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Yeah, what's up with the Mosaic web site being down? It was down yesterday, last night, and still today. Damn, I can't check to see what's not gone OOP. >other thread<

Leroy plays on the Carmell Jones Select. He plays on the Brass Bag session.

View from the bed. I'm in a box set mood tonight. The Miles Columbia Blackhawk box doesn't have the neat little booklet offered with the Mosaic Selects. The Curtis Amy is a killer (and has kept me up way past my bedtime). I'm on my bed but not in my bed.

I like what I've tried of sushi, which isn't all that much. I don't believe I'm yet ready to stomach the octopussy. But, I'd like to try some other things. The problem: I never know, from the sushi menu, what to order... and it can be fairly expensive to order something that is not familiar.

I remember... the first time I tried shushi. I didn't know what I was doing. I had some California-roll type thing. It was all vegetables with rice. I saw the wasabi and thought it was some kind of avocado spread. I took a dip of the green stuff on it's own. I remember my head spinning around, getting sinus pressure, and feeling like I wasn't going to be breathing much longer. I'm glad I was alone when I had my first wasabi experience.

I don't know what this means, exactly. But, it made me laugh out loud.

I said cheap. I think the can said Old Style... but, not sure. I'll check on when I open my fridge.

Hmmm... Thursday night, 11:42PM. I'm listening to the Curtis Amy Select. And, on my way back to the fridge for a second can o' cheap beer.

Conn500: Man, I'm glad you know how to drink hot tea properly. Ever since I lived in England, in the very late seventies when I was in my early teens, I've never thought hot tea was complete till a little milk was added. I remember seeing a friend, a couple of years ago, when he made himself a cup of hot tea (he even had some PG Tips imported from England ). He was about to drink the tea with only the tea and a little sugar. I made the comment, "Your not really going to drink that, are you?" He gave me a puzzled look when I mentioned he needed to add some milk to complete the hot tea experience. He replied that coffee required milk but the idea of tea with milk, he said, was disgusting. Hmmm... he'd never been to England.

Music is an art form and art can never be right or wrong. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I understand that other music is not wrong just because I don't like it. However, it still grates on me in a very strong fashion at times. As I wrote above, it's often enough to move me, mentally, from a positive state to a negative state. This is not meant as a complaint, rather, an observation. And something I wish I could quit observing. I've been labeled as a 'music eletist' too, as Lon writes. I don't mind the label, I'm certain I appear as such. But, I've never felt like an elitist while posting on this board nor when listening to jazz. More like a 'jazz appreciation student,' still learning and enjoying. I'm glad the music is here. I'm glad this board is here. I'm glad I can throw my opinions around this place, and share with others who have many of the same interests.

I enjoy jazz. The music gives me positive vibes, physically & mentally. I can come home at the end of a less than desirable day at the office, pop a jazz CD in the player, and begin to feel better in only minutes. Jazz makes me think positive thoughts. It gives me the opportunity to clear my mind of the day's junk. Most negative thoughts disappear. I get a warm and content feeling. The world seems a good place. I see clear images, feel at ease, and sometimes get a bit of a tingly feeling. Unfortunately, the opposite is also true. If I'm forced to listen to popular music I get negative vibes. The world seems cheap & unfriendly. I feel like I'm hiding under a shadow of negativity, as if sky or ceiling is moving in. I don't like to hear a disco drumbeat, a loud-mouthed FM deejay type, whiney country crooners, or the fake plastic vocals of a Brittany Spears. Yeck! It's not just a matter of me not liking the above listed sounds/styles. I mean I really don't like them. To a point that I feel my stomach turning and, sometimes, even a bit of depression. I try to keep my opinions to myself because, for most of the people I know, the music I listen to (jazz) has the same effect on them as their popular FM music has on me. Is it only me that gets these extra-negative feelings when listening to popular music and FM disk jockeys?

I've been listening to Desmond & Brubeck for about 20 years. Desmond was the first saxophone player to introduce me to 'real' jazz (real jazz = 1950s & 1960s jazz). Desmond has been a major influence in my jazz-listening life. I just discovered Lee Konitz when I received the Tristano/Konitz Mosaic last week. Was Konitz considered one of the originators of the cool West Coast saxophone sound? I hear a lot of Konitz in Desmond (or vice versa?).

I'll admit to liking Warren G.

Claude: Are the ear speakers quiet to the outside world? If you're listening to the 'phones, can other people in the room also hear the music? Are they comfortable with the speaker mesh resting right next to the ear?

Of course, I can't be satisfied. When will we get an RVG of the Tokyo Blues? Rudy?

I was listening to the Bennie Green Select while driving in my car. On the song, Walkin'and Talkin', with Eddy Williams on the tenor... There is a familiar set of notes that Williams plays. The line of notes sound familiar, I believe they are from a classical music composition, and I'm thinking Bach. Is it Bach?

The view from the driver's seat of my car, looking across the passenger's seat, as arrived home at day's end. Done with another day of freaking work.

I do want to look good while I'm sitting in my bedroom BY MYSELF. DrJ: The Sony's weren't exactly cheap were they? Generally, items of the same price level offer the same type of quality/features, with little differences here and there. In the same price range, I'd expect the Sony's to sound as good as their competition. Do you run your Sony's from a headphone amplifier? Do you recommend against the ear canal (>link<) type of headphones? It doesn't seem smart, to me, to have the sound right there in the ear, with no air buffer in between. I have the same problem with the Sony's as I have with the other good brands. I have no way to listen to them before I buy. I live in Tucson, not what I'd call a small town, and I can't find anything of top-quality in the stores. It's always the plastic-packaged headphones for, at the most $69.99, hanging by all the Walkman look-alike contraptions (or by the chewing gum and Coca-Cola).

Moose: You'll like the T/K/M. I've been playing mine, nightly, since it arrived at my house.

unsullied is an excellent word. I'll need to find ways to use it more. Thanks, Bev.

ADR: This is an excellent website and offers much helpful information. Thanks. I'll take a look through it tonight. I know I can't make the best decision without some listening time on the new 'phones, but are the Sennheiser HD-650s a given as the one to get, if price is not a factor? I have an old 1970s-isssue amplifier that I've been using for years (yeah, since the 1970s). I was going to replace the amp a few years back but found it was a higher-power amp than most of the newer, medium-priced models. Regardless of the power in my main stereo amplifier, if it's a hindrance to the sound of the 'phones, would a headphone amplifier be a solution?

Oh, but who wants to be the one person who admits to having a Kenny G in his or her possession, to get the picture?

For me, the jazz periodicals, if you can find those that appeal to you, are on the internet. Not in the standard published form of old, such as Down Beat, but the jazz forums such as such as Organissimo and All About Jazz. I used to page-through Down Beat & Jazziz but didn't find much of value. I remember, during the 1980s, the only sources of jazz knowledge I had was that of my own brain (leaves much to be desired!), the jazz CD insert, and the jazz publications. The jazz periodicals offered some nice pictures, but only of the popular artists. I don’t place much faith in the jazz publications anymore. The positive side of the internet is that the information is constantly changing and constantly upgraded. However, the information is not well organized and a user may have to dig through lots of 'junk' to find good information. The internet user cannot always count on a jazz forum to present clear, concise, and factual information or interviews with the artists. In a way it's sad to see the jazz publications become nothing but a big advertisement. However, with the addition of the internet, I miss them not at all. I've learned so much more from the internet than from any jazz periodical. The times keep changing.

This is the problem I continue to find with the high-end headphones. They are high-end so they cost more than the standard $29.99. As a result, the stores don't sell too many pairs. Therein, the stores don't carry these items on their shelves. Which makes it darned difficult to buy the product. You can't try-before-you-buy at an internet store. I have a need, currently, for a set of high-end 'phones. I'm willing to pay the high-end price to get the desired product. Yet, stores don't have the product to offer. I did find, last night on the internet, a location in my town, a guitar shop, that says they sell the Sennheiser's. I don't know if the product is the higher-end or the lower-end of the Sennheiser product line. I went to a specialty audio store last week. The owner of the store said people don't desire high-end headphones these days. He said he had no reason to tie up his money and store space in headphone inventory.

Thank you Claude... in the spirit of this thread! I wonder where else I can find Blue Notes stashed around my house? Maybe in some very interesting places. hehe... Damn, no stairs in my house. You'd be the first to get the picture if there were only some stairs.