Michael Fitzgerald

If you're going to do that, then how is it locking a thread at all? It just encourages picking things up again and letting them escalate. Mike

The late 1940s were the time when the Islamic movement touched a number of jazz musicians - Talib Dawud, Rudy Powell (early), (Sahib Shihab (1947), Art Blakey (1947?), Yusef Lateef (1949), Ahmad Jamal (1952). Abdullah Ibrahim is rather late (1968). http://www.muslimsinamerica.org/1900s.html http://www.aaari.org/moustafa_bayoumi.htm http://teaching.arts.usyd.edu.au/history/h...%20I/cult7.html See my website for a list of Muslim Names In Jazz. Mike

Locking a thread should be the responsibility of the board moderator, not anyone else. What I like about it is that history is preserved and information doesn't just vanish. If at some point a new thread needs to refer to a locked thread, that can be done with a link. I wish folks would police themselves and use good judgment - but what I have seen is that some people can't handle that responsibility. And I don't even know what's going on over in the political forum. Mike

Well, at least the Seinfeld DVDs allow one to get the entire thing. There are plenty of shows that will never be seen on DVD, though. Mike

What does deleting a thread that has gotten out of control do that couldn't be done by locking the thread? Mike

The Miracle Of Morgan's Creek - TCM encore starting in seconds! Mike

The ending credits on movies are getting longer and longer - and yes, apparently it is required that credits be shown on television (otherwise why wouldn't they just cut them?) - but isn't there any legal requirement that they be legible? Pretty soon to fit in the immense credits from a movie they will need to start them 15 minutes before the ending time. Mike

Oddly enough, it's Wayne who is buried in that grave. Mike

It's Solar, a tune composed not by Davis but by guitarist Chuck Wayne. Mike

What about the fact that an old film was only one PART of an extended show with other feature films, cartoons, newsreels, maybe even live music? So you might NEED a slow-down after all that. Watching it nowadays, after it has been removed from its "natural environment" is different. Mike

That a 45 rpm of Ascension was actually created - what does that mean? Does that prove that there really is a God? I mean, 1965 - space on the jukebox is occupied by Motown, Beatles, Petula Clark - someone actually thought there could be a market for an edited Ascension? Mike

Re: Dinwiddie - have you looked at the dreaded allmusic site? If not, why not? Mike

Actually, sruti - http://www.remembershakti.com/video.html Mike

There's more out there - it's just tricky because of misspellings of the name. But websearches will turn up stuff. Apparently Syyad has done a lot of playing in the NYC subways. Mike

I'm one of the last three people still on dialup - and I don't have any problem with 98% of the images. Even the recent one of Cosmic Music took only a moderate time to load. Of course, I don't frequent some of the image-intensive threads (racy album covers, etc.). As for smilies - hey, use 'em if you want to, but remember that for thousands of years people have been communicating fine with just words on the page. My Internet posting philosophy tends to align with the kind of stuff here: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html Unfortunately, more and more this kind of thing seems to be considered "quaint" or something like that. "Oh - we don't need etiquette." Yes. You do. Mike

Unfortunately some of us do NOT use signatures for pointless things that just take up space. My signature (when I use it - and I don't always) is a vital part of my posts. And no, I'm not going to start typing out those URLs - that's the whole damn point of having a signature! Mike

The band is coming to the Jazz Standard in NYC again - it's a short run: March 24-27, 2005 Mike

No, no - I can see them fine. It's a "post option" - I just don't use them myself. Besides, I have seen inadvertent problems - smilies were getting created unintentionally - I forget what it was - (b) or -b or something like that. I don't need 'em. But if you want to use them, fine - I'll be able to see them. Mike

You can turn off signatures? News to me. That's kind of stupid in my view. But I suppose there are a few I wouldn't want to see again, though I deal with them. Before I submit I have to decide whether or not to include the signature. And I always turn off the smilies. Now when are we going to get some *useful* tools like the "ignore user" function. Re: the Hill film - I know nothing more at this point. Mike

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/ind...s=U1ARTU0000005

Both those URLs are very clearly shown at the bottom of the post. Mike

See the Hill discography that Ronald Lyles and I put together on my website. Mike

EVI - it's the trumpetish model. Don't ask me why. Mike

See the Shirley Horn discography on my website. Horn and Miles appear on only one tune together (1990). Mik

That's OK - I checked it on gemm.com. Fortunately, they don't have the kind of website that will tailor recommendations based on what you've looked up. Mike