Dmitry

What a crazy deal...this'll take like 20 minutes to sell

Yes, I read it, thanks. My post was directed more at epistrophy. You've advocated for music worse than this, so...

Why not focus on I Just Called to Say I Love You original album version, for starters? It sounds like crap to me, precisely because of the instrumentation, incl. the Roland drum machine.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/andy-warhol-estate-sues-image-prince-992212 What's the big deal about the late period Warhol paintings? Bad Art replaced Pop Art? It just doesn't do anything for me. I know, de gustibus...

Was playing a random selection of Stevie Wonder yesterday, and yes, I Just Called to Say I Love You, sounds pathetetic comparing ro You Are the Sunshine of My Life. Like the whole track, aside from the vocals, was programmed/synthesized, with no living breathing musicians at all. Here's the original, that was playing on every pop radio station in the world in 1984. Here's the version with real human band. I do like this a whole lot more.

April fool's???

There's another signed one on eBay now for $75. What made me chuckle is the sales copy the seller wrote. *RECORDED LIVE: AT THE CORK & BUD" NIGHTCLUB ttp://www.ebay.com/itm/Horace-Silver-Live-1964-Rare-Orig-Press-Signed-By-Horace-unissued-Material-EX-CO-/292076514265?hash=item44011debd9:g:xqYAAOSwuhhXUM8X

I've got to have it..... How is the sound quality?

sgcim, you make a very compelling, substantiated arguement for your opinion on the subject of drum machines. Do you think HipHop, Rap [not the same stuff? I don't know much about it] have done more bad than good for the Black American Music? What will happen in the future, will there be a reversal to the historically-Black musical roots, or the time has passed?

OK article for someone who, ostensibly, has little knowledge of what she's wrting about. The ending paragraph is quite cheesy, I thought. Trying so hard to emulate something like the ending to Woody Allen's Manhattan, or it just came out like that? Looking at any city this way, but especially at one you live in—hovering above it, adjacent but removed—can feel like an out-of-body experience, the way people who get very close to death often talk about staring back at their own bulk from a curious remove. I asked Caltabiano if he thought he could hear the bridge on Rollins’s records from 1962 on. I wasn’t sure exactly what I meant by the question—whether I was inquiring about a rhythmic influence or a spiritual one, some kind of widening or diffusion. Rollins would release several dozen more albums, including some (like “Our Man in Jazz,” from 1962, which he recorded with members of Ornette Coleman’s band) that still feel searching, revelatory, new. Caltabiano was wearing sunglasses, but I saw his forehead loosen a little. “This is about freedom,” he said, gesturing around. The wind blew. Growth, change, self-preservation. I understood what he meant. FIN

To be perfectly honest, I like the sex machine better than the drum machine.

Check this out. Probably the same company. Same website lay-out, but a different line-up. https://www.thejazzcruise.com/pricing/ Sails next February. The most expensive cabins, from $4,600 to $9,000 per person, are waiting list only. Probably all reserved already.Lots of retired CEO jazz lovers out there, I guess...

I am not a big cruise lover, was on only one cruise in my adult life, a 7 day Baltic cruise on a MSC Orchestra, which left no positive memories. Out of curiosity I just looked at the pricing, and I must say WOW...Damn, this is one expensive cruise. https://www.bluenoteatsea.com/pricing/ Carbonated drinks NOT included. If you want a Pepsi, you pay for the Pepsi. Alcoholic drinks are NOT included. The least expensive berth with "Ocean View" is a "Stateroom ", which I'm pretty sure means a tiny cabin with a porthole, will run $5,400+ for a couple, plus air fair. Make it an even $6,000. This can buy me rountrip tickets, a week's stay in a 4 star hotel, all meals, all booze, at any jazz festival in the world.

I'm not even sure you be serious... https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/811415 Nationwide in 2009, 63 percent of fatally injured drivers were tested for the presence of drugs. Overall, 3,952 fatally injured drivers tested positive for drug involvement in 2009. This number represents 18 percent of all fatally injured drivers http://www.emsaonline.com/mediacenter/articles/00000503.html Cocaine Cocaine may successfully mask fatigue; however, high dosages impair judgment and interfere with the ability of the driver to concentrate. Coordination and vision are impaired. There is an increase in impulsive behaviors with tendencies to take more risks and create confusion within the user. A person using cocaine maintains the illusion of being alert and stimulated, although physical reactions are impaired.

Well, I don't know about specific drugs and driving, perhaps you're right, but I do remember this story that made national news last year. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1795257/woman-seen-in-shocking-pics-overdosing-on-heroin-in-a-car-with-her-young-grandson-is-jailed-for-180-days/ Plus, as reported above he was sniffing coke in his car. Driving on coke is no problem? I know people smoke weed and drive all the time. That's got to slow down your reaction time in a huge way.

https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/drugged-driving According to the 2014 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), 10 million people aged 12 or older reported driving under the influence of illicit drugs during the year prior to being surveyed.4

When he gets high in his car and kills or maims someone, I be quoting your post. Dexter Gordon was locked up for 20 years?! It's the society's fault.

Good for you, man! Sounds like an awesome tv set. I am certainly happy with our LG. Took our old 42" plazma to Salvation Army. Re:Logitech Harmony universal remotes. I bought one, and it was easy to program, but this thing eats batteries for lunch. We have to feed it a duet of brand new AA batteries once a month. Re:Oppo. A few months ago I bought an old [10 y.o., maybe even older] Oppo DV-981HD on CL, for $30 or $40, and I must say that it sounds remarkably good on both the cd and sacd formats. I don't see myself upgrading for a while. I imagine that the UDP-203 is a phenomenally-good machine.

No, no facetious. Just want to hear musicians' perspectives on his Wikipedia write-up. Because it's Wikipedia... Was he really the pioneer of playing with 4 mallets?

The further away you are from any metropolitan area with a sizeable Italian populace, the more parmesan is dumped on the veal. So to answer your question...hell, yeah.

The New Quartet, a 1973 ECM album is pretty close to awesome in my book, due in large part to Abraham Laboriel. Was listeining to it last week, caught myself thinking the bass guitar sounds like a 6-string, way more complicated than most rhythm players. Opened his bio on Wikipedia, yep, he started off as a guitar player. FWIW, I think his playing on this album is way deeper than Mick Goodrick's.. As long as I'm on it, how important are Gary Burton's contributions to his instrument? Wiki says Gary Burton (born January 23, 1943) is an American jazz vibraphonist, composer and jazz educator. Burton developed a pianistic style of four-mallet technique as an alternative to the prevailing two-mallet technique. This approach caused him to be heralded as an innovator and his sound and technique are widely imitated.[1]

I'm sure Veal Parmiggiana was on the menu.