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Got the discs today, just putting the Bright Side into my player...

Just saw this on the BBC website: 'Dozens killed' in US hurricane More than 50 people have been killed as Hurricane Katrina lashed the US Gulf coast, emergency officials have said. Most of the deaths took place in just one Mississippi county, according to an official quoted by AP news agency. The Mississippi coastal towns of Biloxi and Gulfport bore the brunt of Katrina as it spun away from New Orleans in Louisiana, causing massive flooding. The storm is one of the strongest to have hit the US, causing up to $25bn (£14bn) of damage, correspondents say. Helicopters and boats were used to rescue hundreds of people stranded on the roofs of their homes. Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour told reporters his worst fear was "that there are a lot of dead people out there". Jim Pollard, spokesman for the Harrison County emergency operations centre, told AP that 30 people were killed at an apartment complex in Biloxi. Three other people were killed by falling trees in Mississippi, and in Alabama two people died in a road accident. New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin told a local TV station several "bodies are floating in the water". "I've never encountered anything like it in my life. It just kept rising and rising," said one resident, Byran Vernon, telling AP he spent three hours on his roof waiting to be rescued. Flooding The storm swept ashore on Monday after moving across the Gulf of Mexico. At least two oil rigs were set adrift. A rig in Mobile Bay, Alabama, broke free of its moorings and struck a bridge. Flood waters submerged much of New Orleans and part of the roof of the Superdome stadium, where 10,000 people had sought refuge, was torn off. More than a million people were evacuated from the New Orleans area as the hurricane approached. Power lines were cut, palm trees felled, shops wrecked and cars hurled across streets strewn with shattered glass. Hours after the worst of the storm, more flood waters surged across the western part of the city after a vital flood defence gave way. Much worse damage had been feared as the city lies some 6ft (2m) below sea level and is protected by a series of barriers and pumps. But the storm weakened after making landfall and turned eastward, sparing New Orleans a direct hit, despite frightening predictions. However, people are being urged not to move around the city for a few days. "There is high water covering the roads, still a lot of currents and moving water that makes it dangerous," Lieutenant Kevin Cowan, from Louisiana's Department of Emergency Preparedness, told the BBC. "There's even power lines that are still down on the roads and even in the water that could cause electrocution." The hurricane brought 105mph (170km/h) winds to Mississippi, where Governor Barbour told reporters it came in "like a ton of bricks". Katrina was later downgraded to a tropical storm as it passed through the eastern part of the state, with wind speeds of 60mph (97km/h). Forecasters have warned of heavy rain and as the storm heads north towards Tennessee and Ohio. Tornado warnings are in force in parts of the region.

Let's not even get into how incomplete the 'complete' Bitches Brew set is...

August 30th- 1938: Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grapelli record for French Decca 1959: Horace Silver- a session for Blowin' the Blues Away (Blue Note) 1966: Sonny Simmons- Staying on the Watch (ESP Disk') 1968: (30th & 31st) Keith Jarrett Trio at Shelly's Mnane-Hole- Somewhre Before (Atlantic) 1980: Jimmy Lyons & Sunny Murray at Willisau- Jump Up (hat Art) 1995: Sonny Rollins- session for +3 (Milestone)

Speaking of Chicago audiences... I wish that idiot who talks incessantly through the first night of Miles at the Plugged Nickel would shut the hell up!! It's a bit late to get worked up about it now, I know, but...

... so I'm allowed four more before I'm sent home with a note for my mother...

Ow!

Good luck man! Have fun...

What fuckwit thought of this?

Curb Your Enthusiasm season 4 come out in the UK next month... Can't wait!

Is this legal?

August 28- 1948: Tadd Dameron at the Royal Root, issued on Jazzland 1956: Ella Fitzgerald- session for Rogers & Hart Songbook (Verve) 1967: Duke Ellington- session for And His Mother Called Him Bill (RCA) 1982: Miles Davis- one track from Star People (Columbia) 1992: (28th- 31st) Thomas Chapin at the Kampo Cultural Center- Night Bird Song (Knitting Factory)

I think it's around 170 titles (several of those are multiple discs). Or should I include those with Miles as a sideman?

Quite so. There's just something plain wrong about Diz & Bird battling it out with Rita Coolidge...

Much the same as Miles, apprently...

Yep, there's a smiley for just about everything... ←

I'm another one who saw 'Kill Him Right Now'... Is this another one of those Judas Priest-esque mind control things?

I am constantly dumbfounded by people who go to gigs in order to have conversations. I can never tell if they don't realise or just don't care that they're being an irritation to people trying to listen. Just as irritating if you're playing. I was playing a gig once where a couple seated near the front spent a good 20 minutes having a conversation at the top of their voices despite being seated within two feet of each other. Eventually, during the middle of a solo, I came off the bandstand and stood over their table, playing loudly at them. They got the message pretty quickly and shut up (Don't think they were too pleased though as they left a few minutes later).

I sort of 'came round' to jazz singing. There was a time when I had little use for vocals in jazz (and in fact tended to prefer non-jazz singers; Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, Al Green etc *). Then I gradually found myself more interested in singers for some reason. Maybe because as a saxophonist I started to explore more 'standards' repertoire I started to get into the songs first and the singers after. Nowadays I often listen to Billie, Ella, Sarah, Eckstine, Hartman, Shirley Horn, Nat Cole and the man who invented jazz singing, Louis Armstrong. Now whenever I'm learning a new standard tune I always try and search out a singer's interpretation of it to get a feel for the intention of the lyric. Ben Webster and Dexter Gordon were right; knowing a song's lyric helps a lot in interpreting it as an instrumentalist. Yes, some of the lyrics seem trite now; equally some of them are so damn beautiful there are times I wished I sang! *Always been able to listen to Sinatra but then he was in a category of his own. Oh, and you're not alone, Big Deal. I can't get on with opera either. Philistine.

Damn soot gets everywhere!

August 26th 1929: Clarence Williams' Jazz Kings record for Columbia 1935: Coleman Hawkins records for Decca 1946: Duke Ellington records for Victor 1966: Roscoe Mitchell records second session for Sound (Delmark) 1974: (26th & 27th) Herbie Hancock- Thrust (Columbia)

Sho nuff. Can't make out his gang colors, though...

Not much greeaaaze here.

I dunno about a 'comeback', even if Sly were capable of one. These things are almost always a letdown. I'm just happy the guy's still alive.

That set hasn't been 'Complete' for a while; I believe the 2CD versions of 'Coltrane' and 'Ballads' includes material discovered since the box came out including a studio take of 'Impressions', IIRC.