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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).

Dexcellent!!!

I often think I hear 'klezmer'-like themes in Mahler -- even probably sometimes when they really aren't related to klezmer music. In any case, the overall tone and feeling of many of his melodies remind of of klezmer.

Crap, I bid on it before I saw the shipping costs!!! Whew!!! Good thing the reserve was higher than my top price -- which was $1.89, and not one penny more!!!

Mahler 4 and 5 usually fit on one CD (not together, but individually). And occasionally 8, and even sometimes 9 does as well (though I think they have to really rush the tempos on 9 to get it on one disc). But your basic statement is true, that plenty of Mahler's symphonies are LONG!!!

http://www.jazzlandscapes.com/website1127/html/stage.html B)

Sorry, but this painting is inspired by a photo of Grady Tate: Sorry, the painting is definitely of Elvin. It was painted by Kevin Neireiter, who has a page at AAJ here (LINK), which clearly labels the painting with the caption: "Elvin Jones: Oil on Canvas 47 inches x 47 inches". Neireiter also has a website, www.jazzlandscapes.com, which also clearly labels the painting as being of Elvin.

7/4 , haven't I seen that painting somewhere before?? Here's to hoping Elvin can enjoy himself behind his kit, to whatever degree possible, in the coming days, weeks, and hopefully months.

Damn, if the birthdate is right in the AMG, I just realized that McShann is about 95 years old. (Says he was born Jan. 12th, 1909.) I was guessing he was in his mid-to-late 80's, and nowhere near 95. By way of contrast, Bobby Watson is only turning 51 this year. He's nowhere near quite old enough for what I was looking for in this thread. Gotta be people who are at least in their 60's, and better yet - in their 70's or older. 51 is practically still just a kid!! - compared to Fiddler and McShann, who were/are in their mid-90's.

In no particular order... Kenny G Miles Bird Pops Ellington And probably several singers. I could guess which ones, but they'd just be guesses on my part. And maybe Herbie, if you consider his 'pop' crossover work in the 70's and 80's.

Mahler's 1st was, oddly enough, one of the very first 'big' orchestral works I specifically remember having heard performed live. I heard the CSO perform it in Chicago when I was about a sophomore in college (circa 1988 or '89). Sure, I had probably been to the symphony before (couple times probably), and heard what??? -- I can't really remember (and couldn't back then either). Mahler 1 was the first long-form symphonic work that really left any kind of an impact on me. Lots of brass (at times), as I remember -- I think I last listened to a recording of Mahler 1 about two years ago. Fairly approachable stuff, as I recall (as far as Mahler goes) -- and not nearly as "sprawling" as some of his later symphonies. Lots and lots of chromatic shifts, but then that's what Mahler's all about. If you've already got ears for Brahms, then Mahler isn't so radically different as to be off-putting. He's more complex (to my ears) than Beethoven, but then again -- Ludwig could get pretty far out there too (more in his late string quartets, than his big symphonic works -- again, just to my ears -- what do I know??). It'll be very melodic (and I only mean that literally, not figuratively), with lots and lots of contrasting themes, and themes layered on top of each other. Nothing you'll walk out of the hall humming, but there's gonna me melody everywhere. Mostly "dark" - with stunning shifts from darkness into light (that's just a general description of Mahler, and not of Mahler 1 specifically -- which I'm having trouble remembering specifically at the moment). Probably more minor than major, but there's probably one 'upbeat' (if that term can be used with Mahler) movement, that's largely in a major key. If you get bitten by the Mahler bug, he's a facinating composer to embrace. Took me a long time to get into him, but I think I just heard a few lackluster performaces (after that first one, which I remember as being great). Now I love him, and when I get on a Mahler kick - I can't get enough. Please let us know your reactions, Peter. I, for one, will be very interested to hear them.

Here is a clip of him on a local news program... http://www.nbc10.com/news/3245813/detail.html And no, I'm not spending my whole day tracking down stuff about this guy. There's a bunch of links (including this one), in the thread on fark.com. I'm just copying a couple of them over here.

Check out the auction again. The item desciption has been updated. Among other things, comming soon: http://www.theebayweddingdressguy.com/ I guess the guy was on The Today Show (didn't see it). EDIT: Jebus -- almost 4 million unique hits!!!