Rooster_Ties

Beatrice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On a serious note. I've traded a whole bunch with Undergroundagent (both here, and back on the BNBB), and I will gladly do so again in the future. He drives a hard bargain (as most of us who have traded with him before can attest), but he's a good guy - and he's never caused a deal with me to go bad. People need to chill out here, and all this 'Undergroundagent' bashing should stop. So what if the guy's a little direct with his PM's, and a little light on the emoticon usage. That's just the way some people are.

AND... a CANADIAN!!!

First a link (maybe) between Saddam and Osama, and now this??? Yeah right... When pigs fly!!!!

Yeah, but only if you can play it in 7!!! (I'm half kidding, which of course means I'm half serious too. ) Or how about an Andrew Hill tune???

Man, I cannot wait to hear that Smiths tune done up Organissimo-style!! Seriously, stuff like that has a way of getting you noticed by a new audience. Although I was weird and picked up on Radiohead from hearing Brad Mehldau cover "Exit Music For A Film" - I think many more people discovered Brad from originially being Radiohead nuts (and those were people who weren't all coming at Brad's music from the jazz side of the world). Similarly, Jason Moran and Greg Osby have each covered different Bjork tunes on a couple of their BN releases. The Bad Plus have covered Nirvana and Blondie (on disc). Dave Douglas covered Rufus Wainwright and Bjork too (on disc). And Geoff Keezer has covered Radiohead too. And, our own Trumpet Guy (Phil Grenadier) has covered Radiohead and Fiona Apple. So, if the Smiths tune goes over well on the Organissimo 'board' disc, you might want to consider including it on your next 'official' (meaning 'real') CD. Seriously.

If you need any help with anything, Free, just give me a call. I'll be glad to give you my father-in-law's number, and you can call him, just like I do!!! I'd call my own Dad, but he lives just outside of St. Louis, where I grew up. My folks are here in town this weekend, actually. And my Dad is gonna help me (really, I'm going to help him) install a new electrical outlet on the outside of our house, running new wiring from the inside to the outside. Every time my Dad comes to visit, I put him to work doing something - usually electrical. Last time we (he) installed a new grounded outlet in our 2nd bedroom, for my computer to plug into - without having to run an extension cord all the way across the room. These old houses rarely have more than one or two (at most) electrical outlets per room, it seems. Our house was built in 1922, and it is our first house too. Again, major congrats on buying your first house, Free. Do give me a call sometime, if you ever need someone to point and snicker when you discover you've done something wrong, cuz that's about all I'm good for when it comes to home DIY.

Well, then I officially retract my former statement about Undergroundagent being Canadian. I'm sorry (there, I said it – are you happy now???). I'm sorry I felt I had to bring something like that into this whole mess. I stepped over the line, and I promise not to let it happen ever again.

Oh yeah, that's right. After I clear my cashe (which I do about once a week), I have noticed that AAJ does give me a "today's topics" link.

There are a handful of titles in the Naxos Jazz series, which are very good. And at $6.99 to $7.99 a pop, they are very cheap too. I'll look through what I've got, and make some recomendations. I know I have at least two UMO Jazz Orchestra discs on Naxos (which are both great), and four or five other titles - all of which escape me at the moment.

"Today's Active Topics" all the way, for me. That way if I see a topic that hasn't had a new post, but is one I looked at previously - I'm sometimes reminded to check the thread again, especially if it's one I had thought about posting in earlier, but didn't at the time. Often I wish every board had a "Today's Active Topics" button to push. AAJ, for instance, only has "View New Posts" - which means any thread without a post that's new to me (based on my cookies), never gets displayed more than once in the list of topics that I'm browsing. I think using "Today's Active Topics" (and having that as an option) increased the chances of people posting in threads they already looked at before, but didn't post in at the time they were first looking at them. For instance, there's a "Kansas City" board I'm on, and I rarely post in any topic that doesn't come up in my "View New Posts" results. And as a result, if I don't post in a topic when I first look at it, I never see it again until somebody else posts in it. (I rarely go browsing through the forums.)

Undergroundagent is somewhat 'direct' in his PM's and e-mail communication, and occasionally his tongue is a touch on the sharp side. But I have had probably more than half-a-dozen trades and deals with him in the past (and back on the BNBB too) - and I have never had a bit of trouble with him. To suggest that he be banned because of a PM that wasn't the least bit offensive (though, perhaps a bit curt), is silly. Buy from Undergroundagent with confidence; he's generally a decent guy. Well, considering he's a Canadian and all.

LOTS MORE COWBELL TO BE HAD HERE!!!!! -- Enjoy!!!!!

Those in about the "State Farm" theme, click on the link I provided above, and play the sample of track #5 ... "A Very Strange Medley (V.S.M.)"

But it certainly isn't a pile of Wynton!!

Careful with the way polls work on this board. You can only vote for ONE choice. Better to have a new thread where people vote for their top THREE choices in each of the two categories: 1) tunes the band already knows, and 2) tunes the band's gotta learn. FWIW, some boards do have "multiple votes per person per poll" options, where you can check all the choices you want to vote for, and then vote for them all at one time. I think AAJ's board's softward does this. (But not so, here.) In any case, I strongly think that doing these "tune" polls with the "choose only one tune" option is NOT the way to go with this. Just my perspective, for what it's worth...

I definitely hear what your saying, Jim. I react the same way to lots of NY tenor players of a certain age (probably in their 30's and 40's now) who, for lack of a better way of describing it, all seem to have a real 'sameness' about them - which does nearly nothing for me. It's not anything I've ever really been able to pinpoint, because on some levels - clearly they're good players. And yet, I connect with their playing almost zilch, nada, nunka, zippo. Thanks for helping explain why (in part) that is for me. Man, the if we could bottle all the collective insite contained on this board... Well, at least we'd have it all in a bottle!!!

Whew... I was afraid it was going to end up being Jackie McLean!!!!

I'm down for several of these. Hope they do an Andrew Hill cover!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This may be sacrilege, but PLEASE don't do "Laura." Not because I don't think you guys can do it, but just because it's already been done to death. Not speaking about "Laura" specifically, but there could be some other suggestions that are like this too. Let's get some really INTERESTING material on this disc -- stuff that there aren't a dozen versions of already. (I can't place "Laura" specifically, but I understand what Big Al is saying...)

I'm afraid to ask, but here goes anyway... Which Jackie?? - and which Roy??

Go HERE and click on "A Very Strange Medley (V.S.M.)" (track 5). Doesn't include what Jim's talking about, but it does happen to include another well known theme (at least to those of us here in the U.S.).

No shit!! Actually, I probably will buy get a few extras -- you know, for people I haven't met yet, who have similar passions about music.

If so, I'd be more than happy to pay a few extra dollars for this puppy, in order for you guys to stay on the right side of the law on this one. And while I'm at it, B3 - I know you said something like $5-$7 for this, but I'd easily go $10 or $12 for it, and I'm sure most people here would too. You guys are gonna have to spend time learning new tunes, and that's worth something. Hell, make it an hour-long disc (or more!!!) and suggest a donation in the $10 to $20 range, and I'll bet most of us pony up $20. Especially if you're gonna be recording tunes that we're suggesting.