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I get my Rhythm and News in the mail every time from Jazz Record Mart, and they have always been as prompt and helpful as can be, with any of my mail orders. MG, maybe envious Wales postal authorities are pilfering your copies!

Thanks for that information about Newton. I will definitely check that album out.

Most men I know do not like or appreciate jazz, either. It's just that if you are acquainted with someone or a friend of someone, and they don't like something you like, it's easier to carve that out of your association, compared to what it's like to resolve the situation when you are in a romantic relationship with a woman--in my experience.

Ha, yeah, probably should've started this earlier. :\ Thanks for the mentioning the song, I tried sending the instructor a couple songs that I thought would work well, but he said they wouldnt work as they lacked too many of the more jazzy elements, like the ones in the song you mentioned. Are you familiar with 'Jazzy Interlude' by Billy Munn? I was wondering if this one would also be viable for the paper, not sure if there's improv in that song or if its just a solo. The school is UW-Marathon County. In Wausau, Wisconsin, where I lived for a time. I would use the "Work Song" suggestion for your paper. It is clearly correct for what you need. I am quite a jazz fan and I have never heard of "Jazzy Interlude" by Billy Munn. You might also try allaboutjazz.com for this type of question. There are a lot of jazz musicians there who discuss technical musical issues all day on that forum, and they may be familar with "Jazzy Interlude" by Billy Munn, if you need to try to use it.

I would include it as well. That was the first Mosaic I received.

Walter Kolosky- GIRLS DON'T LIKE REAL JAZZ This book contains a chapter in which Kolosky argues that at the beginning of a relationship, many women will tell you that they like jazz, but they really don't. Or they don't understand what it means to "like jazz" the way that members of this board "like jazz". The book is somewhat tongue in cheek, but I think he makes a good point. I have known women who liked jazz when I played a little Ella or Bill Evans, but when they realized that I actually intended to play LOTS of jazz ALL THE TIME, and that some of it was dissonant, they rebelled. I agree that it is unrealistic to think that you can convert any woman, or man, into listening to avant garde jazz or dissonant post-bop, if they do not have a predisposition to it already. In much the same way, I would not want to be "converted" to death metal by a well meaning friend.

Good question about Newton. He was recording a lot in the late 1970s and 1980s and seemed to be rising to the level of a regular jazz recording star, in the way that anyone can become a jazz recording star these days. Then at some point he seemed to become less well known, and to have fewer high profile recordings. The Beastie Boys did him in: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4701570 I knew about that unfortunate story. But why couldn't Newton also continue to record albums while he struggled with the Beasties on the side?

I saw Pat play a great concert with his trio in 2007. He played acoustic and electric guitars extremely creatively and well. He obtained some appealing, unusual sounds from his electric guitar in the midst of intense, pure jazz improvisations. Was he using synthesizers at times? I have no idea, but he could have been. I have not heard other guitarists make some of those sounds with their guitars. It did not matter. It was just exciting music.

Good question about Newton. He was recording a lot in the late 1970s and 1980s and seemed to be rising to the level of a regular jazz recording star, in the way that anyone can become a jazz recording star these days. Then at some point he seemed to become less well known, and to have fewer high profile recordings.

That was me. I bought the one in the middle. I found it totally beyond my listening experience, much as if I had purchased the music of a lost tribe in a deep tropical jungle. It wasn't so much that I hated it. I just found it incomprehensible.

I have never known a woman who was happy with me ignoring her while I listened to jazz. I don't think it's realistic to think that you can "manage" a wife or girlfriend into letting you listen to jazz. Substitute another leisure activity in the sentence for jazz, and see how it reads. "I'm not going to talk to you during two to three hours stretches on a regular basis, every week, because it's important for me to look at my gun collection." "I'm not going to talk to you during two to three hours stretches on a regular basis, every week, because it's important for me to handle my NASCAR collectibles." "I'm not going to talk to you during two to three hours stretches on a regular basis, every week, because I'm going to play poker often, for high stakes, with those old friends of mine you hate." Now plug in "listening to jazz" at the end of the sentence. She probably views all four activities as equally unacceptable reasons for ignoring her.

The store I went to tonight had Miles Davis' "Workin'" album on at a low volume.

Your comparison is an insult to farting ducks the world over. Even when it's played by Sidney Bechet?

I listen to music in the car, whenever I am driving. I make sure I always have my CDs of choice ready to take in the car. I don't even think about playing jazz at home. Whenever I can, it's a bonus, but I assume that it will be a rare thing. I see a distinction between the girlfriend and the roommate. I would tell the roommate, "we're not watching TV now, we're listening to Sam Rivers", and if he leaves, so what. You really can't do that with a girlfriend or wife.

Please explain! Why is Jazz Record Mart a shadow of its former self? I have not been there in several years--what happened? They kept getting squeezed on the rent. Now they are in a walkdown location with maybe half the space of the old location. I just find it claustrophobic. The used CD area is generally a big mess. The staff are far less approachable than before (maybe because they sense more hard times for the store -- hard to know). It's probably still the best dedicated jazz store in Chicago, but I find it so much less pleasant that I don't want to go in anymore. How long ago did they move to this new location? I didn't notice an address change in recent years on my copies of Rhythm and News.

I have never seen it either. Hilarious! It certainly applies to the Music Exchange liquidation sale in Kansas City this year, in which over 500,000 vinyl albums were set out in boxes in an old warehouse.

Also, Allen, you left out the Ancient Egyptian Infinity Drum, played by James Jacson with what always looked to me like a pair of hockey sticks. Or maybe you specifically meant to include it under your listing of "drums".

There is no such thing as too much cowbell, every song should have cowbell. The cowbell is the symbol of unbridled passion. (Frank Zappa, on "Bebop Tango", on the "Roxy and Elsewhere" album)

Please explain! Why is Jazz Record Mart a shadow of its former self? I have not been there in several years--what happened?

Saw, conch shell, ocarina, celeste, clavinet, cello, French Horn, violin, glockenspiel, oboe, bassoon, rocksichord....

I must be weird. I like everything that has been condemned here. In fact, I can't think of a musical instrument that I don't like the sound of. They all add a different flavor to the stew. I have read the negative comments about Phil Woods before on this board. I have listened to his pre-1957 and post-1957 albums. There is something lacking in my powers of discrimination, because I like "Musique du Bois" and "Live at the Showboat", and find some of his other post-1957 albums to be pretty good. If I had not read the comments of Org members whose opinions I respect highly, it would not have occurred to me that there was something wrong with his playing. They are not playing "instruments", but so far I have been unable to penetrate the appeal of the Swingle Singers. When they are played on a jazz radio show, that is the only time I will switch the station after a short time.

Also, I never understood why the aliens would immediately kill some humans, but would take others back to the birthing area to implant a baby alien inside the human's chest. How was that decision made, and how well could the aliens think, reason and discriminate on such an issue.