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  1. I've found that the middle finger and the 'OK' finger circle cover 90 percent of all situations, Sudan to San Salvador.
  2. Yeah, I had one of those. Had a two door coupe too. Not great cars - fairly reliable, but when something went wrong, it was always costly and difficult to get repaired. I suppose that, by modern standards, one wouldn't even consider them fairly reliable any more. But the coupe especially was pleasing to the eye.
  3. Heading overseas for a while. Want to pack one jazz book (knowing I won't be able to hear any jazz while traveling and knowing I won't be able to pick up a jazz book while overseas). The following books are unread on the bookshelf. Have persused the cover notes, but want to pick the best of the bunch: Bill Evans: How My Heart Sings (Pettinger) - Obviously, this has received some 'ink' here and on other boards, so I know more about this than the others. Jazz Profiles (Carver/Bernstein) - Again, a fairly widely read book. Blue Bossa: A Novel (Schneider) Bebop: The Music and Players (Owens) Forces in Motion: The Music and Thoughts of Anthony Braxton (Lock) Any thoughts?
  4. I think everyone should begin with 5,000 "posts" and have one deducted each time they post; when they reach zero, they are put out to pasture (or to stud, as the case may be). People who post abusive things or act as trolls should have 500 "posts" deducted for each such post. Man, I've been up far too long.
  5. As far as I'm concerned, as soon as you add anything, it's no longer coffee.
  6. I'm still looking for Buddy Bolden.
  7. My wife hates jazz, or at least thinks she does...I'm not convinced she's ever listened to it with anything like an open mind. It used to bug me. No more. The fact that she likes music - even Top 40 - puts her a category above much of the population. Hey, even amongst the denizens of this board, we don't all agree.
  8. $5 off $35 until 31 March. http://www.tremor.com/images/stuff/discoun...rderscoupon.jpg
  9. The 'k' key; that's the one I repeatedly jab with my middle finger.
  10. Hey, I'm a big spender. I'm headed to the Record Shack on the Uptown "A" for some of them $3 tickets.
  11. What, you never seen James Moody in concert? Great stuff.
  12. Hey dude, if I remember the "stage band" days correctly the saxes (or trumpets for that matter) weren't exactly setting the world on fire! Unless you're talking about getting whacked in the back of the head by an errant slide or sprayed by a leaky one. You don't think that happened by accident, do you? Exactly!
  13. Hey, I was a stage band saxophonist in high school. I've every reason to dislike the trombone, if not trombonists.
  14. After offering up "trombone" as my dislike, I pulled out a couple of discs featuring a couple of my favorite trombone players. Vic Dickenson and JJ Johnson. (No Frank Rosolino handy). I find myself retrenching a bit. The instrument isn't a problem. But put it in the hands of a showboater or a rank amateur and the sonic damage that can be done... Then again, just about any instrument in the wrong hands can be deadly. A tenor in mine, for example...
  15. Trombone. (No accounting for taste, eh?)
  16. organissimo.org is still my only real 'hang'. But, social butterfly/commitment phobic that I am, I signed up for BN Europe and will probably peep from time to time. Forgive me Father, for I am about to sin.
  17. Shazam! I'm part of a plague. I always wanted to be like Locust Boy. P.S. Norah who?
  18. BeBop's the name; bebop's the game. With a side order of hard bop. So what's my favorite Mosaic? Django. Don't think anyone else picked this one, and I'm not sure why. And I'm not sure why it's my favorite. On some level, it's easier to listen to (though not Easy Listening). Six discs of hard bop (with copius alternates) and my ears are bleeding. But Django and company are smooth, swingin', stylish... Some of the vocals are a drag. And the smaller the group, the more I tend to like the music. But it's all good. Check it out.
  19. My advice: Buy two Blues. As soon as they go OOP, sell one on eBay. You'll get enough to pay for the sold set, and a premium to pay the electricity bill and late fees. Problem solved. Look at it this way, if you don't buy the Blue now, next month you won't get another chance. If you don't pay the electric bill, you'll get another chance next month, and a week after that and three days later... P.S. Don't take my advice.
  20. IMO, The Turrentine is very good, the Sonny Clark is great. SACD issues with alternates worth the money! (Heck I paid more for my Time/Bainbridge CDs than they want for the re-issues.)
  21. Frankly, Phoenix was disappointing (to me) as a shopping spot. There are a couple of Towers and a Virgin (in Tempe) that inspired nothing much more than yawns. Sam Goody, Wherehouse, Borders...gadzooks. The well-known Memory Lane in Tempe wasn't much to see, but for vinyl lovers, it may be worth a trip. Zia's Record Exchange has several locations throughout the Valley; these are the best bets, IMHO. Seems like there was also a branch of one of the LA shops - Rockaway? - in Mesa. And did Record Surplus have an outlet in this area or...? So where's that leave us, a one-shop big city? Certainly it can't be as dismal as my memory would have me believe.
  22. Correct on the cockpit announcements. What I'm speaking of is air traffic control. On virtually every United flight I've taken (since 9/11, especially), the jazz channel (usually channel 9 or 13) does not broadcast jazz, but rather broadcasts plane to air traffic control radio transmissions. Continuously. I can handle a brief interruption when the pilot come on to tell me we're leveling off at 3-5-0, or the flight attendants wish to remind me how to buckle my seat belt. But do I need air traffic control communications all the way across the Atlantic? John L, don't tempt the Somalis, or the Ethiopians, or the Sudanese or the Khmer. In all likelihood, the BATTERIES in your CD player are worth more than your neck to them. Leeway: glad to hear you lucked into a flight where the jazz was broadcast. It does happen from time to time. I'll cross my fingers next time I board a United flight.
  23. A fine idea, but difficult in execution. Because I travel constantly (without checked luggage), I really can't bring along a CD and headphones and batteries and CDs. Moreover, once hitting the tarmac in (for example) Somalia, these things tend to disappear...often before even clearing immigration and customs. (I know United doesn't fly to Somalia.) Moreover, it's the principle! Don't claim to offer something and not do it.
  24. Everyone needs a cause. Here's mine. Every couple of days, I hop on a plane. 300,000 miles last year, many of them on United Airlines. United offers in-flight entertainment, including a jazz "radio" station. This month, programming includes Wynton KELLY, Louis Armstrong, Red Rodney, Vincent Herring, Abbey Lincoln, Martin Sasse Trio, Arturo Sandoval, Freddie Hubbard with Woody Shaw, Billie Holiday, Bud Powell, James Moody, Mingus Big Band, Valery Pnomarev (UA's spelling). Not bad; certainly better than the dreck on the pop "radio" channels UA also offrers. Problem is, no one will ever hear the jazz programming. The jazz channel is consistently pre-empted by "From the Cockpit", the opportunity to listen in on airline communications. Beats Bud Powell anyway, yes? I don't know who to blame. Nervous passengers who think they are going to garner some insights about the flight that will make them feel safer (...as if a real cockpit emergency wouldn't result in immediate termination/editing of the broadcast...) Some meathead at UA who personally finds cockpit broadcasts better than jazz? Just general public malaise toward jazz? Somewhere along the way, UA must be paying for the rights to broadcast, or perhaps being paid to advertise the recordings. Whatever, I'm complaining. If you fly UA and prefer jazz to air traffic control, you should too. Okay, BeBop, off the soapbox.
  25. Coincidentally, I was just listening to this CD this morning, around 2:00AM - first thing in the morning for me. It's really a solid album, worth picking up for the AOTW thing or just on general principle. Even a bit of Eddie Harris schtick, for those who never had the pleasure of catching him live...and those who did. Harris made a few questionable albums, but this ain't one. Right up there with his comedy album.
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