B. Clugston

The most memorable for me were Sun Ra, Elvis Costello stopping mid-song, and Linda Ronstadt and Phoebe Snow duetting on "The Shoop Shoop Song." There were a lot of great Paul Simon moments. Like the Rolling Stones appearance in 1978 as well. I remember seeing Jarrett doing his contortion thing. Miles Davis was disappointing since I had recently gotten into Bitches Brew. That telecast was the determining factor in me not seeing Davis play live a few years later. As a result, I missed the infamous booting Wynton Marsalis off the stage moment. I thought a lot of the '80s guests were spotty (Loverboy?!), but in 1988 there were good back-to-back episodes with Trent Terrence D'Arby and Robbie Robertson.

Coming in April 2008 ESP 1006 ORNETTE COLEMAN, Town Hall 1962 ESP 1016 ALBERT AYLER, DON CHERRY, JOHN TCHICAI, GARY PEACOCK, SONNY MURRAY, Eye and Ear Control ESP 1052 JAMES ZITRO, Zitro ESP 3013 FRANK LOWE, Black Beings ESP 4043 DON CHERRY, Live At Cafe Montmartre 1966, Volume Two ESP 4044 YUGANAUT, This Musicship I wish the full Town Hall concert would come out at some point. I believe Ornette has the tapes. They were originally slugged as two Blue Note lps.

That "Perdido" solo is incredible.

My favourite as well. A bit of kitch factor for sure (and a bit of a quiche factor) but some great playing. Love that baritone! I know there's better Kirk, but I spin this one the most.

I like Now as well. Cirrus is also a good one.

Wow, a major label is still reissuing ?!

"Sir" Paul needs more money to throw at Heather.

I saw Ornette play in Vancouver on Sunday. Great show. Interesting band with the two electric bassists and one acoustic. Tony Falanga cleary harkens back to the David Izenson days with his arco playing, while Al MacDowell, who was mostly playing high notes, brought a Prime Time feel to the group. Charnett Moffett was the real wild card: Prime Time always struck me as too cerebral in its funkiness, but Moffett brought a downhome funkiness to the concert, something that Denardo picked up on. Due to Moffett's electric presence, the band sounded a lot different that the live boots I've heard from the past two years. Not to say it was a funkfest--Falanga played a major role, particularly on the dirges where he would often state the theme. Ornette himself sounded no different than he did 40 years ago, but he seemed a little lost mid-concert and didn't play much in a couple of pieces and sounded like he was playing a different composition in others. Falanga was helping him sorting out sheet music at times. He was quickly back in form however and sounded like John Zorn during Turnaround, puncuating the head (played by Falanga) with wild squawks.

I don't find it a knockout set, but worth it for the excellent Reflectativity. I've grown to really dig the solo Creative Music 1 over the years. If you like Smith, buy it.

My local Virgin closed down about two years ago. It was overpriced, but had a decent jazz selection and also had an interesting book section. HMV took over and jacked up the prices and got rid of the books.

Farrell plays all that and more on Andrew Hill's Passing Ships, including English horn. Gil Melle is another who switched from tenor to baritone during his Blue Note phase.

That announcer drives me crazy. I've got a Paris concert from 1973, where a couple of announcers pull the same stunt. Plus ca change...

Evan Parker plays baritone sax on Steve Lacy's Saxophone Special.

Does it swing?

DS9 was always too Knots Landing in space for me.

My favourites from the original series: In "Turnabout Intruder," Dr. Janice Lester takes over Kirk's body. Once aboard the Enterprise, we see Kirk/Lester filing his nails! "The Enemy Within," when Kirk gets split in the transporter. Every second scene is a riot from Evil Kirk's sudden turn to the camera in his first interaction with the transporter tech to the hand that thrusts out to "Stop pretending" to "Saurian brandy!" I agree the first two seasons of The Next Generation were poor. Things picked up once Riker got his beard and Dr. Crusher returned with a better dye job.

Interesting. The McDonalds of coffee meets the McDonalds of smooth jazz.

It's not bad. Not all that easy to find. I'm glad I own it, though it wouldn't be in my top 15 favourite Braxton duet albums. (Not a slight considering how many duet albums he's done.)

Age isn't necessarily a factor. The expression "political whore" has been around for a long time.

Looks like a bass sax.

Definitelynot Braxton. No cardigan.

Chuck is correct. Braxton held 60th birthday concerts in 2005. I don't believe he started using the contrabass sax until the mid-1970s. The first recorded documentation is in 1976. Braxton did play the Lighthouse with Circle in the early 1970s.

RIP. Space: 1999 just wasn't the same without him, though I think he was glad to get out before Fred Freiberger hacked his way through the show.

Winter & Winter has the Mystery Sonatas and Passacaglia for Solo Violin with violinist Marianne Rônez plus Arno Jochem [viola da gamba, baroque cello], Michael Freimuth [theorbo] and Ernst Kubitschek [organ]. I like it, but not having heard the other recordings, I can't tell you how it stacks up.

Amazon lists Big Band with the 2 CD track titles, though that may not mean anything. Wasn't there a 1 CD issue of Big Band and Quartet at one point?