Jim R

I'm seeing porn links in Google search results for search terms having nothing to do with porn. I think a lot of the porn sites (or sites trying to attract people to advertising) are using random word generators, and including thousands of random words on their pages in order to cause Google search hits. For example, I typed in oklahoma soundtrack download, and (granted, it was on one of the last results pages) look what came up: http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:tHrqM...d=619&gl=us There is NO adverstising on this page, that I can see. Just thousands of random words along with the porn-related heading. The Google search results also included some other porn-related links.

Dave, I'm on a Mac and also use Stuffit, so I have no experience with WinZip. I wonder if it would help if you tried renaming the files by entering a plain letter "a" in the place of the two portuguese letters (before trying to open with WinZip)... If that doesn't work, I would contact zeca (click on his profile link and e-mail him).

I hadn't heard about this. Interesting, because I clearly recall an odd experience I had a few months ago. I took a walk in the local residential area, and when I left the house, I noticed a couple of dead bees on the driveway and the sidewalk in front of our house. I walked about two miles, and on almost every street there was at least one dead bee on the sidewalk. I've gone for many walks before and since, but as I recall, it was only on that one day that I saw this oddity.

I'm really not sure... haven't tried to figure that out. I know that they stay active for quite awhile, though (weeks, if not months in some cases). I've gone back and viewed a few that had been posted weeks before. Late, yeah, that Clare Fisher album is nice. Probably THE first thing I would recommend that people get at Loronix is the legendary "O Encontro au Bon Gourmet": http://loronix.blogspot.com/2006/09/joao-g...inicius-de.html ... kind of like finding Bird and Dizzy at Town Hall.

One major correction, Late. On each of the many weekly archived pages, there are more like 20 albums available. It's becoming mind-boggling. Zeca is indeed generous, and dedicated, friendly, gracious, very responsive to questions and suggestions, conscientious, and very humble about the whole thing. He's very good with the technical aspects of hosting a blog, and with some help has constantly made improvements. There are some wonderful videos posted there as well. He also goes out of his way to make the extra effort to post announcements in both english and portuguese. Beauty is rare thing. This blog has been around for nearly a year now... I hope and pray that it lasts, and avoids the nastiness that seems pervasive in the blog world. Noj (or anyone else), if you have any problems figuring out how to find things there, or whatever, feel free to e-mail or PM me.

Thanks guys. Big Wheel, I think I actually understood some of that. I always suspected something nefarious when I first encountered some of the heavily porn-infected text pages, but I suppose it's all about trying to hook people for one reason or another. I'm not sure I'll ever completely understand all this (probably because I really don't want to bother trying too hard), but one other thing I forgot to ask is... has anyone else encountered this phenomenon when doing searches? As I said above, it only happens occasionally (which seems odd), and if my memory serves me, it can sometimes occur to such a degree that it actually impairs my ability to find normal search results. For me, and despite the enormous power of Google, searching is often difficult enough that it feels like a challenging art form, so this kind of thing can really frustrate me.

This is something I've been meaning to ask for awhile. It's probably been discussed here somewhere, but I'm not sure how I'd go about searching for something weird like this. Anyway, here's what puzzles me. For some time, I've been encountering bizarre results- on occasion (which is part of what puzzles me about this) when I do Google searches. I first noticed it maybe a year or more ago. My searches would often produce normal results, links that I would have expected to find, but at some point I noticed that I occasionally found very strange links as I scanned further down the page. Sites where thousands of random words existed on each page, seemingly by design. In many cases, much of the text was porn-related, but not always. I ignored it, but the more I've seen it, the more curious (and to some extent frustrated) I've become. Today, I saw something similar, but slightly different. I was doing a blog search (Google blog search), and about halfway down the results page (perhaps after about 20 normal links), I see a fairly long list of what seem to be actual blogs with random combinations of lettes and numbers as the actual blog titles. The terms that I'd used in my search turned up somewhere in the series of seemingly random phrases that are found on the pages of these blogs, each of which are links to another page of some kind of random b.s. Here's a link to one of these blogs: [url=http://11803-o-t.blogspot.com/2007/01/11803-o-t.html This is probably common knowledge to many of you by now, but I'm still not that well-informed about such things. So... wtf is going on here? Also, if anybody can explain the first type of example I gave (the general Google search where the results contain hundreds of random words, often porn-related). I'm sure someone can generate this sort of garbage fairly easily, but... why? Thanks in advance.

Clave's knowledge is pretty amazing when it comes to world music in general, and she's very tuned in to contemporary artists. Unfortunately, there was another nice Brazilian thread there a year or two before clave arrived, but I think it might have been lost during one of their hacks. Minor peeve here, but I sort of dislike using the term "Brazilian music". I mean, we don't go around talking about "American music". We talk about jazz, blues, soul, etc etc. It's weird when someone asks, "Do you like Brazilian music"? Well, yes... and, no. (fwiw, I don't care much for most of the specific favorites you listed, and yet I'm known around here as a big Brazilian music fan) Anyway, although it's nice, the thread at AAJ is very general and diverse, and as far as I can recall, there is not much detail about the vintage 50's and 60's recordings on Elenco, Odeon, etc. that Late is asking about here.

I've looked forever to find this one at a decent price. From what I know, a good copy will go for anywhere between $500 and $1200. Good lord. I tried a Google search, and it appears that you're correct- one seller even has it at $1,750. These are paperback books! I better start handling mine more carefully. While searching, I found another nice place to view covers: The Album Art of David Stone Martin Looks like you might be able to see large scans if you register (I didn't).

Percentage-wise, there aren't that many fans of Brazilian music here. Only a handful of people seemed interested in the "Hard Bossa" thread mentioned above, and I got zero responses to my last post in that thread (in January), directing people to the amazing LORONIX blog, where hundreds of oop Brazilian recordings are available. Go. Explore. Learn. Enjoy.

A couple more that I like... (very different from most of his work, and quite eye-catching, imo)

I just want to recommend that some organ trio + tenor fan out there grab that Randy Johnston disc, "In-A-Chord", on Muse. IMO, Johnston's best-ever recording, with Eric Alexander, Joey DeFrancesco, and Mickey Roker. It kicks.

Nor his former partner's place- Berigan's (unless I overlooked it).

We probably hung out without realizing it. I used to hit Berkeley and Oakland about every other weekend back in the 80's and early 90's. But perhaps the best used record store I ever frequented had a dirt floor and blue sky for a roof: the Marin City flea market. God, I miss that place (and not just for records).

Hawk's earliest (?) LP "Originals With Hawkins", a 10" record on Stinson from 1950 featured a DSM cover. Not sure I've seen it. Anyway, curious that you asked that, because it appears that there are very few. There was a Hawkins/Georgie Auld LP on the Grand Award label with a DSM cover. There may be one or two others on odd labels that I'm unaware of. There was also a Hawkins Pablo LP called "Sirius" with a DSM cover. A lot, actually. Early on, he was doing a lot of covers for 78 rpm albums on Asch, Stinson and Disc. He also did covers for Waldorf, Grand Award (several besides the Hawkins one I mentioned), and a few for Decca (Josh White), Capitol (James Dean Story soundtrack), RCA (Harry Belafonte), Atlantic (Coltrane/"Alternate Takes"). In the 60's, he did a few for Mary Lou Williams' label, "Mary". Besides the Pablo album I mentioned above, he also did covers for Interplay and Seabreeze in the 70's, and in the 80's he did a lot of covers for Gus Statiras' labels, Progressive and Statiras.

Audie Blaylock Aubie The Tiger Augie Donatelli

Couldn't find an image, but I have the "Plays Jimmy McHugh" LP from this series, which all had the same cover art, only in different colors (mine being yellow): ... just found this image of another one I have (never found this image online before):

I'm a fan. I used to buy a lot of records with his covers, even if I wasn't that attracted to the music (and sometimes when the vinyl was in bad shape). I've got a bunch of original covers, and have a half dozen hanging above my desk, including (this is a Verve reissue, mine is an original Mercury) Here are a couple of links to more images: http://blog.yam.com/wisconsin/article/5695566 http://www.vinylrevival.com/likewow/vol2/martin.html

Off the top of my head, I'd go for these first: Benny Golson and the Philadelphians -United Artists The Modern Touch -Riverside (with JJ, and Kenny Dorham,Wynton Kelly,Paul Chambers, and Max Roach) The Other Side Of Benny Golson -Riverside Benny Golson's New York Scene -Contemporary Take A Number From One To Ten -Argo Turning Point -Mercury and if you don't have it: Moanin' (Blakey) - Blue Note ... and a LOT of other good sideman appearances, with Jimmy Cleveland, Dizzy, Blue Mitchell...

I agree with all of that. Smith could be exciting at times, but those times didn't occur as often. Pass could also be (for lack of a better vocabulary on my part) a bit "syrupy" at times with his musical choices a la Johnny, but then I dig a lot of that too (including one album I like a lot which didn't make the Mosaic, "Simplicity"). With Farlow you pretty much know what you're going to get, and the gettin's good.

Dean Martin Curtis "My Favorite" Martin Ray Walston

Jeri Southern Jeru Gerry and the Pacemakers

Spike Lee Clete Boyer Shoeless Joe Jackson

Alex Haley Billy Root Kunta Kinte