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Flurin - If you haven't already, check out "En Route Live" or the Trio Beyond recording on ECM for some great (IMO) recent Scofield. I find myself pulling these out (and some of his earliest stuff) more than alot of his BN and Gramavision era recordings nowadays. I also like the MSMW "Out Louder" recording, both the studio and live disc, but that may not be your cup of tea. I saw Scofield tour on the Ray Charles project tour, and thought he (and the material) was better live than on that record. Too many guest stars I suppose. I'm curious about the Piety Street record though, and hope having a vocalist doesn't take the focus off his playing too much.

Did a spambot infiltrate Jim's account?? LOL

Happy Birthday!!

Trombonist Bill Reichenbach is playing at Texas A&M Kingsville tomorrow night, with the school jazz band. Might take a drive over there.

...you mean Malady?

Looks like Billy Gillispie could be gone from the Kentucky job possibly as soon as today. He went from beloved at Texas A&M to traitor overnight, when he left to take the Kentucky job. I think he could have coached the rest of his life at A&M if he'd wanted to, and defined the program there. I've heard rumblings that he could end up coaching back in the Big 12 somewhere, possibly Texas Tech.

That was on the BN board. One of our regulars said something pretty ugly about her and the band, and it significantly contributed to the shut down of the board there.

This one: Or this one:

Might not be compatible with Works. That is the potential problem with the Open Office solution that I suggested above, too. You would think MS would allow Works and Office to be compatible.

I'd agree with this. We're locked into Windows where I work (and with our partner firms, etc), and since I occasionally bring work home with me, it makes the most sense to have a system that easily can handle the work. Plus, I want my kids to be comfortable with Windows, so they're not a step behind everyone else when it comes to job hunting later in life. Unless they are in the small minority who are lucky enough not to have to work for someone else.

Well, that's kind of nasty, and both post more about jazz than I do... Seriously? I've never seen either post on a music thread. Maybe they haunt different threads than I do. Weizen pops into hardbop and TOJC/mini-LP threads, while Berigan likes to drop in on swing/early-jazz threads (not a whole lot of those here, generally speaking). They're both pretty passionate jazz fans--I can attest to that. I agree - and it seems almost mean spirited to attack them like that, especially when there are certainly posters on the other side of the political spectrum who post almost exclusively in the political forum.

I'm pretty sure we've done this exercise more than once before, but it's difficult to search for ECM in thread titles here. Here's Your 10 (or 5, or 3) favorite ECM albums. More ECM threads listed in that one: Favourite ECM-ECM New Series Album ECM to begin reissues ECM reissue thoughts

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Do you have this one already, Joe? If so, how do you like it?

Chris - I believe Open Office, which is freeware, allows you to save files in Word format, and I think there is Open Office for the Mac. I don't know if Works can read Word documents though (?), or if there's a way to convert them. I'm sure one of the more computer literate people on the board could answer this. Might be worth checking out, and might save you the trouble of having an additional operating system that you don't want/like.

What's also funny is that I was in Waterloo on Friday afternoon, and I think Buzz might have been, too. But I was only there from 3:37 to 3:52, so you may have missed me.

How were the shows, Mike? I would have loved to have been there - I was in Austin on Friday, but had family commitments.

A&M is out of it's league, I think. I thought they might have been better than they actually are, but playing a #1 seriously exposes their game. They can't even take advantage of the 7 footer being on the bench for UConn. It would help if they could play defense, too. Allowing 51 points in a half to anyone is pretty poor.

A few goodies at Waterloo yesterday: Jon Hassell - Surgeon of the Nightsky Jon Hassell/Brian Eno - Possible Musics Mick Karn - Titles Masada - Sanhedrin Marc Ribot - Rootless Cosmopolitans Wadada Leo Smith - Procession of the Great Ancestry David Sylvian - Blemish

Don't forget Metallica at Stubb's tomorrow night - though I'm sure that one's not free LOL. Maybe you'll run into BFrank somewhere too.

I imagine the drag from the trombone would prevent you from driving faster than the speed limit anyway.

I think I set mine up, we'll see! I'm sure I'll end up low man on the totem pole though.

Didn't he have a major collection of snakes or reptiles or something too? edit - Oh yeah, and he used to hang with Jimmy Page, too.

No kidding! I think Ausmus was catching for Mike Scott & Nolan Ryan back in the 80's! Well, no. But in defense of the aging Ivy leaguer, in his first AB this spring, he doubled. In his second at bat, he singled and stole second off Geovanny Soto. He's going to make a solid back up for Russell Martin. I have a baseball that i got signed by Scott, Ryan, and catcher Alan Ashby (and a slew of teammates - Billy Hatcher, Glenn Davis, Bill Doran, Charlie Kerfeld, even Hal Lanier signed it for me), so I know he wasn't around back then - was just playin'. Unfortunately the ball was used and well worn, because I wasn't expecting to get down on the field that day.

No kidding! I think Ausmus was catching for Mike Scott & Nolan Ryan back in the 80's!