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more of this atwater block java porter. i rolled the bottle around before opening and this makes it at least barely passable.

what a great read!

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/review_print.php?id=25753

ahhhhhhhh. the board is running full throttle.

I don't mean to make light of the situation (or maybe I do) but the vision of an enraged crowd trying to defend the honor of Jim Nabors by rushing the stage to attack Boots Randolph and his yakety sax makes me giggle like a school girl. would make for great opera.

Do you have a Whole Foods near you? The one by my apartment stocks Adam and Fred, two of their flagships brews (and two of the best I've had from the states). They are NOT beers for the faint of heart - they are very, very bold. I slighlty prefer Adam, a darkish, bock-like beer, to Fred, which is a very strong amber-ish Belgian style beer. not yet. there's one about 70 miles down the road, where aloc often attends free music sessions. aloc will check with them tomorrow.

'hair of the dog' from somewhere in the great northwest are some beers aloc would love to try.

the brooklyners are great at PR. compared to the foul atwater block java porter of last evening(wreaks of day old coffee and day old cigarette ashes) this brooky is a jewel.

some very passable, very portery, if it had less carbonation, brooklyn brown ale.

http://www.pitchforkmusicfestival.com/

TALKING UP IMUS: RADIO SIGNALS OF A WFAN COMEBACK By NY Post. Imus may be hitting the FAN again. The radio rumor mill has turned the volume way up on reports that the return of Don Imus to WFAN is just around the corner. And WFAN itself is fueling the reports. While celebrating the sports station’s 20th anniversary last Friday, Imus pals Mike Francesa and Chris Russo, of “Mike and the Mad Dog,” hinted that a deal to bring the crusty talk-radio cowboy back is in the works. “When we return to our regular schedule this September, I hope the team will once again be complete,” Francesa said. A few minutes before that, longtime Imus co-host Charles McCord also made a cryptic comment about having “looked into the rearview mirror . . . and some objects were closer than they appear.” Imus was fired in April for making a racist crack about the Rutgers women’s basketball team. The jock has received offers from other stations but cannot accept anything until he settles with CBS, the station’s owner, what could become a contentious legal battle over his current contract, according to sources. “If they keep him under contract, they’ll keep shuffling interim hosts in and out all summer long and either bring Imus back this fall after the baseball season when the Rutgers story has grown cold, or just pay him to stay on the sidelines and out of the way,” wrote one poster on the New York Radio Message Board, the go-to Internet site for radio insiders. “I am convinced that CBS Radio is considering bringing back Imus in the Morning,” wrote another regular poster. “CBS presented a number of alternative programs to fill the Imus void, but perhaps only to wait for the climate to cool off. If Imus does indeed return, as, in my opinion, he should, I feel certain that the tone of the program will be considerably toned down.” Tapes from Imus’ show were featured all morning on Friday, an unusual move for any radio station that had so recently fired its star. WFAN program director Mark Chernoff justified the broadcast, saying Imus’ contribution to the station could not be ignored. Meanwhile, Imus’ lawyer, Martin Garbus, has reportedly been trying to use his client’s threatened multimillion-dollar lawsuit against CBS Radio as leverage for reinstatement, while CBS has prepared a countersuit that it plans to file the minute Imus starts the legal showdown. The Imus camp believes the talk-show host is owed somewhere in the neighborhood of $40 million on his current deal. CBS believes there were stipulations in his contract that allowed them to fire him without repercussions. don.kaplan@nypost.com

the craftmanship and musicianship in this recording was masterful.

thanks for the links. ...looking to check them out. ...interesting (and apt) comparison.

thanks for your excellent analysis.

http://www.sequenza21.com/2007/04/mp3-blog...quartets-5.html here's a link to his lovely 3rd string quartet

July 7, 2007 Are Oldies the New Jack on NYC Radio? By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 2:18 p.m. ET NEW YORK (AP) -- Everything oldies is new again. WCBS-FM, the nation's No. 1 oldies station for more than three decades until a 2005 switch, is ready to shift from its current ''Jack'' format and re-embrace the classic sounds of its past, according to online reports. ''If this happens, it will be a fantastic move,'' said ''Cousin Brucie'' Morrow, one of the veteran DJs jettisoned when the station swapped formats. ''There isn't a day that goes by that people don't come up to me and say, `We miss the station so much.''' CBS Radio, owner of the station, declined to comment on the much rumored change. Oldies fans were outraged when WCBS -- which began as an oldies station in 1972 -- abandoned that music without warning for the jukebox-style ''Jack'' format June 3, 2005. Frank Sinatra's ''Summer Wind'' faded out and the Beastie Boys' ''Fight for Your Right'' announced the drastic changeover. At the time of the switch, WCBS was eighth in the New York Arbitron ratings. The most recent numbers released, for the January-March period, showed the Jacked-up version of the station sitting in 16th place. The station's revenues had also dropped. Initial reports about the WCBS format change surfaced Friday in the Radio Business Report online newsletter, and at Crain's New York Business.com. But rumors were floating around earlier in the week. Morrow said he had no doubt there was a market among New Yorkers for the hits of the '50s, '60s and '70s that once defined the station. ''WCBS-FM was part of the culture of this city,'' he said. ''If people didn't listen every day or every moment, they were happy to know it was there. It was like having an old friend on the radio.'' Copyright 2007 The Associated Press

do you have their 'kismet' vinyl?

wes was on the kismet album, one of my favs.

now able to savor a 22 ounce guinness, while listening to johnny frigo's swingin' fiddle. sweet!

now listening to him in a bass, piano, guitar trio from the 50's. beautiful beautiful music. shearing, early peterson, type music.

anyone have any george rochberg favorites or opinions? i cant understand why the gorgeous third quartet isnt played more often. http://www.presser.com/Composers/info.cfm?...=GEORGEROCHBERG

aloc is living well, and doesnt ever have to work again, and is now listening to pharoah sanders and leon thomas and earlier, trane and george rochman, just finished a great meal, and is going for a long bike ride, and after that, a snort or two, followed by a couple flicks. no tears for aloc.

WONDERFUL news. by the way, i am listening to some teagarden at the moment. how does the different climate affect the sounds of your axes?

Yeah, I'm pretty happy too. Just graduated high school. Got no job, no car, no girl. But it's still great! Listening to music, and watching Twilight Zones. What more can you ask for?!?! Damn, I know I'm gonna have to get a job soon. i think music sounds better at a tender age and carries a beauty, excitement, and sheen that fades just a bit as one ages. keep the music shiny as long as you can.

....and the days still arent nearly long enough. there are all those musics one needs to hear and revisit. i need a day of jackie mc, and a benny golson day, and a jeanne lee day, and a john surman day, and a brahms day, and a delius day, and a bartok string quartet day, and joe mcphee, and delius, and a feldman week, and john lewis, and george lewis, and a shostakovich day, and..., and....., and...