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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.

Up for some more . I'm out of town at my parents house (in St. Louis), and my mom's just got super-slow dial-up, so I probably won't be on the board much for a few days.

I saw this as a cut-out about a year ago for like $9.99. (Actually, I was with a friend, and he snapped it up - but still, only $9.99.)

Can we do this one sometime in maybe late February as our "Album of the Week"??? (Assuming there's interest, of course.) I guess, then, you're all semi-officially on notice to pick this up soon (if you don't already have it), if you want to participate. Late February is about 2 months from now, which should give everyone (who wants to) time to get it. Isn't it on e-music too?? (Don't know, I've never downloaded anything from them.) Any other thoughts on this as an AOTW??? (Let's save our discussion of the album itself, for when it really is the AOTW. Thanks!!!)

For years the state of Missouri used your SS# as your Drivers Licence number too. (Meaning your DL# was your SS#, so it was on your DL for all the world to see.) Then, two or three years ago - they started giving people the option of having some computer-generated number, instead of their SS#. In fact, now, I suspect you can't even use your SS# as your DL#. Anyway, I can remember a time when every application (for anything) asked for your SS#. EVERY video-rental store I've ever belonged to (in three states!!!) has my SS#. What the hell can you do about that????

Santa Kitty says: "Merry Christmas to all... and get this damn hat off me, or I'm gonna have to scratch somebody's eye out!!! "

I didn't specifically mention it by name, my bad.

] "Happy Hanukkah" -- by Daniel Goldstein, age 11