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I was just wondering if I'd ever "heard" that newbie's "voice" before myself.

No ideas about where to research, 'cept to say that my grandfather (my dad's father) and Miles' father were both dentists in East St. Louis at the same time (likely two decades or more). My father and Miles were both born the same year too ('26), so I'm wildly assuming (because of that), that they were within 10 years of each other (age-wise). 15+ years ago I asked my grandmother if she thought there was any chance that Miles' father and my grandfather ever had any reason to know of each other, or cross paths. She said, essentially, that since they were of different races, that the likelihood of them knowing each other was extremely slim (to none). (My grandmother (father's mother) was born in 1897, and lived a full and wonderful 100 years, passing away in late 1997.)

Just scared the crap out of my wife when I showed this to her. El Camino del Rey (6 minute youtube clip) If you don't have time to watch the whole thing, at least take a look at these specific parts (all from the same Youtube clip as above)... 1:20 - 1:40 4:40 - 5:00 5:35 - 6:00

OK, we have a winner. My wife likes Nikita best of all. She liked Nica (2nd best), and Tasha (or Natasha) 3rd best. BTW, I found the origins and meaning of Nikita on-line, and discovered that Nika (with a 'k', not a 'c' - but pronounced the same way, as in "Nica's Dream") is a closely related name to Nikita (source and source). And at least one claims "Nika" is used as a name for Russian pets, as a shortened or 'diminutive' form of "Nikita". (source: "Nika (Russian pet form) and Nikki (Dutch and English pet form) are variants of Nikita.") So she might get called 'Nika' from time to time as well, as a nickname.

Well, gosh. Not less than an hour ago I just listened to the Complete Birth of the Cool (Mike was on the live material), and heard Symphony Sid mention Zwerin's name a couple times. The disc is still in my car stereo, ready to pick up where it left off. RIP

Everything in 7/4?? I'm totally there!!

Great album, lots of fun. I think it only came out on CD in Europe and/or maybe the UK. Don't recall it ever being available stateside.

Does Ornette really play on a track on this Bruce Hornsby box set?? - Intersections 1985-2005. The AMG thinks so.

Boots/tapes of him sitting in with the Dead exist (one of their free tune, isn't that the 'space jam'? -- and one 'conventional' tune), live on stage when Prime Time opened for them. Among the only recordings of the Dead I own, on cassettes I haven't seen nor listened to in 15+ years.

:tup :tup

Why can't you have a coffee maker? Starbucks make a big deal out of their new instant coffee several months ago (within the last year, at most). Never tried it myself.

OK, so a few months ago I stumbled into a free copy of the Jazz Heritage (JH) issue of "The Fabulous Fats Navarro", which really isn't like the other non-JH albums of the same name (near as I can tell), or maybe only partially so. The CD I have is nearly ALL Tadd Dameron compositions (save for one), and has the following... 26-Sep-47 -- takes plus alternates of The Chase, The Squirrel, Our Delight, and Dameronia - with Fats, Earnie Henry (as), Charlie Rouse (ts), Tadd, and the rest of a rhythm section. (produced by Alfred Lion) 18-Jan-49 -- Sid's Delight and Casbah - with Fats, Kai Winding (tb), Sahib Shihab (as), Dexter Gordon (ts), Cecil Payne (bs), Tadd, a rhythm section, two percussionists, and Rae Pearl on vocals (Casbah only). (produced by "Capitol Records" according to the JH issue.) and 21-Apr-49 -- John's Delight, What's New (Haggart-Burke), Heaven's Doors are Wide Open, and Focus - with Miles Davis (no Fats), J.J. Johnson (tb), Benjamen Lundy (ts), Cecil Payne (bs), John Collins (g), Tadd, and rhythm section. (produced by "Capitol Records" according to the JH issue.) Interestingly, the third date has John Collins on guitar, an instrument I'd not ever heard with Miles prior to Joe Beck in or around 1968. As most of you know, I'm not really into be-bop a whole lot, but these Dameron tunes really have a LOT of harmonic twists to them, and I'm interested in hearing more of his work (especially his compositions and arrangements). What are your personal "top 5" dates with or by Dameron, and by dates -- I guess I mean "top 5" CD's with Dameron dates (probably multiple dates per CD). In other words, where do I go next?? I included "Tadd tunes" in the thread subtitle, in case there are any really good Dameron tribute dates out there -- feel free to include anything like that.

Anybody know how to pronounce "Pannonica"?? I'm assuming the stress is on the "o", as in "Puh-NO-ni-ka"

Hmmm..... Nica... I really like that!! Edit: I'll be gosh darn, I never had any idea who the "Nica" was in "Nica's dream". Wiki: Pannonica de Koenigswarter. Learn something new every day. I think we have a winner!! Hope my wife likes it too (it's really 'her' cat, so she gets the naming rights. ) Edit: I just e-mailed her, only mentioning the name, without any explanation. Wanted to get her honest opinion on the basis of the sound of the name alone. If she's generally positive about it (if not quite "wildly enthusiastic"), then I think the back-story will sell her. Fingers-crossed.

I suggested Nina this morning, which wasn't rebuffed much (not like Spot!). I guess the names of the hour are Tasha (or Natasha), and Nina. But the field is still wide open.

I think they'd lump the 70's material recorded live by Columbia into the same series (assuming there's enough sales potential for more live 70's material). Just because they referred to it as the "bootleg" series in this panel discussion, that doesn't necessarily mean that the series is actually going to be called that from a marketing perspective. Personally I don't think the series will have "bootleg" anywhere in the name. But they can call it "jumpin' jehosaphat" for all I care, just bring it on!!

Oh my. Good thing my wife wasn't that sold on 'Sasha' either. 'Tasha' is just plain easier to say, since the 't' is an explosive consonant, as opposed to 's' (a sibilant). Two sibilants in the same name (since the 'sh' is also one) is one too many.

Perhaps Natasha, and/or just Tasha. (My wife liked Sasha, but I didn't as much. I like Tasha better.)

Well then, allow me to be doubly lateral, both udderly so, and then note the whipped cream!

Alternate cover... Another to fit the theme... And here's one for Jim...

What, did you have an outhouse before? Damn fat fingers. CAT!!! (corrected above.)

Boy, this first one is going to date me (or haunt me) -- probably both! (What can I say, I was born in 1969.) July 2nd, 1986 - Julian Lennon, Municipal Opera in Forest Park, St. Louis, Missouri. (The summer between my junior and senior years of high school.) My first JAZZ concert that I claim was the Either/Orchestra, circa 1989/90? (at a bar, The Cherry Street Brewing Company, Galesburg, IL) - roughly my sophomore year of college (probably had both John Medeski and Matt Wilson in the band at that time ). The first jazz concert I actually ever heard was just a month or so before the E/O concert above -- Ed Shaughnessy and some "Tonight Show All-Stars" combo (sextet or maybe septet), at the Orpheum Theater, also in Galesburg. The first "real" symphony performance I remember ever going to (something OTHER THAN a field-trip to the St. Louis Symphony during the day, while I was in jr. high school, or some local philharmonic of no real note) was The Chicago Symphony, circa 1989? - and I remember they played Mahler's 1st, "The Titan"! The first "real" symphonic CHORAL concert I ever went to was at an American Choral Directors Association convention up in Chicago, circa 1990 - a double billing of Stravinsky's "Symphony of Psalms" and the Poulenc "Gloria".

Well, we still haven't come up with the definitive name yet (we've only had the CAT at home less than 36 hours). In the end, the name could turn out to be something already suggested, or something entirely unknown as of this point. I think we'll have a name by the end of the week, probably. I've been informed that naming the cat after Khrushchev is ill advised.

Cool! This is SO great!! For instance, I just discovered that важный in Russian (probably pronounced "VAHZH-nee" ('zh' sounds like the middle sound in treasure)) means all of these adjectives in English... 1. important 2. significant 3. substantial 4. big 5. great 6. considerable 7. first-rate 8. significative 9. donnish 10. portentous 11. earnest 12. solemn 13. material 14. consequential 15. purposeful 16. responsible 17. high-powered 18. weighty 19. grand 20. serious 21. grave 22. momentous 23. fateful 24. influential 25. newsworthy 26. swaggering 27. basilic 28. of great importance 29. of great moment 30. prancing 31. puffy For those wondering -- I translated the word "serious" into Russian, picked one of the translations that sorta works as a name ("важный"), and then reverse translated that back from Russian into English (and then got the huge list of English synonyms). My attempt to confirm what "важный" means; obviously a lot of things.

What do people think of Nikita?? According to Wikipedia... Nikita is a unisex name, historically male from Russian and related languages. In recent times it has been adopted as female in many countries around the world, particularly France. The male Russian name is derived from the Greek name Aniketos, which means "unconquerable". From what we've observed, she appears to be one bad-ass cat! She more than stood her ground with our other cat (to put it mildly), and appears to potentially be the new 'alpha cat' of the household.