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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!!!

I think F&G got jacked around with a whole bunch of schedule changes, and (in part) they never were able to find their audience that way. The network bears some measure of blame for not supporting the show properly when it was actually on the air. Same thing with Sports Night, and equally amazing show on ABC, that got canned after two seasons. One of the best things on television, along with F&G.

Showing my age, I think the only 45 I owned as a kid was this... or maybe this one: Notice the "C" in "Columbia" on the version without the picture sleeve.

Seriously, recommendations for what?? Record stores?? Places to stay?? Stuff to do?? How long ya going to be there?? What kinda stuff (outside of jazz) are you interested in?? Gonna be a lot easier to recommend stuff if we have a few input parameters first.

That clip of A Love Supreme is great!! Love the silent movies of Trane too. Thanks for the tip!! (Everyone else, hover over the phrase "John Coltrane" on the far right side of the page, and then click on "movies" as the menu option that opens up to the left (of Trane's name). Took me a few minutes to find. Well worth looking for!! B)

Holy shit, over 3.5 million unique hits!!! They've got the bidding restricted to "pre-approved bidders or buyers only" - so that should be the end of stupid bidders that don't mean business. Damn, the bidding's up to $15,300.00!!!!!!!!!!!! Amazing, simply amazing...

I've heard that this thing is getting mentions on tons of other media outlets. NBC had some sort of thing on the Today Show today, and it was on MSNBC's "News Countdown" thing last night. I'm sure some other networks are picking up on it too. Behold the power of that Interweb thingy!!!

Get yourself a copy of this book, and you could spend a month in Iowa. I know, because I've nearly done that (when you total up all the time I've spent driving through Iowa, on my way to other places). The book has maps, and a county-by-county , city-by-city listing (with descriptions) of probably somewhere close to 2,500 of THE most important buildings in Iowa, from an architectural perspective. It's part of a whole series, and they've got about 10 books done (for 10 states). Can't wait for the whole series to be completed, but it'll probably 20 years before that happens. Only a matter of time...

From ejazznews (just got this in my daily e-mail of jazz-headlines from them)... Link: Elvin Jones Gravely Ill Quite a choice of words for a headline, but I suppose it's accurate.

According to this (Link: http://pages.ebay.com/help/basics/e_honesty1.html), it's unique users... Not quite 2 million unique hits yet, but pretty close: 1,967,000+ hits. Still, that's a TON of . I see the bidding is back down to $17,100.00 -- so eBay must have killed off a bunch of phony bids. Still, $17,100.00 seems pretty damn high, so I'm guessing there's phony bids driving the price up still. Maybe this guy will be in the next eBay TV commercial!!!

Nearly 1,700,000 unique people have visited this particular eBay page. I'm betting it hits 2,500,000 before the auction closes in just under 17 hours. Off to bed -- I'll find out in the morning...

Lot's more to read about this here... Link: http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=931465 Half the reason a bazillion people saw this guy's eBay auction is fark.com. (Not all of the reason, but probably half.)

Looks like he's gonna make a killing on this. over 17 hours left to go, and the bidding is all the way up to US $99,999,999.00 - That's like a $99,998,799.00 profit, since they guy only paid $1,200.00 for it. Wonder if he takes Paypal??