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How do you keep a tenor saxophonist busy for an hour or two?

What's it worth to you to have me to rescue your ass from the nut farm? I hear Keith's ego has been donated to Harvard Medical School. He, of course, made the call...... They are building an aircraft hangar to store it in! And I like Keith Jarrett!

Rock fan enjoying Santana, Stevie Wonder and Steely Dan starts buying Creem and Rolling Stone, then Crawdaddy, Stereo Review and High Fidelity. An article in one of the last two has a list of budget releases, and the obsessive collector in me starts to explore and covet. Nielsen's Fifth and Sibelius Seventh soon become favorites and the middle movement of Bruckner's Ninth actually rocks. Jazz is kinda happening in parallel here with Miles Davis, Keith Jarrett and Oregon discovered through Rolling Stone. Back and forth between genres ever since, unlike Bev I still enjoy simple beats and often delight in the somewhat crude. PS to answer the first two questions. Dad liked semiclassical music and light swing, Lawrence Welk was on every week and I was rather rebellious about that as the parents were quite vocal in their criticism of the rock music I loved. It took some time to be willing to listen to anything he might like. I failed on four different occasions to stick with guitar, trunpet, piano and drums and playing classical music was never one of my goals.

Alex Skolnick's stuff is fun even though I didn't know half the tunes. Always had a soft spot for Ira Sullivan's Norwegian Wood and Michael Howell's solo acoustic guitar Creepin' (Steve Wonder). And the Bad Plus do nicely by Rush's Tom Sawyer.

Be careful - the 50 free bonus downloads expire after one week.

By Mark Dresser!

Green with envy. If he got as close as Atlanta, I'd have to give it thought, but finances are low.

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I looked into helping get a stone for Larry Young's gravesite and I was told that Young and by extension, his family, did not want one. In Young's case, it might have something to do with his Muslim faith. Thanks for info.

Johnny Griffin - Change of Pace

Your mind is on vacation and your ... fingers are working overtime!

Worthy cause. Does anybody know if a similar situation with Larry Young was ever rectified?

You could always listen to Jimmy Webb. Start with Land's End and the astonishing Orbison without a voice production Just This One Time. He got what he needed out of his pipes.

No, it was way too good a song to really suck. I mildly prefer Allen Toussaint's original even though he tried a liitle to hard to hide his vocal limitations with production.

Anybody who doesn't object in principle to a touch of rock/r&b in their music has GOT to hear G-Man, either in the album of the same name or in the aforementioned Silver City compilation. Go find a 30 second sample on Amazon or Allmusic.com and play it twice. There is a strong possibility you will have to have it RIGHT NOW. We're not talking Grover or Sanborn here, just energy and simplicity and groove. The closest comparison that comes to mind for me is McCoy Tyner's Walk Spirit, Talk Spirit.

I have dipped into the Alto Rhapsody disk and the Clarinet disk so far, quite nice. About halfway through the Rubenstein/Chopin, albeit with varying levels of concentration. Glad I got both.

Not off topic. I love the piece, fully aware that there are many scoffers. Neoclassical has also been used to describe Prokofiev and is indeed a subgenre firmly within Classical Music. Elitists flame away! However neoromantic seems more accurate than neoclassical for Gorecki's third.

Funny, my first thought was Verve.

I was browsing the web and found an enthusiastic review of Johnny Guitar Watson by a jazz lover. I definitely considered his music ultracommercial when it was first released and did not check it out. But after the review a band was listed with Paul Dunmall on sax. This is precisely the situation that the acronym WTF was coined for. Sometime or other I'll have to give that a listen. It did bring to mind George Adams stay in the Fatback Band and Arthur Rhames in Slave. My mind flashes to Sonny Rollins with the Stones and I realize we''ve done this thread before. But still, Paul Dunmall was a pretty unexpected name to find there.

Art Pepper recorded a couple, Tears Inside is the one that jumps to mind first.

If you buy a CD or lp, and then research to find out if you should spend valuable listening time on it ... you too may be a shopaholic!

Warne Marsh - Red Mitchell

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I went with the DG. Also ordered the Rubenstein Chopin collection.

I won a $200 Amazon gift card in a side competition at the National Scrabble Championships and I've decided to get one of the Complete Brahms boxes. The DG has bigger names, older recordings and is a bit cheaper ($65). The Brilliant ($82 up) has 14 more CDs and at least a few works that aren't on the DG. Anybody have any thoughts on the relative merits. I already have the Szell symphonies.