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I find myself getting sucked into watching the curling, too. I can't help but imagine that it was invented by a few drunk guys, stuck at thier cabin somewhere near a frozen pond:

Years ago, my girlfriend's Mark VI alto got ripped off. She bought another one from Ackerman, and after purchasing the horn, we were looking more closely and saw the name of a California Junior College lightly engraved (almost rubbed out) on the bell. Checked with the college confirmed that they had lost an alto. We called Ackerman and he seemed not to be worried that he had sold a stolen horn. (We thought it was bad karma to replace one stolen horn with another). After MUCH haggling, he agreed to give her a different alto, and implied that he would just finish rubbing the school engraving off the bell and sell it to someone else. He's a sweetie!

Or how 'bout this: You trade me the Mark VI for my almost-working Realistic turntable, a solid state Panasonic receiver and a pair of Craig 6x9 speakers taken out of my '75 Nova? Can we met to effect the exchange in a parking lot somewhere in El Paso? Just name the place .. and could you throw in an extra cartridge for the turntable? Thanks, Garth. By "El Paso" I assume you really mean Juarez. No need for the extra cartridge; I've been using the same cartridge and stylus for ages, and just recently taped an extra dime on the tone arm so it won't skip on my warped records.

Or how 'bout this: You trade me the Mark VI for my almost-working Realistic turntable, a solid state Panasonic receiver and a pair of Craig 6x9 speakers taken out of my '75 Nova?

Jack Webb Charlotte Wray Wilbur Ware

They got big melons in Indiana, too...

Even bigger and scarier with all the hair! Yikes!

If you decide to put it online to sell, potential buyers will want to know the serial number (to verify age of the horn), and whether or not the horn has been re-lacquered. They will also want to see several photose with close-ups of any dings, dents or places that have been repaired (soldered). As far as getting a repad prior to the sale: Unless the pads are unplayable, it would probably be more cost effective to have a good repair person just adjust and oil it. Getting some of the clicking and clacking out of the action will do wonders for getting the horn to sell.

In Houston you might try to contact Warren Sneed at HSPVA. He's a saxophonist, and if none of his students is looking, he could probably steer you in the right direction. In NYC recently, older MK VI's were going for $6-7K!!! Yours might not be that valuable, but don't give it away.

My SO cooked another fabulous dinner, we exchanged a couple of gifts, and then I laid a ring on her and proposed marriage! She said "Yes", so the wedding plans have begun... (for sometime early next year)...

I give to the recs. so far. I would add "Live at the Sands" w/ Sinatra, and the companion from that same gig "Before Frank" (the instrumentals the band would play at te beginning of the show). Live, loose, and totally swingin'.

A few weeks ago I went to the Village Vanguard on a Monday night to hear the VJO. The place was packed and Stanley Crouch comes in in the middle of the first set. He stands in the back of the room for a couple of minutes, and then, in the middle of a tune, he walks around the side of the room, sidles up to and basically onto the bandstand (kind of between the bari sax and the bone section) and checks out the rest of the tune, distracting Gary Smulyan and the bone section more than a little. After the tune is over, John Mosca is talking to the crowd, introducing the soloists, etc. And then Mosca is compelled to introduce the visiting dignitary, SC. The crowd gives tepid applause for SC and he takes a bow. Eight bars into the next tune, now that SC has had his moment in the spotlight, he gets up and goes back to the dark corners of the room. Classy! After the set, one of the band members introduces a young tenor player to Stanley. Of course, SC takes this as his cue to impart some knowledge on the young'n: "Don't run all your chords; you'll sound better that way." Thanks for the tip.

Grady Tate Larry Tate Aunt Agatha

You think she wrote that speech all by her ownself?

The whole RFID thing is fraught with peril in terms of privacy rights and civil liberties. As this information technology (and any tech) develops, there becomes a need for the development of equal or greater security/privacy technology.

I can go with Freddie on "Free For All" as well. But we're really just trying to determine who runs a distant second place to the most important trumpeter ever to grace an Art Blakey recording: Mr. Woody Shaw!!!

Found out yesterday Frank was from San Francisco. What's IIRC? Some honorary thing that non-Texans can get, like naturalisation papers? MG ...If I Recall Correctly

That's a new one to me. Anyone else ever heard of having to get copyright permission from the tune composer in order to publish a transcription of an improvisation?

Billy Harper! Kirk Whalum. I kid you not. Er... Kirk Whalum's from Memphis MG From the VH-1 wbsite (so you know it must be true...) "He received a scholarship to attend music school at Texas Southern University, where he formed a band in 1979 and began playing on the local club circuit. When he opened for Bob James in Houston in 1984, the pianist was impressed with Whalum's expressive style and invited him to play on his album 12" As the bumper stickers say: "Tennesseean By Birth, Texan By Choice!" and "Naturalized Texan"

OT: My ex-wife had a Jane Fonda tape with soundtrack music by Steps Ahead. Anyone whose seen me can guess that I didn't ever actually do the workouts, but it was kinda fun to watch the spandex-clad Fonda-bots do thier thing while Michael Brecker was going off over synthy funk grooves!

Tried ordering the book from Cadence yesterday, and just got an "out of print" message today in return. A quick Google search yielded a couple of copies from antique booksellers for $75!!! Anyone (Allen?) have any alternate outlets to try?

I believe the organization that votes is NARAS (Natl. Academy of Recording Arts and Science). Exactly how one becomes a member of that august body, I'm sure I don't know.

Now it has to be artistic? What about Negro Work Songs? That music had a function, to help get them through thier day, but was there any artistic intent? I don't think so. (Of course that invites a whole debate about the definition of 'art'). BTW: I'm not trying to bust your huevos Noj, I'm just making conversation and padding my post count.

No ugly emotions allowed?