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That, and keeping EVERYTHING they own, and EVERYTHING they've EVER released "in print" FOREVER!!! From the article...

What moment of glory? How about Kentucky's? They won the fucking game. I don't follow sports, so what the fuck do I know?? (Not much, it would seem. ) But my point is still pretty much the same, no mater who won the game.

Looks interesting, maybe - but could easily be a snoozefest. Any good?? (Or been done better elsewhere?? If so, where???!!!!!) Alas, no AMG review (although they do have 30-second samples). The Bastards spaketh thusly... Hank Jones With The Meridian String Quartet -- Arranged & Conducted By Manny Albam Add to Cart $5.99 ... CD CD (Item 449628) LRC, 1990 -- Condition: New Copy A very cool concept for an album by pianist Hank Jones -- and one with a sound that's a lot more classic than you might expect from the date of the set! The core rhythms come from a trio that includes Jones on piano, Rufus Reid on bass, and Dennis Mackrel on drums -- and they're augmented by a string quartet directed by Manny Albam -- but in a way that uses all the older Albam sense of groove and grace! The sound here is hardly any sort of sleepy "with strings" sort of mode -- and the quartet bring in some nicely dark corners that offset the sweeter, more lyrical sounds of Jones' piano -- in a way that makes the album one of the most compelling dates we've heard from Hank in this stretch of his career. The best tunes are the most upbeat ones, but even the mellower numbers are great -- and the CD features titles that include "What Is This Thing Called Love", "Caravan", "Ill Wind", "They Can't Take That Away From Me", "Love Walked In", "Softly As In A Morning Sunrise", "There's A Small Hotel", and "Russian Lullaby". If the DG "review" is to be believed, this is only a piano trio + a string quartet. Correct??

Any way you look at it, Imus fucked with -- and at least somewhat fucked UP -- the team's well-deserved moment of glory. So I can't blame them that much for a slightly less than 100% politically effective response. And the ultimate positive impact of this event (in the long run) is not marred one bit by the grandstanding of Sharpton and Jackson -- both of whom absolutely had good points, but WAY overplayed their hands (as usual), and appeared (and very arguably were) entirely too self-serving in the process. I'd score this one as 3 or maybe even 4 steps forward, and only 1 step back -- at worst. ("4 steps" - only if others in the media are held to similar standards, at least more often than they are today.)

Who can scare up some on-line audio clips?? Me wanna hear!!

BTW, "THIS IS NOT A DRILL PEOPLE" gets my nomination for 'topic description' (a.k.a. topic "subheading") of the year!!!

You and me both.

Huh? How is free speech affected? The man was fired because his sponsors bailed, not directly because of what he said. And even if it was directly because of what he said, that's something his boss is free to do as well. I believe your thesis needs a little work... 100% correct, Moose. Thanks for saying that.

A good handful of people here -- including some people whose opinions I often value on many other topics -- have defended Imus, at least to the point that they've said that they don't think he should have been fired over this latest flap. Would any of you also care to defend his earlier on-air statement - which I think is just as bad (or maybe even much worse) than what he said about the Rutgers women's basketball team. To refresh everyone's memories... Said about none other than Gwen Ifill... “Isn’t The (New York) Times wonderful,” Mr. Nelson quoted Mr. Imus as saying on the radio. “It lets the cleaning lady cover the White House.” (Full coverage earlier in this thread.) My only question is why wasn't he fired a hell of a long time ago?? Seriously -- in this day and age, who the fuck says stuff like that in a public forum, where "saying stuff" (in that same public forum) is ALL they do for a living, and gets to keep their job?? Say enough shit like that, and eventually stuff's gonna happen, and some of that shit's eventually gonna hit some fan. Don't let the door hit you on your backside, Don.

God, I hope so.

Was Imus just "tryin' to sound hip" when he said this (on the air) of none other than Gwen Ifill... “Isn’t The (New York) Times wonderful,” Mr. Nelson quoted Mr. Imus as saying on the radio. “It lets the cleaning lady cover the White House.” Here's the full story, that I posted elsewhere a few days ago...

something more than speculation (but less than confirmed fact) from another thread...

Speaking of this topic, there's this from today's NY Times...

"Radio is where the hippest, most spontaneous pop culture exists..." In this age of "anything-goes" on-line, with Youtube and Myspace --- yeah, yeah, right, sure --- "RADIO is where the is where the hippest, most spontaneous pop culture exists..." In their dreams -- in their fuckin' dreams.

Correction -- it was a mis-priced item. It never was an "ad / special" at that crazy $9.99 price.

I probably wouldn't have recognized that it was Bell -- but if it had been during afternoon rush hour (and NOT in the morning), I'm sure I would have stopped to listen. In the morning, I'm lucky to get anywhere any less than 5 minutes late, and I'm sure I wouldn't have had even 30 seconds to stop and listen if I had been on my way to a meeting.

Can anyone really blame them for not wanting to sell something at a price that was clearly very wrong in their system?? (75% off their "sale price" (and probably 85% off the list prince) on the "street-date" is obviously quite wrong.) I like a bargain as much as the next guy, but really folks - would you expect a retailer to honor the wrong price printed on the price tag of every in-stock copy of a particular item in a store? No, as soon as the mistake was discovered -- every attempt would be made to correct the error on every instance of that product still in stock, that hadn't yet left the store. Yeah, a couple people might have copies of the mispriced product in their hands (walking up to the front of the store), and if some of those customers put up a fight -- you might have to swallow hard and honor that price a few times. But at some point you would just have to say that you're not selling that item at the moment until the price is corrected in the system -- and if people don't like it, then they can wait until the next day when the product (with the correct price) is available again. I can't blame Best Buy for doing whatever they have to (even to the point of saying they're "out of stock" suddenly), to avoid having to ship a couple thousand of these at a $20 or even $25 loss on every single one.

Agree with Sangrey on all points, re: the Joe Brazil thing with Joe and Trane. Much as I appreciated getting this from another board member quite some time ago, it really is just about THE most unlistenable thing I've ever personally heard, in my entire life --- and like Jim, I can normally tolerate bad "bootleg"-quality sound quite well. (This is about 500 times worse than the worst-sounding bootleg I've ever heard -- and that's probably putting it mildly.)

Jim, you sound like someone who's played some brass instruments in his day, and more than just a time or two. We want details!!

Well, with a name like that -- she'll probably need to go into therapy at some point -- which sure sounds like Metallica to me.

I'll echo the recommendation of the First piano concerto especially -- which started its life as a symphony (IIRC). As a result, the orchestra and piano are uncharacteristically intertwined, in ways you don't always hear in most piano concerti. All I know is that I'm blown away nearly every time I hear it -- almost a true hybrid of a symphony and a piano concerto (to me it almost seems like 75% symphony, and 75% piano concerto – at the same time).

The first piano quartet is really outstanding IMHO (really, don't miss it). And none other than Arnold Schoenberg -- yes, THAT Schoenberg -- did a rather fantastic and/or (occasionally) bombastic full orchestration of the very same first quartet. Some have gone so far as to call it Brahms' 5th symphony. Some think it (the Shoenberg's orchestration) is a bit over the top -- but I quite love it. In any case, get Brahms' first piano quartet; you won't be disappointed.

Probably the safest thing he's ever snorted.

Amazing, simply amazing. But, just so I'm clear (and we all are), all Patton's BN dates would have been with John using Rudy's "house" organ, correct? Not this one. (Same goes for all of Larry Young's BN dates.) I think that's right.

Great show last night! Really loved the two bone version of Joe Henderson's "Afrocentric" (originally from Joe's "Power to the People"). Thought Tim Davis was really great too -- especially his comping on that cool arrangement of Giant Steps (BTW, who's arrangement was that?), and also Tim's comping on the Frank Rosolino tune. Tim was one definite highlight of the evening, among many. (Wished I could have stayed for the 3rd set - but I was draggin' big time.) Pretty good turnout too, I thought.