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mr. shirley had the most beautiful touch and shadings i've heard. his out of print columbia album from the 1960s "in concert" is among my most favorite recordings. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/29/arts/music/donald-shirley-pianist-and-composer-dies-at-86.html?smid=tw-nytimesobituary&seid=auto&_r=0 'Jazz piano players, Mr. Shirley told The Times in 1982, when he was appearing at the Cookery in Greenwich Village, “smoke while they’re playing, and they’ll put the glass of whisky on the piano, and then they’ll get mad when they’re not respected like Arthur Rubinstein. You don’t see Arthur Rubinstein smoking and putting a glass on the piano.” He added: “I am not an entertainer. But I’m running the risk of being considered an entertainer by going into a nightclub because that’s what they have in there. I don’t want anybody to know me well enough to slap me on the back and say, ‘Hey, baby.’ The black experience through music, with a sense of dignity, that’s all I have ever tried to do.”"

batting helmets with facebars, like the lady softball pitchers occasionally use, seem to me a safer alternative. i've felt this way for years. none of us want to see a pitcher killed. http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20130508&content_id=46954168&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb

i didn't search out further paul bley listener tests, but i'm hoping there may be others............

NBC announced Tuesday that Carrie Underwood will be replacing Faith Hill as singer of the Sunday Night Football themes.

http://tedpanken.wordpress.com/2013/04/01/an-uncut-blindfold-test-with-paul-bley-around-2002/ "… I mean, the purpose of making a record is not to redo your own stuff or somebody else’s stuff. The purpose of making a record is to add to the literature of the music, which means you’re bringing in some elements that are not widely available, and you’re indicating to other musicians that following along the suggestions that you’re making with this recording of yours might be of some interest and it might be of some utility to somebody who is playing."

she definitely loves that clarinet and tears it up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

anat's definitely not skinny!!!

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/05/arts/music/anat-cohen-and-her-jazz-clarinet.html?src=me&ref=general anat cohen, a no holds barred virtuoso, adopts the clarinet..........

probably the last monitor you'll ever need. their stands are fabulous, too!!!!!

oh yes. i was never a butcher. enlighten us.

stanley getz once blamed music for costing him everything worthwhile he ever had. are these cats blaming music for their lack of self control and perspective? of course, artists are wired differently.

http://www.pointofdeparture.org/PoD42/PoD42PageOne.html "At a time when the CD is supposedly going the way of the dodo, boxed sets are currently being issued at an arguably indigestible pace: vintage Earl Hines sessions; Vancouver’s NOW Quintet’s complete self-produced recordings from the late 1970s; a heretofore unreleased passel of Miles Davis concert recordings from 1969; a trove of New York Art Quartet tapes; a multi-angle snapshot of the Wandelweiser movement of post-Cage composers and improvisers. Close listening of the 28 discs comprising these collections (granted, the NYAQ consists of five LPs and the Davis includes a DVD) would require being cloistered for a month or more. Otherwise, under normal, distractions-filled listening conditions, nuggets like Hines’ s 1940 electric piano solos, NOW Quintet’s unexpected and jubilant reading of Karl Berger’s “Five Feelings,” and prepared pianist Philip Thomas’ pristine minute-plus reading of Cage’s 1944 “Prelude for Meditation” might well slip by." ---------------------- "That’s why, partially at least, Max Roach contended that recordings distort what jazz really is in practice, and have an inflated influence on current and future histories."

one of aloc's high school favorites, royal crown hair dressing. http://www.long-john.nl/royal-crown-blue-magic-pomade-by-hairpomades-com/

ON NOW: the delightful clarinetist joey cavaseno 4tet The Joey G-Clef Cavaseno Quartet "Duke Ellington Tribute" 7:30 PM to 10:00 PM Joey G-Clef Cavaseno - Alto Sax Chris Flory - Guitar Peter Hartman - Bass Rudy Petschauer - Drums

http://www.pointofdeparture.org/PoD29/PoD29BookCooks_Bley.html "AC: In your autobiography you speak rather severely of the current teaching of jazz. Yet you have had vast experience as a teacher. Can you share some thoughts about this experience and your own antimethod of teaching? BLEY: Musicians like to play jazz, and because of that they will improve. What they don’t like to do, and don’t know how to do, is get concerts."

aaron is one of my favorite pianists............

http://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/article/20130503/NEWS01/305030029/Firefighter-continues-rehab-after-losing-legs?nclick_check=1 Washington Township firefighter Josef Tadijanac’s goal is to push mow his yard by the end of summer. Tadijanac was injured June 24, 2012, when he became trapped between two fire trucks as he helped pump water from one tanker to another. He suffered above-the-knee amputations, organ system failures, vision loss and cognitive dysfunction. Thursday, Tadijanac was at MedCentral/Shelby Hospital working with physical therapist Brandon Blankenship, learning to walk again with the use of his new computerized prosthetic legs, which come with a charger. He said he is the 13th person in Ohio to get the Genium III legs.

SCANNER LISTENERS DESERVE MOCKING. MANY WALK AROUND WITH THE DAMN THINGS TO THEIR EAR AS IF THEY WERE ON DUTY..........................

scanner manufacturers are rapidly going out of business because of encoding and the fact that many area can be heard streaming.. maybe one day a week something will interest me and i will click one on for a few hours. i listened to the boston chase and capture even after the boston police ordered them not to be streamed.

region of huge california fires. http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/2858/web

this checks better on visual tests than any monitor i've owned, unfortunately my daughter agreed, taking mine, and now i have a dell. this acer has better color and is brighter. http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/124774/Acer-S230HL-23-Widescreen-LED-Monitor/?Channel=Google&mr:trackingCode=2F7DC23D-8123-E211-8AE9-001517B1882A&mr:referralID=NA&mr:adType=pla&mr:ad=23172982676&mr:keyword=&mr:match=&mr:filter=38922496556&cm_mmc=Mercent-_-Googlepla-_-Technology+Monitors_Projectors-_-124774#firstTab

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2013/apr/26/james-rhodes-blog-find-what-you-love "My life as a concert pianist can be frustrating, lonely, demoralising and exhausting. But is it worth it? Yes, without a shadow of a doubt"

ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!