Son-of-a-Weizen

Hey, nice heads up on this one! Super! ....just ordered a copy from Amazon! I heard a Kral & Pomeroy one -- courtesy of a fine gent here -- that whet the 'ol appetite for more of her material. Lady of Lavender is a 'live' one, right? I need to check that out. btw, anyone heard the Carmen McRae/Brubeck 'Basin Street' cd? Any thoughts?

Nice collection of cover art * now listening to

Right! All you do is just zoom over to payPal and have a look. Why would anyone start clicking links before doing that? I got one this morning as well -- some Dick's Sporting Goods crap or something.

Let's start a 'Who drove away Mike Fitzgerald?" thread.

The good thing about Charlotte is that it's close to the SC border and the fireworks are alot better. There's a good motel in Bennetsville, SC that's good to hole up in if you get caught in a freak snowstorm (it happens!!) while on the prowl for fireworks. You'd be surprised how many Roman Candles you can fire off in a room over a weekend before the carpet starts to melt.

I lived in Greensboro for 6 yrs and only traipsed over to Charlotte one time to see The Dead at the Coliseum in '79..........so, ummmmm ......y'all have fun!!!

I thought he said 'free improv'? .....who doesn't agree w/him on that score? btw, re: that Ginger Baker-Elvin face-off someone mentioned.... Coltrane Quartet influenced Cream? (from some guy on the Washington Monthly online forums in '06) A Love Supreme, indeed ... 3) The British blues boom milieu out of which Cream arose was contemporaneous with the rise of rock music as a mind-bogglingly successful commercial phenomenon. It's easy to forget this, but prior to the Beatles and the Stones and their happy conjunction with an unprecedented youth cohort -- Elvis aside, you just didn't make money steamshovel-bucket-over-fist in the music business. This was all before the 70s turned it into Rock Music, Inc. and tried to rationalize and rountinize such immense profits. So many of the guys in the early British blues boom were "musos" -- British slang for musicians with musicianly concerns rather than would-be pop stars. They admired musicianship for its own sake, and a good many of them were awestruck by American jazz artists. So it makes perfect sense that Ginger Baker (who really was quite a good jazz drummer) would challenge the legendary Human Polyrhythm (Elvin played hemiolas in triple time or triplets in duple time like two halves of his body were rhythmically independent) to a drum duel. The John Coltrane Quartette influenced Cream, doubtless. I'd also argue that the JCQ were a defining influence for Jimi Hendrix as well -- especially for Band of Gypsies. The key element here is the modal jazz innovation of extending the one or two chord vamp to cover an extended solo. John Coltrane (and Ravi Shankar, too, for that matter) showed how you could improvise on a single scale, without chord changes, for 20 or 30 minutes and not get boring -- and Trane was an extraordinary enough musician to do it convincingly. It's the sheer *athleticism* of these solos, I think, that was so inspiring to rockers. In any case, this became the template for every kid in a garage with an electric guitar. 4) Our only point of disagreement, Horatio, is your rather loose use of the term "free jazz." You can water down bebop until it sounds like *cough* Steely Dan, but you can't water down free jazz, either rhythmically or harmonically. "Smooth Jazz" radio (CD 101.9 in my region) will never play it. You can play "out" on a one chord vamp and shred the mode into chromatic randomness like Eric Dolphy or The Mothers of Invention, but that's not free if it's still obvious what key you're in. Spread rhythm a la Eddie Blackwell (or Jack DeJohnette) isn't rockin'; Ornette Coleman's "harmolodics" dispenses with chord structure altogether, a kind of dissonant, pan-modal return to the scalar improv of early jazz. Unlike Coltrane and modal jazz, these kinds of innovations had a much more limited influence, and, I'd argue, flew completely over the heads of British blues boom. It took until progressive rock formed itself out of psychedelia that truly free improvisation made itself felt -- and there only at the margins. It's avant garde rock -- Henry Cow in particular -- where genuine free improv flowered with electric instruments. Bob

......I'll give you some excess tweeter from mine if you'll share w/me some bass from yours?

Why are they pissing you off? Based on your comments, sounds to me that they're being quite attentive and aren't playing dodge-the-customer 'ball' w/you. That's a good thing. Send it back.....they'll fix it. The fact that they screwed up the first time is no biggy these days. If you own a house, you find that almost nothing gets done right the first time 'round. ..and as for cars....heck, from Mid-Sept-December, I had my Mercedes at the dealership on 4 separate occasions for a total of 5 weeks because their dimbullb mechanics couldn't correct a few things. When you have to go back that many times, then you start reading them the riot act and demanding that they give you a new Benz for a loaner...or in your case, a laptop. Come to think of it, that was rather sporting of the Service Dept. Manager to give me his personal vehicle. Anyway, I'm happy to hear that Toshiba USA is accomodating ---now I'm beginning to second guess my earlier decision not to purchase the extended warranty w/that Satellite laptop (S4467) I bought for my wife on Monday. They wanted something like $240? Hell, that's 1/5 the cost of a new Miele Dishwasher! No way!! Damn, hope nothing bad happens!

always enjoyed 'The Soulful Piano Of..' (Jazzland) Also noticed that he's scheduled to play the Kitano next month. That would be a fun one to hit.

I got a brand new Evan's 'Consecration' box from Caiman in December for $11. Shipping was quick. Ya can't beat that.

....an increase in advertising revenue.

dang cold around here........had to set up a temporary hang out place down in the basement for the pet bunny.

I think you'll appreciate it. ......then again, I'm fond of

I've had more trouble with the 'ticks' over at Mosaic than w/Classic recs. .....both the Parlan & Miles 'Blackhawk' sets.....otherwise a pretty good run. No problems to date w/Classics BNs....just the Miles KoB 180 gr on colored vinyl.

You sure? His wife was edgy enough to lose it.

She tried....but the pet Tribble sitting on the other chick's shoulder blocked the shot.

Talk about off the wall. Too bad actually......astronauts have always been in that 'perfectly safe to worhip' category for all kids.

Next time you should catch a trout!

Was there a can of Bud down there with a born on date? ...with all those preservatives, you could probably still drink it.

Those two Getz discs can't possibly hold everything from the 3-disc 'Complete Roost' set.............or can they?

What's that? I've been in Prague recently and I definitely fell in love with her. Porcy, You should have seen her back in 1983 before she went all high-end 'cosmetic upgrade' on us and started in with the heavy doses of pre-lipstick base, liquid foundation primer and lip defining pencil a la Burger King --- a truly natural, unpretentious beauty she was!

I've always enjoyed

Kenny Clarke "Recorded in Paris & Cologne" (Disques Swing)....w/Byas, Thompson, Solal & Michelot.