never destroys. More here: WSJ

There's not much out there: some tracks on Blue Note with the Edmond Hall Celeste Quartet, the live tracks from Minton's (see Jazz Immortal on OJC), the recently released tracks on Uptown ("Electric"), the tracks with Goodman and the Kansas City Six on From Spirituals To Swing, and live tracks compiled on an Andorran label that I'd never link to. All are worthwhile; I'd start with Jazz Immortal.

But it does demolish any legal logic used to justify this board policy. The point of the policy, I presume, is to immunize Jim from lawsuits lodged by copyright holders. But if the world's largest online retailer is selling the product, arguing that linking to such products will amount to likely lawsuits for Jim makes no sense. The point of a lawsuit is to obtain relief from harm; if nobody is bothering to sue Amazon, which is causing about 1,000,000x the harm Jim is in such a case...then why does Jim have anything to fear? It's asinine. I believe the point of the policy is not just a legal one but a moral one: people should not profit from the sale of bootlegs because the true owners of that music have not given their permission and are not being paid for it.

Hal David, whose simple, heartfelt lyrics made a perfect fit with Burt Bacharach's quirky melodies and resulted in dozens of hit songs, including "Do You Know the Way to San Jose" and "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head," died Saturday. He was 91. See: http://news.yahoo.co...-205354931.html

Yeah, I couldn't find the original thread myself when I went to reply to your post. I had to use Google Search.

LOL!

I totally agree. Previously discussed here.

Also available for download from eMusic.

Agreed...Thora Birch, Steve Buscemi, all amazing. I also often think about the philosophical point of the movie, that many live in a "ghost world" where they don't really understand the motivations and goals followed by most of society. I love the scene where Thora is being offered a scholarship to art school, and she asks "does that mean I'll have to study and stuff?" She just truly doesn't get it. But the Skip James track spoke instantly to her. It was also wonderful to see the Thora and Scarlett characters sharing a worldview at the beginning of the movie but (spoiler alert) during the course of the movie Scarlett somehow moves to the other side. It was shocking and revelatory to see the divide between them. This movie articulates a vision I haven't seen in another movie.

While perusing Amazon, I found some new releases coming up. Some have already been discussed on the board, others not. Most are not jazz, but I've listed them in the interest of completeness: Bill Withers - Complete Sussex and Columbia Johnny Cash - Complete Columbia Blue Oyster Cult - Complete Columbia Bessie Smith - Complete Columbia Charlie Christian - Genius of the Electric Guitar (rerelease) Brecker Brothers - Complete Arista Sarah Vaughan - Complete Columbia Duke Ellington - Complete Columbia Studio 1951-58 John Denver - RCA Albums Taj Mahal - Complete Columbia Louis Armstrong - Complete Columbia/Okeh & RCA Victor Recordings 1925-1933

Ghost World is an amazing movie.

Many of us will accumulate vast libraries of digital books and music over the course of our lifetimes. But when we die, our collections of words and music may expire with us. Someone who owned 10,000 hardcover books and the same number of vinyl records could bequeath them to descendants, but legal experts say passing on iTunes and Kindle libraries would be much more complicated. And one’s heirs stand to lose huge sums of money. “I find it hard to imagine a situation where a family would be OK with losing a collection of 10,000 books and songs,” says Evan Carroll, co-author of “Your Digital Afterlife.” “Legally dividing one account among several heirs would also be extremely difficult.” Part of the problem is that with digital content, one doesn’t have the same rights as with print books and CDs. Customers own a license to use the digital files—but they don’t actually own them. More here: WSJ

When I was a teen, I had a summer job near there, and used to stop in from time to time. I couldn't understand why people would pay full list price for unwrapped LPs. I did find some good albums in the $1.99 stacks there: John McLaughlin's Devotion on Douglas stands out in my mind. It was only when I was older did I understand the role the store played in the Broadway community.

The song is over. Times Square record Mecca, Colony Music, a favorite attraction for performing icons such as Elvis, Mick Jagger and Michael Jackson, will close after 64 years next month because of rapidly rising rents. Founded in 1948, the store has a stockpile of more than 1 million vinyl records and also sells sheet music from virtually every Broadway show and film ever made. “I’m devastated,” said co-owner Michael Grossbardt, whose father, Harold S. “Nappy” Grossbardt, started the store with partner Sidney Turk back when big-band impresario Benny Goodman was a customer. More here: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/colony_closing_brakes_records_ulAC4IBEJZ4ogG2D9yKdCM

True. J&R seems to have all these @ $5.99.

Thanks, Sonnymax. In honor of the recently departed, I downloaded Willis Jackson and Von Freeman - Lockin' Horns.

My first thought when I read the thread title was that it was the dj. Same here although I remember when he worked at WABC/770 in New York. What do I know? He did the 10 AM - 2 PM slot in the '60's on WMCA, when I was in my formative years. His show was very much geared towards housewives - his daily giveaway was a dozen roses.

I always liked "We Want Miles" - the last flicker of genius before his tedious '80's.

OK, so this was the SF writer, and not the WMCA DJ.

I saw the first album when it came out (was it on a Buddah label?), but never heard it and it sank without a trace soon after. There were tons of ignorable albums released in those days. I'm amazed at what gets reissued on CD...hard to believe anyone heard them when they first came out.

There was a child in Deconstructing Harry.

Sigh. WOR-AM came into my life in the early-90's. I was really sick of FM rock radio, felt I had long outgrown it, but needed a radio station to wake up to. I couldn't listen to jazz because the stations generally played instrumentals and the DJ's were too laid back, so it wouldn't wake me up. I discovered the morning show on WOR-AM, a team called Fitzsimmons and Rosenberg. Fitzsimmons was the garrulous, genial Irishman, and Rosenberg was the humorous Jew (sound like a different thread here?). They played Sinatra, Dino, and Tony, and were great to wake up to. RIP, WOR. PS: I think WOR was one of the first, if not the first, radio station in the country. And, of course, it wasn't the same John Gambling on all those 85 years, rather him, then his son, then grandson.