Johnny E

She is a fine lookin' woman. Who knows? We'll see what happens. All's well that ends well.

Yeah, if you were the boy. How would you feel if you were the boys father. I for one would be pissed if some 25 year old teacher came after my 13 year old son.

So is it Lillian Briggs or not?

Yeah this is crazy. Have you seen the advertising yet? I guess poor jazz musicians will say anything for a few bucks.

Lillian Briggs?

OK I give. The only female trombone player from the fifties I can think of is Melba Liston. But that woman looks like a white blonde. Who is she?

It tells me we all have diffferent tastes, likes, dislikes, and things we have not yet discovered. Nothing wrong with that! We have certain likes and dislikes and priorities when it comes to purchasing music that are reflective of who we are as people and how we view the world. Nothing at all wrong with that. It's just insightful is all...sometime predictably so.

Sour grapes.

What Troy said.

I find this thread to be very telling.

This is a joke right?

Okay, I'll admit it. I'm impressed! Yeah well, you didn't know that Han is my homeboy?

Yeah, I was talking to Han Bennink in between sets at the Seattle ICP show and he said that he thought that America was changing. He's come here for over 30 years touring, recording etc. and he said that things are getting really tense here now-a-days. He said "everyone's scared of everything and everyone now." I know this isn't in the politics section so I won't go into my opinion on why this climate of fear has crept into our national consciousness, but I’m sure you already know.

This just in: Ashlee Simpson to anchor new ABC nightly news!

And Lowell just homered. I tell ya, if Schilling is back, and Lowell hits like he always did before last year, and Foulke is Foulke, this is a 100 win team. Bank on it. Just like the A's are gonna win the west right?

If Meche and Pinero can pitch to the level their talent dictates, we'll be in the hunt. If they pitch the way they did last year, we'll have a mediocre team to watch all summer. I feel like the offense has definitely gotten better. And if Beltre can snap back, we'll have nothing to worry about when it comes to driving in runs. A lot of ifs for sure, but this M's team might surprise people.

I hear ya'. And those Ichirolls are so good!

Tell me this is a joke, right?

Wow, $30 dollars for a .99 cent hat with a racist picture on it. Only in America...(oh wait, it was made in China, scratch that). Only bought in America.

I been playing your music all day. Thank you Jackie. To my ears your playing helped redeem humanity.

Me too! Melody for Melanae Thanks WKCR.

Jazz alto saxophonist Jackie McLean dies at 73 By Stephanie Reitz, Associated Press Writer | March 31, 2006 HARTFORD, Connecticut --Jazz alto saxophonist Jackie McLean, a performer and educator who played with legendary musicians including Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins, died Friday. He was 73. McLean, a contemporary of some of the 20th century's most famed jazz musicians, died at his Hartford home after a long illness, family members told The Hartford Courant. McLean was founder and artistic director of the Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz at the University of Hartford's Hartt School. He and his wife, actress Dollie McLean, also founded the Artists Collective, a community center and fine arts school in Hartford's inner city primarily serving troubled youth. University of Hartford President Walter Harrison said Dollie McLean called him Friday with news of her husband's death. Harrison said that despite his many musical accomplishments, McLean was a modest man whose connections with his students lasted for decades after they left his classroom. "He fully understood the way that jazz as an art should be passed down to students," Harrison said. "He saw his role as bringing jazz from the 1950s and '60s and handing it down to artists of today." McLean, a native of Harlem in New York City, grew up in a musical family, his father playing guitar in Tiny Bradshaw's band. McLean took up the soprano saxophone as a teen and quickly switched to the alto saxophone, inspired by his godfather's performances in a church choir, he told WBGO-FM in Newark, New Jersey, in an interview in 2004. McLean went on to play with his friend Rollins from 1948-49 in a Harlem neighborhood band under the tutelage of pianist Bud Powell. Through Powell, McLean met bebop pioneer Charlie "Bird" Parker, who became a major influence on the young alto saxophonist. He made his first recording when he was 19 on Miles Davis' "Dig" album, also featuring Rollins, which heralded the beginning of the hard-bop style. In the 1950s, McLean also played with Charles Mingus and Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, experiences that he credited with helping him find his own style. "I never really sounded like Bird, but that was my mission," McLean said in the WBGO radio interview. "I didn't care if people said that I copied him; I loved Bird's playing so much. But Mingus was the one that really pushed me away from the idea and forced me into thinking about having an individual sound and concept." McLean made his first recording as a leader in 1955. He drew wide attention with his 1959 debut on Blue Note Records, "Jackie's Bag," one of dozens of albums he recorded in the hard-bop and free jazz styles for the label over the next eight years. His 1962 album "Let Freedom Ring" found him performing with avant-garde musicians. In 1959-60, he acted in the off-Broadway play "The Connection," about jazz musicians and drug addiction. McLean, a heroin addict during his early career, later went on to lecture on drug addiction research. In 1968, after Blue Note terminated his recording contract, McLean began teaching at the University of Hartford. He taught jazz, African-American music, and African-American history and culture, setting up the university's African American Music Department, which later was named in his honor. He took a break from recording for much of the 1980s to focus on his work as a music educator, but made his recording comeback in 1988 with "Dynasty," and later re-signed with Blue Note. His last Blue Note recordings included "Fire and Love" (1998), featuring his youthful Macband with son Rene McLean on tenor saxophone, and the ballads album "Nature Boy" (2000). He received an American Jazz Masters fellowship, the nation's highest jazz honor, from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2001, and toured the world as an educator and performer.

I played snare drum in the 1984 Mummers parade and was paid $50. I marched from Oregon Aveneue all the way up Broad Street to the William Penn building, stopping every block to let the jackasses strut. It took all day in 10 degee wheather. I was 14, and to this day it's still the worst paying gig (considering what I had to go through) I've ever had.

I have some advice for DC: Change the damn name of your football team. It's 2006 already, it's embarrassing.