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You can`t kill a Toyota pickup truck 16-minutes in length, but worth the time to watch.

The way the poll is worded -- someone could have spent $50,000 puchasing music through legit channels, and burned one OOP item that's impossible to find -- and they would still have to vote for option #2. Heck, by the standards stated in the poll options -- I'm betting even Chuck would have to vote for #2 (since I'm betting he's followed the limitations in #1 only 99.99% of the time). What kind of a crazy poll is that??

I haven't voted either. In this case, status is everything.

So what do I vote for if I believe that #1 is the correct answer, but I only follow it 98% of the time??

I'll probably get the Mobley set (which I've been meaning to do for a couple years), and also the Turrentine set -- plus two or maybe three Selects while I'm at it (before the price increase on them in July). That'd mean six Conns, brand new, for only $9 a pop -- which is definitely enough of a discount to get me to move on some boxes I'd eventually buy anyway (especially since I don't think the Mobley will last the year before it goes OOP). Yikes, I'd better not total all that up -- I'm sure I'll get some serious sticker-shock!!

Oh man, I'll be all over THAT offer, and how!!

Haven't heard this release yet, but HELLYEAH!! to Helen Sung. I've heard her twice here in Kansas City (once leading a piano trio with a pickup rhythm section), and once here in Tardy's quartet. Both times she impressed the hell out of me. Don't know if she's recorded anything as amazing as what I heard her play either night - but she's one to watch, for damn sure.

from jazzmatazz for "2006 and beyond" The Nels Cline Singers - TBD (Cryptogramophone) — tribute to Andrew Hill — with Bobby Bradford, Andrea Parkins, and Ben Goldberg

I started a thread back on the old BNBB (just before it closed) to name a cat we had just gotten at the pound. Lots of names were suggested, and I finally went with "Pepper" -- after Pepper Adams.

She said her father loved the song Naima so much - he named his first daughter for the song (sounds like she was born in the mid-70's). What a lovely, lovely thing. Any other "jazz names" you've encountered in non-jazz contexts??

Can't think of the other one, and my discography is at home (I'm at work). Is there another Kenny Drew BN cover I'm forgetting??

I only have and know "Playful Intentions", but I also wanted to say how great I thought it was. And also mention that Bill Carrothers is one of my favorite "unknown" musicians on the scene today. Nearly anything I discover with Carrothers on it I almost always automatically buy.

Ditto for me, on both counts.

No clue, but if during the search anyone stumbles on an opera without any opera singers -- I'd probably be up for some of that.

Thanks!! Just spent the last 20 minutes listening to samples of his stuff, and -- damn!! -- does he ever sound like Larry. Will make some purchases soon.

Been really diggin' all the Curtis I've been pickin' up over the last couple months -- and I'm sure I'll pick up a few more before I'm done. Workin' on a 79-minute "artist overview" CDR to burn of Mayfield's output, for roadtrips and such. Sort of a combo "greatest hits" and "overlooked gems" kinda thing. I'm probably gonna stick with stuff he recorded around 1975 and earlier. Haven't heard (or sampled) anything of his after 1976 that floats my boat all that much. Hey, has "Sweet Exorcist" (from the post right above this one), ever been released on CD anywhere?? The AMG says Charly had it out on CD in 1995, but I can't remember seeing it on CD anywhere in all my recent on-line searching (including a month of eBay searches). Watch, I haven't searched specifically for that title in about a week -- and somebody will come in here in the next 20 minutes with links to like four of them, making a fool out of me like usual. Thanks!!

I can't put my finger on exactly where, but I know I've read a bit about this topic (specifically about how Columbia marketed Miles in the late 50's, prior to KOB). Maybe John Szwed's recent Miles book?? (It would be the Miles tome I've read most recently.) Then again, I read so much here on this board (and back on the BNBB) - that there's no tellin' where I saw this topic discussed.

I was a junior in high school at the time, and I vaguely remember being told about the accident, and then the whole high school (all 25 of us -- yeah, it was a really small school) all assembling around a not-very-big TV that was pulled out of a closet or something. We all watched the news reports for an hour or so, and then went off to our respective classes. Truthfully, while it certainly was a pretty big deal - in retrospect, I don't think it was THAT big a deal. Maybe my experience of it is slightly different, cuz we weren't all sitting around watching the lift-off (unlike many, many students did - because of the teacher on board). I don't think anyone in the school watched the event happen as it unfolded. Seems like the school watched the coverage starting a good 15-30 minutes after it happened. By way of contrast, though -- Chernobyl was a much, MUCH bigger deal, as I recall. (BTW, the 20th aniversary of Chernobyl is coming up in April of this year.) Chernobyl was something we discussed in school for days and weeks to come, in science classes - and certainly in whatever Poly-Sci type class I was in at the time.

Edit: Who's got Photoshop handy??

Well then. Comparisons to Larry Young, and my ears will certainly perk up!! And I guess it ought to be clear to me that I need to get to know about this Larry Goldings guy more. Several years ago I ran across a used copy of his "Big Stuff" date (Warner Bros., 1996), and I bought it, and later traded it off. (Or it was a promo somebody gave me, I forget.) Either way, I remember it being a nice enough date, but certainly not anything that had me begging to hear more. But I guess this guy has maybe come a long way since 1996. What have I been missing?? What should I get??

If it wasn't for Ravi Shankar... ...maybe there wouldn't have been any Conns for the last couple years??

Sounds like a great idea in some ways (perhaps), but is a "compulsory licensing system" something that's even remotely possible?? And if I were a copyright holder/owner, would it be at all reasonable to be forced to license something out (to anyone!!) - simply because I didn't want to keep something in print?? Me thinks this could be quite a can of worms. I could think of lots of "for instances" -- like a record company releasing a bunch of stuff by an artist, that the artist didn't want released in the first place. Then that stuff goes out of print - but then anyone could force the owner of the material to license it out. And would this apply to movies and TV shows too?? George Lucas HATES his Star Wars Xmas special (aired on CBS originally, I believe), with a passion. I believe he would personally spend a hundred-thousand dollars or more if he could destroy every single copy that exists anywhere on earth. But, because he won't release it on DVD - he could be forsed to license it out. Quite a can of worms. Though I can certainly see a number of benifits too, from a "public" perspective.

Go for it. I know there are probably more than a couple folks here who would be glad to delve into the nitty-gritty details.