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Why are people having so much trouble getting my simple point? All I mean to say is if people aren't talking live to other people that's not interacting to me. Yes, listening to the same podcast puts people in a group of sorts. Until they meet and talk about it over a beer or something that's not a real 'community' to me. No thanks on the boom boxes. There's a guy in my 'hood who rides through the streets on a bike blasting Latin music. Amusing up to a point, but...

For those coming it should be interesting: I wrote some charts, including one on J.J. Johnson's Lament, one on Benny Carter's Summer Serenade, some Wes Montgomery tunes and more. Plus I have some originals and so does Sean. Also I expect some fine guitarists to be sitting in...

My point was that they're still disconnected from everyone and everything else, no matter what they're listening to. That's what troubles me...

I have no clue. Maybe you're right, but then they're moving their heads up and down to that educational stuff

Sunday, 8-28, 8-11 PM: Joel Fass, guitar, Sean Smith, bass. Walker's Restaurant 16 N. Moore St., Tribeca (one block north of Franklin St. station on the 1 train. Excellent food and service. Buy a dessert and hear us. Friends and music lovers, please come down!

Exactly. You nailed it...

Good point. It's distracting to musicians as well. Musicians need some quiet time before the set to focus and get ready to give our all. Sometimes that entails not even hearing music in one's own head for a brief moment, let alone hearing it externally...

I mean John Cage thought that all sounds are music. It's become downright deplorable. When you get on a subway train here, no one is reading anymore. Everyone is either lost in earbudland or playing with a device. Sure, they are useful tools, but I honestly fear for the future of human communication and self-betterment...

Maybe I'm a hard case, but I also don't want to be like the other 'sheeple' walking around with earbuds in and practically crashing into you because they are lost in their private reveries. I have enough music in my life on jobs and at home, working on it or listening. When I'm outside I really cherish the opportunity to see what's going on and interact with other people if possible, so I try to keep my ears open and unemcumbered. The modern world is way too atomized...

Maybe it was over-used because the drummer, Willie Rodriguez, is a Latin drummer and that's what he was raised on...

Barry Galbraith was on that date, and he laughingly told me that 'no one knew their ass from a hole in the ground' trying to play that music. I guess, as you say, it was was another attempt by a record company to have their jazz artists cash in on the Bossa Nova craze. As I remember it, though, it was pretty good... Also, FWIW, I've worked with a terrific and unique drummer originally from Rio, Vanderlei Pereira . He plays guitar, too (I think it's against the law to be Brasilian and not play guitar). One time we met for coffee I had my guitar, and I asked him to straighten me out out on how to play the basic bossa comp---because I'm just a dumb Yankee. He did...

Barry Galbraith was on that date, and he laughingly told me that 'no one knew their ass from a hole in the ground' trying to play that music. I guess, as you say, it was was another attempt by a record company to have their jazz artists cash in on the Bossa Nova craze. As I remember it, though, it was pretty good...

Sure it does. Everyone wants something they can latch on to easily. And a lot of musicians are just lazy...

Wonderful tributes to his writing and personage by Argue and colleagues including Jim Hall, Clark Terry, Maria Schneider and Jim Mcneeley. I thought it a great read: http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/celebration-remembering-a-tribute-to-bob-brookmeyer/

It's because it's so easy...

Phil Schaap talking his ass off as per usual in a purported Bird Flight tribute to Thielemans. 14 minutes into the show, no music yet...

Show biz...

Dick Hyman has a chart called, I think, The Longest Blues in the World. I heard it. It was...

I liked Raise Up Off of Me the best of all of these by a long shot. Lee Konitz is an interesting, if kvetchy, commentator on improvising. That was a good read, even if IMO he thinks too much...

Nobody plays Gershwin's tag. I think I heard Barry Harris do it once, with his singers, but only at the very end...

I may just get it after I finish what I'm currently reading. Not every musician is comfortable writing prose. He did a good job..

I came upon this just today, though it came out in 2009. Read through the sample and it was well-written. 'Worth a shot', as they say... https://books.google.com/books?id=P-iV_MzcUEcC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Yeah, he was a musical and soulful guitarist with a good sound. Didn't play or need to play a whole lot of notes. I heard him play The Mooche on guitar, after he had the stroke. He nailed it. Good stuff..

Memorial broadcast for Toots Thielemans right now on WKCR FM 89.9 FM and streaming live...