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I don't recall that (that he owned the place) but I do remember he is generally portrayed as a bit of a miser, though he usually goes along with the crazy scheme of the day. Fred Mertz has his own Wikipedia entry (lol), which states: "Eventually, Fred and Ethel retired and bought a brownstone apartment in New York City. In 1942, Lucy and Ricky moved into the brownstone apartment building where Fred, Ethel, Lucy, and Ricky quickly became friends. Fred's best friend, Ricky Ricardo, and Ricky's wife, Lucy, live in the apartment house." Here the link: Fred

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Besides being a classic, funny show, there are many socio-economic aspects of the show that are worth examining. I'm sure there must be some Ph.D theses out there on the show. There was a good one on the "Simpsons" not too long ago. Anyway, one detail of the show that always interested me is the fact that Fred owns the apartment building on the Upper East side of Manhattan that they live in. Nowadays, this would put you among the superrich, but Fred is always portrayed as a decent palooka, certainly not wealthy. There are a lot of details like that that once you start looking for them.

The Washington Post's obituary is pretty good: Rugolo Obit

Went to order the Marion Brown from Amazon, and they are showing it as "out of stock" That's amazing, albeit frustrating. The resellers have low prices, but they all ship from UK or Germany. Been down that road before. One dealer sent it sack mail; took 6 weeks to arrive. Will have to look around. Anyone have an idea of the print run on these things?

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Hard to follow Chuck's post, but from one October child to another, Happy Birthday!

Thanks folks, I really appreciate it! I had a lovely birthday. My oldest child (now an adult of course) was born on my 30th birthday, so we celebrate it together, which makes for double the fun. Anyway, it will be a while before I work off all the food and cake

It's true for me. One of the problems i have with a lot of Dutch jazz is the jokiness. I can only take so much even of ICP and Breuker's Kollektifs, and then only because they have so many other sterling qualities. Microscopic always seemed facile to me.

I think it made it into the album covers with punctuation thread, but if your talking "Stitt Becomes Pepper" thread, hell no, I'm not taking it there

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I forgot that Braxton was on this album. Jackie gets so much expression into his horn practically whenever he plays:

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We owe it to Sonny to play him if we're going to talk about him.

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Your plan to press a small number of CDs and go mp3 for the rest makes a lot of sense, This wasn't given as an option in the poll. Unless you're touring a lot, it wouldn't make sense to invest in a large physical inventory of CDs and LPs, which you could sell at gigs. Since you are not, I'd put the CDs on CD Baby and downloads on iTunes or Amazon. Your comment about unsold stock in the attic reminds me of what Thoreau said: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers published in 1849 was so unsuccessful that Thoreau was forced to buy back more than 700 unsold copies, out of 1,000 the publisher had printed. "I now have a library of nearly nine hundred volumes," Thoreau quipped in his journal, "over seven hundred of which I wrote myself." Of course, one would dearly love to have one of those books now!

Words fail me: Happy Birthday!

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