Big Al

Thanks dude! Hardboppin' yeah! I think I'm too boring to go outside that box.

Thanks! Pity I missed the birthday chat!

Thanks for reviving this! It's my birthday! Party like it's..... well, my birthday!

Wow!!! Not only am I tremendously impressed, I am genuinely touched. Thank you! I like that: "Nurdley." I think I may change my handle to that. I mean, when you've been one all yer life...

PM sent. You stud, you. Not really--I sent him a PM saying that Big Al would probably do it for him. I'll gladly do it!

I am a rock I am an iiiiiiiiiiiiisland.

Ron's a helluva guy, he just isn't fast enough!

That's how I got high at a Foreigner concert. In 1987. It's the only time I've ever been high and, hell yes I inhaled!

Here are some that should have been, but probably weren't: Sonny Clark, Leapin' and Lopin' "Leap Frog" from Bird and Diz Any version of "Lester Leaps In"

Gotcha covered, Agg. I'll PM you to make sure we're still on, and then I'll FWD the total to you. It's things like this that make this the best hang on the internet! Thanks Al, you rock! PM sent too. You'll love this from the confirmation page: Total Price: $57.73 Your Savings: $346.59 It doesn't say this on the page, but I calculated it out: $2.14 per disc!

Gotcha covered, Agg. I'll PM you to make sure we're still on, and then I'll FWD the total to you.

Art Pepper's GETTIN' TOGETHER was recorded on this day in 1960! It's one of my favorite Pepper albums and I was giving it a spin anyway and noticed the recording date. Thought that was pretty cool! Any other albums recorded on a Leap Day?

Holy sh.... You can get the entire Led Zeppelin box for $18. Good thing I swore off CD-buying for Lent.

I have it and I LOVE it, but in addition to being a Desmond fan, I am also a Simon and Garfunkle fan... I think you're in the minority on this one, dude. I like both Desmond & S&G, too, but I can't stomach the combination of the two. It just doesn't seem...... right. -_-

Should the same apply to the Bill Evans set? Not worth the time? I don't know. I'm certainly curious because I enjoy Evans work with Ogerman. OTOH, I've yet to read a good review of this album anywhere. In fact, IIRC, even Evans disliked it. Seems like this album was supposed to have been released in the VBR series a few years ago and then was dropped without a word.

I was all set to believe that Stephenville was just another in a long line of backwoods-rednecks seeing UFOs in the middle of nowhere until the government stepped in and said it wasn't a UFO but rather some Air Force fighter pilots running training exercises. Now I'm absolutely positive it really was a UFO. But, for the love of God, why are they (the E.T.'s) looking for intelligent life in Stephenville, much less Texas???

Midnight Blue is the same kind of trio with the addition of Stanley Turrentine on tenor sax. That can whet your appetite until the 18th! Stay strong; stay away from the Desmond album. We're here for you. Get From the Hot Afternoon instead, if you don't already have it.

Must have a lot of cracks that need sealing, I guess.

We talk? I thought we just gathered to drink beer, rap about meaningless shit, drink more beer, have the usual Longhorn/Aggie insults, drink more beer, quote SNL Celebrity Jeopardy, drink more beer, make fun of people who have to leave the chat to empty their bladder or get another beer, listen to whatever the hell we feel like, drink more beer...... But I don't remember doing any talking.

Tony Bennett with the Ralph Sharon Trio, Fall 1994, Casa Manana, a theater-in-the-round. Holds about 1,500 people, we were eight rows back from the stage. Bennett worked the entire circle. Still get goose-bumps thinking about it. Wayne Shorter at the Denton Arts & Jazz Fest, April 2002 (I think. maybe JSngry remembers better than I do). Just to be able to see someone I consider a legend play up to the heights I hold him.

Drat! Still no Texas dates!

I think even Buckley himself would've laughed at this! RIP

Coooome, and have paaaatience, had a busy weeeeeek Okay, I'll post the answers Okay, I'll post the answers Okay, I'll post the answers. Haaaaa-ppy now? :g (I can take a joke!)

Issued early in the CD age, when they thought you could only put 70-72 minutes on a CD? Just guessing here, I have no idea. I bet if you e-mail Doug Payne thru his website, he could probably tell you. He's answered a number of my CTI-related questions.

Fifty years! Dayamn!!!