Dmitry

Thanks, guys. Never heard of them.

What band is that?

One of my guilty pleasures...

I can't believe he actually wore this when gigging. Well, this is sort of a space exploration.. Do icbms enter stratosphere?

Who's on drums?

Snapped this cover yesterday night , at a new, to me, record store. This is a perfect example of the mid-century stuff. Looks like 1 1960s grand-daddy to IKEA shelving units, along with various smalls. Check out the carpet!

One bourbon, one scotch, one beer.

10QLP set in mint, unplayed condition. Box, booklet, records are absolutely pristine. From a gathering of top condition Mosaic sets I bought some years back, and never got around to listen to. SOLD

Chris, I got to agree with Dolan 100% here. BT is so much easier to use in the car than cds, it's not even funny. I've resisted for a while, like some of you, but I'm a 100% BT convert now. Nothing like it for listening to whatever your mind feels like, on the fly. I've got Amazon Prime membership, which includes Amazon Music with streaming of pretty much anything your heart desires. Amos Milburn - no problem. Andrew Hill - there you go. Trane - complete Atlantic Heavyweight Champion set at tour fingertips. It's amazing. No way I'm bringing cds in the car any more. My discs always get scratched, cases get cracked, beverages spill on them. I don't need the aggravation.

I've never been to a Target store.

Ars longa...vita brevis.

Bill Cobham on drums

Touché... See, I told you $1,000 was a bargain. i

Estimate: $900 - $1,200 Description: Title: Miles Davis Artist: Mr. Brainwash Dimensions: 30 x 22.5 Medium: Original serigraph on paper Signature: Hand signed by the artist Year: 2015 Edition: 39 from the limtied edition of 50 A wise investment in art, if I'd ever seen one. I'll take two of these. Airbrushing over a photograph - 1 hour, paints, beer and tools - $100. $250,000 spent by parents on Mr.Brainwash's RISD BFA degree - priceless. i

Thanks, an interesting read. A bit curious about this passage - For Merewitz, that reality means that maybe jazz “needs to be given the kind of special status that classical music is given.” (The Times has several classical music critics.) But, he said, “the bigger issue is, how does the world find out about what’s going on in New York [jazz] if we only have six to seven listings a week and the occasional feature on a single musician who’s breaking down barriers?” I wonder what barriers in this day and age is he talking about? Everything seems to have been done to death already.

I was going to see him in NYC this Spring. You think it would be disappointing?

Watch out, the body-positive police will moderate your ass.

Just scored this one in a local pawn emporium, during my lunch break. The other side is MONY MONY

Some quick thoughts from Quincy Jones on the subject of playing for all kinds of audiences . https://tedpanken.wordpress.com/2011/10/13/a-1996-wkcr-interview-with-ray-brown-born-85-years-ago-today/ He's talking about Ray Brown - “After he moved to Los Angeles, we started working a lot together,” said Quincy Jones. “We got closer and closer. After a while, Ray started to take care of booking gigs and travel. He was an astute businessman. Old school played everything. We all played chitlin’ circuits. And you didn’t sit around whining about what you had to play, man. You played it, and tried to make it all sound good. That’s what I loved about Ray. That’s where I think our chord struck, in being very curious about what the business side of it was and not wanting to be a victim. We wanted to be more in charge of our own destinies. “A man never plays more or less than they are as a human being, and Ray was a very confident, take-charge person. He played bass like that and lived like that. He ate 17 different dishes like that. Wherever we were, whatever was good, Ray knew what it was. He’d probably eat a 249-pound catfish if he tried! To me, he was the absolute symbol that if you empty your cup every time and learn to make it a habit, it always comes back twice as full. Give it up every time, man. Don’t save nothin’. I learned more and more about that from him all the time. In everything.”

We're talking about a box set here...