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Yeah, this place doesn't have enough trolls. Where's softsong when you need her??

I've only glanced at them at bn.com, but they appear to be priced as if they are domestic issues. (And they appear to be separate CD's.)

Me too, by a mile. I hate to say this, but a good part of it is that I don't miss having musically conservative people around, who have an axe to grind about what is and what isn't good music (in their 'esteemed' opinion, of course). Or to put it another way, there's a wide range of interests on this board, and not much in-fighting about "dogmatic" issues (at least in terms of MUSIC, not politics - of course!! )

Thanks Claypone. I'll do some checking around (probably start another thread on AAJ), and see if I can get some independent confirmation of "Che La Luna" being the tune I'm looking for when she said it was called "Alla Luna". (But that title is pretty darn close, so I'm thinking it probably is.) I'll also see if I can find some audio-samples (bn.com didn't have any last night, time to check for others), and run them past her - and see if it matches the tune she's looking for (or she can run them by some relative of hers, who probably would know better than she does). Thanks again!!! Anybody else have any thoughts on this?? - even if they're just confirming what Claypone posted??

Not my cat, nor my turntable. Just something I stumbled on, on-line.

OK, I've done a big search on the AMG (probably not the best place to go looking for these sorts of things), and come up with nothin'. Also did a general search for "Alla Luna" "Louis Prima" on Google, and got plenty o' nothin' too. I'm not 100% sure "Alla Luna" is spelled right, but my brother-in-law's new girlfriend was "mostly sure that's how it's spelled". She and her family are looking for a recording of this particular tune (on CD), as a present for her Grandfather. Any help would be molto appreciado!!! PS: Needs to be sung by Louis Prima, and needs to be sung in Itallian. Does such a recording even exist?? (Before looking in the AMG today, I really didn't have a clue who Louis Prima was.) Thanks again for any and all help!!!

Here kitty, kitty, kitty...

Better article, same topic... Source: Chicago Tribune

Source: What time is is on Mars????

I thought the exact same thing about St. Louis Shoes. A very good disc, to be sure, but not exactly in keeping with Osby's string of recent releases since about 1998.

PM me your address, and I'll get one in the mail to you ASAP...

...MMMMM... ...BOOBIES...

I think the question entirely hinges on whether you guys cover that "Smiths" tune ("How Soon Is Now") on the Organissimo "tribute" CD or not.

GREAT set of questions, Chuck. If you've got any more ideas for questions, I'd love to 'hear' (see) them. (Not that I'm the one doing the interview, but if I were - more questions like yours, Chuck, would be GREAT to have, IMHO.) (Not to put you on the spot, Chuck... Oops, too late!! )

Actually, I like Charlie Rouse's contribution to these dates as much (or maybe even slightly more) than Woody Shaw's. ( And I'm normally about 20-times more interested in Shaw than Rouse, based on all of my previous listening. I mean, I own a TON of Shaw (and am always looking for more!!!), and I own only a smattering of Rouse. ) Maybe Jim Pepper would have helped - but I can't imagine he would have helped that much.

NASA engineer Wayne Lee cheers the landing. (from CNN)

Git Go: Live At The Village Vanguard (1986) --and-- Seagulls of Kristiansundi: Live at the Village Vanguard (1986) - Mal Waldron, with Woody Shaw, Charlie Rouse, Reggie Workman, and Ed Blackwell. I first heard "Git Go: Live At The Village Vanguard" about 7 or 8 years ago, when I borrowed it from a friend. Heard it about 4 times in the space of a month, and didn't know what to make of it at the time. Returned it, and haven't heard it since then. Until I managed to borrow both "Git Go" and "Seagulls of Kristiansundi" recently, and I've given each a spin twice, in the last two weeks (most recently, tonight). And oddly enough, despite the fact that I normally LOVE Woody Shaw in almost any context, but especially "progressive ones" (like his work with Andrew Hill especially), I have to say that -- overall, I simply do not 'get' these two releases. I don't think they're particularly bad, but neither do I find myself wanting to hear them again, nor are they very high on my list of discs to acquire for myself anytime soon. (And this is coming from someone who normally will buy anything with Woody Shaw on it, sight unseen.) To paraphrase Jim Sangry in a recent post of his (about an entirely different topic), I certainly have respect for these recordings, but I just don't 'get' them. Are my ears on crooked?? I have to admit that I really haven't heard very much Mal Waldron, so I'm wondering if he's an acquired taste (much like Andrew Hill), where someday the light bulb will start to go off for me (with Mal), and suddenly these two will start to make some sense. I did find both discs somewhat 'interesting', to be sure - but probably nothing I'd pick up from a bargain bin (if I got to sample the discs, but couldn't see who was on them). Woody catches my ear from time to time, but it's the exception - and not the rule. What do others here think of these two recordings??

Credit: NASA

Cheers erupt through mission control. Rover touches down on Mars By Richard Stenger CNN Sunday, January 4, 2004 Posted: 12:05 AM EST (0505 GMT) PASADENA, California (CNN) -- A NASA robotic explorer touched down on the red planet Saturday night, sending a signal home that it survived the risky descent through the Martian atmosphere and bouncing landing. The $400 million rover Spirit, designed to conduct unprecedented geologic and photographic surveys on the Martian surface, transmitted a simple hello to Earth within minutes after landing, which took place just after 11:30 p.m. ET. The golf cart-sized Spirit went through what NASA assistant administrator Ed Weiler characterized as "six minutes from hell" -- the time it took to enter the Martian atmosphere, descend and land in Gusev Crater. During the descent, Spirit deployed parachutes and fire retrorockets to decelerate. Seconds before impact, it inflated a protective cocoon of airbags. A series of bounces and rolls probably sent the robot about four stories high and more than a mile from its landing spot, according to mission control scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. "It sounds like a crazy way to land on Mars, but it's actually tried and tested," said Steven Squyres, a Cornell University geologist in charge of the scientific instruments on Spirit and its identical twin, Opportunity, which will complete the 300 million-mile trip to Mars in the next three weeks. Spirit launched June 10 and Opportunity took off July 7. The airbag bounce method worked well with Pathfinder, NASA's last success on Martian soil. The 1997 mission included a lander, which beamed back thousands of images, and Sojourner, a toy-sized test rover that scurried around the rocks and boulders littering the landing site. Stunning panoramas The new 400-pound rovers like Spirit and Opportunity, packed with a slew of geology instruments and cameras, have much more mobility and capability than previous missions. Each is built to explore nearly as much territory in one day as Sojourner covered in three months, about 100 yards. Their eight cameras should provide stunning panoramas of the Martian surface, with resolutions so sharp they retain crisp detail when blown up to the size of a movie screen, according to NASA. And their microscopes, spectrometers and drills could uncover history from long, long ago. "It's a cold, dry miserable place today. But we have got these tantalizing clues that, in the past, it used to be warmer and wetter," said Squyres, who exudes a passion for planets like his one-time teacher at Cornell, the late astronomer Carl Sagan. "You can think of these vehicles as being robot field geologists. A field geologist is like a detective at the scene of a crime. They go to a place where something happened long ago and they try to read the clues," he told CNN. But this scene of the crime could easily include Spirit's corpse, NASA scientists acknowledge. 'Death planet' Mars has proven a deadly place to visit. Two-thirds of the more than 30 spacecraft that have attempted to reach or orbit Mars have met with disaster, including two NASA attempts in 1999. The most recent casualties include Japan's Nozomi, a satellite zapped by lethal solar radiation during its four-year odyssey to Mars. Mission engineers abandoned their attempts to steer the ailing craft as it neared the red planet last month. Another possible victim is the Beagle 2, an ambitious life-searching lander from Britain, which has remained silent since its presumed touchdown December 25. "A lot of people have had bad days on Mars," Weiler quipped last year. "They don't call it the death planet for nothing."

Oh yeah... Kansas City sure is a 'hotbed' for "progressive jazz".

A certain someone I know on this board, has interviewed Mr. McShann on at least one or two occasions -- and probably more like half-a-dozen times, if my guess is right. When he sees this thread, perhaps he can share his thoughts...

Sun-treader—Portrait of Carl Ruggles by Thomas Hart Benton

You'll forgive me, FFA, if I don't make it to this particular gig of yours. But I did see you on the ol' teletube down at the Plaza for the big Plaza lighting on Thanksgiving Night. Actually, probably your one feature solo all night, and the TV cameras covered it nicely - without any of the usual TV jabberjaws babbling endlessly for probably a good 20 seconds. ("Let's all listen in, shall we??") Got to tell my wife's whole family - "hey, I know that guy!!!" But I think they were less impressed (or probably just board) when I proceeded to name half the band on the stage with you too. As far as New Years goes... The wife and I tend to avoid casinos like the plague, all 364 other days of the year, so it'll be our usual "movie and dinner" for New Years.

Whenever I go to hear him play, I always try to make sure 'Free For All' is in my line-of-sight at all times, just to be on the safe side.