Rooster_Ties

Is "The Bop Shop" still around?? I was only there once, to hear a friend's quintet play. (I should probably say "friend", up until that point I only knew the guy on-line, on a music-board similar to this. FYI, a trumpeter named Jeff Beer.) Anyway, is The Bop Shop still around?? The Bop Shop 1807 W. Division Street Chicago, IL The one time I was there must have been in about 1991 or 1992.

Does that include a free airline ticket too??? Thanks for thinking of me!! Do try to catch the Sun Ra Arkestra too - I see they're on the bill as well. Been severl years since I've seen them (three times under Marshall Allan's leadership), but they've always been somewhere between "really good" and "great" -- and they're always at least "really interesting" (which is frequently at least as important as being "good/great").

OK, then, a sell-out who WASN'T someone with local ties, like Karrin. Edit: Or who ISN'T a singer.

When was the last time anybody sold out anywhere here in Kansas City??? Or, rather (especially), anybody that played in a club. I think there might have been a few sell-out shows at the old Drum Room (now closed), but that's been well over 7 or probably 8 years ago. Has anything ever sold out at The Blue Room?? (Nothing I've ever been to there, I know that.) Maybe a couple shows back at the old Club 427 (which is also now closed, for well over 5 years now). Dave Holland was here in KC in early 2001, in a small theatre (don't know the exact size of The Folly, but I'm guessing 800??), and the place was barely half full, ane maybe closer to 1/3rd full. I do no get what the problem is with Kansas City audiences. WTF???

***UPDATE*** from CNN.com

By all mean, get "Tender Moments". It's one of McCoy's very best, IMHO. 4 and 1/2 stars, at least (in my book).

My thoughts go out to you and your family, Randy.

What's the story on the lable Mainstream?? The only Mainstream titles I know of are several Blue Mitchell discs from the early 70's (at least one or two include Joe Henderson). I'm pretty sure Minstream hasn't ever been released on CD anywhere (not even in Japan??). Can anybody confirm this?? Was this label only active in the 70's?? Who else was on Mainstream?? Other than the Blue Mitchells -- what's worth having from the Mainstream catalog??

Thank you for mentioning Ingrid!! I only have a couple discs of hers (so far), but I have been very impressed with what I've heard.

Funny you would mention Sioux City. Here was my response to the message in the first post up above...

I won't quote everything he's said in this thread, but I'm totally with Sangry on this one. Mildly amusing, at best - perhaps - but it struck me as mostly being very mean-spirited.

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Spontoonious was just there all last week. I'll mention this thread to him when I see him at lunch. I'm sure he'll have lots of suggestions. Rooster T.

Gonna play this for our own Spontoonious later today -- his first time ever hearing it. Harry Whitaker's BLACK RENNAISANCE Time for another episode of The Magic Ritual!!

Yeah, that's a good point. It might be interesting to have everything mixed up -- but not if half or 3/4s of the store is pop music. Then it would drive me crazy!!!

I'm sure that some people will turn their noses up at the notion of getting autographs from people (especially those here who have worked with big names over the years). But, like it or not, many of us do want to get autographs from people. I've gotten my share over the years, but I'll only mention a couple... Best one I got personally: Probably Herbie (twice: a couple weeks ago; and about 7? years ago, when he was on that 'duo' tour with Wayne) Only one I didn't get personally: Ellington (my Mom personally got it from him when she was in college, when she was on the concert/dance committee that booked him - some time in the early 50's). I refuse to buy autographs (no interest in that, none), and I only get them for myself for my own silly reasons (and certainly not for resale value). Please don't list all the autographs you have, but what are your two or three favorite jazz autographs?? Any why?? My "whys"... Herbie – just cuz he's such an important and core Blue Note artist, and was a part of so many incredible sessions over the years. Also, he was incredibly nice to talk to (the first time), and was really willing to discuss things with people, more than usual. (2nd time he was at a social "after concert" thang, and obviously wanted to be anywhere else, which I can't blame him -- so he wasn't nearly as convivial.) And Ellington – for obvious reasons, having as much to do with me remembering my mom, as my respect and admiration for Duke. EDIT: And yes, I picked Herbie over Andrew. Just cuz.

Frankly, most responses are likely to be more like the Babe Didrickeson message. In the past I've always linked everything, whenever I could -- Avatars, and images in threads -- just cuz I figured it would save storage space on our board. But in the case of Avatars, or images in REALLY popular threads, I may go the "attachment" route sometimes, especially if I'm getting the image from some place other than the AMG, or some online retailer with bandwidth to burn. Still shocked at how nice that e-mail was that I got.

Similar thoughts crossed my mind. This same poll (with similar, but not identical choices) was started on AAJ, by the same user, within an hour of when this thread was created here.

Quit cloning around, and get back to work!!

Out of nowhere this morning, I just got an ultra-polite e-mail from someone asking me to de-link my Avatar from the online version of the image, because it was hurting their bandwidth. Thought I'd share it here, since I hadn't realized that linking Avatars might drive up bandwidth use at a considerably larger rate than linking images in threads might (unless we're talking about the "babe" thread). Anyway, here's the message -- just cuz this guy didn't have to be so damn nice about asking me to de-link the thing, and without me even asking - he said he was happy to let me use the image.

Damn, outbid already. Easy come, easy go.

That makes more sense. Somehow he just didn't seem quite that old to me. There's still a roundness to McShann's face that you just don't see in people who are 95, going on 96.

Saw on-line that John got the axe. He was in way over his head, and as nice as he was -- he really needed to go. I haven't been very impressed with this year's bunch. Not nearly as interesting or tallented as either of the two previous seasons. Glad George didn't get canned. He won't win the whole thing, but he's got a lot of heart, and some of that comes through in his performances too. I won't say I'm rooting for him to win, but I am rooting for him to stick around another week or two. He could come in third place (overall), and that'd be OK with me. Still, pretty hard for me to be very excited about any of them. I was sorry to see Amy Adams get voted out so early. Here's a pic of her, cuz you're not likely to remember her name. Wasn't an incredible tallent, but I'd take her over half the bunch that's left, any day. Looks like La Toya London will run away with it, if tallent has anything to do with it (which is certainly not always the case).