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Glad to hear it. I'm seeing him tonight at UCSB.
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Hey I just looked at the thread where somone polled us about the game. More than 70% predicted the Sox would win! I knew this was a smart group.
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Weirdly enough the following story appeared in the LA Times today:
As a child, Daryl Roach loved all the drama and commotion when his family headed south to his father's rural birthplace. Before they left New York for Dismal Swamp in North Carolina, they'd jam the Lincoln Continental full of food and push all the bags into the trunk, which was already half filled by a big red canister of gasoline.
Roach said he only realized years later why all the provisioning had been necessary.
His father, Max Roach, is a legendary jazz drummer who helped create the bebop style and played with Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Clifford Brown and Miles Davis.
But driving through the rural South in the 1950s, Max Roach knew that as a black man he'd be denied service at many a gas station and restaurant.
Over the years, he became a civil rights activist, using his fame to speak out against racial injustice.
"I listened to a lot of ideas, a lot of revolutionary ideas," said Daryl Roach, now a 56-year-old actor living in Los Angeles.
Activism, it turns out, runs in the family.
On Monday night, Daryl Roach will hold the kickoff event of his new nonprofit organization, Musicaids … Life Thru Music. At a benefit concert at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre, James Taylor will sing, along with Brandi Carlile, Deborah Falconer and Arnold McCuller. Saxophonist Brandon Field will also perform.
Tickets for the concert, which is called "Songs for a New Resolution," cost $45 to $65. The event will raise money to help stop the spread of HIV and AIDS through education and research into preventive vaccines and microbicides.
Roach got the idea for Musicaids through years of listening to his close friend Peter Anton, a gastroenterologist, UCLA professor and director of the UCLA Center for HIV and Digestive Diseases.
Anton, who is also a researcher at the UCLA AIDS Institute, would often tell Roach about new studies. The physician told of research finding that as many as one in three young black males in Los Angeles and other American cities were infected with HIV, that two American teenagers were infected each half hour.
Roach was shocked by what he heard about the increase in new infections among black women and the particularly high rate of infection in young black men.
"I was alarmed at what he was telling me. I mean, there are studies that show that the rate of infection for young black men in South-Central Los Angeles is 30%," Roach said. "The only place with a higher rate is in Botswana."
He wanted to do something.
He thought immediately of music, which was always a force for change in his family.
"One thing which always got us through was music. It was music which got us through family struggles, which got us through life," he said.
He also thought of his father, and asked him for his help.
Soon, as in the old days, the talk turned to civil rights.
Max Roach wanted to help, but at first he was worried. He didn't want to erode any civil rights gains by focusing attention on something negative within the black community.
His son recalls saying to his father, "If we don't address this problem now, over the next 10 years we're going to lose all the gains of civil rights, because we'll lose a generation."
The debate went back and forth. Finally, son convinced father of the urgency.
Max Roach gave his son access to his extensive mailing list and signed Musicaids' first letter soliciting donations. Family friends, including Maya Angelou, sent money.
Money raised by Musicaids for research will go to the UCLA AIDS Institute. Unlike government grant money, it won't be bogged down by seemingly endless restrictions. Researchers will be able to use it to pursue their best ideas, said Edwin Bayrd, the institute's executive director.
A vaccine to prevent HIV infection is still at least a decade away, Bayrd said, particularly because the virus constantly mutates, creating numerous different strains.
But the institute hopes to soon begin testing another kind of medicine that would slow the pace of infection in people who already have HIV, Anton said.
Researchers are also testing microbicides — gels or foams that could be applied to skin and that could block transmission of the virus before it reached the bloodstream, Bayrd said.
Safe, effective and inexpensive microbicides could be particularly important in preventing HIV's spread among women, since it would give them the means to protect themselves, he said.
Max Roach is 81 now. He suffers from hydrocephalus, which affects his short-term memory and his balance. He lives in New York and won't be at Monday's concert.
But Daryl Roach said he hoped the event would be one of many that would honor his father's legacy. He wants to plan more concerts, featuring gospel, rhythm and blues, rap and jazz. He's hoping to sell concert CDs. He has lots of ideas.
"My father's life was always about deeds," he said. "The name of one of his albums was 'Deeds, Not Words.' And, really, that's what this is all about."
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I thought they were great. To be honest I'm not that familiar with their work. They mixed old and new: went back to something Stipes claimed he wrote when he was 19. It was a great sound mix: I could actually hear the words.
Stipes is a much more dynamic performer than I thought he would be.
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Hye great! Do you work for the New Israael Fund? I think I give them money.
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I just got back from an REM concert at the Santa Barbara Bowl. The music played before the concert (which I think is usually selected by the performers) was a nice eclectic mix including Tom Waits and Ornette Coleman! Shit, I remember when you could get people to leave the room by playing an Ornette record.
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I have a small collection of photos: a couple of Doisneaus, 2 George Tices, a Willy Ronis, a Paul Caponigro and Herman Leonard's famous photo of Dexter Gordon.
Also a few noirish paperbacks: Chandler & Hammett. Trouble is paperbacks eventually fall apart even if you don't read them. Makes much more sense to collect comics. Of course my mother threw all mine out.
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Costello @ the El Mocombo
Hey I was there! My wife, who's a journalist, got me in. Her hearing's still affected 25 years later. The cd captures it pretty well but it leaves out a guest appearance by Nick Lowe who sang "I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass".
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I was browsing through the Amazon DVD site and discovered that they're selling some box sets insanely cheaply. First seasons of Simpsons and 24 for $14.99 each!
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Jim: those are great!
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Question for Beach Boy fans.
Do you like the Four Freshman too?
Actually I've always thought the BBs sounded more like the HiLos, though I know Brian often mentions the Freshman and they can be seen as influencing the HiLos as well as the Beach Boys.
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Have they fixed the glue in the cardboard sleeves the discs are in? Disc 1 of my Bitches Brew set needed to be replaced because the glue got all over it, and last night my Miles/Coltrane box discs seemed to be a little sticky on the edges.
Arghhh... I've just found that to be true of my disc 5. How/where did you get it replaced?
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... just realized/discovered that Fresh Sounds has already reissued the first four Jazz Studio albums on two discs. Anyone have these? The Jazz Lab series has also apparently been reissued by Fresh Sounds.
Where can these or the Japanese re-issues be found? I have a friend who's been looking for jazz Studio 2 for years. (It was the first Lp he ever bought. And it got warped when he left it on a window sill-- along with about 50 other records he's been replacing.
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Saw Wallace Roney with a quintet at a small club here in Santa Barbara. I hadn't heard him except on the cd and Lazer disc of his apperance with Miles at Montreux. I'd heard that the had a new "electric" cd out but he showed up with an acoustic group and they blew the roof off the place. Group sounded a bit like the 2nd Miles quintet but with more of a blues feel. Lot's of shifting rhythms, pedal points and even stop-times. A great drummer named Eric Allen and equally terrific bass player who I think was Matt Garrison. They were selling the new cd at the club so I got a copy. It has Adam Holzman on Fender Rhodes and DJ Logic on some cuts. So far I'm a little disappointed in the cd but that may ust be becaseu I was so impressed by the live acoustic performance.
Ayone else hearad this group live?
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Fun, Water on the Pond and Circle in the Round (all 33 minutes of it are there for 99 cents each but not Teo's Bag. Nor is Falling Water. BTW after the boxes come out they usually reissue the original cds with added cuts from the box set. But I just checked and Teo's Bag and Falling Water seem to only be on the box sets.
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I just thought of something.
Are these Miles boxes on itunes? This way, I could buy the individual CDs and just buy the extra tracks from itunes (for the 60s quintet box, for example).
Bertrand.
All of them are on itunes except the latest. they're all listed as "Partial Albums" and you can only download them by song.The 60's box has 24 tracks including many of the alternates. It costs 99cents per track whether it's a bit of studio chatter or a 12 minute complete track! I can check what's missing if you like.
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Uhhhh. Who determined which were the attractive faces?
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NYSC is the Amaerican and Japanese standard. Europeans used to the better PAL standard refer to NTSC as Not So Great Colour.
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Design wise they seem to have learned from their mistake. You canm actually read the essays and tell which disc you're looking at.
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The box set entitled "Good Vibrations contains 11 tracks from the Smile sessions. Can one make a decent version of Smile from them? Also that box set has a long track from the Good Vibrations sessions that contain different lyrics than those ultimately used. Are they by Van Dyke Parks?
To answer my own questoin (now that I have the cd and quite like it) yes these are the "original" lyrics to goodVibrations. And I guess I miseed that an earlier post pointed out that they're by Tony Asher.
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OK but having read that explanation does that mean that there are 3 unreleased comnplete takes that contain the theme and solos?
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I can't answer your question but I remember seeing that episode. However I think Hawk is shown playing clarinet so he may not even be on the soundtrack.
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I didn't know about the CC release of the gil Evans. I have them on cd as Pacifc jazz releases-- from EMI I guess. I read somewhere (maybe here) that the original tapes are in bad shape.
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RCA began regularly recording their symphonic dates in stereo in the first quarter of 1954.
Bones Howe once told me that when he was engineering for Verve they didn't want to pay for stereo so he paid for it himself and kept the tapes! I don't know which sessions and I keep hoping to run into him again and ask him if they've ever been released.
Blues lyrics
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Saw James Moody last night and he quoted the world's shortest blues lyric:
"Didn't wake up this morning."