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John Philip Sousa Philip Seymour Hoffman Lou Diamond Phillips

Sebastian Cabot Mrs. Livingston Hop Sing

Who's going to write it? Billy Byers.

Nino Rota Max Steiner Jerry Goldsmith

That Charlie Parker break on the Dial is indeed amazing. I think that's one of the things that made me kinda dig my "gulty pleasure" Chaka Khan version: Herbie Hancock is playing on it (lots of synth bass, etc) and they use a recorded sample of Bird's break with Herbie doubling it on synth. Pretty slick, and it was damn impresssive to my then 17-year old ears.

Excellent company, indeed! What's the deal with Kevin Eubanks? Does he use a Leslie?

Aw, HAY-ul yeah!

I was in school with the trumpeter Magnus Broo. He sounded great back then (way into a Woody Shaw thing), so I'm sure he still does. Looking forward to checking it out.

Monk's Stream?

Some tenor guys: Ben Webster- Live at Ronnie Scot's 1964 Dexter Gordon- Our Man in Paris Don Byas- A Night In Tunisia Some "Latin" versions: Mario Bauza- 944 Columbus Poncho Sanchez- A Night at Kimball's East Cal Tjader- Latino! Big Band versions: Michel Legrand- Legrand Jazz Guilty Pleasure: Chaka Khan- What 'Cha Gonna Do For Me

Eminem Barbara Hershey Veronica Mars

(The Bear Comes Home ) Raffi Yanni Lenny

Is that this, Chuck? MG So, is that preachin' or singin' or some of both?

Happy B-day!!!

Touring with Maynard's band (R.I.P.), I used to do a blues feature almost every night. In a slightly altered state, I decided I needed a blues nickname so I asked MF to introduce me as Glenn "Butter Bucket" Kostur. The tune was then announced as "Butter's Bucket of Blues". That lasted about a week, when I finally sobered up for a minute .

Amber Frye Spud Webb Ron "Tater Salad" White

Sounds better running through one of these:

Dude, New Mexico really does move at a slower pace than the rest of the US, doesn't it?!?!?! Shit, that's right; today's Monday! That means I missed Trane's birthday. Luckily, today is FreeForAll's birthday. BTW: New Mexico's state motto: Carpe Mañana

Sangrey's right, it was Dolphy. And I think the liner notes mention that Dolphy was copping McCoy's voicings.

What a great way to start my Sunday! Thanks for posting that. Those cadenzas (cadenzae?) kill me. Amazing stream-of-consciousness playing. So, what's up with the new studio record? Has there been a thread on it yet?

You're asking this question on a board where 45% of poll responses are from folks with more than 21 Mosaic sets?

This came up a few days ago here. Very cool.

Since you'll be down south, there's White Sands Nat'l. Monument and Carlsbad Caverns. Farther north, I think that Sky City on the Acoma pueblo is a don't miss site. Also check out Chaco Canyon and Bandelier Nat'l. Monument. Very cool Indian ruins, petroglyphs, etc. Feel free to PM me if you want more details.

When I was in middle school/high school in the late '70s and just getting into playing jazz, my dad got me a subscription to this series so that I could check out the players he listened to when he was growing up. I ended up with 12 or 15 from the series, and even when I was (foolishly) unloading lots of vinyl a few years ago, I'm glad I held on to that TL series. (related story, off topic: when I came home from 7th grade jazz band with an alto part that said to play "vibrato a la Johnny Hodges" I asked my dad what that meant. The next day he came home with the most appropriate record imaginable: "Everybody Knows Johnny Hodges". Thanks, Dad! )

I just read through this thread, and I have to say that besides the hundreds of threads of goofy, wise-ass comments that get fired up here on a daily basis (which I certainly enjoy), it's thoughtful, insightful discussions like this one that make this board such a great place to hang out. One of my students recently asked me about Sonny and his penchant for quoting other tunes in his solos, and I was reminded of an interview that Sonny did in one of the 'big' jazz magazines a few years ago. The interviewer asked if Sonny's quotes were a conscious, premeditated thing and the jist of Sonny's response was that, when he's improvising a line, he can be in the middle of a phrase and suddenly realize that, "Hey, I just played the first few notes of "XXXX". So, since my ears were leading me in that direction, I might as well finish that thought" (I'm paraphrasing Sonny here). That strikes me as a very different impetus for the playing of quotes than someone like Dexter (another quote of "Here Comes the Bride", anyone?). And just to derail my own post: just the other day listening to Trane with Miles at the Olympia in 1960, the crowd goes nuts when Trane quotes "Mona Lisa" in one of his solos. It stuck out to me because Trane's not often much of a quote guy. But, now I gotta go track down some of the Rollins sides mentioned in this thread that I haven't checked out. Good thing it's almost pay day.