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Larry Young Herbie Nichols Scott LaFaro Jimi Hendrix Eric Dolphy Walt Dickerson (still a chance!)

I've always considered BIG YOUTH .:. Screaming Target a favorite. Always puts a smile on my face! I'm picking up some Augustus Pablo today! We should also mention though that he is a melodica player. If you hate melodica, you might not like him as much. If you dislike melodica, he'll probably change your mind.

You can't beat the Trojan boxes. 3CD for less than $20. I have listened to the Rocksteady set more than any of them so far.

Greg, the way I see it, we have witnessed through recording, Jeff Tweedy grow away from one of those alt-country guys from the early nineties. I'd much rather hear innovative rock music these days. I wouldn't compare Jeff Tweedy with Brian Wilson any sooner than I would with Ray Davies. I like Uncle Tupelo, and I like Golden Smog, but I don't think those were Tweedy bands. He just happened to be in them. And he wasn't so much himself with those bands as he is with Wilco. Its all good music though.

Fantasia! And I'm looking forward to Volume 2! Friday!

No Dejohnette Chuck?

You've heard the album, now check this out.

Related Stories: Rolling Stone Article, below Downloaders Pay Back Wilco Site facilitates donations to band's handpicked charity A movement is born When Wilco superfan Ronen Givony downloaded a copy of the band's fifth album, A Ghost Is Born (not due for release until June 22nd), from the Internet two weeks ago, he felt simultaneously elated and indebted. The Boston-based Web master of bemydemon.org -- a Wilco lyric site that singer Jeff Tweedy has occasionally consulted backstage in moments of forgetfulness -- the twenty-five-year-old Givony transcribed the new songs' lyrics and sent them to Tweedy with an apology for having the album early, a promise to purchase it when it is commercially available and a solicitation for lyric corrections. After Tweedy complied, Givony dreamed up a unique way of showing his gratitude: the just-launched justafan.org, a site set up specifically for fans who download copies of the new Wilco album and want to show their appreciation by making a donation to the band-selected charity Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres. In less than a day online, with nothing more than word-of-mouth publicity, donations exceeded $1,500. "If you have a community or a fan base that is vocal and has real enthusiasm for the bands and music they love," Givony says, "a project like this can really work." The fact that the album was in circulation so early surprised no one, including Wilco manager Tony Margherita. "How do I feel about the record leaking on the Internet?" he says. "Well, that's a little bit like asking me how I felt about the sun coming up today. It's an inevitable thing and not something we ever perceive as a problem. We were -- to be honest -- surprised it took as long as it did [about ten days]. Basically, once the first batch of promotional CDs began circulating at record companies and in the media, we knew it was just a matter of days. It's just something you plan for and assume at this point." Margherita's matter-of-fact approach to the downloading issue stems in part from the success Wilco had after streaming their previous album, 2002's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, while it was in limbo during Wilco's well-documented exit from Warner Bros. At last count the album had sold 440,000 copies in the U.S. alone, Wilco's best-selling release to date. "The band and I think this idea is great because it just underscores something we believe very strongly: that real music fans are prepared, even anxious, to prove their loyalty and support their favorite artists," Margherita says. "They want to participate. These people are not the enemy . . . They're the backbone of what we all do. Plus, we get to support a charity that we think is very important, and I'm certain that a vast majority of the people who are downloading the record are going to want the real thing when it comes out in June." COLIN DEVENISH (April 2, 2004)

MJ, please tell us more about your experience with the Jazz & People's Movement! Sometimes I absolutely love this board!

I wasn't sure if it was Nels playing guitar on A GHOST IS BORN or not, since Tweedy and Bach have both proven to play a pretty mean electric guitar. He has become an official member of Wilco. I noticed that Bach is no longer in the band? Tweedy and Stirratt are the only original members. Here is the newest lineup: Jeff Tweedy: gtr, vox John Stirratt: bass gtr, vox Glenn Kotche: drums, percussion, etc. Mikael Jorgensen: keys, laptop Pat Sansone: keys, gtr, vox Nels Cline: gtr Everybody: cowbell I'm guessing the cowbell thing is a Bruce Dickensen joke. My first listen to the songs on the website didn't immediately click. The more I listen, though, the more I love these songs. Tweedy seems to have expanded upon his already expressive voice. Even without all the great extra-musical elements, these songs are sweet and genuine, in typical Wilco fashion. I'd love to see a demos collection released some day.

I would really like to see Milford Graves. I just wish it wasn't during Memorial Day Weekend. That's a tough one...

I have this LP. It is WAR that you are talking about. "Four Cornered Room" is enough to make the purchase worthwhile.

PM sent.

Yeah, load coils will stop the dsl signal. So will fiber slicks. Lots to consider. The telephone company's network is OLD! If they are telling you they can deliver, then there are no fiber slicks or load coils between you and the CO, so that's good. I don't know the specifics of residential VZ dsl, but I'm pretty sure that bandwidth is shared within a node. Whether you have 10 subscribers on your node or 10 subscribers more than the node can handle is the question. It is a nice package though, throwing in anti-virus software, anti-spam, etc. I still say go for it. If it doesn't work out, I'm sure there are alternatives in the area. Adelphia does still provide residential bandwidth.

Kevin, I don't think that is true. Verizon uses what is called a split channel bank. The dsl piggy-backs your existing telephone line. Your experience will depend on how far way you are from the Central Office. Fidelity of signal will decrease as you get further away, more specifically bandwidth. The other uncertainty regarding dsl is the quality of the copper lines between your house and the Central Office. In this case, it sounds like the last stretch might be new copper. Hard to say. Verizon, and its resellers are coming up with new ways to offer "dsl" by oversubscribing t-1s in which case guaranteed bandwidth is shady. 768K is a good download rate. 1.5M is great. 3.2 is as good as you will ever see on a cable or dsl modem. Usually not realistic unless you live next door to the central office! Either way, I think Chaney will be better off in hi-speed land than an ATT dial-up! Chaney, see what Adelphia has to offer.

Listen now! Click here. That first track has some foaming-at-the-mouth, spiral-eyed guitar riffs that are killing! Wilco rocks. I love the way they've evolved as a rock group from the alt-country beginnings. Still haven't seen them live!!!

P.S. Jim, I looked. Twenty minutes later (awe, two minutes later) I forgot what we were talking about. Thanks for the link!

I heard a rumor that Kwame goes all the way.

See I've had this conversations with a couple of "no-name" trumpet players and they say that jazz has ruined his classical chops. I've never heard much of either, so it is difficult to disagree. What do you guys think about this?

I don't mean to hurt anyone's feelings. I apologize. It just seems strange the direction this thread had taken. No offense to anyone. If you don't have anything nice to say...

I love mail! This is a great disc!

Well, I have to admit, I had to look up anabolic in this context. I'm still confused. Either way, you should not make any dramatic changes to your tv dosage without consulting a physician. Tv is not a solution for fatigue Jim. Sonny Rollins Europe mid-sixties however...

Bertrand, Can you pick Wynton's trumpet out of a line-up? I think I probably could, but again, that night on the radio I had it UP! I was truly surprised to hear that it was a Marsalis band.

Nice write-up Joe. I don't have this one and have never heard it. I will definitely be purchasing it soon and listening to it often after this recent Sonny Clark revival! 'Round here anyways.

I have really enjoyed the live School Days album, recommended to me here, IN OUR TIMES. Still haven't heard Brotzmann Tentet!