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The Complete Blue Note Sam Rivers Sessions -- Disc I

The Complete Atlantic Tristano, Konitz & Marsh -- Disc I

Don't have 'em either.

Was that you I saw at the Braves game, Vibes, doing the flush and rush?

It's about time we recognized Miles David's contributions. This guy gets no respect--very brave of the academy to rcognize him. After all, he invented jazz, which was very important as an ancestor to Rock, the ultimate musical form.

Hey Mike, I'd never heard of Godwin's Law until now ( I just Googled it). In this case, I was just goofing on my good friend BruceH (I've known him for over 20 years now). Thus the .

Has Eddie Durham been mentioned yet? I really like his work, especially on the 1938 Lester Young "Kansas City Sessions" (Commodore). His recordings on electric guitar predate those of Charlie Christian. Though not the influential player that Christian was, I think he still sounds pretty great . A triple threat as guitarist/trombonist/arranger.

C'mon, he was ordered to do that by the studio. If he hadn't, they would have fired Wise and found someone else to do the editing job. ← So he was "just following orders"? The Eichmann of the editing suite....

Wait, don't go home yet, Jim (at least metaphorically). I have a test. Next time you have a gig, mention that all guys have funky handwriting but all girls write alike as part of your stage patter. If you get a laugh from most of the crowd, you're on to something.

But in the dark they all feel alike (the notes, that is).

I guess that the girls who wrote me love notes in high school were all "artsy." I still have those notes (buried somewhere) and they didn't write alike at all.

Sounds right to me. I've always been more of an intuitive guy (s'why I like Macs, obviously), and I blundered my way through a Mozilla installation.

My signature, on the other hand, is entirely illegible, but I guess I'm stuck with it now.

Most of the notes on my desk are printed, rarely script. Script is for signing things like checks, IRS forms, credit cards and so on. ← You're right. Printing is the mode nowadays. My own handwriting is an idiosyncratic blending of script, printing, and mimicry of typesetting.

Not having had contact with 100% of women, I don't feel I've got the data to confirm or deny this. Today's penmanship (and penWOMANship) seems to be pretty dire in general. I made my own handwriting up, though I will admit that it was influenced by comic books. I think that when I was in grammar school (late 1960s-early 1970s), the teaching of penmanship was on its last legs.

There was another thread on this a while back. Maybe that's got some hints.

Damn, if I was high school, I'd go to Monk! Left-leaning or no!

Has anyone ever seen them together?

I've got the same OS, I'm on dial-up, I'm here (thanks to Mozilla). Should he change ISPs? (I'm on earthlink.)

You're welcome. And I won't .

If we all chipped in a buck, Larry would be here now.

Was Monk a lefty? Interesting that his favorite magazine, at that time, was Boy's Life (at least that's what he wrote for the teacher).

I prefer "The Debonaires"...

And Jim, one thing your postings on this board never lack is emotion -- or intelligence. You're a damned passionate and eloquent writer (and I say that from the standpoint of one who could be considered something of a pro in the field), and I'd rather read you than just about anyone in Jazztimes, Downbeat, etc. I really hope that you do write that Elmo Hope book.

As to Evans and "pure emotion": I'd say that's correct. For much of his career, he pretty much expressed that one pure, melancholic (I won't say maudlin) emotion, over and over again. However, if you pluralize and say "emotions," then he doesn't cut it, as great as he is in many respects. Sure, I'm oversimplifying, he wasn't always that way, but I believe there's also a lot of truth in what I write. As for Gopnik, he's a very good writer and a very good journalist, but sometimes he gets out of his depth. Just yesterday I happened to stumble across a Gopnik article about wine, and since I sell the stuff for a living, I had many quibbles with the statements he made in his piece. It's a recognized phenomenon that the closer you are to the subject of an article, the more problems you may find with it, whether for factual reasons, interpretational differences, or whatever. I recall a Gopnik article about Django that received a fair amount of flak on this board a while back. I think Sangrey's on to something here. edited for spelling and clarity.