BeBop

As I think more about quoting, I feel like there are quotes inserted with a pair of tweezers (good) and quotes inserted with a sledge hammer (not so good). There are spontaneous quotes and quotes planned out well in advance. There are sly quotes and no-brainer quotes (Whispering on Groovin' High or What is This Thing on Hot House - hope I got those derivatives correct). Okay, I'm rambling. Shut up, BeBop.

Like so many things, the practice of quoting has lost its appeal to me over the years - both as I've aged, and as the practice has become more used (in the cumulative sense: the first quote probably would have struck me as clever; by the five millionth...) One example sticks out in my mind (though I don't have the recording here to provide details) is that of the Gerry Mulligan Concert Jazz Band at the Village Vanguard (part of the Mosaic set, methinks, though I still inhabit vinyl world) with Mulligan and Clark Terry trading quotes of mostly geographical theme (Chicago, Way Down Yonder in New Orleans, Indiana, Broadway...) on Blueport, I think it was. (Sorry for the sketchiness on all of this.) Cute, if not planned in advance. Well executed at tempo.

Can anyone help with Vol 2?

I collect saxophone reeds that play well. So far, I don't have any.

Wonderful Cat. One of the nicest guys I ever had the pleasure to know. And a guy I thought would go on forever, even when his health was failing. RIP, Vernon.

Cecil McBee – site plus three forum sales = specific jurisdiction Cecil McBee, plaintiff, is a jazz musician who lives in Maine and has played in Japan. Defendant is a Japanese company. Jazz is popular in Japan, so popular, apparently, that defendant is able to maintain retail shops throughout Japan called “Cecil McBee” that sell a line of women’s clothing called “Cecil McBee.” Defendant operates a website at http://www.cecilmcbee.net that enables “the exchange of information although not accepting orders directly, and enabl[es] the viewer to purchase products from any one of many stores listed on the site.” Although the site’s homepage contains the English phrase “Cecil McBee” in emphatic lettering, the site’s content is written primarily in Japanese. Defendant has (somehow) made three sales to Maine residents and shipped the goods sold to Maine. Magistrate Judge Cohen held these contacts sufficient to exercise specific jurisdiction under the Constitution. In doing so, he applied the “sliding scale” test, found that defendant’s website was neither active nor interactive, and opined that courts usually apply the sliding scale test to determine whether general jurisdiction exists. Judge Cohen also cited a 1997 case, DEC v. Alta Vista for the proposition that “when a website that itself used the trademark in dispute would plainly attract residents of the forum state and the owner of the website knows that the plaintiff is located in that state, the purposeful availment prong of the test is met.”

Check it out: http://www.delica.jp/brand/brand05.html

Cecil McBee Discovers He Is a Chain The Cecil McBee clothing chain has become the vanguard of a current Japanese fashion craze called "erogance" -- a melding of "erotic" and "elegant" styles. An American jazz musician says the stores have cost him bookings and damaged his career. Unfortunately, the article is only online for subscribers. In summary, the article is about having his name appropriated by some Japanese fashion stores. I saw the same article (virtually) somewhere else not too long ago.

Can't find track listings for these two CDs. Would appreciate any help. Don't need dates or personnel...I don't think I do anyway

Steve Reynolds. How 'bout that. Welcome. Just curious, what's 90% tenor? (10% playing something else? 10% not playing at all? Some Roland Kirk invention?) Personally, I play about 28% tenor.

Jazz, tubes and vinyl (and conrad-johnson) are always welcome 'round here! I'm enjoying my last day in the States with my PV2-Ar, MV75A, Sota Star Sapphire, three boxes of Franklin Mint recordings (Saxophone Stylists, Cool Jazz, Ellington) and a tall heap of individual LPs. This will have to hold me until April. Anyway, WELCOME!

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I respectfully withdraw whatever question or comment prompted the conversation to turn to Mr. W. Marsalis. Define 'swing', I suppose? I didn't catch the PBS series on jazz with the aforementioned Mr. M, but, based on comments I've read, I suspect this definition may have been a big part of his 'contributions'.

By the way, would anyone care to attempt a defintion?

When I was growing up with jazz, we often spoke of swing. In fact, we probably spoke of this jazz element more than any other. At the time, we debated whether it was an essential element of jazz and we debated who swung and who didn't. (Cecil Taylor? Albert Ayler? Paul Quinichette?) I hang out on these board from time to time, and try to catch a representative sample of the threads (excepting Politics). I don't see much about the fundamental question: does it swing? So, who swings? Clark Terry? Harry Edison? Zoot Sims? What swings? The Basie Band? And is it essential?

Are you a secret agent? B-) Peace Corps would be closer...

<<Bebop -- I can't imagine travelling anywhere without my MP3 (hard drive) player, and a good pair of noise cancelling headphones>> Unfortunately, where I go, I can't carry anything of value, even if I'm willing to surrender it to would-be theives or customs/immigration officials. Things of value just attract too much attention when one is 'off the beaten path'. Rental car? No such thing in my neck of the woods. Hopefully, things will change one day...someday before I retire. For now, I get my kicks from hearing the music of the world, performed on the world stage.

Ah, the quintessenttial question of my life. I've got a heap of recordings (somewhere in the five figures), but travel 365 days a year WITHOUT ANY OF THEM. They are stored near an airport that I use as a hub. When I pass through town on an overnight - never longer - I'll snatch a few from storage and take them back to my hotel. But I seldom manage to listen to more than three or four before I have to return them before my flight out. I hope like heck there's no one else out there in my situation.

Tempting, tempting, tempting...

Enough that I quit buying years ago.

Amen. One of my favorite recordings. I should add, 'at least in its Time/Bainbridge incarnation.

All this money spent designing new nickels. Well, at least it's not on my dime.

Actually, a few interesting things... Lee Morgan - Live at the Lighthouse Freddie Redd - Redd's Blues (Conn) Kenny Burrell - Blue Lights Chick Corea - "IS Sessions" Freddie Hubbard - Night of the Cookers (RVG) didn't this just come out?

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