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Just saw it on eBay, late last night, that's all. I don't plan to bid on it, unless the price is really cheap near the end. And actually, if somebody here is interested in it - they would probably be best advised to mention that fact (here in this thread) --- so I don't bump the price up right at the end. The opening bid required is only $5. But if anybody here is bidding at all, then I'll just stay out of the way. I'm only curious about it, at best. In fact - now that Claude has posted the eBay link - maybe we should all agree that only one of us will bid on it, and then provide burns of it to others, at a reasonable cost - like $3 per burn (U.S. postage included), or something similar. Like I said, I'm interested - but not enough to spend much money for it.

Thanks Eric. You're right - we should get together sometime, you know. If nothing else - Greg Tardy is going to be at The Blue Room on Saturday, August 9th - only a $10 cover. I heard Tardy at the Iowa City Jazz Festival earlier this month, fronting Andrew Hill's quartet. Man, Tardy was a monster - so I'm gonna try like heck to catch him here, playing his own stuff. ANYBODY ELSE FROM KANSAS CITY NOT HAVE THEIR OWN ORGANISSIMO CD YET?????

UP - for anybody else from Kansas City!!! -- Rooster T.

What's the deal with this?? Was it recorded live?? In the studio?? Or just a cheap repackaging "pirate"-version of the legit album?? Any ideas??

This doesn't exactly qualify (probably not even close), especially since it isn't about a jazz musican, and it's about somebody that somebody else knows, and I don't even really know the intermediate 'somebody' all that well..... But, anyway, Jason Moran told me once - after a gig - that a good friend of his ran into Bjork on a New York City street once. She was in the city for several weeks, recording stuff for an album of hers (probably her most recent one). Jason - who has recorded at least two of Bjork's songs (himself, and with Greg Osby) - kept hoping to run into her himself, and he said he purposely walked by where his friend met Bjork, several times over the next couple weeks, with the hopes of meeting her. Never happened, alas...

Good idea for a thread... I saw Bobby Watson in the grocery store about 6 months ago. I know, now he sorta qualifies as being in that "local musican" catagory, in some ways. Kansas City is now his home, and he teaches full-time (for at least part of the year) at the conservatory at the University of Missiouri, Kansas City (UMKC). BUT, still, he's known (in jazz circles) the world wide, and I saw him checkin' out stuff in the produce section. Didn't say anything to him at the time. (Not sure what I would have said that wouldn't have sounded dorky, come to think of it. ) ( Note to FFA, and anyone else from K.C. --- it was at the SunFresh store in Westport. )

Al is one of those guys, like Dave Holland - who's name on a CD is guarenteed to get me to give it a second look, and probably get me to at least give it a test-spin -- even if I've never heard of any other cat on the disc. Maybe Al Foster isn't "the" greatest drummer alive today, but I've never heard a recording he was on, where he wasn't one of the best guys on the date - no matter who was on it, even huge names.

I realize the shipping is their deal, but they're actually charging less for the CD itself - if multiple copies are ordered at the same time. Normally they charge $13.99 for your disc. But if I buy two or more, then the price comes down to $12.59 per CD ($1.40 less than the regular price). Does that $1.40 come out of your pocket?? Or CDBaby's??? (And this price difference is before any shipping costs are figured into the deal.) ( But like I said - either way, I think could generate a couple sales that wouldn't have necessarily happened otherwise, so I'm still gonna be able to sleep at night, otherwise unhaunted by these particular demons. )

I also heard Al, with Joe and George Mraz (if I remember right), as a trio - right here in Kansas City about 5 years ago. Stunning, and if they had been playing again the next night, I sure as hell would have been there again too!!!

OK, I'm deeply ashamed to admit this - - but I'm one of those horrible people who hasn't bought their copy of "Waiting For The Boogaloo Sisters" yet. I have no good excuse, other than I just hadn't gotten around to it yet. Yeah, yea, I'm pinchin' pennies, but who isn't?? - and it's not like I've stopped eating out, so I must not be pinchin' them that hard. So, then, I pull up the CDBaby website, go to the Organissimo CD, and there's this cute little box saying that there's a 10% discount for purchases of multiple copies of this CD. SO, is there anybody in the Kansas City area who wants to get this great CD for a couple bucks cheaper than if you ordered it all by yourself, direct from CDBaby?? All we gotta do is get one person (besides myself) to go in on the deal, and we save $0.50 each on shipping costs, plus save 10% on the CD. Any more than 2 people, and the shipping costs go down even more. (And if we get a total of 6 people, then there's NO shipping costs!!!) United States: Your Postage Costs (from CDBaby) 1 CD $2.25 2 CDs $3.50 ($1.75 per CD) 3 CDs $4.00 ($1.33 per CD) 4 CDs $4.50 ($1.13 per CD) 5 CDs $4.50 ($0.90 per CD) 6 CDs $0.00 ($0 per CD!!!) 7 CDs $0.00 8 CDs $0.00 9 CDs $0.00 10 CDs $0.00 I'll be glad to do the ordering, and I'll even personally drive the CD right to your front door (anywhere within 20 or 30 miles of the Midtown K.C. area). Be a good chance to say 'hi', and chat a bit too. Or maybe we can meet at a local show/club sometime, and I can drop it off then. So, who's in???? (B3-er --- do you know if this 10% discount comes out of your pocket, or CDBaby's??? Either way, if I can get 2 or 3 more people to go in on this with me - I think it's still probably OK, cuz everybody comes out ahead -- since I'm figuring a couple of those sales might notta ever happened otherwise. Or should I be shot for even starting this thread in the first place??? )

There used to be a time when you could request a sample issue direct from Cadence (from the North Country people). It wasn't free, but the cost was relatively minimal - like $3. This was years ago, so perhaps their policy and/or costs have changed. Still, it wouldn't hurt to ask. I plan to. I haven't seen an issue of Cadence in years, and feel like if there was ever one to see - it'd be this one!!!

So then I just need to sneak Sun Ra's "Brainville" into your tune list (it is in The Real Book - though I wouldn't have a clue if the changes were correct), and start sending the right mental waves your direction some night, and just wait for it to happen!!

I too thought Hootin' and Tootin' was a much better release (I have the Conn version, with the extra session), than I was expecting. a VERY solid date, and well worth searching out for those that don't have it.

At least based on what I've heard in recordings, Al can nearly do no wrong.

Not even close... Come on, "a preemptive F.U. to everyone...", what kinda crap is that?? Let me show ya how it’s done... ===== And, like how the hell would you know anyway?? Always flappin' your jaw with the craziest shit I ever heard, in threads you don't even have a clue about anyway. I get so tired of your shit, all the time with the same stupid-ass 'logic' that makes no fuckin' sense, drunk or sober - hell, you can't even imagine. If only this board had one of those "add user to my ignore list" functions, cuz I'd banish your ass there so damn quick. And then my Organissimo surfing experience would like instantly improve about ten-fold, with the very first thread I saw that didn’t have any of your dumb-ass blather every fucking-other post. In fact, wouldn't it be great to have automatic surfing controls, like those "parental control" filters that filter out porn??? But hey, get this -- only instead of porn, there was like various levels of "bullshit" it could filter out. Like you could filter out only out-n-out liars, or filter out liars plus people that just exaggerate every god-damn thing. But what would be the best is if you could just have a "filter out anything from an idiot" checkbox, cuz then that's all I'd ever have to do to never see any of your crap - ANYWHERE on the whole Internet - ever again!!! Like if I was surfing on other boards, your shit would NEVER even get through to my browser in the first place. Man, that would be heaven, sweet heaven... AND, if everybody on the whole Internet had 'filters' like that, you know they'd all use 'em. And then, even your own mother wouldn't get e-mails from you, even again, cuz of what a dumb-fuck you are. Man, somebody get crackin’ on inventing those "Internet idiot" filters, cuz I can tell you they’d be a big hit with everybody, everywhere -- as long as you're doin’ anything on the Internet - that’s for damn sure. HELL YEAH!!!!

God how I hated/loved that one. Brings back a FLOOD of memories, for sure!!! / I've forgotten - did we ever dertermine why Chuck was such a jerk??? Any ideas????

Hey Conn500 - I'll be curious to hear what you think of this one. I borrowed it from a friend years ago, and at least at that time I thought it was a pretty 'out' date, probably one of the most 'out' things Joe's ever recorded - actually. For some reason or another, I never did pick it up myself - probably just too expensive when I did see it, which wasn't ever that often. If you find you don't care for it, I'd be happy to provide it a happy and caring home... ...if ya know what I mean.

Posted on Fri, Jul. 25, 2003 Eldar Djangirov taking his piano chops to West Coast By JOE KLOPUS The Kansas City Star He came to town five years ago to immerse himself in the never-ending task of learning to play jazz. And now, as he leaves town, he knows he has a healthy start. Pianist Eldar Djangirov is 16 now, much taller and much deeper-voiced than when he came to Kansas City from Kyrgyzstan. He's a young veteran, having recorded two CDs, appeared on the Grammy Awards telecast and played on public radio's "Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz." It has been thrilling to hear his playing grow and mature. But he and his family just moved to San Diego, where his father, mechanical engineer Emil Djangirov, took a new job. "We're doing it just for the change, and maybe there'll be more opportunities," the pianist says. This makes his concert appearance on Wednesday at the Cherokee Christian Church a farewell of sorts. "In Kansas City I've met beautiful people all over the place," he says. "They're so kind. And you don't find that everywhere. People are so open-hearted, and they want to help you....I think back to when I came here, and it's hard to believe that people could be so kind. I think Kansas City has the best of what human beings have to offer." When he was 5, he exhibited an amazing ability to reproduce what his father had just played on the piano. (Dad was already a jazz fan, and mom, Tatiana, is a musicologist.) Thus began the journey that took him halfway around the world. Seven years ago, an American who heard him play at a festival in Siberia encouraged the family to come to the United States. "New York is kind of too big," Djangirov says. "Kansas City has that great jazz tradition....My parents and I decided that it would be a good place to live. We just decided to check it out." When he arrived, those prodigious piano skills got noticed. But behind his back, some people said he wasn't improvising as much as simply mimicking what he'd been hearing on records. They aren't saying that anymore. Djangirov has grown into a true improviser. You can hear the evidence on one of his summer projects, a new CD called "Handprints." It's his second disc. The first, "Eldar," appeared in 2001. "From my point of view, that was a long time ago," Djangirov said. "This CD sounds different." Like the first one, the disc features Gerald Spaits on bass and Todd Strait on drums. Both of them say Djangirov's playing can change and grow dramatically over just a few weeks. So, for maximum freshness, little more than a month elapsed between the recording session and the CD's recent release. "It was a pretty quick job but pretty satisfying," Djangirov says. Old pro that he is, he says he feels pretty comfortable in the studio. The disc shows him in a favorable light as a player (hear that killer intro to a high-speed rendition of "Caravan"), arranger (hear the changes he works on Thelonious Monk's "Bemsha Swing") and composer. One of the standouts is his own piece "Perplexity," a musical response to the puzzlements of life. This year, music has already taken him far from Kansas City or San Diego. In New York, he recently played at the JVC Jazz Festival, at an event called "Piano Starts Here." He was one of eight high-powered pianists featured: He was in the company of Cedar Walton, Kenny Barron, Bill Charlap, Ted Rosenthal, Kenny Werner, Joey Calderazzo and Eliane Elias. He's just played a gig in Salt Lake City, too. Meanwhile Djangirov is working at expanding his musical scope. "I've started listening to more players -- not just piano players but more horn players....I'm getting more into the variety of music. (Saxophonist) Michael Brecker, (trumpeter) Roy Hargrove, (guitarist) Pat Metheny. Old stuff, new stuff, everything from the bebop era to now....I think everything I listen to will somehow influence me in a good way." He says he keeps up his usual musical regimen by practicing three hours a day or more. The Cherokee Christian Church show, which he calls "kind of a farewell gig," will feature Spaits on bass and drummer Tommy Ruskin. They'll play a blend of old things and maybe some new stuff, Djangirov says. But no matter how far he goes in music -- or what direction he goes -- he says he'll always remember his time in KC. "People there have helped me live my life," he said.

I'm tempted to say that the only music that might really wake me up in the morning is something like this. <--- or ---> I'm a bear to get up in the morning. When my wife's not around, I usually set two different travel alarm clocks, and a third electric clock/radio, the alarm of which is loud enough to wake the dead. Usually we set a radio to NPR and wake up to their news and information, but I can easily drift off even with the news on. Sometimes I've had some amazingly bizarre dreams that were half mixtures of multiple news stories, and the dreams that were going on already, when the radio came on with the news. B)

Geri Allen, with Charlie Haden & Paul Motian: Segments (DIW, 1989) ..... Anyone here know this album?? I don't, but I stumbled on it while looking on-line for covers of Ornette with piano. They cover one of my alltime favorite Ornette tunes "Law Years". How is it?? That said, it appears that Geri Allen is one of a very small number of pianists who have taken up Ornette's concepts and really run with them. I'll dig out both volumes of "Sound Museum" (which I haven't heard in at least two years), give them a spin today, and report back my findings.

If only Andrew Hill's lone "King" issue had seen the light of day... I think it was to be called "Chained", a still-as-yet-unreleased trio date from about 1967. (Don't have my discography handy at the moment.)

The whole site is in Japanese, so I haven't got a clue about this, except the name of the image itself is... tofu-donuts_2.jpg Yup, that's right, tofu donuts!!!

And on a related note... Barbecued Tofu