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Wasn't it for damn near everybody??? (At least more often than not.)

118. What do you call a drive-through liquor store? a. brew thru (3.44%) b. party barn (0.71%) c. bootlegger (0.13%) d. beer barn (2.84%) e. beverage barn (0.81%) f. we have these in my area, but we have no special term for them (31.35%) g. I have never heard of such a thing (48.26%) h. other (12.45%) (10458 respondents) Choice a: brew thru

My wife and I both took this on-line survey back in February or so. We had a blast discussing the regional differences in dialects, and the results are often quite interesting. There are "maps" provided with the answers to each question, to show where survey respondents were from, grouped by their responses. Link: Welcome to the Dialect Survey Link: Dialect Survey Maps and Results A couple of my favorites... ---------- 77. What do you call the activity of driving around in circles in a car? a. doing donuts (80.71%) b. doing cookies (1.74%) c. whipping shitties (1.43%) d. other (16.12%) (10011 respondents) Choice c: whipping shitties ---------- ---------- 80. What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining? a. sunshower (34.29%) b. the wolf is giving birth (0.04%) c. the devil is beating his wife (6.43%) d. monkey's wedding (0.16%) e. fox's wedding (0.15%) f. pineapple rain (0.03%) g. liquid sun (0.74%) h. I have no term or expression for this (55.15%) i. other (3.02%) (10691 respondents) Choice c: the devil is beating his wife ----------

Have to admit that I don't know a thing about Alexander von Schlippenbach, although I do own this one album - which I aquired because of Sam Rivers... Haven't listened to it in ages, but remember it being quite good.

You'll never guess what they call "doin' doughnuts" in Minnesota and Wisconsin (especially around the twin-cities area)... Harvard Dialect Survey: "whippin' shitties" (yes, that Harvard)

Larry Young, R.I.P. (killed in the line of duty): http://www.policememorial.ca/larry_young.html

He's also moved into politics: http://mlis.state.md.us/1997rs/sponsors/young.htm

Or this guy??? http://home.earthlink.net/~youngangelsranc...x.html.eln.bak/

Oops, maybe it's this guy: http://youngerfaces.com/doctor.htm

Excuse me, I was wrong before, Larry Young is clearly this guy: http://www.larryyoung.org/bio.htm

I thought Larry Young was this guy???

FYI, it took almost 400 "image hits' with Google's "image search", before I found a profile picture of Tiger without a Nike hat on!!!

I've said it before, and I'll say it again..... .....I'm not sure Joe ever turned in a sub-standard performance. In fact, the ONLY album of his that I have anything less than great things to say about, is his last one "Porgy & Bess", and really - it's not Joe's playing on it that keeps me from having liked it. I've loved damn near every album I've ever heard with Joe on it, including his many sideman dates. I'm not talking just about his 60's work, but everything of his in the 70's, 80's, and 90's too (both as a leader and as a sideman). How that there hasn't been any activity in releasing any previously unreleased Joe (since his death), is totally beyond me. There have to be some live tapes floating around that are worthy of being issued, either of Joe as a leader, or as a sideman. Surely Verve must have recorded him 'live' during his successful run with them in the 90's?? And surely there have to be some live dates of his floating around from the late 70's and 80's (similar to the three Woody Shaw "High Note" CD we've seen in the past 3 years). Where's some more Joe??? Even as a sideman?? There have to be some great tapes out there, wouldn't you think???

Joe is my all-time-favorite tenor player, period. IMHO, his best non-BN date is... Power to the People (Milestone, 1969)

Thanks Jim. I've heard it before, but I haven't bought it yet. Very cool concept, but I just haven't been in the right place at the right time with that particular CD in my hot little hands, with the extra $cratch to make it mine. One of these days, one of these days... Actually, there are a dozen really cool "all-Zappa" CD's out there, most "classical", but a couple "jazz"-related. Most are well worth picking up. I'll have to start a new thread about Zappa 'cover' albums sometime, and tell ya'll which one's are the best (IMHO).

(Before Joe "went to Vermont"), back when he was doing those 'songbook' albums for Verve (Strayhorn, Miles, Jobim, himself, Porgy & Bess), I seriously had dreams of Joe Henderson doing an all Zappa album of some sort. Didn't get so far as to pick the sideman, but I really did have dreams of hearing Joe work his magic on "King Kong", "Let's Make The Water Turn Black", "Alien Orifice" and a couple dozen other Zappa tunes. (I would have given my right arm for a project like that to have seen the light of day.)

I think about 75% of the Elvin Mosaic box is really good - and often great!! Lee Morgan is even on one very interesting date, early in the set. Maybe someone could burn a sampler disc (one CD) for montg, of various representitive tracks from the Mosaic Box. I'd be inclined to do it myself, but it would take at least a week or three for me to get to it. Perhaps if someone could come up with a good tracklisting (up to 79 minutes), that'd make the job easier. Or, maybe just picking tracks at random (one from each album on the set) would be a more fair "sample" of the material. montg, are you domestic relative to my location (are you in the U.S.?), or otherwise??

Just stumbled on this picture, of Woody Shaw, on the Mosaic site. Any idea what session it's from??

A car stereo that can kill you? Cool The fight to build the world's most powerful sound system By Stephan Wilkinson Popular Science Wednesday, July 2, 2003 Posted: 10:23 AM EDT (1423 GMT) (Popular Science) -- Troy Irving's 18-year-old Dodge Caravan has a heck of a sound system: 72 amplifiers -- you got it, 72 -- and 36 big 16-volt batteries to put out the 130,000 watts of power needed to rumble his nine 15-inch subwoofers. Troy Irving and his Dodge Caravan, which has 72 daisy-chained Ample Audio 1500 DX amps. To put that into perspective, the most powerful production-car audio I know of is the $230,000+ 2003 Aston Martin Vanquish's 1,200-watt system. Irving carries $80,000 worth of audio alone, in a vehicle that is worth, admittedly, slightly less than the Maybach. Must be fun to ride down Main Street with the windows rolled down, right? Not really. At a curb weight of about 10,000 pounds, the Caravan is basically undrivable. There is virtually no room for a driver, and even less for a passenger. "We need more batteries, but that's all the room we have," Irving gripes. But he can at least sit in his driveway and listen to music, yes? Actually, no. Irving's audio system can't play music. It's designed to play a single frequency -- 74 Hz -- very loud. Irving, you see, is a dB drag racer. Growing sport dB (as in decibel) drag racing is an obscure but growing international "sport" in which competitors go head-to-head for two or three seconds at a time -- hence the name drag racing -- to establish whose sound system is loudest. The 2002 record, set by a German team of secretive audio engineers, was 177.6 dB. The roar of a 747 on takeoff is usually quantified at about 140 decibels, although there's really no way to correlate the wide-spectrum noise of jet engines in open air with a low-frequency pure tone inside a highly reflective enclosure. Because the decibel scale is logarithmic, with every 10 dB increase equivalent to a doubling of perceived sound (otherwise known as noise), dB drag racing enthusiasts create some seriously loud tones. (Another rule of thumb: All else being equal, every three dB of increased sound from a typical dB drag racing system requires a doubling of amplifier power.) Bolting doors shut Such noise would turn your brain to tofu if it weren't generated into uninhabited, tightly sealed space, such as the interior of a vintage Caravan. Competitors in the Extreme class bolt doors shut. Irving uses industrial jig clamps and a threaded one-inch steel rod and nut through the window for extra security. Drag racers replace windows and windshields with Plexiglas up to two inches thick, secure panels with turnbuckles fit for an America's Cup racer and, in some cases, fill the doors with concrete. Then, while the tone burst is generated, team members lie spread-eagled on the roof and push against the car from the outside to bolster it that little extra bit. One Extreme competitor in search of ultimate stiffness used an armored truck, so we can expect to see Iraq-campaign M1A1 Abrams tanks doing sonic smoky burnouts as soon as they're declared surplus. The sound that leaks out is pretty much what you hear when you inadvertently turn your home stereo on with the volume all the way up and a loose speaker wire: a rattling, destructive, marrow-fluttering hum. Speakers run like engines Literally destructive. Many teams spend the time between runs repairing blown speaker cones, which is the dB drag racing equivalent of John Force's melted pistons. "These speakers are like funny-car engines," Irving says. "Some of those cars run for three or four seconds. That's what we design these for -- very short bursts of extreme power. Run them down the road for 30 minutes playing music and they'll be useless." At the volumes dB racers run, speaker voice coil temperatures spike almost instantly, going as high as 500°F, and the sound deteriorates. At the end of each major meet, the four loudest competitors line up for the "deathmatch," a five-minute, winner-take-all face-off in which they fire sound salvos at one another as judiciously yet loudly as possible, trying to keep their speakers and power sources alive until time is up. Amid the reek of ozone and melting metal, often just one is left standing. Only heavily sponsored competitors dare play this last game, since the cost in equipment is so high. Sound trumps looks Many of the cars that performed at a dB drag racing event I attended in Toronto were sad-looking beaters, some with zoomy but faded paint jobs advertising their sponsors or owner's car-audio shop. A Super Street class Nissan Pulsar brush-painted a bilious green putted onto the judging ramp, driven by a kid sitting on a plastic milk crate. A jumble of amps, cables and batteries was barely visible through the dirty back window. Yet it blew away its bracket partner with a thunderous 158.2. "Cosmetics aren't going to make it any louder," says Extreme competitor Frankie Valenti. Valenti was frazzled, having pulled an all-nighter trying to get his GMC van's "enclosure" right. The efficacy of the whole system is largely determined by the sharp-edged, multi-faceted shape inside the van -- usually built of wood as much as 4 inches thick -- with fiberglass covering what used to be the dashboard, center console, steering column and anything else the builder figures will decrease internal volume; the point is to direct as much sound as possible at the judges' in-car microphone. Noise by trial and error The enclosure shapes are as goofy and angular as a stealth fighter's. Some work, some don't. "It's just guesswork," Irving admits. "You start with one thing and if it works, you make the airspace smaller. If that works, you make it smaller again." Says Valenti: "We could move one piece and the level might go up 10 dB, but it takes a lot of time and work. I could be sitting on a number higher than anybody, if I move that back wall forward a foot." Valenti admits he's often asked why he pursues this hugely pointless hobby. "Yeah, it's weird. But there are people who have tens of thousands of dollars invested in stamp collections, for God's sake. That to me is weird." As Troy Irving's partner, Jason Bradley, explains, "You start out with a nice stereo in your everyday car, and it grows and grows and eventually gets out of control. The sad thing is, I don't even have a stereo in my daily driver anymore," he says, laughing. "Every dime I have goes into this equipment." Hundreds of events expected How does a sport like this do in tough economic times? Just fine. There are 465 events listed in the current season. "Our competitors can't even spell recession," says dB drag racing impresario Wayne Harris. "They're young, and some of them still live at home. They put all their energy and money into their cars. They're competitive. They're at that age." Most of the teams wear sponsor-bedecked uniforms and have race-painted and decaled cars. "Pit crews" of six or eight suited-up mulletheads often tend to the cars. So it came as a shock when Jason Parsons drove onto the ramp in his clean, stock, unmarked '87 Impala and all by himself threw down a 155.8 to win his category in the Super Street class. "Yeah, I play music through the system," he tells me. "Be silly not to." What a good idea. Does he have any interest in moving up to the Extreme classes? "No, they're out after world records. That and tax write-offs for their audio shops." Ah, now I get it.

Speaking more generally (of others, and not just pianists)... For me, he's up there in Armstrong / Ellington / Parker / Miles / Trane / Ornette territory.

Jim, though I greatly repect your respect for Conn500 --- even more than that, I want to hear about all your stunts with telemarketers!!! Please, please, please - do share with the class!!!

Is anyone else (from anywhere in the country, not just Kansas City) from Organissimo going to hear Andrew Hill on Sunday in Iowa City??? I know a couple guys from AAJ who are going, but I thought I'd better post the same question here.

"By 1814 when the British burned the nation's Capitol and the Library of Congress, Jefferson had acquired the largest personal collection of books in the United States. Jefferson offered to sell his library to Congress as a replacement for the collection destroyed by the British during the War of 1812. Congress purchased Jefferson's library for $23,950 in 1815."

Since I'm a Unitarian, I picked Jefferson. Yeah, yeah - I know - he wasn't perfect by a long shot. But his 'good' far outweighed his 'bad'. For instance, he donated nearly 10,000 of his own books towards forming one of the very first university libraries in the entire United States. I don’t have my facts exactly straight on the details (like I’m guessing at the number of books), but I do know that he was instrumental in the formation of paths towards higher education in this country. I’ll nose around, get my story straight, and post more here later...