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Sal Mineo Yao Ming Vanessa Daou edit: doh! dead end here too re-edit: I say the thread continues with the "first" posted names, when there are two that come off the same one, if that makes sense. triple edit: ok, never mind

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Ok, how's your team doing so far in the draft? (and in the offseason in general) Dallas has selected two defensive players - Demarcus Ware, and Marcus Spears. I see a big improvement in the front 7, regardless of whether they play the 3-4 or stick with the 4-3. Might have a hard time getting everyone on the field up there. So with the offseason pickups of Drew Bledsoe, Jason Ferguson, & Anthony Henry, I see their remaining needs as free safety, and secondly a wide receiver, and then another offensive lineman. If they can pick up a good free safety in the second round, then they've had an excellent draft, IMO. I'm not sure I get Washington's draft so far, and I thought it was a little odd that Detroit went for yet another WR.

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I just did a label search on BN at the BMG site, and extracted these titles from the list that came back: Andrew Hill - Black Fire, Dance of Death Art Blakey - Moanin, Night at Birdland 1/2, Indestructible, Night in Tunisia, Free for All Cannonball - Somethin Else Cecil Taylor - Conquistador Charlie Rouse - Bossa Nova Bacchanal Chick Corea - Now he sings, now he sobs Clifford Brown - Memorial Album Count Basie - Basie meets bond, Chairman of the Board Dexter Gordon - Go, Our Man in Paris, Doin Alright Donald Byrd - Free Form, At the Half Note Cafe Duke Ellington - Money Jungle Duke Pearson - Sweet Honey Bee Eric Dolphy - Illinois Concert Freddie Hubbard - Hub Tones, Hubcap, Ready for Freddie, Night of the Cookers 1/2 Grant Green - Am I Blue, Grantstand, Goin West Hank Mobley - Soul Station, Straight No Filter Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage Horace Silver - Song for my Father, Horace Silver Trio, Cape Verdean Blues, Serenade to a Soul Sister Jack Wilson - Easterly Winds Jackie McLean - Jackie's Bag, Right Now! Jimmy McGriff - The Worm Jimmy Smith - Sermon, Cool Blues, Rockin the Boat, Prayer Meetin, Home Cookin Joe Henderson - In and Out John Coltrane - Blue Train Johnny Griffin - Blowin Session Kenny Burrell - Midnight BLue Larry Young - Mother Ship, Of Love and Peace Lee Morgan - Sidewinder, Sixth Sense Lou Donaldson - Natural Soul McCoy Tyner - Real McCoy Miles Davis - Vol 1/2, Birth of the Cool Ornette Coleman - Golden Circle 1/2 Sam Rivers - Fuchsia Swing Song, Countours Sonny Clark - Cool Struttin Sonny Rollins - Newk's Time, Vol. 1 Stanley Turrentine - Blue Hour, Never let Me go Monk/Coltrane - Live at the Five Spot Monk - Genious of Modern Music 1/2 Wayn Shorter - Speak No Evil, JuJu

Happy B-Day Mark! Many returns, and many more years of jazz photos to share with us please! -Erik

Maren - that's the most beautiful cake i've EVER seen in my life!!! B-) Thanks again for all the kind wishes!

....since 3 years you Dutch guys have been correcting our English now. B-)

FYI - Stefon Harris' "Evolution" has just showed up in the new arrivals section. Also in there is Living Colour's "Live from CBGB's", and a number of those "Gold" compilations...

Thanks, y'all! The big 4-0 was kinda scaring me, but about half-way through the day, and I still feel as youthful (immature?) as ever. I live in a city that's predominantly Hispanic (like 70%). Around here it's traditional to bring breakfast tacos in to work when it's your birthday, so I thought I'd share a round here as well! Of course, since we have so many folks from different time zones (and for those who like beer with breakfast), it wouldn't be right to offer these without some liquid refreshment, so one of my favorite Mexican beers might be in order as well: PS - I didn't get the Aggie joke B-)

I apologize for my earlier thread-crap, since it didn't really relate to Mosaics, but I still stand behind it. I try to read with my kids every night, stimulate their thinking, imagination, and creativity. I know music can do this as well - it does for me. But I also think that kids should be challenged by reading - the benefits are worth far more than the effort it takes to sit down and spend some quiet time with a book (or in ol' BNBB/Hardbop terms, a "tome" ). In some ways this might help improve the poor attention span that seems to exist in younger folks today (which also may be partially causing the dumbing-down of popular music as well?). Done with thread-crap #2...

The thing that bothers me about this concept is that I still think of Ebay as an auction site. Meaning I compete against other bidders, and get to decide if I want to outbid them. With sniping, you don't get a chance to respond to someone else's last-second bid. edit - what sniping does is effectively turn ebay into a sealed-bid auction, I guess.

I admire your enthusiasm for the music, which I think most of us here share. But if this is all you're reading, you are seriously missing out. There's a wonderful world of fiction/non-fiction/poetry/classic lit/contemporary out there, just waiting to blow your mind. Hell, start with some graphic novels or something if books don't jazz you too much.

Okay, I've started seeing some info coming out on the new album, so I thought I'd share what I know... New John Scofield album coming out on 7 June, titled "That's What I Say - John Scofield Plays the Music of Ray Charles". JOHN SCOFIELD - electric & acoustic guitars LARRY GOLDINGS - piano, Hammond B3 organ, Wurlitzer, vibes WILLIE WEEKS - bass & Ampeg baby bass STEVE JORDAN - drums, cocktail drums, tambourine, background vocals With Special Guests: WARREN HAYNES - vocals, bottleneck guitar JOHN MAYER - vocals and guitar AARON NEVILLE - vocals DAVID “FATHEAD” NEWMAN- sax MAC REBENNACK - vocals and piano MAVIS STAPLES - vocals and Manolo Badrena - percussion, Spanish speaking Lisa Fischer - background vocals Vaneece Thomas - background vocals Meegan Voss- background vocals Alex Foster - tenor saxophone Earl Gardner - trumpet Howard Johnson - baritone saxophone Keith O' Quinn - trombone 01. Busted 02. What'd I Say 03. Sticks n' Stones 04. I Don't Need No Doctor 05. Cryin' Time 06. I Can't Stop Loving You 07. Hit The Road Jack 08. Talkin' About You/I Got A Woman 09. Unchain My Heart Part One 10. Let's Go Get Stoned 11. Nighttime (Is The Right Time) 12. You Don't Know Me 13. Georgia Personally, I'm really looking forward to this. On paper it looks like it has the potential to be a really fun listen. Joe G. and I both discussed previously that John Mayer didn't seem to fit with the rest of the crew, but we'll see I guess. Another note - due in 2006 is "Lifetime and Beyond", a Tony Williams celebration, featuring Scofield, Jack DeJohnette, and Larry Goldings.

Here's the crazy lady who was standing atop the biplane...

This is the one that's older than I am

Another one...

Flying in formation...

I took my kids to the annual Air Show here at the Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi. We had alot of fun wandering around, looking at all of the various current and historical military aircraft. One vintage plane was 62 yrs old, and I got to hear from my daughter, "Daddy, that plane's even older than YOU are!!" We got to see stunt biplanes, jet demonstrations, and helcopter flyovers. One of the biplane skits included a lady climbing up atop the upper wing while the plane did it's maneuvers and loop-de-loops. The finale of the air show itself was the Blue Angels. They used to be home based here at NAS CC(from '51-'55), so they still remain popular locally. They were fantastic, and made me feel like a kid all over again, watching them fly so tightly together at such high speeds. Gonna try and post a couple of pictures, if I can get them sized small enough for upload.

I'd guess the Hill and the two Rivers Conn's would be next. Heck, any other Conn's they may have too. I don't remember which ones they currently have other than those three.

GA - They haven't taken the next item on my list (Wilco - A Ghost is Born) and bumped it up from May to April, as far as I can tell. So I guess I'm essentially skipping my automatic shipment for April. Now if I get my credit card statement and see a charge on there, I'm not gonna be real happy about that! Kinda squirrely...

Hey!! That Hutcherson was in my queue for this month, and was supposed to ship to me on April 6th! I just checked after seeing your post, and my Hutcherson order status shows as "cancelled" I would have ordered it a month or two ago, had I known it was going to disappear so quickly. May have to go through my 40+ queue and see if there are any other BN's or anything that might have a short shelf life at yourmusic.

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