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THIS BETTER THAN AVERAGE ARTICLE MAKES THAT POINT.

link "Keyboardist Jeff Lorber, who co-produced his latest release with Haslip, has some fun with the suggestion that people involved in smooth jazz might be heading for the exits: “No, they’ve already gone through the exits, they’ve taken the freeway home and they’ve gone to bed.” Few would argue that smooth jazz is uniquely bad off. Record label dominance is over, digital music and media are ascendant, the business is being entirely remade, and opinion on the brave new online world is sharply divided. “On my desk right here I’ve got a check for zero dollars and 78 cents from YouTube licensing offers,” Saisse deadpans. “I’ve got some Spotify checks here for zero dollars nine cents. So it’s not quite making up for the royalties that we used to get from radio [laughs]. But I’m working on it. I’m collecting my zero-point-78-cent checks and we’ll see what happens.”"

:w :w :w with the goosy hammy screaming like they had just won the pennant.

Ding. I think we have a winner. Actually you might be right in terms of the amount of construction and invention in his longer solos. The Vanguard stuff (the LP selection of tracks, I mean) is a benchmark. A lot of his records don't really show what he can do though. Yes. Admittedly, most of my understanding of the inexhaustible invention of Rollins is anecdotally validated by the opinion of others. Usually from his live performances. I haven't listened to nearly as much Rollins as I have Coltrane. Indeed the 'legend' of Rollins seems based on these very qualities in performance. I never really think of him as a speedy player though, the way I do Griffin. Even if there's probably a ton of recorded evidence that he is if he wants to be. Tal Farlow is another one notorious for his tempo's, but I don't consider him a master of melodic invention so much, same way early Benson wasn't. Who are the Piano players that embody these qualities? I suppose Oscar Peterson is yet another that falls into the fast but generic category as well? i agree---

sherman, at this moment, is starting the first of his 2 sets as a member of the beautiful rick germanson quartet, available on line. Rick Germanson - Piano Sherman Irby - Alto Sax Gerald Cannon - Bass Neal Smith - Drums smalls

may i suggest that you may need another ryan as coach and one less jerry. you've got the tent; might as well have a circus.

to each his own--would you favor us with your fab 5?

YOU'VE GOT A POINT THERE.

George Benson and Ronnie Cuber in that ridiculously hyperactive band with Lonnie Smith? Although I suppose the music is driven more by energy and fast chops than by nimble 'ideas' based improv? It's an interesting distinction though. Coltrane? But then people say even Coltrane is relying more on the Harmonic concept and the patterns and scales that go with it, rather than 'pure' melodic invention. I love hearing Braxton play at fast tempos, also on standards and modal stuff. That 10foot saxaphone slows him down though that hard bop stuff brax was playing in the early 80s was scary fast and hard, and the ideas even faster..........i agree with the trane thoughts. presumably, pianists would be fastest............

surely samsung copped the design when making the chips. in 20 years these cheap phones will be blase and sold in dollar stores for $3.98. our fancies will have, by then, moved on to our remote driven cars, hovercraft, robotic pets, robotic kids, robotic lovers, or something...... homo sapiens are fickle pickles.

...........seeming endless streams of ideas, often at breakneck speed. to me, braxton is the quickest; bird vs. braxton--i don't even want to think about that. prez and threadgill are in there somewhere.

LINK "If you've noticed some slight changes around TCM lately, let me explain. It has to do with something I became aware of for the first time last year: the word "vacation." Lovely word. And there's a reason it hadn't been a part of my vocabulary earlier during the past 18 years at Turner. Ever since I started doing movie intros for TCM back in April of 1994, taking a bona fide vacation never seemed necessary. My primary responsibility at the channel was hosting four prime time movies per night, seven nights a week--a pure pleasure for me. Easy to do, too, since during TCM's first few years in existence, we had a taping structure that allowed me get the required work done and be able to take a month's hiatus every year, without interrupting the flow of my being on air. However, the more popular the channel has become, the more there has been to do. First, we added the Private Screenings series. Then, the Guest Programmer franchise. Then extras such as co-hosting specials with people like Priscilla Presley about Elvis, Stephen Bogart about his dad, Robert Morse about composer Frank Loesser and myriad others. Then we began our once a year Race in Hollywood series, and added promotional screenings in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Cleveland, Seattle, Atlanta and elsewhere around the country. I started making "Movie Night" appearances with Symphony Orchestras in Atlanta, Boston, Cleveland, at the Hollywood Bowl in California, Tanglewood (with John Williams) in Lenox, Massachusetts, Wolf Trap near Washington D.C. and other venues. Added into all that came two particular biggies--both enormously fun but also events that require extra time and focus: our yearly TCM Classic Film Festival and the TCM Classic Cruise."

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A huge treasure trove of songs and interviews recorded by the legendary folklorist Alan Lomax from the 1940s into the 1990s have been digitized and made available online for free listening. The Association for Cultural Equity, a nonprofit organization founded by Lomax in the 1980s, has posted some 17,000 recordings. “For the first time,” Cultural Equity Executive Director Don Fleming told NPR’s Joel Rose this week, “everything that we’ve digitized of Alan’s field recording trips are online, on our Web site. It’s every take, all the way through. False takes, interviews, music.” It’s an amazing resource. For a quick taste, here are a few examples from one of the best-known areas of Lomax’s research, his recordings of traditional African American culture: “John Henry” sung by prisoners at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, Parchman Farm, in 1947. “Come Up Horsey,” a children’s lullaby sung in 1948 by Vera Hall, whose mother was a slave. “In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town” performed by Big Bill Broonzy, 1952. “Story of a slave who asked the devil to take his master,” told by Bessie Jones in 1961. LINK A huge treasure trove of songs and interviews recorded by the legendary folklorist Alan Lomax from the 1940s into the 1990s have been digitized and made available online for free listening. The Association for Cultural Equity, a nonprofit organization founded by Lomax in the 1980s, has posted some 17,000 recordings. “For the first time,” Cultural Equity Executive Director Don Fleming told NPR’s Joel Rose this week, “everything that we’ve digitized of Alan’s field recording trips are online, on our Web site. It’s every take, all the way through. False takes, interviews, music.” It’s an amazing resource. For a quick taste, here are a few examples from one of the best-known areas of Lomax’s research, his recordings of traditional African American culture: “John Henry” sung by prisoners at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, Parchman Farm, in 1947. “Come Up Horsey,” a children’s lullaby sung in 1948 by Vera Hall, whose mother was a slave. “In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town” performed by Big Bill Broonzy, 1952. “Story of a slave who asked the devil to take his master,” told by Bessie Jones in 1961.

20 YEARS ago in cleveland, i was sitting in a tiny generic long gone 40 seat jazz dive (the much lamented bop stop) late at night, when an amiable wynton, after a downtown show, walked in and put his horn case on the bar. he sat in for a while, and bought a few musicians beers. the sets were alternately rough and great. i realized then that wynton that night wasn't the guy in a suit, but just another jazz cat.

i've got to grab it. thanks.

link "By NATE SCHWEBER What distinguished Kenny’s Castaways from many other dusty and dim New York music clubs was the sign under which thousands of musicians passed on their way to the small stage at the end of the long room of brick and wood. “Through these portals walk the famous,” reads the purple neon beacon, hanging three feet below the 120-year-old pressed-tin roof. For 36 years, those who were famous or, much more likely, hoping to become that way filled Kenny’s cavernous interior with their sounds. But early Tuesday the club, on Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village, will go silent, becoming the latest in a lengthening list of Manhattan music sites to close because of rising costs and dwindling audiences. “We’ve been struggling,” Maria Kenny, one of the owners, said. “The rents have become so astronomical around here that mom-and-pop places just can’t make it happen.” Ms. Kenny said the rent had more than doubled in the last five years."

oriole plane makes emergency landing. link BALTIMORE (WJZ)– A flight carrying the Baltimore Orioles had to make an emergency landing in Jacksonville, Fla. on Sunday night after a fire on board. The plane was en route to Tampa where the Orioles are scheduled to play a series with the Rays starting Monday night. The fire was in the kitchen area.

now performing guitar duo--jimmy bruno and howard alden

BALTIMORE, EARLY IN THE SEASON, HAD ONE OF THE MOST PATHETIC STARTING PITCHER CASTS I'VE SEEN IN MLB IN YEARS, EACH TIME A TEAM PLAYED BALTIMORE, THEY HAD 2 OR 3 NEW STARTING PITCHERS. WHAT AN IMPLAUSIBLE TALE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SADLY, THEIR ATTENDANCE WAS NOT GOOD. THAT TEAM IN DC IS HURTING ATTENDANCE.

Spike Wilner 2 hours ago near New York, NY Hello - I'll be hosting the "Smalls Family" jam session this evening (at Smalls) right after Johnny O'Neal's show about 11PM. Going to play a set first with Joel Frahm, Behn Gilece, Joe Martin and Joe Saylor - please come by and sit in or sit down...

until i heard cyrille aimee, closer than all but a few.

not a very interesting schedule this week. 49ers at jets(early game) and the sunday(nyg-eagles) and monday(bears-cowboys) night games look pretty good. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: nfl bye weeks have started..........(Indianapolis, Pittsburgh)

Baltimore Orioles Hall of Famer Brooks Robinson says about this year's club: "In all my years with the Orioles, I've never seen a team quite like this." Os 91st win. JJ 49th save. O's tied w/Yankees for 1st in AL East. 28-9 in 1-run games. 72-0 when lead after 7th :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool:

Tampa Bay is a nasty little team. They'll not lose unless you make them. joe madden is twice as good of a manager as anyone else. The Phillies' Ryan Howard is out for the last few games of the season after suffering a broken toe when he dropped a lead pipe that he had used while swinging in the on-deck circle.