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  1. You should have made mention of it, I would have gladly given you an empty glass. Or better yet, a full one! Sounds like any number of gigs that I have on a steady basis.
  2. If you have any chance, you gotta come! btw, Chuck -- nice seeing you again this year! Sorry I didn't get more of a chance to talk.
  3. wow. I guess my favorites were not the favorites of the organissimo board in the slightest. As is seemingly the case every year, the best acts get booked on the jazz on jackson stage so they can play to a few hundred people. Fareed Haque, Esperanza Spaulding (her band is SOOOOO good), Dan Cray, Nicole Mitchell, Darwin Noguera and the previously mentioned Ben Paterson all turned in top notch performances that should have been seen by far more people than they were. Jeff Parker's set was a great (in essence) kick off to the festivities. I told everyone that would listen that Gonzalo Rubalcaba's set was going to be the best of the entire weekend. All of the reports that I've heard back indicate that I called that one to a "T." One of the few times in my life that I've been bummed that I was playing instead of seeing someone else. I thought Amina Figarova's set was really good, but was totally floored by the Holland Big Band. Especially Potter's solo. Damn. I was glad to see the Young Lions stage this year. What I'd REALLY like to see is either more JIC attention for Chicago's alt-jazz scene or an altogether new stage for the stuff. Algernon, Leafbird, Matt Ulery's Loom, Eastern Bloc, Andreas Kapsalis, and others are more than deserving of space at the fest, yet year after year, their music is ignored, where really, it's the freshest music happening in the midwest.
  4. A belated happy birthday wish, but a happy birthday wish nonetheless! Hope you had a good one. But more importantly, hope you have a good year!
  5. Re: "The Dead": with or without Jerry, they're still going to be pulling from one of the most marvelous canons of music EVER. Say what you will about masturbation, long jams, whatever, whatever, blah, blah, blah. There's still no debating the fact that they simply wrote great songs, from the hippie-dippie rock of The Golden Road to the overblown-ness of Terrapin Station, there's no denying their ability to craft great music. Shit, even Foolish Heart is a great tune (though I don't recommend the poorly played studio version of it on Built to Last). Re: which albums to pick up: there are magic moments on every live record, even Steal Your Face (if I found it for $2 used somewhere, that'd make the Casey Jones on there worthwhile). The Live/Dead era is great for its fire and wide eyed sense of adventure. The country rock era is great for the song craft. The "Grateful Dead Records" era (73-76) is great for the fantastic jamming material that came from that era. The Arista Years are plagued by great songs buried under bad performances. But great songs are still great songs. So, really, at the end of the day, the answer to the question of "what Dead to buy" is simple: EVERYTHING. One way to hear a lot of great Dead for free is to go here: Live Music Archive Enjoy.
  6. Lazaro, I might have to take you up on that offer! And for anyone else interested... The audio is atrocious (it was taken off of one of those mini handheld camcorders by one of my friends on a whim). I'm a little proud of the performances though. Enjoy!
  7. One of these days, I'll get some of the Chicagoans that post here to come out to a show... Paul Abella Trio THE STORE 2002 N. Halsted 9:30pm-12:30am Friday January 16th no cover We're fun, I promise. We won't change your life, we won't make you think heavy thoughts. We'll just hope you have a good time. If that's good enough for you, then please join us!
  8. my review in the upcoming edition of Chicago Jazz Magazine. I really dig what they're doing. Maybe you will too...
  9. and another review of Johnny's record
  10. F*ck Ozzie with a donkey dick. I'm so glad I don't have to watch that prick make goo-goo eyes at the camera anymore this season. I'll be so happy when he's finally out of baseball -- egotistical camera hound. Well yeah, there's that. As (seemingly) the only White Sox fan on this entire forum, I gotta stand up for my guys. The players that they have are great, and A.J., like his attitude or not, is a great player. Damn good catcher, damn good hitter for a catcher. If we can unload Vazquez and solidify our pitching, I think we've got a pretty good package all the way around. And for Ozzie to be able to make 2 playoff appearances and a 90 win season in 4 years is pretty impressive, especially considering the nimrods he has to take orders from. So, congrats to Tampa Bay for a great season and a great series. But all you White Sox haters out there can kiss my generously proportioned buttocks.
  11. Well, suffice it to say that there's not a station in the country that wouldn't want to be on mediaguide's radar. In every discussion that we've had with them, they've said that we're out of their range. What makes this really odd is the fact that WHPK is in their range, and we're not. I keep hearing that they're going to start monitoring web streams. I'm looking forward to that day.
  12. the problem is, it looks like your radio promotions guru is only going off of a jazzweek/media guide list, which means that a lot of stations like the one I work for are getting the shaft, because, hey, if you can't see the spins, then they must not exist. Trust me, they exist.
  13. I was talking to John, Chad and Matt last week at the Origin Records Jazz Fest in Chicago and your name kept coming up as an example of some of the finest music to come off of that label. I love your stuff man.
  14. I dig it. And the fine and friendly folks at WDCB all seem to be digging it too!
  15. Okay, let's see who you got! My original plan, until I found out that Cynthia "let's get a congressional hearing together to find out who killed Tupac" McKinney was their presidential choice. What a way to tell the world, "hey, we don't have a snowball's chance in hell of winning in November!" And, for the libertarians, we get someone who voted for some of the most UN-Libertarian laws ever to be on the books: The Patriot Act, DOMA, and he also wasted how many tax dollars trying to impeach Clinton? Yeah. The phrase "the inmates running the asylum" comes to mind.
  16. I've been loving me some emusic for a while now. I just found my disc on there the other day. (I seriously didn't know that it was on there until my wife found it on a google search...) so, find this one... it's only 8 credits! what a bargain!
  17. and the Paul Abella Trio at Joey's Brickhouse! Come support your fellow O boarder!!!
  18. whilst probably pointless, I will remind you that if you're up for a trip up the red line, my trio is playing at Joey's Brickhouse on Friday after Jazz Fest. It'd be cool to see some of the O boarders that are from Chicago or that are coming to Chicago.
  19. you wouldn't be the first, and you won't be the last. But, if it'll get more people to show up, I can babble on incoherently about how everyone is the best musician ever.
  20. The Paul Abella Trio Friday, August 29th Joey's Brickhouse 1258 W. Belmont Chicago, IL 60657 8:30pm-12:30am Just like last year, we're hosting our little after fest jazz party at one of the most fun places that you'll find on Chicago's North Side! It's a couple of blocks from the red line stop at Belmont, making it an easy hop, skip and a jump from downtown! So, come see us swing through a whole bunch of stuff! It'll be fun, I promise. And if you tell me who you are, I might just buy you a beer. C'mon, you know you wanna...
  21. there goes any chance of me attempting to lure people to Joey's Brickhouse after the fest to come see my trio play. Shit, I might bail on my gig to go see that one.
  22. Two very different entities operating here. The JIC does the shows and the City controls the purse strings and does the rest. For as much as I know about the inner workings here, I didn't know that the JIC wasn't involved in the booths and vendors and such. Which I should, considering that I work in one of those booths every year.
  23. They always do this at whatever company is set up to sell CD's. In the past, it had been the jazz record mart. Last year, inexplicably, it was best buy. Here, I'll explicate for you: $. Mark, Kidd and Fred are only doing Saturday/Sunday. Friday will be the Great Black Music Ensemble with special guests from that evening's AACM concert at the festival... Oh, I get it. But if you're going to have a festival whose organizers are so gung-ho on having a festival that is the polar opposite of selling out, then those organizers shouldn't all of the sudden sell out when it comes to supporting local business.
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