Rooster_Ties

How did I vote?? - I had to put Hill on my top-5 list. I really wanted to put him at #1 (first poll choice), but often Herbie's in that top-spot for me. But I'm sure that my top-2 are always Hill and Herbie, or Herbie and Hill.

Yup, I certainly did - it seems. I was 'out of town' for a couple weeks there, and probably missed 90% of the board conversation during that time. Lesson for me is --- to do a topic search before starting a new thread...

Just curious, so I thought I’d start another odd poll. I thought I'd ask what others here thought of Hill (generally), since today I talked to a well-respected semi-pro jazz pianist here in Kansas City. And when I mentioned Andrew Hill to him - the guy said I was the first person in the last 10 years that ever mentioned Hill to him. And another younger jazz pianist friend of mine (in his late 20's) barely knew of Hill at all, other than he thought he'd heard "Point of Departure" once, maybe. And this guy (the second guy) is steeped in a ton in 20th Century classical composers, and quite a bit of various jazz-piano too. So then -- I know, I know -- Hill is obscure. But sometimes I forget how damn obscure he is, even to people who know quite a lot of modern (post 1960) jazz. But, it's hard for me to remember how obscure he is, when I hold his music in such high regard. Or, perhaps to phrase my poll question a bit differently (in a way that can’t be answered by a poll): What does Andrew Hill's music mean to you???

I've got one already, but wanted to point this one out, especially to anyone in the U.K. (where the seller is from). (All the usual disclaimers apply --- I don't know the seller, and have never done business with him before.) Note: "COMPASSION" is the only Tolliver "Stata East" title not re-released on CD in the past 5 years on Charley. The one in this auction is one of a batch of all the Tolliver "Strata East" Titles first released on CD in the late 80's and/or early 90's in Germany. In my humble opinion, "COMPASSION" is a bitch to find, and the album is 4-stars (out of 5) in my book. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...2&category=1056 (I think I paid $25 for a used one about 1 or 2 years ago, on eBay. It was the first one I had seen in well over a year of hunting for it.) CHARLES TOLLIVER (trumpet) NATHEN PAGE (guitar) -- Note: his name is often misspelled as "Nathan Page" STEVE NOVOSEL (bass) ALVIN QUEEN (drums)

Hadn't heard this before I stumbled on it today... Various obits... http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/obitua...,980434,00.html http://www.vervemusicgroup.com/buzz_d.asp?bid=184 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml...6/17/db1702.xml http://www.jazztimes.com/JazzNews/XcNewsPl...&articleid=1005 http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/inquirer/news...ies/6107848.htm R.I.P.

Thanks for the update, Bertrand. In another thread, I had proposed the name "Tomorrow is Now!!", but had more recently heard from Kevin that Andrew favored "Passing Ships". Call it anything, for all I care - I'm practically counting the days until this comes out. Can't wait to hear it!!!!

Will file a full report upon my return. Also, I plan to ask Hill a few questions after the show, if I'm lucky enough to get access to him. Among the things I'll ask is his thoughts on the upcoming "Passing Ships"/"Tomorrow is Now!!" sessions from 1969. I can't wait for October to get here!!!

Just got on the horn, and called some friends - and found a friend of a friend who's all excited about going. If anybody else wants to go too, I'm glad to drive --- but now the plan is to drive up on Sunday morning, stay in a hotel on Sunday night, and drive back to Kansas City on Monday morning. If fact, he's going to ask a buddy of his, who he thinks might want to go to. Should be fun!!

I've used Paypal for probably 50+ transactions over the past two years, with no problems. I've never been able to accept credit card payments from them, because I refuse to give them my bank account numbers. Little trick that might be good to know. When you first sign-up with their basic "free" account, they give you only a $1,000 spending limit on your credit card. Then, when you get down around $200 or so, they start bombarding you with e-mail saying that you gotta upgrade your account in order to raise your spending limit. Well, I kept spending and got all the way down to a spending limit of less than $100. Shortly after that, my spending limit suddenly was reset back to $1,000 - through no effort on my part. To this day, I still haven't upgraded my account, but I haven't burned through the 2nd "$1,000" credit limit yet, so I don't know if it will happen again. But my guess is that when you get down to less than $100, they bump it back up again - so they don't loose you as a customer. Anybody have a similar experience, by any chance???

I think "the drill" that Dan mentions will take care of that... I was out of town the last time, so maybe Dan or someone could go over the drill again???

Every once in a while, Google's "image search" function is the highlight of my day!!!

How about targeting the more middle-age set???

Could save even more by hiring just two angels...

Angels in training, with their own Bosley...

Or this trio (although they might have cost a bit more than the other examples given so far. )

Or this trio...

Or this trio...

Just think how much they could have saved if they had only hired this trio instead...

Afraid I didn't, but sounds interesting!

More contrabass sax pics...

I've seen straight alto saxes before, but never a straight tenor, until today!! (straight tenor on top, alto on bottom)

Here's a somewhat rare straight (meaning not all folded up like a bassoon) contrabass clarinet. (The one on the right)...