Rooster_Ties

Shit, Dan. You were right!!!! Link: Rooster and Andrew

T.S. is gonna be here in Kansas City tomorrow night, and I just got a call from a buddy of mine asking if I knew who was in T.S.'s current band (and I don't). I'll do a search, myself, later tonight (I'm about half-way out the door right now), but if anybody happens to know, or has any links to any recent reviews of any T.S. Monk shows lately, I'd love to pass them on to my friend. (He's on the fence about going. Me, I'm pinching pennies, so I probably won't go.) I guess the larger question, actually, is whether it's worth probably like $25 for my buddy to go hear T.S. in a concert-hall type appearance these days. Thanks!!!! I'll check back in about an hour or two. Gotta run...

Thanks!!

Just sent you an e-mail about the John Hicks disc. Thanks!! -- Rooster T.

Personally, I'm kinda rootin' for Canada...

And the reason for them not letting you enter, was... Your race?? Were you dressed in uniform?? Both?? Neither - but some other reason?? I'm not understanding.

It's the brand-spankin' new "it hurts my ears like a hundred dogs", Organissimo Forums, catchphrase of the week!!!

ROTFLMAO!!!

Yeah, but which one is which??

FYI, I think Chuck was probably replying to CJ Shearn's message, the one right above yours Weizie - and not your "Dance With Death" message.

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What's the deal?? Did the JRVG of "Easterly Winds" suck wind?? I've been looking for a good used TOCJ (jewelbox version, circa 1994?) copy of "Easterly Winds", for like forever (cuz I hate the mini-LP packaging), so there's probably NOT a lot of danger of me guying the JRVG of this title (or any other). Still, I'm kind of curious as to what you’re eluding to??

Let me echo everything Parkertown just said... Welcome!!!! And I'm afraid my tastes are areas of jazz expertise (if any such exist) are all for post-1950 material (really, post-1960 material, actually). But there are quite a few folks here who I'm sure can give you some good input. Check back later tonight and tomorrow... ...and again - welcome to the board!!

Amen and Halleluja!!! ...at least from this atheist-leaning agnostic.

HELL YEAH!!! -- on both counts. Wow, I had no idea Rooster was a musician. Just checked the AMG bio. I'll have to check out yer stuff, RT. Uuuhhhh, yeah (I wish!!!), but NO - Pelt ain't me, and I ain't Pelt. I think Impossible was just trying to call me into the conversation, since he knows I'm a fan of Pelt's. Here's some pics of Pelt... And here's one of me and Andrew Hill...

That would be so sad...

And how does that get fixed??? Anything we can do to help?? - like bombard them with e-mail about it?? I presume you guys have sent them a CD already - correct??

HELL YEAH!!! -- on both counts.

WORD!!!!

All the album titles are in italics in the original article, but I'm much too lazy to replicate that here. You can read the original HERE. By the way, for the record - I don't have a problem with Norah being on Blue Note, or Al Green and Van Morrison either. I don't own Norah's CD (or Al's or Van's), but I borrowed the Norah disc from a friend several months ago, and I rather liked it, actually. Nothing I normally get all that excited about, but for what it was - I thought it was quite nice. (And I don't mean that in a bad way, like I usually do when I say something is "quite nice" ) You generally won't find me bashing Norah, just fans of hers like Musicboy!!!

This may not be much of a better source, but here goes anyway... As a wee lad during my College years, I happened to be in Washington D.C. around the same time that I was beginning a college honors project, that was to be about Sun Ra. The project never got off the ground (never really knew what I wanted to do with the project, and never did figure it out), but I do remember going to the Library of Congress while I was there, and to see what Ra recordings and other holdings they had. Frankly, this was about 10 years ago (circa 1992, if I remember right), and the only Ra titles I remember having them pull out for me were one of the Ra documentaries (probably "A Joyful Noise", but it might have been the other one, "Mystery, Mr. Ra"). They had the Ra doc on film (16mm??), and I remember watching it at a viewing station only big enough for one or maybe two people to watch the image, which was maybe 4 or 5 inches in size. And the other Ra item I had them pull out was an LP with Ra's meeting with John Cage at Coney Island (from the very early 80's, if I remember right). Turned out to be all Cage on one side, singing random vowels (sheesh!!) -- and Ra on the other side, playing a small cheezy keyboard – and not really doing much of any value, as I recall, just a bunch of noodling, mostly. Anyway, I don't specifically remember what the Library of Congress had, or what they didn't have - when it came to their Sun Ra holdings --- other than I suspect that they must have not had very much, or otherwise I would have had them pull out more stuff for me to listen to, other than just those two items. Like I said, this isn't much of a better source - from a kid (me!) who barely knew anything about jazz at the time, and whose memory is foggy as hell, now, 10+ years later. But logically, if they had had more stuff, I would have stuck around for more than just the two hours I was there.

I saw this in the Kansas City Star early last week, and thought I'd post it here. The Star's version is gone (their on-line stuff only sticks around for 7 days), but I also found it HERE. Man, 'Hey Ya!' has to be one of the best "turn it up!!!" songs that I've heard on the radio, in a long time!! Is the rest of the full CD (a double CD, actually, if I'm hearing right), is the rest even half this good??? I know it's on everybody's top-10 list this year. Should I give in to the hype, and get it?? Can't say I buy much hip-hop, but I do have a smattering of Beastie Boys CD's, and one or two Public Enemy discs too. Here's that article...

Seeing the "needle goes from the inside to the outside" record reminded me of the Monty Python LP with one side that had TWO separate grooves, so that depending on the luck of where you dropped the needle, the program was either one thing, or another thing -- two entirely separate 13-minute recordings -- on the SAME side of the record!!! Now that was one fucked up idea!!! My uncle used to have that album, and I remember trying to tape it once - and not being able to figure out why "side 2" was so much shorter than side one. And I can't remember if I figured out the separate groove thing or not, at the time.