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A couple of fun stories as I approach the end of the book about how Sonny intimidated other players: Terrence Blanchard was going to play with him at Carnegie Hall. "I called Branford. I said, 'Man, Sonny called me to do a gig with him at Carnegie Hall.' Branford said, 'Go ahead and get your ass kicked like all the rest of us. This is your time." Jackie McLean was also going to play with him. He "went to Boston to give his horn a checkup with legendary saxophone technician Emilio Lyons. 'He said, Emilio, chick my instrument, 'cause I got to go in the ring with Sonny Rollins'.:" I love stories like that!

Saw "Air." Thought it was pretty good. Afleck does a fair Phil Knight.

Ditto.

I just read this section last night (I'm taking my own sweet time reading it!). Fascinating and *so* Rollins to turn down what would have been a LOT of money.

The grand master of spaces. What a great touch he had. RIP.

Gheorghe, your English is just fine, and you have excellent taste in Bop-era trumpeters!!

Some very fine Brown on this one

Just watched Fellini's "La Dolce Vita" recently. Despite its 3-hour length, it moved quickly. Fascinating film.

Disc 5 of this one, among my favorite Mosaics

Disc two of this very good comp

It seems like I remember Mosaic once considered a Betty Carter set, but begged off due to those licensing issues. Given recent attention to "women in jazz" (finally), a Mary Lou Williams set might actually sell, but I wouldn't want to have to pick through all those Andy Kirk things to find the jewels in the rough.

Hey, if these things actually do succeed in turning someone on to the music, then, great. It can use all the listeners it can get.

Finally got hold of this one. Sometimes you have to go back to the beginning.

I'd definitely go for those!

THE greatest double take in all of film history!!

Yes, it's the holdup of the Savory stuff that aggravates me. I think they want too much money (which reinforces the idea that they are overvaluing the material), but I also wonder if there are contractual issues with Yale.

I'm 69. I go back to at least 1990, maybe before. My first "brochure" is number 4, and my first set was the Monk Blue Note. So, over thirty years and still at it.

Fascinating--thanks for the history! And, of course, thanks again to Jim for keeping it going. When I tell people (rarely) about my jazz fanaticism (and the size of my collection), they sometimes shake their heads as if to say, poor man, he's crazy. Only here are there people equally as......devoted!

I still want the inside story on the Goodman estate, and why they are apparently so hard to deal with.

Some early Wes

Ditto! Is the "bluenote" board Aggie87 is talking about "rec.music.bluenote," the old usenet group? That's where I came from. That's how old *I* am! Stereo Jack clued me to this one, so I'm his fault! Thanks Jim and all for your work in keeping it going!

I still think packaging all of those 1957 Newport albums that Norman Granz put out on Verve would make a nice box. I used to babble on about a Hodges 60s Verve box, but then the Andorrans put paid to that by issuing almost all of them as twofers. What about labels? They've done Savoy, Dial, Bee Hive, and Black and White. Is there enough material on Mercer for a box? Maybe grouped with some other small labels from that era??

I was kidding, of course. It would be a great box.