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Are you aware of this CD? Oh man, that sounds like just what I was looking for. That one's going on the must-get list.

I'll have to check this one out. There's a live recording with the same personnel on Telarc called Like Someone In Love. Desmond's solo on Tangerine and Things Ain't What They Used to Be are two of the best things he's ever done. But on the downside, the audience is pretty disrespectful and talks thoughout the set (most noticably during the bass solos) and the clattering of silverware and dishes is pretty annoying. I'd love to hear the same band in a better setting.

Happy birthday, Chuck.

I saw Faruq Z. Bey & Northwoods Improvisers and Michael Carey & Piotr Michalowski at Edgefest in Ann Arbor last year and they were two of my favorite performances (of many excellent performances). If I didn't have to work here I'd be there.

You and your family have my sincerest condolences, Jim.

There was an album called Lil' Ol' Groovemaker... Basie! where QJ wrote most of the tunes and did all of the arranging. A good recording with one great song: Nasty Magnus. But probably not the one you're talking about. I heard Nasty Magnus on a Verve compilation and traveled the world searching for the original album (hoping there would be similar songs). Found it in a Tower Records in the Shibuya district of Tokyo.

A friend's wife gave him permission to go to the movies next week so we're going to see Iron Man. It's worth a second viewing.

I liked the Tony Stark character. A very brash, American James Bond with unlimited finances; RDJ did a great job of delivering the snappy dialog. The scenes where he was warning the robot in the lab were great; he sounded like he was talking to a large happy dog with muddy feet. I heard that Tony Stark (RDJ) makes an appearence in the new Hulk movie. Sounds like Marvel is building its own little cinematic universe. Avengers Assemble!

I don't have cable or satellite or a dish or anything. I just have a bigass Yagi up in the attic and 20 year old television that takes 15 minutes to warm up before I can see anything but snow. I'm planning to upgrade the television later this year, but I doubt that I'll spring for cable or anything; I'll just get the converter box. Anything that I want to see on cable I can get from Netflix a year later - in fact, this weekend I'm watching the final season of The Sopranos so don't tell me how it

Sounds like grounds for a class action suit.

I have the Bridge recording that the article references. It's great. So is the recording of Perle's wind quintets.

I really like the recording of two of William Schuman's symphonies.

That would be a boatload of badass if they could get some giant puppets for the Atlanta Akhnaten performance. They don't even have to fit the performance. Just some giant puppets towering over the stage while the orchestra plays major arpeggio/minor arpeggio/major arpeggio/etc... The Center for Puppetry Arts has some Muppets in residence. Maybe Statler and Waldorf could drop by for the performance...

The Atlanta Opera is doing a performance of Akhnaten in January 2009. Can't wait to see how they stage it; with budget cuts it will be minimal at best (no pun intended).

Sam still had it going on when I saw him about 4 years ago. He drove from Orlando to Atlanta just to do one show with Jason Moran, then drove back. Of course he was doing 30 mph in the far left lane with his blinker on the whole way, but still, that's quite a haul.

Happy belated birthday. Also, I am wishing you a post-dated happy birthday for next year, to be cashed in the first week of April 2009.

I remember hearing that song for the first time in my teenage years and liking it. I hear it now in now in my forties and I understand it.

I heard the story on the drive home - very interesting. Sounds like Lonnie Johnson was an all-round class act - and a badass guitarist to boot. And I thought I knew one of those interviewee's name from somewhere...

I'm 43 and I wish my lawn was nice enough that kids would want to walk on it so I could tell them to get the hell off my lawn. Right now, the best I've got is birds shitting on my mailbox. Which really doesn't bother me as much as it does the mailman.

I must know the story behind this one...

Happy belated, Berigan! Hope the tornados left your property alone (and your power on).

So that's how Shamu shakes hands! The things you learn on this board...

It was bound to happen ag'in. Ain't had a nary a twister inside the Perimeter since that one what hit the guv'ner's mansion back in the seventies... damn demicrats... BTW, I'm north of ATL and I just got a little wind and rain, nothing of any importance. BUT - there was one thing that freaked me out on Saturday afternoon: there was a big bruise-colored cloud rolling in fast out of the west, and riding the front of the wave were about a hundred buzzards flying just over the treetops. Flew right over the house. Looked like something out of a movie. One of those big-budget buzzard movies that the Hollywood cookie-cutter keeps cranking out these days...

Love that mugshot. Who'da thunk that Dawn Wells grew up to become Irene Ryan?

Hey, as far as I'm concerned, the guy has done a lot in his field. His work has made many people happy, influenced a whole generation of followers and I think that he has written some of the best material in his genre. I hear a lot of people knocking him these days, but some people peak early in their careers and in the fifties and sixties and seventies, few people could hold their own with him. I'll always respect his abilities and the contributions he has made. Wait, we were talking about Freddie Hubbard, right?