Joe G

Sorry, I couldn't endure this alone... http://www.glumbert.com/media/tonguetwister.html

Update: I have not had any calls (that I know of) since sending them that email.

Oh my god, Paul Gonsalves is sleeping throughout the entire tune!! That's why Jimmy Hamilton after taking his clarinet solo also has to take the tenor solo... That is wild! That cat is MF OUT COLD! He doesn't even flinch during the sudden loud ensemble hits. Amazing.

All the best! A rolling stone gathers no moss...

Most of us are enroute or will be shortly. Safe journey everyone, and I'll be keeping an eye out for you!

That's how I rate things. The past few years didn't really work out. Maybe you should stand up when you play guitar. Chicks dig that.

8-track?

Well, did you get laid?

Ron's going to be soooo sick of organissimo by the end of all this.

I wonder if twirlygirly has come back to see what she's started. Welcome to the nuthouse, in other words.

Anyone heard from Mr. Nessa lately? Wonder if he's coming down.

anything???? :rsmile: Don't assume that "twirlygirly" is that tall, pretty blond that was dancing all night long. Could be that big beefy guy that was at the bar towards the end of the night.

Sorry twirlygirly, no tapes exist of that show. You'll just have to make it to the next show to get your twirl on.

You're supposed to supply a link, bro!

Thanks for that tip. I'll try my best to be there.

Thank you, Larry.

One of the reasons that jazz WAS the popular music was that these popular people were playing it. Wynton cannot inspire that type of popularity for his music, and since he IS jazz to many people, jazz becomes less and less popular. True, but don't forget about a little thing called Rock-n-Roll. The popular music of the day is usually dance music. Bebop isn't dance music (does Charlie Parker, an addict playing hyperfast lines give most people the warm fuzzies? He's more than that, I know.), but rock was. Now it's hip-hop. Not much in the way of warm fuzzies there, either, but again, that's not the mood of the day.

Of course, those greats whom you mention go back to the age when jazz WAS the popular music. Not at all the case today.

I think the mood of the times (unless I'm totally wacko) is one of societal fragility. Books on the shelves have titles like "The Long Emergency" and "Collapse". Think of the housing bubble, which drives our economy in large part. Think of how much of the way that we run things in this country (nearly everything) is dependant on a reliably cheap source of energy, namely oil, most of which now lies under the surface of countries whose people don't like us much. Americans wonder how long we can "afford" to be in Iraq and Afghanistan, and what all this plus those soaring budget and trade deficits means for our financial future. If gas goes to over $5 per gallon, how many bands are going to be able to tour? And we don't have the option of taking the train. If we have to endure rolling black/brownouts, how do you put on a concert? How will Monday Michiru fire up her drum program? Somedays it feels like we're on the edge of an abyss... So I pick up my guitar and play, just like yesterday, and that's one of the things I do to lift my spirits. Other people who happen to be listening to the music my friends and I make seem to be uplifted, too. Well, I don't know what to say to that, speaking as a practicing and performing guitarist and tune maker-upper. If I'm not playing Music of the Future that Synthesizes the Past and Speaks to the NOW, am I just wasting my time, entertaining some little "cult"? Joseph Campbell believed that our society is moving far to rapidly too have any sort of a stable mythology, and I think we can see that in the arts as well. Stylistic change is so rapid that it leaves one breathless, but still, we can play Bach, can't we? But then sometimes I scratch my head when I see a young guy in a suit playing an archtop backing up a crooner. No names, please. Not sure what my point is here, just kind of thinking out loud. Sometimes looking at the long road ahead makes it difficult to do the work in front of us. And that work, on a good day, means finding ways to play, and vehicles in which to employ those ways, that really excite me. And that is not always easy, sitting here in this "terminal moraine" of world culture, teetering on the abyss.

That's a great review for a very nice album. "Snowfall" is gorgeous; one of those tunes that I tend to put on repeat because I don't want to leave that space.

I'm still pondering Sangrey's analogies... :rsly:

p.s., I refuse to capitalize the abbreviation "tv".

I remember seeing that when it first aired. 12-strings are ridiculously hard to play that way.

His book "The Third Ear" is interesting. I've seen some of this footage before, in that Miles documentary that came out in the 90's. Nice to have it here unbroken by a narrator.

Samuel Smith is my favorite beer right now. That's not saying all that much; I drink about 3 beers a month! I just cracked open the negra modelo that was in the fridge. Not too bad with the rice and lentils I'm eating.