Jim Alfredson

Happy V.D. to everyone. I heard a cute thing on A Prairie Home Companion on my way home from northern Michigan yesterday afternoon. Keilor was talking about his seven year old daughter and how any father with a young daughter gets to play the role of her valentine until she's about 10 or 11. And then she finds someone else. And then you die. I'm looking forward to being Zora's Valentine!

That, believe it or not, was Billy Preston. Billy was there? Damn, I missed it.... he is so bad it's ridiculous.

I take it our own Phil Kelly didn't win?

Yes, that's the one. I need to get a copy of that myself. A buddy of mine showed it to me awhile ago.

We booked it. We were just waiting to hear from my mother-in-law to make sure she could take care of Zora while we're gone. All's well. We'll be staying at the Park Central hotel, close to Central Park (imagine that). I wanna go to the Metropolitan Museum myself. My wife has been to NYC before, so I'm sure she'll be the tour guide. I've never been. I hope LeDonne is at Smoke on Tuesday, although seeing Scone would be cool, too!!

My wife really wants to see the Christo exhibit, so we're this close to booking a flight and leaving on Tuesday morning for a Thursday afternoon return (I have gigs Friday and Saturday). Not much time, but enough for a quick little post-Valentine getaway, just the two of us. I see that Smoke has "organ night" on Tuesdays, so that will be cool. Who's playing Wednesday night? And who wants to do lunch?

All right, so my wife and I are seriously thinking about flying into NYC this Tuesday to see this, since she loves Christo and we deserve a little mini-vacation. Who wants to hang?

Yup, and I was just thinking of this configuration the other day -- while listening to the Larry Young Mosaic. Have there been any organ and drums dates?? No other instruments, just those two, with enough material for an entire LP. Since organists are their own bass-players (or at least most of them should be), it makes perfect sense to me. I've been thinking about it recently. Joe's recently been working on a solo project, and I've been thinking about something of my own.

what tha faaa.....HOW DO I GET THIS!!!!! Same here. Been search since I came across this today. Hopefully it still exists somewhere. JOS Organist: Closest we can get --- Now playing: WKCR - Columbia University Is there SERIOUSLY any way of finding this. It's GOT to be out there somewhere. Any ideas?! What's with the "wild cock" thing? Mike, have you seen the trio's appearance on the old Jazz Hour show? It's floating around on VHS... it's Jimmy Smith, Don Bailey, and Quentin Warren. Cool to see them in the flesh, jammin' away.

I got the Mel Brown disc right before heading up north for my three day gig. It's a fun, funky set with some great playing all around. Them cats can play!

It's called vision. I guess some people just don't get it. I think it's beautiful.

Come on over. I'd love to mess with your mind. We definitely need to hang soon.

There's a hilarious video floating around the internet of some dude on the HSN hawking these cheap swords. They are real swords, real metal, but really cheap. He's saying all this stuff about how great they are, stainless steel, strong, stay sharp forever, and all this stuff, and he starts whacking the sword broadside on the table. All of a sudden, the blade cracks in half and flies right into him and stabs him in the stomach! He falls behind the table, so you can't see him, but you just here him saying, "Oh man... oh man.... it got me. Oh that hurts.... guys? Oh, that hurts. It really got me." Classic.

That's because you're a frickin' moronic donkey-ass jerkwad.

I got to the one with the injured or possibly dead baby in Russia and had to stop. I can't look at that stuff.

Maybe everyone has cabin fever.

I haven't noticed anything particularily bad. Seems to me the normal animosities are all here, but that's nothing new.

Wow. Don't really know what to say. He was extremely.... um... complicated.

I'm playing up in Petosky this weekend and for my 3+ drive up here I listened to all Jimmy Smith. I dug out some gems that I hadn't heard in a while, including: Live at the Keystone with Eddie Harris The Boss Second Coming And the ol' standards: Midnight Special Mosaic Box The Sermon Last night for the first set, we let the bassist and vocalist in my R&B band sit down and we played all Jimmy Smith tunes as a trio.... organ, guitar, and drums. It was a lot of fun and I don't think anybody in the audience liked it, but who cares?

Re: Sangry's post... Yes. I assue Grishnatck is an obscure Tolkien character?

The only records where he was a sideman were those Don Gardner dates before he was signed to Blue Note.

I can summarize this thread in two words: Boo Hoo.

Damn. I was going to dedicate the entire first set of our gig tonight to Jimmy Smith (playing at the casino with my R&B band). In the second set, we'll have to pull out our Tyrone Davis.

I don't agree at all.

I've never heard that, but did this Lloyd fellow imitate Jimmy's grunts? If I recall correctly, they are all over that record.