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A favorite recording:

Damn! I was looking for a good, inexpensive saw.

Good on ya! Never had cable or satellite. We don't have time or interest in most TV. We do have a DVR, but we're just getting around to programs we recorded in May - most of which are just rerun British shows. ...and the one program that I like, that happens to be on CBS, is watched almost immediately and erased. We tried to sit thru the last couple hours of the Emmys last night and realized that we'd never heard of about 90% of the people or programs nominated. That's OK.

Thanks...and look at this review quote about the Purcell! “Jig 112. viii.” That was the deal-breaker!

IT'S THE SAME GUY---------CLAY'S REALLY OUT THERE. If it is, ask him to show you his Sun Ra collection.

Sometimes I tell a funny story about Clay, but any pictures I see of him online appear so different than what I remember, so I'm having doubts as to whether it's the same guy.

The eyes are important too.

We've already been around and around about this.

Charles Earland, Jimmy McGriff, Lonnie Smith and Johnny "Hammond" Smith (who died just 11 days later). http://www.viddler.com/v/f2e10888

You may have misinterpreted what I stated.

...even more, after just coming back from a week+ long festival of Cage...

I haven't been to Rowlett in nearly a decade, so I haven't been to P&L's. Distance isn't a problem as long as the food is good. Lunch is usually a 20 minute+ drive. Yes, nice tunes - very. I'm not a big fan of the strolling type of musician. Just stay where you are and I'll find a reasonable distance to sit and put a tip in the jar when I leave. I'll have to say that I had a weird aural encounter with an accordionist in an Indian restaurant(?) a few years ago - accordions are just fine, but I'd rather have a Van Damme, Jordan or Jimenez than a Contino in most settings. I rarely go into these large corporate restaurants, but you can't help hearing the boom and blare coming from them when you walk by. Restaurant music can be a bugaboo if it's not presented in a respectful manner. There's a restaurant where I provide the recorded music and I suggested that we divide the sound into day and night-based. Lunch people have only an hour at most and want to feel good, filled and energized to get back to work and the owner notices faster turnaround when the lunch music has more uptempo tunes. Evening tunes, as you guessed, are less active, but aren't sentimental "smooth jazz" based crap. The volume is kept to just slightly above ambient. I told the owner that I thought it good to set the volume at a level that's comfortable for only two people sitting together. When there are more, it would be OK for the sound to be drowned out by chatter because it's presence would still be felt. It's not suppose to be a concert.

Which restaurant? They got rid of the two guys at Dos Charros - which was a relief. They would always come to our table and expect me to ask for a love song. I'd confuse them by asking for "Volver Volver."

Here's something that happened Tuesday night in an area of Munich called "Schwabing." I love this area of the city. Unfortunately, many people had windows blown out due to the enormous force of the blast. It had to be detonated at that location because it was too dangerous (and possibly too heavy? - there were differing stories going around the city). There's a more vocal response at the end of the clip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KyAlgfAfC8

What a legacy.

Randy Travis allegedly in fight near Texas church.

I'll have to look into this. I've got ca. 6TB of tunes coming their way.

Hey Jeff! How's your dad dealing with his new home now that he's been there about 6 months?

I think it was Dr. Zira trying to change Earth's history.

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is ready, if invited, to sit down at the drums next month when she will be honored for her "jazz diplomacy" at a gala concert at the Kennedy Center. Read More