Jim Alfredson

THE KEYTAR!!!!!!! I saw Herbie headline the 2003 Clearwater Jazz Holiday (organissimo played as well) on piano with just bass (Scott Colley) and drums (Terri-Lynn Carrington). It was phenomenal.

I have a machine I built in 2000 around an ASUS motherboard and an Athlon Thunderbird 1GHz chip. That computer is still running like a champ and it stays on pretty much 24/7. It is my office machine, used for web design and maintenance, Photoshop, Illustrator, ripping music, etc. I've replaced the power supply once and this past summer the video card died. Other than that, the damn thing just keeps going. It's extremely under-powered for most things I make it do, but I can't justify upgrading or replacing it until it finally kicks the bucket.

Very sorry to hear this. I really like the record he did for Schoolkids. I wish I had a chance to meet him.

Welcome! So MI stands for Miami and not Michigan?

"tinkling the ivories" If I read one more review (specifically of my own projects) with that phrase, I'm going to go postal. THEY DON'T EVEN USE IVORY ON PIANOS ANYMORE! AND I PLAY ORGAN!!!

Spare me.

Ours was the Ray Charles version of "Come Rain or Come Shine" with Freddie from Root Doctor singing and my good friend Duncan McMillan on organ. Just a duet. It was nice!

Briefly, the story reminded me of a similar experience I had at a restaurant gig when I was at MSU. Wycliffe Gordon was a visiting professor and came out to the gig to sit in. He called, of course, Cherokee, but he called it off as a ballad. "Whew!" I thought to myself. He played the head and solo'd at the slow tempo and then signaled for us to drop out at the end of the second chorus... ... whereupon he began playing at a blistering tempo and signaled for us to come back in at said blistering tempo! He took a few more choruses and then pointed at me to solo next. FUCK! I'm barely keeping the bassline going at that tempo! Needless to say, I think I took one or two choruses and passed the buck onto Joe, barely getting out alive (or still on the one!)

That was a really funny story. Thanks for posting!

Ah, sorry... thining of the wrong sister. Hopefully the docs caught it in time.

Sorry to hear this, Randy. Got to get her to stop smoking (unless I'm thinking of the wrong sister). According to the last paragraph, if she can change her lifestyle, she has a good chance at recovery.

I'm happiest for former Michigan State star receiver Plaxico Burress!

Can anybody stop 'Sheed when he's on? He's been putting on clinics lately.

I had Sirius in the rental car all this weekend. I gotta say, the jazz programming is just really really safe. Kinda boring.

Saw Jimmy Bruno at Chris Jazz Cafe last night and he was playing one of these: http://sadowsky.com/index.html I guess he has his own signature model: http://sadowsky.com/guitars/bruno_archtop.html

I learned quickly that when my wife says "we", she means me. For example: "We should get those dishes done before lunch," means I should do the dishes.

Sounds like a brilliant move.

I think they have something streaming from their web site. Did you meaning "steaming"?

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33664

Jim, if the harddrive does not have a physical problem you should be able to recover the data. Before you pay someone a shitload of money, go download the program GetDataBack from runtime.org for your specific harddrive format (NTFS or FAT32) and run it on the drive. The best way to do so is to put the drive in another computer as a slave and run GetDataBack from the host computer on the drive. If there is no physical problem with the drive, GetDataBack should be able to recover your data in full. Best part, you can let it scan the harddrive first and see if it finds anything before paying for it.

Good thing he wasn't drinking a bottle of this.

Make this five things I've learned: Joe is a pain in the ass.

If I may chime in, there is always two sides to the story. But if there's one thing I've learned in running a board like this for the past (almost) five years, it's that people tend to take things personally and situations can get quite dramatic very quickly. The bottom line is this: If you don't feel comfortable in one place any more, find another. Life goes on. I welcome everyone here that wants to be here.