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What if it wasn't? I really don't understand the question. it's simple really - if the 1st music you heard had been ellington, then the 1st music you'd have heard would've been ellington. and clearly everything proceeding from that moment would've been very different. or pretty similar. or about half similar but half different. or maybe 65% different. but whatever the case may be, ellington would've been the 1st thing that you'd heard. so there's that. simple really. let us now devolve into an inane pseudo-psychological wankfest about the mind and how early exposure to blah blah blah effects the cognitive blah blah of the true artist's/music appreciator's perception of the blah blah blah.... what i really mean is ellington is 2nd to none in pretty much every single way and everyone knows it.

looks to me like it's got some potential. i'm a big fan of kurt's and love his writing and playing. i kinda wish he had written the arrangements himself but i guess he wanted it otherwise (or probably just didn't have the time to devote to such a project?). anyone interested can read up, order, or just listen to short clips here.

years ago when i was living in nyc, i answered an ad dellarata had put up asking for someone to arrange horn parts for him. i don't remember where i saw the ad. i met him at his relatively fancy highrise west side apartment somewhere around 11th avenue and 30th street. he impressed me as not being too knowledgable about writing for other instruments or arranging in general - ie: not being sure whether trumpets transpose a major 2nd, etc... and that's cool - he's a piano player/singer. not all players have to know that stuff. but i also got the impression he wasn't too sure what he wanted generally from the music even though it was his gig he needed this work done for. so after talking w/ him for about 20-30 minutes i was confident i could do something w/ the lead sheets he'd given me that would work for the gig he had coming up. i left and called him back in a few days to tell him i was done and i wondered what he thought was a fair price for the work. he told me he figured no pay was necessary. i told him he wouldn't be seeing my arrangements. and i agree w/ you big wheel. i didn't care for his music much either. oh well...

What's Made In America? Classic... thread reminded me of this bit. maybe some of you haven't seen it and will enjoy the irony. maybe not.

hey peter. you have a PM... uhhh - i tried to PM you, but i got a pop-up message saying you could not receive messages. oh well...

hey peter. you have a PM...

good one sonny.

It's really too bad that you watch that and have nothing but negative things to say. It is completely your loss. I thought it sounded really good. And in a more natural live context I bet it'd stretch out and be much better even. Tedeschi is a frickin' monster singer (though I personally could do without her guitar playing...). Damn she's great. You can come at this w/ the purist attitude and wish that herbie was still playing classic quintet stuff. And you can come at this w/ the opposite purist attitude and get down on herbie for not constantly playing more "creatively" and pushing some personally idealized envelope. Or you can come at this w/ an open mind and hear this as a funky, soul/blues number played by a bunch of killin' musicians having a great time being fronted by a monster singer. How you look at it is your choice. And this is not to say that everyone has to 'like' this tune or style. Not liking it is fine. But it feels to me that the way you are 'hating' on this tune/performance/herbie here, there's some kind of agenda being pushed instead of just saying "I don't care for the soul/pop thing here." If you don't like it, that's cool. But writing "the whole thing is terrible... SAD!!!... herbie's attempt at a jazz solo." Herbie doesn't attempt a jazz solo. and besides, this wasn't a jazz tune. "attempt?" give that shit a rest.

sure thing nuttylee. since i'm a registered movie freak, i'm bound by law to mention that "Hip Hug Her" opens and closes the following film - click on title for trailer (since you obviously like/love the tune, i figured you should be aware...): Barfly

couple of my favorite tracks of all-time! nice sound on your xk3. good job and welcome to the forum.

bump. lots of good music.

imo, the idea that letterman should be putting energy into having jazz artists on his show is ridiculous. it'd be great for all of us on the board who watch it every once in a while, but it's a late night talk show. they have musical guests on who they feel the majority of their viewers will enjoy. if people don't like what they see on the show, they won't watch, and it goes off the air. simple. additionally, they keep the popular music acts for the end of the show to bait people to stay through the whole program (ie: watch more commercials, $$, you get the idea). this isn't rocket science people. anyone who knows the first thing about jazz knows that it's not very popular among the masses - ie: the people who watch late night talk shows. he's not obliged to have jazz on the show, and he's not obliged to like jazz himself. and as far as i'm concerned, the argument that "if it was on these shows every once in a while, it would become more popular and jazz musicians would prosper" is nonsense. carson was an exception, and all thanks to him and his world class band. but it was the exception. nobody is obligated to do as he did. and by the way, imo letterman's little "heroin" joke was not funny. so what...

Me too Jim: Letterman has boycotted jazz from his show? And he consistently insults jazz musicians? Really? I'm not saying that's not true, but it has certainly flown under my radar and I'm a 45 year old guy who watched him relatively consistently from the mid 80s through about 2000 and keeps abreast of the news and media pretty regular. It's news to me that Letterman "craps all over jazz." I certainly won't put any effort into it but if someone who dislikes Letterman due to his hostility toward jazz and its practitioners wants to offer up some credible articles that evidence this attitude from him, I'd give 'em a look. It's hard for me to believe it - especially when you look at his band. Doesn't make sense. Does he even have much input into who the musical guests are? Maybe so. I don't know. Interesting...

2nds on the hays. the opening track "Cheryl," imo, is one of the best jazz piano trio performances on cd in recent memory (becoming my personal favorite), and i'd essentially say the same for this cd as a whole. think of all the best elements of jarrett, beirach, and maybe to a lesser extent mehldau, and you've got the hays trio's Live At Smalls. deeply swinging and soulful, dualistically comfortable playing inside or out (or, as only the best players can do, shamanistically doing both at once), while his modern classical harmonic/contrapuntal elements make beautiful bedfellows with more swinging and soulful "folkish" elements - see his arrangement of hindemith's "Ludus Tonalis" for example. and weiss and stewart are right there with him. this trio recording has it all people. don't hesitate.

all straight relyles. titles will go out today. list updated.

bump. cleaned up the OP taking out what has been sold, price reductions across the board, and the "freebie" section at the bottom is now 1 with every 2 cds purchased instead of with every 3 purchased. buy 2, get 1. buy 4, get 2. etc... sweet! still lots of very good music for cheap.

and the rich get richer. what a fucking bummer.

You cannot be serious!!!!!@#$%^&*() Absolutely incredible.

Grooveshark Internet Radio Station am i late to the party? does everyone know about this place already? so good it's not legal? everybody knows about pandora radio, but this place is totally different and i'd not heard about it until a couple months back. full tunes (albums too), and full control over what you listen to. repeat, fast forward/rewind. search by artist or tune and the library there is pretty deep. check it out.

pretty cool that nicole mitchell got some love. saw her with braxton in troy a few years back. and i would've voted signal to noise for periodical. nice piece on grimes in the current issue...

my pleasure.

you got a turntable? you have a PM...

Tonight at 9PM - Mark Turner Group. Now that's worth having the internet. I hope it'll be streaming.