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"Mr. Chung, in the case of the missing pants, how do you pleat?"

That cover may not match the style of music or the artist, but it pretty clearly matches the lyrics of the title tune: LOVE FOR SALE When the only sound in the empty street, Is the heavy tread of the heavy feet That belong to a lonesome cop I open shop. When the moon so long has been gazing down On the wayward ways of this wayward town. That her smile becomes a smirk, I go to work. Love for sale, Appetising young love for sale. Love that's fresh and still unspoiled, Love that's only slightly soiled, Love for sale. Who will buy? Who would like to sample my supply? Who's prepared to pay the price, For a trip to paradise? Love for sale Let the poets pipe of love in their childish way, I know every type of love Better far than they. If you want the thrill of love, I've been through the mill of love; Old love, new love Every love but true love Love for sale. Appetising young love for sale. If you want to buy my wares. Follow me and climb the stairs Love for sale. Love for sale.

Dave Liebman- Lieb Plays Wilder Jerry Bergonzi- Tenorist Dafnis Prieto- About the Monks (discussed recently on another thread) Ferdinand Povel- Live at Café Hopper Pete McGuinness Jazz Orchestra- First Flight Bernard Purdie- Master Drummer vol.2

Let's call them "unofficial recordings", then. But seriously -- I am guessing that Jim A will want the link deleted. Out of curiosity, for those that have checked out this site, how lossy are the files? I've heard rumors that in some cases tracks aren't separated (ie concerts are one entire long track). Guy I heard a rumor that when I... uh... I mean a friend of mine downloaded the Brecker Brothers file from 1976, it came as one long track (about 50 minutes). Or so I heard...

Just picked up "About the Monks", and looking forward to giving it a spin.

Kenny Werner- Lawn Chair Society Purchased: Joe Zawinul and WDR Big Band- Brown Street

Absolutely. I think the list in FreeForAll's first response is good: but I would put "Imagination/personal concept" as the most important thing. When you hear beginners, they all sound pretty much the same, 'cause they're just honking away with not concept or sonic target that they're aiming for. When a player starts to have a concept in his head about what he wants to sound like, there's a feedback loop that happens: as soon as you make a physical sound on your instrument, you start comparing it to the mental image you have. Then the body (oral cavity, breath support, touch {on piano or guitar or drums} articulation with the tongue) starts making adjustments, often subconsciously, to make the physical sound closer to the imagined model. When I was a kid, I was at a clinic by a Cleveland are sax player named Howie Smith. He picked up 5 or 6 instruments from various students (including their mouthpieces and reeds) and played them all. After just a few seconds on each different set of equipment, he was able to find "his sound". I think the whole equipment search thing is about finding the gear that allows you to get "your sound" with the least amount of contortions.

In the early '90's Deems had a big band that played around the Chicago area. I subbed a couple of times in the band (I'm guessing FreeForAll may have as well). Some good players, and even though Deems was past his prime, he was still doing some swingin'. The front head on his bass drum was painted "Barrett Deems- World's Fastest Drummer." Died in 1998, but some of his big band CDs are available here at CD Universe.

Looks like it might be a suona, and Chinese wind instrument (the smaller one in the photo).

I've seen a couple of Selmer horns that were modified for Varitonic activities. In addition the pickup on the neck of the horn, there was also a long tube or conduit that was attached to the body (tucked in amidst the rest of the keywork and lacquered to look like just one more rod). Apparently the wires would go from the neck pickup, down through that tube, then out from the lower end of the horn to the Varitone unit/amp. What I don't know is whether this modification was done at the Selmer factory, or if the Varitone folks bought up a bunch of horns and did the work on them. Over the last year or so, I've done some experimenting with some effects on my tenor. I got a Digitech vocal processor, and have used it on some funk gigs to do some octaves, some fourthy doublings, and some envelope filter/wah effects. A little goes a long way...

Holy Crap! That's a classic, right there!

Yes, it should!

that and http://monsterpig.com/ From the website: "Get the color poster" Only $9.95

We're throwing a big party this Sunday night, and putting a few minutes of wedding vows in the middle of it. I'm looking forward to the celebration; friends and family, bar-b-que from a great place here in town, beer and wine flowing, an R&B band of some of my best friends. But that pales in comparison to how much I'm looking forward to going through life with such a good woman. This is the second go-'round for me, and her first/only time. We're both well into our forties (that's age, not malt liquor) and it really is a cool thing that we have more-fully developed personalities and lives that we can bring to each other. I'm all about the "growing old together" thing, but I think it's good that I've been able to do some growing up on my own. Anyway, family and other out-of-town guests start arriving this afternoon, so I'm not sure how much forum time I'll have in the next few days. So, if you think of it on Sunday evening, raise a glass in our honor!

I picked this up today, but I've only heard the first couple of tunes, on my car stereo while running some errands. But I liked what I heard. Looking forward to some more attentive listening.

I was there for my first live Roscoe. Great show!

Yeah, I was thinking late Prez and/or late Billie Holiday. That can be some gut wrenching shit.

Rocky VI?

Oh sure, one more singer staying too long at the fair; we listen to 'em croaking out a few more just before they croak, and we call it "depth."

Yeah, that's why I would classify that Christmas album (and plenty of her other output) as swinging Pop music, rather than as a disappointing Jazz record... if we have to classify. One of the things I like about that record is: No Scat Singing!!!

Absolutely! I often tell my students that they should learn tunes by listening to recordings (specifically vocal renditions), rather than just out of a book. Ella is a great place to start because she actually sings the melody of the tunes, and she recorded so many standards on those "Songbook" albums. Also, she was a helluva singer, AND I know that it's not officially the Christmas season until this get spun several times:

I tried a few different pieces of "easy" software, but just didn't have the patience or time. Then I saw that a few friends of mine had set up their websites through http://dynamod.com/ The page layouts are pretty much set, and you're really just typing in the text and uploading images and sound files, etc. I'm sure they have lots of sample pages on their site, but you can also check out my site at: http://glennkostur.com Mine is pretty basic, but still quite presentable (I think).

Jazzy Alphabet

Yeah, what's up with that? I'm DL-ing the four that are up right now. What am I to do if I want the previously available tracks (is it 8 or 4?)? Do I have to go to the Gray/Black market?