Daniel A

Just as you can be a music lover and stamp collector, you can be a music lover and record collector. Collecting records does not automatically exclude appreciation for music.

As I wanted to fully penetrate the meaning of your phrase, I fed it into an online translator. After having properly digested it, I let the same translator turn it back into English and got: "can tentakeln of 1000 klipska upper for manet your ass".

Tillykke med fødselsdagen, Chris!

Kind of interesting in spots, but (without being a Konitz expert) I would say it's not among his best. The trumpet player (I forget his name) wrote almost all the tunes as far as I can recall, and they are nice witout being anything special. Konitz plays the Varitone on some cuts. The album has a nice vibe but is perhaps a bit shy on substance.

Through college I worked weekends as a bus driver (and to some people's astonishment sometimes still do, despite having a more qualified office job) and some have played the racist card on me, too. But I know I'm doing a good job, and through the years I've learned not to take unfair or aggressive comments with me after leaving work. Often it takes me just a few seconds too long to figure out the "perfect" response which would have left the offender looking like a fool, and it can be frustrating in that very moment, but I've managed to make a funny story of such episodes or just forget them altogether, because I know that it's the other person who's got a problem, not me. However, a job like this brings many good things as well, and after all those thousands of people passing by I've found that I've become a much better judge of other people's character at a first meeting. Regarding female passangers, I've found teenage girls to be the most nonchalant customers of all, and retired women most likely to complain about all and anything (although there are many wonderful characters among elderly women, too).

Happy birthday, Reinier!

According to an article today in one of Sweden's leading newspapers, Dagens Nyheter, Stan Getz is partly to blame for the ongoing financial crisis of the world. The reason is that Alan Greenspan, once a saxophone player, eventually gave up music after having played alongside Stan Getz and subsequently launched a career in economics. An article in The New York Times last week, Taking Hard New Look at a Greenspan Legacy explores Greenspan's guilt in the housing bubble, and the Swedish newspaper concludes that things might have been different had Greenspan pursued his musical career.

Mr. Tapscott, please accept my warmest congratulations!

This was good news! Not much talk about Zeitlin, and the response on a track I included in a Organissimo blindfold test a few years ago (Maiden Voyage from 'Zeitgeist') was not enthousiastic. An interesting player, though.

Some November/December additions. A bunch of Savoy reissues coming up. All of them have been out before I think, but it's nice to see them around again.

What do the stars mean? There are people who have been banned who have them while plenty of others who have made real contributions here have none , so I'd say the stars mean absolutely nothing.... I've always thought of the member ratings as the most useful feature of the forums. Last time I looked I had five stars, but now I'm down to three so I guess someone who likes me a lot must have submitted a "one".

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Happy birthday, Marcello! And thanks for your worthy contributions to the forums.

Happy birthday, Marcus!! Hope you are doing well!

I heard this story many years ago about Michael Brecker being asked what it was like to be the greatest tenor player in the world. His answer was "I don't know - ask Jerry Bergonzi."

"Greatest Motion Picture Hits" is another one which has its moments. I think that even the worn out classics are fantastic songs, which because of their over-familiarity are not appreciated as the great compositions they are. Bacharach the arranger is another forgotten story. His arrangements are often as idiosynchratic as the actual compositions and they often work just so well anyway.

A curiosity: On the '58 Sessions' the wrong take of "Stella" was mistakenly included. The original Jazz Track album (as well as the box set) has a different composite take.

Maybe a question about some forum member, which would force the applicant to spend some time on the forums. "Who did just unload his complete CD collection?"

GREAT news, Bruce!!! Actually, I believe several studies have come to that conclusion, and the insurance industry is not likely to have manipulated their results. PSA tests are of immense value, don't think I'm thinking otherwise, but only up to a certain age. In reality, if a man lives long enough, he will get prostate cancer. Many men who die of "old age" do have untreated prostate cancer, which however did not affect their life span, because it most cases it is a slow-growing type of tumour.

FWIW, Andorra signed the Berne Convention a few years ago, so the 50 year limit is in effect there, too.

Perhaps you could ask him if he thinks the fact that there will probably never be any more jazz releases on any major label affects the general development of jazz in any way.

Fischer is a solid guitarist and I can imagine that this album will be nice. His band featured Ingrid Jensen on some live gigs a while back.

BTW, there's a terrific collection of stories from the BG tour by bassist Bill Crow here: To Russia Without Love

Actually, he mentions Lenin in the liner notes, "Nikolai Lenin" that is.

??????????????????? What's it like? I imagine the idea came from Victor's time in Moscow with the Benny Goodman Orchestra on its State Department-sponsored tour of 1962. Local musicians who jammed with the visitors probably introduced them to these tunes. Leonard Feather (also the producer of the album) typically takes credit for the idea in the liner notes, having brought back tapes with Russian jazz musicians given to him during that Benny Goodman tour, but since Feldman and a few others from the BG band (Phil Woods is mentioned) apparently took opportunity to jam with locals I suspect that the idea was as much his.