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I saw Tal live in 1982 with Red Norvo, and he was indeed fantastic at that time.

I find this comment to be fairly incredible. Are you joking, or what?

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I cannot imagine any rare, unearthed jazz recording which could fetch this type of auction price. What does that say about the state of the world, if anything?

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Like "Mandy is Two"?

Based on what? Based on my intuition, and my connection to a deep spiritual link within the innermost recesses of the cosmos, which are so often right on.

I have no idea if this is what Ayler was thinking, but something that Richard Davis said to our jazz history class in 1978 comes back to me after reading this thread. An earnest young student asked Richard a long, involved question about why some of the jazz giants decided to record in a rock style, or with rock elements, in the late 1960s. The young student hypothesized all kinds of reasons in his multi-part question, from the spiritual to the materialistic and many points in between. Richard stared at him for several seconds, then replied, "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em."

I think that it is very unlikely that Lindsay Lohan wrote this herself. I think it is likely that someone on her staff wrote it and submitted it without Lindsay reading it first, or caring about it.

The late lamented Music Exchange in Kansas City had its extra copies of its 1 million+ vinyl albums on bookshelves lining the walls of the store. There were an incredible number of copies of Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA" and Steely Dan's "Aja" on those shelves.

I seem to recall that he hung himself in a jail cell in an upper crust suburb of D.C.--Reston, Virginia.

I have recently outlived Erroll Flynn and Herve Villechaize! Soon I will outlive Rod Serling (24 days) and Steve McQueen (68 days).

Is there no end to the money making projects which will flow out of the Beatles albums? Do the surviving Beatles and the two widows need another chunk of millions of dollars so much?

Thinking about how much fun it was to watch the Chiefs beat the Broncos on Thanksgiving night.

He made a sincere effort to spotlight jazz in his "Kansas City" film. It's just too bad that the film itself was so flawed--a really good film might have done something more for jazz.

My CD player, which I used for 15 years, just gave out and died. I need to buy a new one. I am intrigued by the CD recorders on the market, such as Denon CDR-W1500, which allow you to record from any outside source onto a CD-R, without using a computer. Has anyone tried either this Denon product, or one of the other CD recorders on the market? What do you think of them?

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Sometimes when you know what you are doing with your life, it's not that great anyway. It can be an illusion that if you could find THE job or career for you, that happiness would flow to you. The uncertainty is relieved, to be replaced by a dismal, dreary certainty.

I am obviously in the minority here, but I like Russell's later Soul Note albums "New York Big Band" and "Live In An American Time Spiral". I think that the first cut on "New York Big Band" is outstanding. It could be due to Stanley Cowell's performance rather than anything to do with Russell himself, but whatever the reason, I think it is a fine recording.

I am apparently in the minority, but I liked Chris Woods' electric sax solo on the song "Low Spark of High Heeled Boys". When Traffic was good, it was great.

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In the late 1980s I was standing on the corner of 9th and Main Streets in downtown Kansas City on a weekday, near the noon hour. I was walking back to work. The sidewalks and streets were covered with thick slush, so I was looking down a lot as I walked. I noticed an old man standing across the street, waiting to cross in the opposite direction. He was covered in an old coat and a warm winter hat. He was coming toward me in the intersection as we crossed. There were (and are) a lot of older homeless men in downtown Kansas City, and I thought to myself, "wow, look at that old, beat up guy. He looks worn out even by downtown standards." I then looked down at the slush for the first several steps as I crossed the intersection. As the old man passed me, I looked up and was surprised to see that he had bright orange whiskers coming from under his lower lip. It suddenly hit me. I turned and looked at him as he reached the other side of the street and walked onto the sidewalk. It was Sun Ra, with Danny Thompson next to him. They walked off down the sidewalk, away from me. I was very surprised, and thought of running after them, but thought, what exactly would I say? Plus I really needed to get out of the intersection before a car hit me. So I just went back to my office.