Hoppy T. Frog

Which DC area libraries are good ones?

That's in Bartonsville, a tiny traditionally African-American community just outside Frederick, Maryland (my hometown). His extended family own a lot of property there.

It was great, but I was surprised at the number of walkouts (actually I shouldn't, considering the number of walkouts I saw at an Ornette Coleman show just last year--WHERE'S DE JAZZ??!!). Anybody have the season tickets and get to talk to Braxton before the show? Any idea what composition was played, and if it was one of the Ghost Trance series or one of the others he is working on?

I'm driving from Central Maryland for this show--my first Braxton concert.

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Wow...December's going to be my 3rd time in the states, and my first in NYC, so as if I wasn't excited enough... How long in advance do you typically have to book tickets to a place like the Iridium? Or maybe you don't? I don't want to miss out! It'll be cool to see Marshall Allen and J.D. Parran as well. I wonder if Taylor Ho Bynum has played with CT before? Struck me last night that CT was the second half of the London Jazz Festival bill last year that included the now-famous Braxton quintet gig. I wonder if Taylor heard Bynum there? Bynum was fantastic on that gig, by the way! ← Bynum played in Taylor's Big Band in April of 2004 for a five-night stand at the Iridium. Based on my experience in 2004, it would be easy to get in without advance tickets. However, if you are the cautious type like me, you might as well get a ticket for the first set of the night--and then iridium allows you to stay for the next set(s) with only a minimum.

The Chiaroscuro label has been added.

Yep, available now - but today's it's official release day isn't it? ← It was available a month ago as a download. I grabbed it immediately.

I'm hoping they are paying the artists some $$$, otherwise it's really ballsy to do this in a store in a city where a large percentage of the artists involved live!

Except for the artsy-fartsy type design that they used. Still hard to read. What's up with THAT? ← Be grateful you have notes! My Plugged Nickel has the liner notes all in Japanese (got a MasterSound version cheap/used), and some very strange Nipponese cartoons of Miles.

I used to love the Game Show Network when they showed those old panel shows. Now it's all dull original programming. Or am I wrong?

Hey-- What's people's take on Andrew White? Any recommended recordings out of the zillions he's done? I've been reading through a collection of old Cadence Magazines (in which he always bought full-page ads) and I know he's quite a character (as well as a good entrepeneur). Does he still play? I live near DC but I don't see any local gigs.

I think I know the store. I love the place, but they are selling CD-Rs of out-of-print albums/CDs with photocopied artwork. I have avoided buying them because of my misgivings. I haven't asked the clerks at the store what the story is with these CDs--don't want to sound like I'm a mole from the RIAA.

Ohmigod that is one hideous cover!

Pre-order price at CD Universe is 91 bucks.

Let the buyer beware! ← Not to cast aspersions on the seller's character, but if he is unaware that it was a six-disc set, and it has no box or booklet, I'm willing to bet he is not--shall we say--the actual owner of the property.

The printed catalogue was ideal bathroom reading...

Hi I'm staying in the Washington area on the 17th so I can see my hero Werner Herzog at the AFI Silverdocs festival. Therfore, I have one ticket for sale for the above show: Section DC, Row BB, Seat 109 Carnegie Hall Original Price $60 I would be more than happy to sell this for face value, plus $13.95 for overnight shipping via US Postal Service. I accept PayPal. Thanks!

Chris-- Which ones of the New Orleans and Chicago sessions would you recommend to a neophyte? Which are your personal favorites out of all the OJCs you did?

If that's the one on No More Records, then the Jazz Revord Center in NYC had a used copy available last November. Might be worth a call to see if it's still there.

Ohhhhh sugar. I totally forgot about that gig until a day or two after. I was comforting myself by thinking it wouldn't be a "real" Sam Rivers gig, what with it being something student-related. @##%@%$@#^#$#$@^#$@!!!!!!!!

Err.. Johnny Hodges=Jeep. Not sure if your were kidding or not!

Look at the ABOMINABLE feedback history of the seller. I would stay VERY far away from this.

It's definitely different. I didn't like it, while I've loved almost everythinhg he did before that. I listened to it twice, but put it in a sell pile. On the other side of the coin, you'll have to pry "Godspellized" from my cold, dead hands.

I had tickets to that show, but wussed out because of the snow (I'm 30 miles from DC). I'm glad to hear it still went off okay. Now I wish I'd gone...