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What a mess! I saw elsewhere where Jan Ulrich, whose career ended with a doping scandal,will receive three of the seven (former)Armstrong TDF wins. If a tree falls in the woods and nobody is there, does it make a sound? If Lance Armstrong went to the podium in a yellow jersey 7 times at a famous bike race did anyone see him win? If Reggie Bush hoists the Heisman Trophy, did he achieve anything on the field of play? (read recently that he recently/finally gave it back) Did Penn State Football participate on the winning side of close to 200 games, prior to the well noted and ongoing scandal? Aren't sports a great diversion from every day problems? amen, brother mike.

shrewd move. sponsors generally cut and run...... i'm not a bud drinker, but i'm going to buy a 40 ounce just for this reason. Despite being banned for life from cycling & losing his seven Tour de France titles, Lance Armstrong still has support from beer maker Anheuser-Busch.

http://revivalist.okayplayer.com/2012/08/07/bird-with-strings-with-miguel-atwood-ferguson-special-guests-steve-wilson-jaleel-shaw/

"Patrisha Carter--------- Shimmy regularly gave my 8-year old grandson free piano lessons practically from the time he could sit up on her lap. She gifted him a fantastic LOUD keyboard and showered him with loads of love. He would literally melt into her arms every time he saw her. I always told her she was his first grown lady crush!! And she'd blush and say "I know!" LOL She was soooooooooo very talented, witty and kind and had an astonishing abundance of patience with him and others. I wish they could have had more years together, but she laid immeasurable foundations in all the children she touched, whether through the piano, babysitting or just chatting that will stand the tests of time. She fully realized "Children Are Our Future" Shimmy showed them all the beauty they possessed inside! Buy or download some of her music if you don't already have some... lay back, get comfortable and close your eyes ........ You will be delighted... she is right there in our minds and hearts loving the piano and making it do what it do! Such a huge loss in so many ways. ♥"

the only bright side to this is that the blues will always be with us.

the folks who don'tlive on the hill

August 27-29: Lester Young (b. August 27, 1909; d. March 15, 1959) and Charlie Parker (b. August 29, 1920; d. March 12, 1955) --- we preempt August 28 as well, playing Lester Young until noon, when we switch to Charlie Parker.

jaleel Shaw I had a great time and learned a lot about Charlie Parker on the panel with Jimmy Heath, Steve Coleman, Ashley Kahn, and Antonion Ciacca Today. Pics to come soon..

it's so sweet--------surely an allnighter. it's already 125am!!!!!

thanks for the WMLB-AM recognition. they have a webcast. what used to be exciting for me is the time when, as the sun went down, faraway different stations began to appear loud and clear. now near and far is pretty much the same.

memorial service "Israeli jazz pianist Shimrit Shoshan died on Sunday from cardiac arrest at the age of only 29. Shoshan, a New York resident, was one of the brightest stars in the stateside Israeli jazz firmament and maintained a busy performance schedule, often working with the leading edge players there." http://www.shimritshoshan.com/

KTLA reports a 70-year-old U.S. professional tennis referee was arrested on charges of beating her 80-year-old husband to death with a coffee mug.

ironically, a steam engine came through our town today, viewed and cheered by throngs.

"They'll stop making LPs next." .....but i'm still collecting, so that when i depart this orb or become incapacitated, my junkyard will be the beneficiary of a fabulously ponderous jazz/classical lp collection.

at this point, in the united states, shuttering am would be a good idea, much as i have loved and listened for most of my 67. years. conservative national talk shows endlessly monotonously droning what they have read on drudge, hustling conservative friendly gea and events, religious broadcasters by the hundreds, gold hustlers, snake oil vitamin salesmen, 5 minute network newscasts endlessly offering presidential play by play blow by blow i can do without. shoot the damn thing and put us out of its misery. i can only sadly remember the allnight clear channel am jazz shows and hosts, particularly the ones from wcfl chicago and wham rochester.

the inevitable is happening...... "relegated to the dustbin of history." bbc shuts off local am radio 'The digital switch-over has quietly started at four BBC local radio stations in England, RadioToday.co.uk can reveal. BBC Radio Kent, BBC Radio Lincolnshire, BBC Radio Merseyside and BBC Radio Nottingham have all stopped broadcasting regular programs on medium wave, instead directing listeners to FM or Digital Audio Broadcasting. Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) is a digital radio technology for broadcasting radio stations, used in several countries, particularly in Europe. As of 2006, approximately 1,002 stations worldwide broadcast in the DAB format. DAB may offer more radio programs over a specific spectrum than analogue FM radio. DAB is more robust with regard to noise and multipath fading for mobile listening, since DAB reception quality first degrades rapidly when the signal strength falls below a critical threshold, whereas FM reception quality degrades slowly with the decreasing signal.'

perhaps this item can grow into a wider discussion topic. i would love to read organissimo's fine minds expound with their wide perspectives.

charlie parker in 2012 forum Panelists: Jimmy Heath, Steve Coleman, Jaleel Shaw and Antonio Ciacca / Moderated by: Ashley Kahn An all-star panel of musicians and journalists discuss Parker’s enduring legacy, addressing how his music continues to be a required part of any jazz musician’s education, or jazz fan’s journey. Bird’s impact and genius will also be looked at in a contemporary context. FREE, but reservations required. RSVP to: CharlieParker20@SummerStage.org......... ------------------------------------- Tonight at 6:30pm, I will join a panel with the great tenor saxophonist Jimmy Heath and alto saxophonist Steve Coleman with journalist Ashley Kahn in NYC to discuss the music of Charlie Parker for the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival. Admission is FREE! Then at 10pm I will join guitarist Tom Guarna's Quintet ft. Luis Perdormo on Piano, Joe Martin on Bass, and E.J. Strickland on Drums at the 55bar downtown in the Village. Looking forward to it. Jaleel Shaw

LINK "Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) released a discussion draft of a bill Monday that would increase compensation for recording artists by putting cable, satellite and Internet radio on the same royalty-setting standard. The debate over whether broadcasters should pay music artists a royalty fee when playing their songs over the air, also called terrestrial radio, has been a never-ending battle Washington. Broadcasters are required to pay music artists when they play their songs on digital radio services like satellite, cable and Internet radio. But broadcasters do not have to pay a royalty fee to artists when they play their music on traditional broadcast radio stations, a gap that Nadler believes is unfair to artists."

each time my daughter or myself installs a computer program, we are incessantly hounded to download crappy toolbars and a search engine changer, at the very least, from even otherwise reputable businesses. toolbars should be illegal. for pete's sake, don't ASK.

i've had the same $7/month clamshell motorola w376g for 6 years. it costs me $6.67/month; i bought it at walmart for 20 bucks. that's not to say i've thought it lost 75 times. i NEVER turn off the ringer. once, i went trekking(retracing my tracks) 2 hours through the show at 0 degrees as night approached for my lost cellphone. when as a last resort i took my cordless out to the car and called it, my cell RANG, from under the seat.

today's aloc 25 cent thrift vinyl pickups:

there was also the excellent OUT OF THE WOODS with the quintet playing all gary burton compositions.

tenor sax legend ralph lalama, comedian is entertaining with his pianoless trio, bopjuice,(drums, bass) on the small's live webstream. small's webstream

2 weekend calls i've received in the last year" "grandpa, i dropped my cellphone in the toilet." "(from her mother)daddy, i dropped my cellphone in the toilet." now, i'm thinking dentures down the crapper might be a real problem.