Rooster_Ties

Yeah, about time for me to hit the hay too. Sweet dreams everybody...

Whacha gonna do? - so we know what not to "flip out" about??

I just had the same thing happen to me as Jim and others have described, complete with the double post after I hit the 'back' button, and resubmitted my post.

How about our very own "Fist of Doom"??? Hey Use3D, what's your story??

Edit: By the way, this is a static 'jpg', and is not animated.

I traded some PM's with couw earlier today, with no problems. FYI.

Yeah, I noticed it a couple nights ago too.

Glad to be of help.

I should have also mentioned Sam Rivers. Some outstanding 'inside' playing from him on... Lazuli (Timeless, 1989)

Still available... No, I don't know the seller. Just know a good deal when I see one.

So, what's this like?? Never heard of Williams before. According to the AMG, this was his one album as a leader, and he's only listed as a sideman on two Charlie Parker recordings, and mentioned as being on a Hal Singer date in 1963. Is that really his entire recorded output?? What's the story??

For for love of mike, somebody ought to buy this. All the usual disclaimers apply... LINK

It's not that bad either. If you see it for rent sometime, it's worth $3 to see it.

I saw "Dingo" at a film-festival here in Kansas City a few years ago. It was "OK", but nothing to take great pains to find. Interesting to see that much Miles, if you are or were ever a Miles nut, but no where near a "great" movie by any standard. the "All Movie Guide" gives it 2.5 stars, which is probably about right. I'd have given it that, or perhaps only 2 stars - though I do remember some of the scenery in Australia as being quite beautiful. "All Movie Guide" review

With some mo' due respect, threads go off the rails around here quite often, Ron. IMHO, discussing "Dingo" is more "on topic" than some twist and turns have taken plenty of other good threads in the past. That said, I'd welcome some more discussion of "Aura" as well, or "Dingo", or any of the more "outside the norm" recordings Miles did in the 80's and 90's.

I'll start the ball rolling. Gary Thomas: I think his flute-playing is highly underrated, at least from what I've heard of it. Two of my favorites are... Thomas' own "Pariah's Pariah (Winter & Winter, ": a piano-less quartet with Greg Osby, plus bass and drums. A very deep album, and Thomas' flute playing is outstanding, as is the context he plays in. (I think he plays flute on about 2 or 3 cuts) and Thomas on Ingrid Jensen's "Higher Grounds (Enja, 1999)": a standard quintet with either piano or fender, and the great Victor Lewis on drums (Jenson plays trumpet). Thomas plays flute on about three cuts, and plays with a real "punch" that I rarely hear on flute, perhaps stemming from his M-BASE roots?? Otherwise, I'm not always the biggest fan of jazz flute soloists, and I'm wondering what other options are out there?? - that I'm missing out on. Who are the "Woody Shaws", the "Greg Osbies", or the "Chris Potters" of jazz flute these days???

Just sent you another e-mail...

What Conn500 said.

Actually, I really like it when changes become stagnant. You get the building of tension that the continuing flurry of chords never seems to provide. And actually, when you get down to it -- that's probably my biggest problem with pure 'be-bop', is that (for me, anyway) there isn't much tension created by the harmonic context of fairly traditional performances in said style.

At least it wasn't this!!

OMG, Jim's up to 76 posts within the last 24 hours!!! Go Jim!!!!!

And geez!!! - now "Today's top 10 posters" says that Sangry's posted 46 times in the last 24 hours. At that rate, he'll have passed me long before I get to 2,000!!!