Jim Alfredson

Stay away from FM transmitters. They work on the assumption that you can find a "free" channel on your radio in order to receive the signal. In a major metropolitan area like Philly, that would be impossible. It's impossible here in Lansing. Tape adapters work great, just don't run the volume of the iPod at maximum because you'll distort the poor little repro head in the adapter. It won't hurt it, it will just sound bad. Set the volume down a few clicks.

Did they happen to capture the guy kicking your front door in?

Assless chaps.

Anybody notice?

MG, Next time, start your computer in safe mode (press F8 when the Windows load screen comes up and select Safe-Mode from the resulting menu), and then run a scan from there. Many times AVG and other virus softwares cannot find the virus because the virus loads itself when the computer is booted and then makes itself invisible to the software. Booting in safe-mode will only load the bare essentials for the computer to run (not the virus) and if you scan in safe-mode, AVG will find things that it doesn't in normal mode. Make sense? Also, you mentioned before that your wife was doing a lot of research. She was probably going to a lot of sites, some of which might be a little suspect. Make sure you keep Windows up to date, as well as your virus software.

Musically, I'd like to play more places in the world. I'd also like to do a few solo releases at some point, both in the jazz world and outside of it. And of course more stuff with organissimo; I feel like we've only touched the very tip of what we're capable of. With my family, I worry every day whether I'm setting a good example for my children, whether they are growing up happy. I have a lot of fond memories from my childhood. I also have some pretty bad ones. And I'm only now (now that both my parents are gone) finding out about some things behind the scenes. Then again, I have always been up inside my own head... I miss a lot of things because I'm constantly thinking of wacky shit, not paying attention to the world outside. It's actually something I've worked hard on since I've been married. So it's no surprise I didn't see a lot of the undercurrents that were going on in the family when I was a kid. Anyway, despite all that, I look to both my parents with extreme reverence and love and I hope that my children will think of me the same way. I hope that I can instill in them the kind of positive values that my parents did in me: Freedom of thought, individuality, honesty, and personal integrity. Zora is so damn smart, I'm a bit worried for her. It's not easy being bright and creative in the public school system. And finally, I am really enjoying the work of a piano technician and I would like to be able to take my skills up to, and perhaps even past, that of my father. That's going to be a tough one.

Nope, we've never had a review in DB before.

3 weeks at #1. If anyone gets their Dec. issue of Downbeat in the next few weeks, look for the review of Groovadelphia. We haven't seen it yet. Hope it's good!

What is wrong with Nancy Regan's noggin? Good Lord, it's bigger than Stallone's!!!

To play devil's advocate, I didn't read anything malicious in marcello's post, rather an explanation of his opinion. Aggie, I might point out, is still considering going to the gig anyway, so marcello's opinion obviously didn't matter much. Are we above criticism? Just asking.

Everybody needs to make a living.

I have talked (emailed) CDBaby about this in the past and Derek's reply was basically that eMusic is out to lunch on most of the stuff CDBaby sends them. In other news, I just found this review of Groovadelphia on All Music Guide: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&a...10:kxftxzqkldse

I think we're on last.fm too. I don't know how much either pays per play. It ain't much.

I think they may also be in the Guinness Book for "Gayest Album Art".

Come see organissimo instead!

Go to pandora.com, type in organissimo, and get your organ-groove on!

Happy Birthday, Mr. Albertson from Mr. Alfredson.

Well, unfortunately it's not up to me whether our albums are on there or not. They are submitted by CDBaby. Both our previous albums were submitted to eMusic and they (eMusic) never put them up. I don't know why. I guess that doesn't bode well for the new one, either.

There are a few flubs here and there but the main reason that take did not make the cut was because the ending was considered too long. As it stands, that track doesn't and didn't get a lot of airplay due to the length (we split up the Intro and the main tune to try to help with that). Frankly, I think it's ridiculous that (some) jazz radio stations won't play tunes longer than 7 minutes or so. Anyway, one day perhaps we'll release the track, mixed and mastered and sounding spiffy.

It was delivered to them last month; I don't know how long it takes for them to add it to the library.

Supposedly Groovadelphia was submitted to eMusic. Can someone with an account there confirm?

I think you've hit the nail on the head... old chum.

No, but it appears they are cutting the jazz programing to one smooth jazz station and one traditional station. No place for modern stuff, like us (aka, Planet Jazz and Beyond Jazz).