Aggie87

Ours used to have a decent jazz selection, but now I agree that it's pretty poor. And what's unfortunate is that they've essentially run all the other places in my town out of business. We have one FYE left in the mall, and Circuit City. That's about it locally.

Not much jazz, but here are a few other things I don't think have been mentioned yet: King Sunny Ade - Live Live Juju Buddy Guy - Can't Quit the Blues (3cd/1dvd) Bjork dualdiscs Jeff Tweedy - Chelsea Walls Sonic Youth - The Destroyed Room Bruce Hornsby box set Johnny Cash - At San Quentin (2cd/1dvd) Richard & Linda Thompson - Shoot out the Lights

bump.... I had ESPN on this morning while getting ready for work. Pete Gammons was interviewing Barry Zito, and somehow got on the subject of what was on his Ipod. Zito replied that among other artists, he had Joe Pass and Wes Montgomery. Then while checking Zito's bio on Wikipedia, I found this interesting comment:

Your sister's ex seems to have some aggressive tendencies there...

Ray - I did just what you're thinking about - bought the $129 PS2 at Christmas time for my kids. My 6 year old son loves it (he plays the Lego Star Wars games constantly), though my 9 year old daughter is somewhat ambivalent. I think that's a boy vs. girl thing in general though. I think for that price, it's an excellent purchase, and there are a ton of games out there for the PS2, at fairly reasonable prices.

Happy Birthday!

You can fly out to San Antonio with BF and we can hit the Riverwalk prior to tomorrow night's show, SS! The show was wonderful! I'm still in a daze this morning about everything, and still absorbing it. I'm inclined to agreed with Beef Rank that Miguel Zenon in particular was on fire! Every solo of his impressed me. Bobby Hutcherson played beautifully... what a master! Some of his spotlight moments just blew the audience away. Joshua Redman's playing (to me) seemed to mirror his laidback personality completely. He had one or two solos where he seemed to become more passionate (one almost "Trane-like", according to the lady sitting next to me). Dave Douglas seemed solid but not inspired, though he really seemed to get into the other's solos alot, almost dancing along to them. Of the others Renee Rosnes had a couple of wonderful solos, Andre Hayward had a great tone and played well, and Eric Harland really impressed me as a drummer. Matt Penman was solid and had a couple of nice solos too! I was able to nab Josh Redman's setlist afterwards: Alcatraz (part of Douglas' San Francisco Suite) Brilliant Corners Epistrophy Ugly Beauty SF Holiday Lions Gate Haast Pass Oska T Crepuscule Life at the End of the Tunnel (Hornin In) I Mean You Union Criss Cross (encore) Also, I was talking with the lady at the merchandise stand prior to the show, as I bought the limited ed. version of SF Jazz 3 (mine's #1465). I told her how excited I was about seeing the show, and that I was hoping to get Bobby's autograph afterwards. She was very friendly, and after the show she took me backstage, where I was able to meet Bobby and his wife Rosemary, and all of the other band members! Bobby wanted to talk fishing on the Texas coast It was wild just having a casual conversation about ordinary stuff like that. I also talked with Dave Douglas for a while. He signed a few things for me, one being his old "Sanctuary" cd cover. He was surprised I had it, and said he doesn't see it often at all. He said it was very "all over the map" in terms of energy and style, and I suggested that John Zorn had rubbed off on him on that recording. He laughed and agreed. Also got to talk with Eric Harland for a bit. He was cool. He said after the SF Jazz tour is done, he'll be going back out with Charles Lloyd in a quartet tour of Europe. He said Geri Allen wouldn't be on board in the quartet this time, but instead Jason Moran! So I was excited to hear that. All in all a great night of music, that hopefully will trigger some more jazz acts coming to San Antonio!

You can fly out to San Antonio with BF and we can hit the Riverwalk prior to tomorrow night's show, SS!

March Madness! How did Louisville get to play in Lexington for the opening couple of games? That's like a home game for them! A&M's going to have their hands full on Saturday with the Cardinals and their fans. These are supposed to be neutral sites, aren't they?

I just purchased my ticket for the San Antonio show on Friday evening. If anyone else is going, and would like to meet up prior to the show for a drink or a bite to eat, let me know! Cool, Ag. Obviously I can't be there, but let us know what you think of the concert. We'll compare notes ... If you REALLY liked that show you saw the other night, you'd fly down to San Antonio tomorrow....

Happy Birthday!

I just purchased my ticket for the San Antonio show on Friday evening. If anyone else is going, and would like to meet up prior to the show for a drink or a bite to eat, let me know!

Tonight ... How was the show, BF? Douglas is in the band now, right? They're going to be in San Antonio on Friday, and I'm thinking about making the drive up there.

I thought it was way past time for Free to have another birthday!!! Happy Birthday Bro, and best wishes for your new life in Florida!

That sounds REALLY cool, Joe! Let us know how it is. Maybe you can get up and jam with them! How much does a private CGT/Levin concert cost?

Lisa Nowak has been kicked out of NASA, and has gone back to the Navy, which is her actual employer. Alot of the astronauts are actually military members, who are detailed to NASA during their astronaut training & missions. Nowak, a Navy captain (equivalent to full bird Colonel in the other branches), is being assigned to NAS Corpus Christi, with unspecified duties. This should be interesting, as Corpus isn't the largest of towns (or military bases) to start with. She's going to be a very public, big fish, in a smallish pond. Maybe I'll take her out for a cup of coffee sometime.

The challenge would be if the seller is selling it without an agent (for sale by owner). In that case, if the buyer has an agent, then his agent has no comparable agent to work with from the seller's side (and with which to split the 6% or whatever fee). I suspect the seller isn't using an agent, and that's why Peter is buying without an agent.

A good real estate agent will walk you through the home inspection process (and any follow-on renovation work that you hammer out with the seller) and help coordinate with the title and mortgage companies and so forth, and any other related needs. Make sure you have a handle on all the things you'll need to do.

Possible Father List, as of today: Howard K Stern - boyfriend Larry Birkhead - former boyfriend Alex Denk - her bodyguard J. Howard Marshall - former husband/sperm donor? Mark "Hollywood" Hatten - lived with Anna for 2 yrs, gave her sperm samples; currently in prison Prince Frederic - Zsa Zsa Gabor's hubby Daniel Smith - son Bahamian Immigration Minister - bedmate of Anna's

About the only record store left in town that's got much of a selection is Waterloo Records, at 6th and Lamar. You missed the "Global Percussion Masters" (Zakir Hussain, Giovanni Hidalgo, Terry Bozzio) at the One World Theatre by one night. Our own soulstream (Mike Flanigin) may be playing with his B3 trio at the Continental Club this weekend. Eugene Chadbourne is playing tomorrow night at the Hole in the Wall. Lucinda Williams is at Stubbs tomorrow night as well.

For illustrating travel you need the obligatory giant map with a dotted line progressing across it, showing the traveller's progress and arrival at destination, where the story usually picks up again.

from the March DGM newsletter, you can get a free KC concert from dgmlive.com. I haven't checked this out yet, but thought it might be of interest to some of ya.

Can't let you guys have ALL the fun!

Anybody notice this just recently came out at the end of January? Is this the first Warners era comp? Track listing: Tutu 5.15 Splatch 4.45 Catémbe 5.35 Mr. Pastorius 5.42 Amandla 5.21 Mystery 3.55 Chocolate Chip 4.38 The Doo-Bop Song 5.00 Trumpet Cleaning (with Michel LeGrand) 3.56 Siesta/Kitt's Kiss/Lost In Madrid Part II (with Marcus Miller) 7.00 The Pan Piper (with Quincy Jones) 1.40 Summertime (with Quincy Jones) 2.54 In A Silent Way 1.49 Time After Time 9.58 Hannibal 7.22

kinda slow lately... Ella Fitzgerald - The Very Best of the Songbooks: Golden Anniversary Edition (2 cd) Tony Bennett - Greatest Hits of the 50's Tony Bennett - Greatest Hits of the 60's Tony Bennett - Perfectly Frank Tony Bennett - I Left my Heart in San Francisco Medeski Martin & Wood - Last Chance to Dance Trance couple of Replacements reissues Primus - They can't all be Zingers