White Lightning

A VERY happy birthday, Chris! May you live to see the demise of the Wyntonian spell over the Jazz world B-)

My NGO is supported in part by the NIF. You should be very proud of your contribution to the NIF. The NIF supports some VERY important Social Justice and equality projects in Israel. BTW, my wife was a law-fellow of the NIF untill recently, which is why we stayed in DC for a year

See the first (or second) paragraph of this Report of the month-by-month listing of highlights in the Israeli Non-profit sector >click here< In any case, even if you don't fully understand this achievement - trust me on this, it's a valid one... BTW, in Israel this would have belong to the Politics Forum, but here I decided not to.

This is a smokey take-no-prisoners sessions with some hilarious imitations from The Kid's side.

I can't pick a favorite one from these 3 versions: Nick Brignola - Raincheck Zoot - Warm Tenor Legrand Jazz

Another vote for Kenny Garrett. Gilad Atzmon and Daniel Zamir are close to the top of my under 50 alto players short list.

I believe that my all time favorite Tenderly version is sang by:

Ann deLorge - Ragtime

Claude Yvel - King Joe

Nicolas de Staël - Hommage à Sidney Bechet

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Shrdlu, I too find your posts in this thread offensive. As a believer you must know that practicing humility is essential. MUCH more essential than preaching it. Your "Truth" is not God's truth - it's YOURS. Don't even start to presume to know and/or understand what God thinks. As a preacher and an educator you have a much heavier responsibility considering what you preach and teach - people listen to you. Be careful! Let me conclude with the words of a great scholar and rabbi recorded in the section of the Talmud known as "Ethics of the Fathers." Avtalyon said, "Sages, watch your word, lest you be punished by exile to a place of bad waters, and lest your students, who follow after you, drink and die and, as a result, cause the name of Heaven to be profaned." (Pirkei Avot 1:11) Shalom and Shana Tova!

We were traveling in Australia at that time. On 9/11 we were camping in Daly Waters - a township of 35 people located in the middle of nowherein outback Australia. The pub there is famous worldwide. It is truly "the pub at the end of the world". We pitched out tent, watched the cockatoos and other parrots around and later that night went in the pub. There's no TV there, not even a radio station. We had no idea of the events that are unfolding elsewhere in the world. The next day we drove on, stopping before it got dark in one of the many rest areas near the highway. There were 2 Caravans (campervans) with some older folks. After the customery greetings and weather talk, we slowly began to understand from them that an awful thing had happened. They were talking about the WTC being knowckd down, as well as the Pentagon and Capitol Hill. They were talking about 30,000 casualties. It sounded unbelievable, more like one of those exaggerated tales you get to hear while in the outback. Later on, however, anotherr Caraval pulled in and he got a very poor reception on his AM radio - but reception nonetheless, and we could listen to the horrifying truth. It was hard to grasp, we couldn't get any sleep that night. We sat down all night with a Dutch couple who also pitched there tent nearby and talked about what's going to happen next and how the world is going to be like in the aftermath. The mere idea of the Manhattan skyline without the towering figures of the twins were hard to grasp. Only two days later we got to a sizable town with newspapers were we first saw the horrors. It took us another week until we finally saw the events, you all saw live on TV.

Woopy Production issued a 9CD set called "The Kenton Alumni Series", which inclused 2 sessions with Buddy Childers: One session with Carl Fontana and one with Jack Nimitz. Very tasty.

Neo/Nistico on Bee Hive is excellent!

You better watch it. Walla is an Israeli Portal. Next thing youl know some FBI guys will knock on your door...

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The ark was raptured out of the earth when Nebuchadnezzar's armies invaded Jerusalem and destroyed Solomon's Temple (where, of course, the ark was housed, in the most holy place). It is seen in Heaven in Revelation 11:19: "And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament ... " No one knows where the ark is. Ethiopian Christians are saying the ark is hidden in one of the churches in Ethiopia, brought by the queen of Sheba after her visit to King Solomon. Others believes it is hidden in the Valtican vaults (do they actually have vaults there?) Personally, I believe Harrison Ford got it.

The Rosolino stuff in Excellent!

Hmm... Let's see: Lars Gullin in Glacier Bay Nat'l Park, Alaska ------------------------------------ Jim Pepper in Juneau, Alaska more to come...

All CDs were played only once and are in excellent condition. Email or PM me for trade offers. (if you're desperate to obtain certain titles but have no trade offers, Email me as well, we'll work something out...) VME (original gatefold package, not BMG version) Dinah Washington - What a different a day makes! Billy Eckstine -In 12 great movies Eddie Costa - Guys and Dolls like vibes Jazz In Paris Series Bill Coleman - From boogie to funk Peanuts Holland/Buck Clayton/Charlie Singleton - on hold Sammy Price and Lucky Thompson - Paris Blues - on hold Lionel Hampton & his French new sound vol.1 & 2 Willie "the lion" Smith - Music on my mind Claude Bolling - Plays original piano greats Buddy Banks/Bobby Jaspar - Jazz de chambre - on hold Alain Goraguer- Go-go Goraguer Le Blue Starts/Henri Salvador - Pardon my English/Plays the blues Jazz in Cinema vol.3 Donald Byrd - Parisian Thoroughfare Donald Byrd - Byrd in Paris Harold Nicholas/Andy Bey/June Richards Rene Thomas - The real cat - on hold Bernard Peiffer - Le vie en rose The Bernard Peiffer trio - Plays standards Henri Crolla & Co - Notre ami Django Lou Bennett - Pentacoastal feeling Zoot Sims et Henri Renaud Rene Urtreger - Joue Bud Powell Slide Hamptin - Exodus Earl Hines - Paris one night stand Le Jazz Groupe de Paris - Joue Andre Hodeir Other Jazz CDs Mark Turner - Ballad session (Warner Bros.) The New Wave in Jazz (Impulse!) - in a Jewel Case Carmen McRea - Here to Stay (Decca) Leon Thomas in Berlin (Bluebird) - w/Oliver Nelson John Surman - How Many Clouds Can You See? (Deram) Bennie Wallace in Berlin (Enja)

Two other things: HaDag Nakhash is my favorite Israeli hip hop group. They are from Jerusalem, and the animosity between Jerusalemite and Tel-Avivians rappers is somewhat similar to American East Coast-West coast thing. David Grossman is one of my favorite Israeli authors. Needless to say he's from Jerusalem as well...

And here is the song itself ->>Click Here<<- (sorry for the low fi...)

Didn't know whether to place it in this forum or the politics forum, but hey, almost everything Israeli is political... Honk if You Love to Sing Bumper Stickers August 16, 2004 Honk if You Love to Sing Bumper Stickers By SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN JERUSALEM - Several days after Yitzhak Rabin was murdered in 1995 by an assassin opposed to the peace process, the Israeli author David Grossman was driving through a forest preserve just outside this city. He noticed a car stopped on the shoulder of the road and slowed to see what might be the matter. The motorist, he saw, was scraping off a bumper sticker that said, "Rabin Rotzeach'' ("Rabin is a Murderer"). At that moment Mr. Grossman, a novelist and essayist, fathomed the peculiar and intense importance of bumper stickers in Israel, where sometimes an entire car can be pasted with them, endorsing any cause from Palestinian statehood to the expulsion of Arabs to the coming of the Messiah. He began to scribble down examples, enlisted friends and family members to do the same, and ultimately collected 120 slogans, united only by their brevity and certitude. Now he has transformed 54 of those phrases into the rhyming lyrics of a song, which has been recorded by one of Israel's leading rap groups, Hadag Nachash, and become the surprise pop-music hit of the season. Radio stations play it ubiquitously, and the album containing it has topped sales charts and sold 15,000 copies in only two months, the equivalent of 750,000 in the United States. To use another American equivalent: imagine the dazzling unlikeliness of Russell Banks having collaborated with Mos Def or Chuck D on a chart topper. "Shirat Ha'Sticker'' ("The Sticker Song") is no mere novelty, however. It offers a kind of aural collage of the fractious and volatile political environment here. Over a Jamaican dub beat, the singer Sha'anan Streett chants slogans as irreconcilable as "A strong people makes peace," "No Arabs, no terror" and "Long live the king Messiah." The song's refrain, an astringent bit of double-entendre, uses a bumper sticker created by animal-rights advocates to protest the force-feeding of geese, ''Kama roa efshar livloa'' ("How much evil can we swallow?"). In the hands of Mr. Grossman and Hadag Nachash, the words speak to the almost unbearable passion of political debate here, which, as with Rabin's killing, can shift from verbal violence into the lethal sort. ''When I had my list of stickers, I realized it's like a capsule of Israeliness, all the brutality and aggression and the need to get out of this situation,'' said Mr. Grossman, who is best known for magical-realistic novels like ''See Under: Love'' and volumes of left-of-center political essays, including last year's ''Death as a Way of Life.'' ''The more the dead end of the situation grows, the more frustrated people become with their inability to influence it,'' he continued, in a telephone interview. "Few people on the left or the right are satisfied. And the more they are frustrated, the more they are extremists, the more bumper stickers they have on the car. Sometimes you stop behind a car that looks like a shouting demonstration.'' Gadi Taub, one of Israel's leading cultural critics and public intellectuals, put Mr. Grossman's experience into a larger context. ''Israel is such a small place that taking a political position is like declaring the very core of your identity,'' he said. ''For many years it was unthinkable for Israelis that if you're a Likud voter you could marry someone from Labor. It would be a battle over every dinner and every breakfast. So your car, too, will declare your identity. You don't think you can even make friends across bumper stickers.'' The words of ''Shira Ha'Sticker'' convey a consistent style of political advocacy here, but the music points to a dramatic generational change. Mr. Grossman, who is 50, grew up revering Israel's great balladeers of popular song - Ehud Banai, Yehuda Poliker, Meir Ariel - whose subjects stretched from the Holocaust to the peace process to the fear of suicide bombers. The nation also produced first-rank jazz musicians like the bassist Avishai Cohen and jam bands like Sheva that fused Israeli, Arab and Indian influences. Hadag Nachash is of the emerging Israel hip-hop scene, which runs the gamut from Russian and Ethiopian immigrants' flourishing ethnic pride and causes to the right-wing nationalism of Kobi Shimoni. With a name that literally translates to Fish Serpent and also is a deft pun on a license-plate designation for a new driver (Nahag Hadash), Hadag Nachash has made its reputation with raps about Israel's domestic issues: income inequality, poverty and the demise of the welfare state in favor of free markets. Fittingly, the middle-aged Mr. Grossman heard about the band through his teenage children. ''As soon as I was rhyming the lines,'' he recalled of his initial efforts to compose the song, ''I realized it was best suited to rap. Rap has the energy and immediacy of the bumper stickers.'' So last summer he invited Mr. Streett to coffee. On his side of the generational divide, the 33-year-old musician had read only one of Mr. Grossman's 19 books, and that was a children's novel. He was stunned, then, to have the author not only hand over a sheet of lyrics but quote from memory a line from one of Hadag Nachash's singles. ''And that one didn't sell very well,'' Mr. Streett said. ''So I knew he really knew our music.'' Along with the producer Yossi Fine the seven members of Hadag Nachash created a melody that strung baritone saxophone, trombone, acoustic guitar and some Indian instrumentation over a mesmerizing beat. The result, released in June on Hadag Nachash's album ''Local Material,'' became an instant surprise hit. While singles are not sold in Israel, the CD already has proven Hadag Nachash's most commercially successful, heading toward the 20,000-unit level that brings platinum status here. "I hear people are even playing it at weddings,'' Mr. Streett said. And Mr. Grossman said his second career as pop-song lyricist could help his first, as author. ''Somebody approached me in the post office the other day,'' he recalled, ''and told me, 'My daughter said she should read your new novel because you wrote the sticker song.' ''

Just received my copy. Thanks Dan! Will give it a first spin this evening.