BeBop

Happy 93rd, YusefLateef.

Your comment inspired me to peek at a map. You look like you're really close to my cousin in Ontario...until I check and see it's still almost 200km (120 mi). just not a lot in between;

No damn way. I'd chatted with Grant a couple of times at the produce market where I shop when visiting my dad and sister. Certainly don't need any propaganda now.

Enjoy your birthday!

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A little birthday present for yourself?

Ah, love notes from one's wife. What could be better on a birthday? I hope it's a great one!

Happy birthday, 2013

Q. I travel perpetually and have access to my recorded music (aside from what's on my MP3 players) only once a year, for four days. That happens to be at the holidays, when life is hectic and noisy. I'd be hard-pressed to recall or judge music heard only under these circumstances.

I've got all the LAJI recordings. I wish I could provide qualitative comments, but I haven't heard them in too long, and, when I did, it was under sub-optimal conditions.

Happy Birthday, Brad!

All the best for your birthday!

Happy Birthday! Make it great.

I really don't understand all the warnings. Hopefully they won't weigh heavily on decisions and choices. Stuff happens, mainly to fools (occasionally to the unlucky). You're not a fool. So go, have a helluva time. Celebrate something truly worth celebrating.

Couldn't make Monday at the Vanguard. Kind of a shame: I've seen many variations on the Monday shows over the decades. Measure, at Langham Place, was new to me. Defintely a good time - not too stuffy or elegant for an old vagrant like me. And who'd have thought ol' BeBop would dig a Bud Powell festival presentation? Bouncin' with Bud, for sure. Thanks for the tip.

You believe there aren't grounds for imprisonment?

Sorry, I had trouble posting even a link from my mobile. All I wanted to do is make you aware of this widely available CD (part of an AFRS series). I wouldn't pay that much either. Mine was under US$10.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Best-Afrs-Jubilee-Vol/dp/B00000B1SC ?

Anyone going? Jazz Museum in Harlem, September 26th Harlem Speaks Special Event: Kansas City Comes to Harlem: An Evening with Stanley Crouch and Charlie Parker 7:00 – 8:30pm Location: MIST Harlem (46 West 116th Street) Donation Suggested | For more information: 212-348-8300 Cultural critic, drummer, and MacArthur Genius Award recipient Stanley Crouch has been one of the most outspoken, influential and challenging presences in American culture for over 30 years. His books, essays, newspaper/magazine articles have inspired impassioned discussion and exerted an immense influence, particularly in the sphere of jazz. Crouch's three-decades plus opus on Charlie Parker has been a legendary work-in-progress until now, and we are honored to present an evening with Mr. Crouch as he shares the historic publication of this major work - Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker - of Americana with NJMH and our extended family (that's YOU!). Please join us for what will surely be an evening to remember. "With the straight-ahead timing and the ethereal blowing of a great jazzman, Crouch delivers a scorching set in this first of two volumes of his biography of Charlie "Yardbird" Parker, capturing the downbeats and the up-tempo moments of the great saxophonist's life and music." -Publishers Weekly July 29, 2013

I hope it's a great day. Heck, I hope it's a great YEAR.

Your choice of the word "skepticism" is perfect. Your site may prove to be great, and I wish you much success with it, including for the benefits it may provide jazz. But I'll wait and see. Again, good luck.

With a handle like "Bebop", I suppose it would be predctible to pick the Parker Benedetti, but, for me, nothing matches the joy of Django. Sure, the materal is available (most of it) widely. But this is a nice presentation.

Doesn't interest me. No looking around without registering and providing too much personal information. As site developer, I understand you may be excited (or something), but, based on one self-promoting message here, you don't have a lot of credibility in the bank to "sell" based on your excitement. Hey, it may BE a great site. But if I can't look and don't have the endorsement of someone I know/trust, I'm not giving you my personal information. Or my time.

I've checked the usual sources: gothamjazz, club websites, NY Jazz Report, the two free magazines (whatever they're called now - Jazz Inside? NYC Jazz Record)... Anything cool I might miss? Concert by an Organissimo board member? Lecture or panel discussion? These sorts of things interest me a whole lot more than whatever's going on at Birdland or JALC.

Last week in DC (actually Arlington, VA), I saw a listing for an upcoming concert. I'm scheduled to be in Dallas then, but I wish I could be there. HAven't seen the band play (aside from Jim with Janiva a couple of times) in years.