Dmitry

And they turdified Dyer on these pages for bringing up Yeats and Adorno. How is this different?

When I read threads like this, I get depressed. But life goes on.

Fantastic! Even has compartments for cds. ?

I am thankful for my children and wife being healthy, and my mother and in-plaws being alive. It’ll be a chamber Thanksgiving for us today, but next year we will have a full symphony of our extended family over. After so many years I publicly came out as a “never been a turkey lover”, so I picked up two delicious roasted whole chickens at Cabral’s. Cheers to all!

Wow, I was wrong. They are different photos.

Yes, I saw that also. I still think it's the same shot, just a little doctored. None of the other parts of the photo are different - clothing and hand, head position. Good catch on Rob's part!

Would've been nice if they followed through on the Fishing bit. Not to mention the peace and love... What does the phrase mean in the context of the box graphic art? What's the connection?

The Lp cover is not perfectly straight, which may affect the appearance. Other than the reissue cover being cropped and lighter, along with the different fonts and number...what am I missing?

Yep, four jelly beans are missing from the reissue.

From the FB comments by BN: Yes, the Blue Mitchell vinyl reissue that's included was remastered from the original master tapes by Ron McMaster, and was pressed on 180g vinyl at RTI. For me THIS IS a positive factor. $200 is just a bit steep, though...

That Grand Opening.

I should re-read the liner notes from the Berkshire Blues...

I thought he grew up in Brooklyn. On Atlantic Avenue, iirc.

The big man is appearing Saturday at Brown University with their world music ensemble. Tomorrow there'll be a screening of a biographical documentary, followed by the Q&A. I'm thinking - Which non-piano musician influenced you the most? -What impression did Thelonious Monk's music leave on you when you first heard it?

I don’t want to step on your memories, but both the Broadway downtown and broadway uptown locations in NYC were the king and queen of the Tower empire. Sunset was just ok in comparison. The Lincoln center one was classy, and the jazz section was amazing and vast. But the East 4th st and Broadway had the vibe you could never find in LA, or anywhere else. I miss them both.

What will be different in the Japanese version? I hadn't realized that the vocalist on the RTF was the Philip Bailey from the Earth, Wind and Fire.

So about Monk being a genius vs. perhaps the most singularly-original pianist and composer...can you give us your most substantive reasoning of his genius status? For instance, how did he influence those that were his contemporaries and the ones that followed?

Make my bathroom great again!

Got quoted $20,000 for new tile floor and moving toilet and door in kids bathroom.

Another new thing I just found out for myself: can't have two computers with iTunes synced to the iTunes on iPhone, with different cd libraries on each. Everything must match to one iTunes library. I have a pc at home, and one at work, so I have to make one of them my main iTunes pc, from which I import music into the iTunes on my iPhone, otherwise I can't synchronize. Also, must have iTunes installed on a pc in order for the iPhone to be recognized as a storage device. Also, for some reason couldn't drop photos from the desktop of my pc into the photo folder on my iPhone. Unless I'm misunderstanding this.

I thought you were smarter than that. I was wrong.

Cherrypicking? No, just giving examples of the free and independent media carrying water for whatever clients they have, and whatever issue they want to propagate at the moment. Going back to the NYT - their star reporter Walter Duranty in his Pulitzer-winning series of articles from the Motherland, had influenced FDR to open relations with the USSR, and further enable Stalin's murderous regime. You yourself alluded to their pre-Iraq war coverage. I'll remind everyone - another NYT star reporter Judith Miller [along with Duranty a member of the Pulitzer club], cobbled together material that was taken for granted as evidence of Iraq having WMDs. Results are felt to this day. The paper of record... Sure, who is Greg Osby, and why would such an esteemed paper of record as the Boston GLobe be interested in rolling over such an insignificant human? Maybe that is precisely the reason: he is a nobody to them, nothing but a side-note to a bigger story.

Sharp Radway - piano Corcoran Holt - bass John Lamkin - drums Can't say I recognize any of these names. Enjoy the show, let us know what your impressions were.

Why would the Atlanta Journal Constitution, New York Post, CNN and others fabricate stories about Richard Jewell? Why would the Rolling Stone concoct the UVa fraternity rape story? The Duke Lacrosse case? Media was all over that. Why they do it? Because they only dream of ratings and copies sold? Because in this country the libel laws are much more lax than elsewhere? Hell if I knew, but the combination of these two is a powerful stimulant.

Is this the same old-school journalism stalwart NYT that sent Walter Duranty to cover collectivization in the Soviet Union? He got a Pulitzer for not only not reporting, but denying that 5 million people were dying there of starvation. That NYT? They even have a mea culpa page about that on their website 85 years later. Just sayin'... So BG informs the reader that they conducted an hour-long interview with GO, and then print just 2 self-implicating sentences from it. You do realize that they may have WILLINGLY AND EAGERLY fucked up this guy's career for the rest of his life?!