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Don't have time at the moment to give a full report, but I wanted to say how much I've enjoyed this live release from 1993, which is on ENJA, though it is/was a "Somethin' Else" recording as well... Terumasa Hino - trumpet Masabumo Kikuchi - piano Masahiko Togashi - percussion James Genus - bass

And I know I'll get shot for this one (get out your machine guns, folks!!), but I think Art Blakey is a little overrated, at least in my book. ( - ducks, and runs for cover.) Yeah, he's "great", without a doubt -- but I differ with those that rank him as one of their top-5 drummers. He did what he did wonderfully (and let me repeat that -- he did what he did wonderfully), but I can't take great volumes of Art Blakey records without really wanting to hear someone else after about the second or third side. Other opinions welcomed, and even respected...

How about Carl Allan?? Saw him live about two years ago here in KC, with a high-power pickup-group that included Bobby Watson and Cedar Walton (if I remember correctly), and a relatively big-name trumpeter (can't remember who, though). Maybe Allan was having an off night, but I can think of half a dozen local drummers that could have easily given him a run for his money. I'm not saying he's the worst drummer I've ever heard, but he certainly didn't live up to my expectations that night.

Fantastic album. It's Tyrone's OTHER release that has the vocals (can't remember the title at the moment). This one is all meat, and no filler. If this came out on CD, I'd pre-order it in a heartbeat.

Welcome to the Machine!!

There's a JACK-FM here in Kansas City, and my wife said she saw in the paper yesterday that it was suddenly the #1 station in the area -- after only having been on the air with that format for less than 6 months. It's not the worst thing I've ever heard (not by a long shot), but nothin' I'd spend much time with either. No DJ's is a bit of a plus (at least over stupid ones), but the station has absolutely no soul, whatsoever. Fortunately there's a GREAT alternative Modern Rock station here in Kansas City, and when I've got the radio on - that's pretty much the only thing I listen to. Their DJ's are down-to-earth but hip, and they're always talkin' current events, including plenty of political and social stuff. I never dreamed I'd find a commercial radio station I could stand, let alone love -- but 96.5 The Buzz has proven me wrong. Here's what they're playing these days... CLICK HERE to see current play-list.

I worked as a bartender at a Bar & Grill in Galesburg, IL while I was in college, and used to spin the Miles "Jack Johnson" soundtrack all the time.

Hope it's better than this one... ...which I've never liked (the cover of, that is).

Damn it, people, it's his other daughter that probably could set things right more quickly...

Then there's always this...

SOURCE MTV, VH1 To Air Live 8 Performances Uninterrupted 07.07.2005 8:34 PM EDT Ten hours will be broadcast commercial-free on Saturday. Your parents might not listen, your teachers might not listen, but MTV, apparently, listens. Responding to viewers and critics, MTV Networks has announced that it will broadcast 10 hours of Live 8 performance footage — including sets from Jay-Z, U2, Paul McCartney and others — commercial-free on MTV and VH1. MTV and VH1 will each offer five hours of uninterrupted performance footage with differing artist lineups on Saturday. VH1 will air its Live 8 highlights from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, while MTV's batch of highlights will roll out from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. "At MTV and VH1, we're in a constant and candid dialogue with our audience, and in the wake of the live events last Saturday, our viewers have resoundingly told us online they want to see full-set performances from their favorite artists," MTV Networks Music Group President Van Toffler said of the move. "As a result of viewer demand and thanks to the Live 8 organizers and performers, MTV and VH1 will air 10 consecutive hours from one of the most important musical events of our time." MTV has also announced plans to roll out a half-hour special on the issues behind the Live 8 event on Friday at 9 p.m. ET. "Live 8: Next Steps" will re-air at 8 p.m. on Saturday immediately following the Live 8 highlights. Both MTV and VH1 will air performances by U2, Pink Floyd, Orchestra Baobab, Coldplay and Sir Paul McCartney. MTV's coverage will also include performances by Linkin Park, Jay-Z, the Killers, Kanye West and Green Day, while VH1's coverage will add Rob Thomas, Dave Matthews Band, Sting and Maroon 5 to the mix. Viewers can also expect to see performances by Destiny's Child, Madonna, Dido, R.E.M., Snoop Dogg, Good Charlotte, Audioslave, Mariah Carey, Robbie Williams and the Who, among others. Get involved: Learn about the poverty crisis in Africa, the proposed solutions, and how you can help. Plus find all of our coverage of the international Live 8 concerts and more at our thinkMTV Live 8 hub. — MTV News staff report

I've always claimed MODE FOR JOE as my favorite, but come to think of it -- it's very likely because of the writing, and the arrangements for a three-horn front line (plus vibes) -- cuz I'm a sucker for BN's from the mid-60's with larger groups. BUT, if you want to really get down to Joe's deepest and very best playing, and the most telepathic group interaction -- the nod should probably go to INNER URGE.

It'd be nice to know, probably, but in the end -- I don't think it matters all that much, either way. I mean, it's not like most of us are going to buy something on the basis of just one recomendation --- unless the person plugging it is well-known to us (someone with a great rep on the board), or unless one or more of the players are well known by at least somebody here. In nearly every case, it's the resulting conversation in the thread that really sells me on something, and rarely just the initial plug. Everything's "buyer beware" in this world.

Here's a good pic of one of them...

Where's Spontoonious??? He seems to find stuff in the weirdest places, all the time. He should have at least a dozen stories to add to this thread, though that probably doesn't even scratch the surface.

I use auctionstealer too. They give you about 5 free snipes per month -- just checked, and it's now 3 free snipes per week -- which is more than enough for me these days (I'm not bidding on much). I've never needed them for more than that, though they used to offer more free snipes at one time (like 5 per week).

There was a pic of one of the Westport apartments from this article in today's paper. I'll see if I can find it on-line, and post it. No good -- the pic wasn't on-line. A good friend of mine has a digital camera, and practically drives right past both buildings on her way to and from work. I'll have her snap both of them this week (if she can), and I'll post pics of them within the next week or hopefully less. By the way, both of the newly discovered past Parker residences are less than a mile from where I live.

Get a pair of professional musicians earplugs. They're custom made from ear molds of your own ears, so you'll have to visit an audiologist. They aren't cheap, but they're worth every penny. I've got a pair that my mom (who was an audiologist by profession) insisted that I get if I was going to really loud rock concerts. I kept putting her off for several years, but finally she got a pair for me for my birthday one year. (I think it was the year I started singing in a professional symphony chorus, sitting right behind the brass section at times -- often the French horns, which point right back at the chorus.) A good set will probably set you back $100 (maybe closer to $150?? - maybe even $200, though I don't think they're quite THAT expensive depending on where you get them) -- but they really are worth every penny. Mine have two separate sets of inserts, which reduce the overall sound level (volume) by either 15 dB or 25 dB. And because they attach to custom molds of your own ears, the plugs go fairly deep into your ear canal. And thus, the sound level is reduced equally across all frequencies. That's why the cheap foam plugs only cut the higher and mid-level frequencies (and not the bass). And REALLY loud bass can damage your hearing, just as much as really loud sound (at any frequency). I wear them to almost every rock concert I go to, and even some jazz concerts where I know they'll have the house sound system turned up way too loudly (or in bigger halls). If I lost mine, I'd make it a big priority to replace them (despite the cost), since they improve the enjoyment of concerts quite a lot. I can think of two or three shows within the last year alone that were so loud, that there was no way I could have even stayed in the hall if I hadn't had the plugs. (You know, where you can feel the bass pounding your chest with every beat -- even 100 feet away from the speakers.) I'll see if I can find some links for you, to further describe them. A good friend of my mom is still an audiologist (not yet retired), and I could give her a call if you like, and see if she can recommend a particular brand or two. My mom's friend was the person who custom fit mine about 8 or 9 years ago (my mom was already retired by that point, or would she have done them herself). Worth their weight in gold -- at least they are to me.

true ← Absolutely!! Killer version of Tolliver's "The Ringer", and a rather nice version of Gerald Wilson's "In The Limelight" (which Ayers played on the original version of, with Wilson). Also, the "Ronnie Clark" listed in the credits on three of the tunes is actually none other than Herbie Hancock(!!). Be sure to get the more recent Atlantic Masters digipak issue, cuz it has a couple bonus tracks from the same sessions (not alternate takes, but two otherwise unreleased songs -- about 13 minutes of extra material). Warning: There was an earlier CD issue of Virgo Vibes as two-fer from "Collectables" with another Ayers album (Bug Daddy) tacked on the same CD. The sound quality of the "Collectables" issue is pretty bad, and the extra album isn't even half as good as Virgo Vibes (IMHO). Don't think you're saving yourself any money by getting the "Collectables" issue. The Atlantic issue is lightyears better.

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LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- The American Film Institute's list of top 100 quotes from U.S. movies, with film title and year of release: 1. "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn," "Gone With the Wind," 1939. 2. "I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse," "The Godfather," 1972. 3. "You don't understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am," "On the Waterfront," 1954. 4. "Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore," "The Wizard of Oz," 1939. 5. "Here's looking at you, kid," "Casablanca," 1942. 6. "Go ahead, make my day," "Sudden Impact," 1983. 7. "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up," "Sunset Blvd.," 1950. 8. "May the Force be with you," "Star Wars," 1977. 9. "Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night," "All About Eve," 1950. 10. "You talking to me?" "Taxi Driver," 1976. 11. "What we've got here is failure to communicate," "Cool Hand Luke," 1967. 12. "I love the smell of napalm in the morning," "Apocalypse Now," 1979. 13. "Love means never having to say you're sorry," "Love Story," 1970. 14. "The stuff that dreams are made of," "The Maltese Falcon," 1941. 15. "E.T. phone home," "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial," 1982. 16. "They call me Mister Tibbs!", "In the Heat of the Night," 1967. 17. "Rosebud," "Citizen Kane," 1941. 18. "Made it, Ma! Top of the world!", "White Heat," 1949. 19. "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!", "Network," 1976. 20. "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship," "Casablanca," 1942. 21. "A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti," "The Silence of the Lambs," 1991. 22. "Bond. James Bond," "Dr. No," 1962. 23. "There's no place like home," "The Wizard of Oz," 1939. 24. "I am big! It's the pictures that got small," "Sunset Blvd.," 1950. 25. "Show me the money!", "Jerry Maguire," 1996. 26. "Why don't you come up sometime and see me?", "She Done Him Wrong," 1933. 27. "I'm walking here! I'm walking here!", "Midnight Cowboy," 1969. 28. "Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By,"' "Casablanca," 1942. 29. "You can't handle the truth!", "A Few Good Men," 1992. 30. "I want to be alone," "Grand Hotel," 1932. 31. "After all, tomorrow is another day!", "Gone With the Wind," 1939. 32. "Round up the usual suspects," "Casablanca," 1942. 33. "I'll have what she's having," "When Harry Met Sally...," 1989. 34. "You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow," "To Have and Have Not," 1944. 35. "You're gonna need a bigger boat," "Jaws," 1975. 36. "Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!", "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre," 1948. 37. "I'll be back," "The Terminator," 1984. 38. "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth," "The Pride of the Yankees," 1942. 39. "If you build it, he will come," "Field of Dreams," 1989. 40. "Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get," "Forrest Gump," 1994. 41. "We rob banks," "Bonnie and Clyde," 1967. 42. "Plastics," "The Graduate," 1967. 43. "We'll always have Paris," "Casablanca," 1942. 44. "I see dead people," "The Sixth Sense," 1999. 45. "Stella! Hey, Stella!", "A Streetcar Named Desire," 1951. 46. "Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars," "Now, Voyager," 1942. 47. "Shane. Shane. Come back!", "Shane," 1953. 48. "Well, nobody's perfect," "Some Like It Hot," 1959. 49. "It's alive! It's alive!", "Frankenstein," 1931. 50. "Houston, we have a problem," "Apollo 13," 1995. 51. "You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?", "Dirty Harry," 1971. 52. "You had me at 'hello,"' "Jerry Maguire," 1996. 53. "One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know," "Animal Crackers," 1930. 54. "There's no crying in baseball!", "A League of Their Own," 1992. 55. "La-dee-da, la-dee-da," "Annie Hall," 1977. 56. "A boy's best friend is his mother," "Psycho," 1960. 57. "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good," "Wall Street," 1987. 58. "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer," "The Godfather Part II," 1974. 59. "As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again," "Gone With the Wind," 1939. 60. "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!", "Sons of the Desert," 1933. 61. "Say 'hello' to my little friend!", "Scarface," 1983. 62. "What a dump," "Beyond the Forest," 1949. 63. "Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?", "The Graduate," 1967. 64. "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!", "Dr. Strangelove," 1964. 65. "Elementary, my dear Watson," "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes," 1929. 66. "Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape," "Planet of the Apes," 1968. 67. "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine," "Casablanca," 1942. 68. "Here's Johnny!", "The Shining," 1980. 69. "They're here!", "Poltergeist," 1982. 70. "Is it safe?", "Marathon Man," 1976. 71. "Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet!", "The Jazz Singer," 1927. 72. "No wire hangers, ever!", "Mommie Dearest," 1981. 73. "Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?", "Little Caesar," 1930. 74. "Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown," "Chinatown," 1974. 75. "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers," "A Streetcar Named Desire," 1951. 76. "Hasta la vista, baby," "Terminator 2: Judgment Day," 1991. 77. "Soylent Green is people!", "Soylent Green," 1973. 78. "Open the pod bay doors, HAL," "2001: A Space Odyssey," 1968. 79. Striker: "Surely you can't be serious." Rumack: "I am serious ... and don't call me Shirley," "Airplane!", 1980. 80. "Yo, Adrian!", "Rocky," 1976. 81. "Hello, gorgeous," "Funny Girl," 1968. 82. "Toga! Toga!", "National Lampoon's Animal House," 1978. 83. "Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make," "Dracula," 1931. 84. "Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast," "King Kong," 1933. 85. "My precious," "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers," 2002. 86. "Attica! Attica!", "Dog Day Afternoon," 1975. 87. "Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!", "42nd Street," 1933. 88. "Listen to me, mister. You're my knight in shining armor. Don't you forget it. You're going to get back on that horse, and I'm going to be right behind you, holding on tight, and away we're gonna go, go, go!", "On Golden Pond," 1981. 89. "Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper," "Knute Rockne, All American," 1940. 90. "A martini. Shaken, not stirred," "Goldfinger," 1964. 91. "Who's on first," "The Naughty Nineties," 1945. 92. "Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac ... It's in the hole! It's in the hole! It's in the hole!", "Caddyshack," 1980. 93. "Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!", "Auntie Mame," 1958. 94. "I feel the need -- the need for speed!", "Top Gun," 1986. 95. "Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary," "Dead Poets Society," 1989. 96. "Snap out of it!", "Moonstruck," 1987. 97. "My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you," "Yankee Doodle Dandy," 1942. 98. "Nobody puts Baby in a corner," "Dirty Dancing," 1987. 99. "I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!", "The Wizard of Oz," 1939. 100. "I'm king of the world!", "Titanic," 1997.

Donald Byrd's "Slow Drag" had never been released before on CD in the U.S., and maybe not even in Japan either ( ) --- so this isn't the first time a title has slipped into the RVG series that hadn't even been on CD in the U.S. market before.

00946 311423 2 1 LONNIE SMITH – TURNING POINT Won't this be the very first U.S. issue of this title on CD?? I've got the TOCJ, and my memory is that it's never been a Rare Groove (nor a Conn), and it didn't get the McMaster treatment either back in the late 80's or early 90's either, did it?? That would make this a "slightly more interesting than usual" release in the RVG series, in terms of it's previous availability here in the U.S. -- doncha think?? Great date -- probably my favorite of all of Lonnie Smith's BN outings.