White Lightning

R.I.P. Ms. Coltrane

Best of luck, Tom!

Happy Birthday!!

Yes, the Pagan temples are often overlooked perhaps because no single temple quite ranks as one of the 7 Wonders (magnificent as they may be.) The city of Pagan and all its temples definitely enters my top 7. Wonderous place.... Here are some pics I took in Bagan/Pagan in 2001. Bagan is an amazing place.

Congrats, Wulfman!

Every Album with Jimmy Rowles is worth having.

The Roberta Gambarini CD is a favorite of mine as well. I really like her singing, it's in the Ella-Sarah territory - Classical Female Vocals. I think we have too little of that sort of Female singers these days.

2006 was a great year for new releases. Many good to very good recordings. The ones that really caught my ear were: Kidd Jordan/Hamid Drake/William Parker - Palm of Soul Odean Pope - Locked & Loaded Andrew Hill - Time Lines Roberta Gambarini - Easy To Love

How many people can say thay've change the world? JB is one of these handful. RIP, Mr. Brown, you've earned it.

Merry Xmas to all fellow board members!!

Wow - if the ruling won't be reversed on appeal, the effect would be HUGE! Ray Manzarek must be waiting impatiently...

How about an ECM-ish recording? One of those Nordic-Teutonic albums that lacks any kind of blues or any other of the black heritage aesthetics. Maybe Terje Ripdall, Eberhard Weber etc.?

A bit off-topic: There seems to be much less trumpet players than saxists these days. If that's the case, than why? Is it "less cool" to play the trumpet these days? less gigs? Embrochure(sp?) problems?

Agreed. Here's a great one with 6(!) bari saxes and nothing more!

Very sad news. Condolences to his family and friends.

Very sad News. R.I.P.

1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a ThighMaster. 2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free. 3. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it. 4. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. Coli, and he was room-temperature Canadian beef. 5. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up. 6. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever. 7. He was as tall as a six-foot, three-inch tree. 8. The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife’s infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM machine. 9. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn’t. 10. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup. 11. From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you’re on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30. 12. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze. 13. The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease. 14. Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph. 15. They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan’s teeth. 16. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met. 17. He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant, and she was the East River. 18. Even in his last years, Granddad had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long it had rusted shut. 19. Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do. 20. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work. 21. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while. 22. He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either, but a real duck that was actually lame, maybe from stepping on a land mine or something. 23. The ballerina rose gracefully en Pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant. 24. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools. 25. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up. http://writingenglish.wordpress.com/2006/0...glish-teachers/

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OK, here are my picks. It will change right after I post it: 1. Hank Mobley – Soulstation 2. Tina Brooks – True Blue 3. Grant Green – idle moments 4. Ike Quebec, It Might As Well Be Spring 5. Joe Henderson – Inner Urge 6. Art Blakey, A Night at Birdland, Volume 1 7. Curtis Fuller - Bone & Bari 8. Leo Parker, Let Me Tell You ’Bout It 9. Dizzy Star Bright 10. J.J. Johnson – the Eminent vol.1

Malachi Thompson Rufus Harley Dewey Redman Raphe Malik Ray Barretto Jack Montrose Hamza El-Din Elton Dean Ruth Brown Rober Lockwood Jr.

Have a great year!

Happy Birthday David, and many happy returns!

Is this the one?

Some late Pepper: His Muse recordings are very good, especially "The Master". "Conjuration" w/Kenny Wheeler of all people on "Reservoir" is Excellent. "Urban Dreams" on Quicksilver is also one of my favorites.

Many of the Fred Andersons are excellent trios Kidd Jordan's new Cd - "Palm of Soul" w/William Parker & Hamid Drake is perhaps my pick for album of the year. Speaking of Sax trios with William Parker & Hamid Drake, the 2nd volume of the great Israeli Sax Player "Evolving Science" was published in 2006. The 2nd Part is as good as the 1st part Another Sax Player I always enjoy his trios is Odean Pope. I especially recommend Pope's "Ebioto" with Tyrone Brown (b), Craig McIver(d) on the knitting Factory label.