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Fantasia On A Theme By Thomas Tallis - Ralph Vaughan Williams (Slatkin/Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra) Fratres - Arvo Part (Kremer and Jarrett) Unaccompanied Cello Suites - Bach (Rostropovich) Images - Debussy (Paul Jacobs) Henri Dutilleux - L'Arbre des Songes/Concerto for Violin & Orchestra (Orchestre National de France with Isaac Stern, Conducted by Lorin Maazel) the last piece on my little list by dutilleux i first heard while driving. it was so intense and demanded my attention so totally i had to pull over and just listen. awesome piece of music and amazing performance. lots more to mention here of course: Reich, Sor, Gershwin, etc... But the above were definitely the first that came to mind.

if i still lived in the city and had those nights off, i'd be there. anyone who lives close to that and doesn't check out one of those nights is ill-advised. but i'm pretty sure everyone on this board is aware of that. have a great weekend frank

You, Mr. Hopper, definitely did not blow it man. Thank you for challenging me and giving me occasional joy and insight. Rest in peace.

click below for some fine, fine, ron burgundy: That's Baby Makin' Music, That's What That Is

PM'd you back on the ellington... CDs received, thanks! you're most welcome. and they got to you quicker than i thought they would. cool!

do you feel anything? a few weeks ago you belittle someone's grief on the board when they lose a cherished pet and now you make light of a human being's death. good job chuck. way to go. i hope you're surrounded by people who have more feeling than you, for your own sake. grow up.

PM'd you back on the ellington...

i just finished this last night. i definitely enjoyed it and laughed plenty. also some very personal revelations on her life but she still comes off as somewhat guarded. and that's fine. i just count on her to make me laugh most of the time, and she does. essentially, if you like her already, you'll dig the book. she can really write (which shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone familar with her stuff...). but if you're one of the many people out there who find her offensive, don't waste your time. this book will not change your attitude toward her.

good to hear you're enjoying the portable dave. we get very consistently good reviews on it. as for the bass/treble levels being set, you should be able to adjust that in the 'settings' mode of your iPod. but you are right, on the portable unit itself the levels are set. that stuff has to be controlled through the source. i love that you've got Cake playing on your portable in the picture. very fun band! have you heard their studio cover of "War Pigs?" we use it in the store to demo the products all the time. killer...

i think you made a good choice as well. i've been working for bose for a coup,e years now. some of their products are pretty average, but some of their products are really, really nice - and the one you got is in the latter category. and be glad you went the extra mile for the portable. not only is the battery very reliable and long lasting (about 8 hours fully charged if you're playing it at moderate volume) it sounds considerably better than the series II model. no bass port on the back of the series II so the portable is noticably fuller sounding. a quick tip: you should just leave the unit plugged in to the wall to charge all the time when you're not using it portably or if it's just sitting idle. it won't overcharge the battery. and of course leaving a battery uncharged for a long period is bad for it's lifetime, so just leave it plugged in when available. enjoy!

bump due to big price drop as relates to shipping specifics. still lots of good music for not much money.

this has been my experience as well.

i had (am having) the same experience w/ facebook. checked in once to be able to see something/someone (so long ago i don't remember what/who) and am now forever deleting what i consider to be spam a few times a week after giving up on how to extricate myself from their web. not the biggest deal, but pretty fucking annoying and a far cry from cool.

it's been a while since the last one, so i figure it's time for a bump. still lots of very good music here for good prices...

bump w/ update to opening post.

straight dominant 7th, add b5 if you feel it, and generally natural 9 & 13 if you feel it as well. enjoy...

i'd like to preface my little response here by saying that, in the "real world" of playing musicians, none of what will come next matters much (or at all), and essentially never comes up. i've also never encountered "#4." in my experience it's always been notated as "#11." and the main technical/theoretical difference that is inherent in using/naming a chord #11 vs. b5, as i see it, would be this: if you choose #4/#11, you're basically saying there's no natural 4th in the chord/harmony. whereas if you choose b5, you're basically saying there's no natural 5th in the chord/harmony. both of these choices may, or may not, imply other scalar/harmonic aspects depending on function, form, melody, blah blah blah yada yada yada on and on and on and on. in pretty much any case where any of this stuff might actually matter, a simple spoken sentence or two from the composer to the players will be sufficient to clear up any issue. or, of course, the obvious solution is to simply write out a specific voicing and be done with it.

way to go worldb3! great suggestions. i don't have anodyne yet but really enjoy no depression. if you dig uncle tupelo and son volt you should check out a band i mentioned earlier in the thread: Richmond Fontaine. GREAT songs, similar vibe, and for my head even better lyrics. Vlautin simply writes his ass off. if interested, i'd posted my review of their latest earlier in this thread. and since you dig the jayhawks, maybe you've already got olson and louris' Ready For The Flood. i love it. when i 1st got it i couldn't stop listening to it. over and over and over for about a week. beautiful stuff.

hey bev. i'm skipping the in-depth discussion on... what is it on? and going right for the music since i've been checking out a lot of what i feel you may be wanting to hear about in this thread. the term 'americana' casts a pretty wide net these days, so i'll not fence myself in. i don't think anyone has specifically mentioned chris thile yet. someone mentioned nickel creek, and they're fine. but he is doing things that are way beyond that. his punch brothers band recording is terrific and the duo album he made w/ edgar meyer is scary. if you know meyer then just imagine someone as open-minded, burning, and virtuostic as him but on mandolin. if you're interestd in stuff that gets closer to the current 'alt-country,' Wilco sound/feel (for lack of a more well known marker), check out Richmond Fontaine's latest record. they'r pretty under the radar. i reviewed it here: We Used To Think The Freeway Sounded Like A River the vid the site chose to accompany my review wasn't the one i'd've chosen. probably the least representative song sonically but... their songwriter has written a few novels as well. i've only read one of them so far. it was quite good. god bless you Tom in RI for mentioing Duke. for my money, the greatest 'unknown' guitarist alive. his recordings don't do him justice. i used to live in boston and was able to see him play a bunch. masterful. here's a couple clips to get an idea: Mellow Duke Rockin' Duke i have duke's Lava and Country Soul Guitar recordings. they're uneven, but for me, must haves. and he's never disappointed live. every note i've seen him perform live has been worthwhile. he's a special dude. hope you get some enjoyment from some of these bev .

I'll pass.

two immediately come to mind for me personally. i always come back to them as being a couple of my very favorite performances: 1) George Adams' solo on "For Harry Carney." to me it's one of the greatest tenor solos of all-time. 2) no doubt considered an odd choice, but Don Grolnick's "Chime This" from the Brecker album. the whole tune and especially the intro. amazing writing/performance.

i love the way whenever the subject of jarrett's disgusting behavior (he deserves the 2nd congressional medal of douchebaggery) comes up on internet jazz forums, inevitably at least a couple people start bringing up his 'mental illness' as some kind of rationalization. i don't buy it. he may have some issues there, but they're not what makes him act like a jerk. there are already too many entries in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. do we really need an entry in there for acting like an ass? what will it be called - "Jarrett Syndrome?" the pharmaceutical companies would just love that! “just take three prickalax a day with meals. if that doesn't have the desired effect after three months, try a cocktail of doucheoprin and hexajerk for the next three months. side effects may include acting like an asshole.” i can see it now: well-to-do housewives of the future who have too much on their plates to spend time w/ little johnny will wave off his rebellious behavior saying, "Did you hear about Jenny's 13 year-old twins? Both have been diagnosed with Jarrett Syndrome. They simply will not stop picking on that 6th grader. It's really a shame. Sometimes I worry about my little Johnny. He's starting to act funny. Maybe I should get him an appointment with Dr. Fixajerk. They say these new drugs can work wonders."

from everything i've seen, heard, and read, jarrett seems to be nothing if not a totally fucking pretentious jackass who is completely full of himself. being a great artist is never a license to act like an asshole. he, and his enablers, seems to believe it is. they're wrong. and this latest article is the worst yet that i've heard of in terms of jarret's "diva-don't-dare-cough-at-my-concert-spiritual-higher-plane-genius-gifted-artist-my-world-you're-privileged-to-just-be-here" vomit. people like him make the world a worse place. he can sit on it and rotate.

count me in the latter camp. if i remember, i was the only one who enjoyed this track, and it's the only one i was really anticipating finding out about. and though i couldn't ID it, it's no surprise to me that it's mcneely. will be looking to buy this recording. thanks DrJ! p.s. - knew that other piece had herwig on it!