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Kwitchabitchin, couw. We all know you can zap that guy staring out the window in about 10 seconds with your vast Photoshop powers. But can you resist NOT zapping him?? Only time will tell!!

What's significant about the year 1974, and Steel Pans in Jazz Settings?? /totally clueless about Steel Pans in Jazz Settings, pre-1974, or post-1974.

I just got this in the e-mail from you-know-who... That's something like 2 or 3 hours of previously unreleased BN Andrew Hill sessions!! EDIT: By the way, that means (along with the "Dance With Death" Conn this fall), that every single Andrew Hill BN session will have finally made it to CD, including what is a TON more previously unreleased sessions. ==================================================== EDIT #2: Here is the sessionography for what should be on the Andrew Hill "Mosaic Select":

Yeah, I thought the same thing -- if talent has anything to do with this.

bLock!!!!

Actually, the key to listening to everything, is to NOT listen to the stuff you listen to all the time. (Or, to put it another way, to listen to the stuff you DON'T listen to all the time.) I mean, going through everything from A to Z is a fine idea -- but it works better if you skip the things you have listened to multiple times during the last year or two. Makes it easier (meaning 'quicker') to get through the alphabet.

Sounds like a chip off the old bock!!

So, has anybody else seen this group on their current tour?? John B.: I know you saw them in VT. Could you give a report to us about what you thought?? (And maybe what your wife, aunt, and uncle though too? )

Just got this in the e-mail... I'll gonna try like hell to be there, this time I'll remember my ear-plugs!! See my latest post below, for the NEW venue and time info. (I've crossed out the old info in the quote above.)

Then there's the transliteration I once saw of Schubert, for people who have a lisp... I kid you not, on the spine of the jewel-box, it said "Schuberth".

Frankly, the entire "Sorcerer" and "Nefertiti" albums get me off BIGTIME, nearly every time I listen to them. (Figuratively speaking, of course.) I love the box set (and all it's bonus material), but I also have a burn with just the original Sorcerer and Nefertiti tracks -- in original album sequence -- and it's simply heaven. As "perfect" as people think KoB is (and it nearly is that perfect), I really think "Nefertiti" is that perfect. And so too is that opening side to the original "Jack Johnson" soundtrack. Much like Free For All, many of my best moments in recorded jazz are from Miles, especially during and after 1965.

Yes. Same thing with the "15 tenses" I mentioned in Spanish. Let's just put it this way. There probably aren't many books that exclusively cover mastering Russian verb tenses.

Some nice Charles Tolliver on this date too.

Yeah, no 'cool dude' smiley either. Blame it on Bill!!!

I don't know the "Paris, October 1960" recordings specifically, but I do have the complete "Stockholm 1960" recordings, both the early March set with Trane, and the later October set with Stitt. And I totally agree, that Miles plays with a fire and focus in that later set (with Stitt) that is way different than he does with Trane. In fact, I almost like the later set better (with Stitt), simply because Miles plays with a fire that is quite different than he did with Trane in the group. (Well, not 'better' overall, but I like Miles' playing better with Stitt.) I've always explained it as being the fact that without Trane in the group to provide the real fireworks, Miles had to work harder with a less progressive player like Stitt on the front-line with him. (Not to detract from Stitt's playing, or from Miles' playing with Trane either - for that matter.) Also, I might add that I generally like Miles playing (live) in his various 1960 configuations, far and away better than the Blackhawk material from just a couple years later. ( And for the record, NO, I haven't heard the new 'complete Blackhawk' sets, so I'm probably not qualified to make such a broad statement (there I said it myself, saving all you Blackhawk fans the trouble). Still, I think Miles had it goin' on in spades in 1960 (in his live performances) -- both in his more restrained approach with Trane, and his more 'out there' approach with Stitt. )

Everytime I go more than a couple days without shaving, my wife fears I'm headed in the same direction as Mr. Damon.

Absolutely. On a related note, about once a year (or at least every other year) I try to go through my CD's and pick out a couple hundred that I think I might wanna trade off, sell, whatever... Then I try to listen to all of them, and invariably I'll find about 25% to 35% that I'll end up keeping, that I had forgotten how good they were in the first place. Interesting experience, listening to all those discs within a short period of time (say a couple of weeks). Interesting to hear where my ears were at (at one time), but sure aren't any more.

People always think Russian is such a difficult language to learn, because of the alphabet being different and all. But frankly, once you get past learning the Russian alphabet, it's really not that difficult a language at all. The grammar rules are VERY regular, with only a moderate number of exceptions (unlike Spanish, for instance). The other problem with Spanish is that there are something like 15 different verb tenses (unlike only 5 in Russian). And there are something like 143 irregular verbs in Spanish (which are irregular across all 15 tenses!!!), where there are only maybe 20 truly irregular verbs in Russian (and only across 5 tenses), and even then - the Russian irregular verbs follow similar patterns -- at least as far as I can remember. Grammatically speaking, I always found Russian to be much easier than Spanish. Of course I haven't studied either for over 15 years, so I've pretty much forgotten all the Spanish and Russian I learned in high school, and later in college.

Speaking as a vocalist (more specifically, as a choral singer), French is my single LEAST favorite of all the languages to sing in. I'm not saying that there isn't some amazing vocal/choral music written in French (cuz there is!!). But it's always a bitch to figure out and perform.

All hail King Sangry!!!

According to Jazzmatazz Horace Silver - Serenade to a Soul Sister (Blue Note RVG Edition) July 13 So just hold tight...

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Can you at least tell us (here and now) which track number it is on the BFT you're putting together??

Дмитрий Шостакович Where's the confusion??