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I haven't watched TV since '78, but a few have stuck with me: Mission Impossible. Hawaii 5-0 (yeah, SS). Batman. Okay, the last one hits the list only because I bought the sheet music...complete with lyrics.

Searching around the Forum, it looks like sidewinder read it and liked it. And A Lark Ascending.

I (apprehensively) bought the Harriott biography today, by mail from the UK. Anyone read this? Perhaps I was in search of a Harriott "fix", but almost all of his albums are too expensive. ;-)

I hope it's a great one Tom!

But not THIS Naima., eh? (born 1984) Or THIS one, from my home town.

And few can match you for opportunities to find reading material in airplane seatback pockets! Thankfully, they don't sell jazz CD box sets in the SkyMall catalog.

Not the greatest Sonny Rollins article ever, but better than most stuff I find left behind in airplane seatback pockets. Pretty long feature for general interest publication. Nothing Earth shaking, though I didn't know/recall about the Mad Magazine thing. http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/sony-rollins-the-colossus-20130819

Ben Webster's "Danny Boy" I can handle; most others, not so much. My unfavorites: "Alfie" (yes, even Sonny Rollins') and "Night and Day"

I'd seen him play a few times, but spotted him one night at Kimballs, an old club in San Francisco. He was just hanging out, as near as I could tell. I was still kind of a kid. I cautiously approached: "Mr. Walton...?" "It's Cedar, just like the tree". Great, open personality. Always loved his music. I tried to express this without being totally fawning. He was impressively humble. Just an immediately likeable guy. Thanks for all you left us.

Happy Birthday, and thanks for continuing your good work.

I don't mind a video being there, but if it starts up automatically, I'm gone. I agree, JMoose, with a caveat. Don't send me to a site promising, say, news and then provide ONLY a video, without the option to read.

I'm with you on this. I gave up television, movies, video and all that in 1978. Don't ram it down my throat now. Wasn't there something like this in A Clockwork Orange? I never saw it, but on a promotional poster...

I could vote for the people I think should win, but they won't even show up in the results. Instead, I'll divert my efforts: attending a concert, kicking-in on a Kickstartr, or saying something nice about them where I think someone might hear.

I'm just starting to play, but this is nice. Link J-DISC: An Online Jazz Discography Jazz history resonates in jazz recordings. Jazz Studies Online staff is working on a project that will provide rich, reliable data on recordings that can help unlock and elucidate the stories they can tell about jazz. J-DISC will be a fully searchable online database with editing and commentary by noted jazz scholars. It will take full advantage of digital communications tools and methods to transcend the limits of current discographic sources and preserve, enhance, and provide access to discographic data for study and research. The project's initial phase, which has received generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is a test version. The final database is now accessible and usable to all Internet users at jdisc.columbia.edu. In the renewed grant phase, we are expanding contributors, developing a business plan for the long-term management of the resource, and exploring ways to handle the vast quantities of data on jazz audio using computer science methods.If you are interested in either the artists, repertoire, or research questions in the current J-DISC project, please go to the site itself at the link just provided. J-DISC builds on a tradition of collaboration and rigorous research by jazz discographers of over more than 70 years. Like the best in that tradition, the new research tool will serve as a reliable guide to who played what, where, and when. But it adds an extra dimension to research on recordings. By loading a wealth of data about jazz recordings into a single database application with the capability for string searches among many types of information, we will enable users of J-DISC to observe trends in the music as well as information about individual artists and their recordings. The advanced search function will allow students and researchers to mine the data for insights on improvisation, documentation of artists' careers, trends in jazz history, and the development of the recording industry itself. J-DISC will also account for many categories of essential information specific to jazz that libraries do not normally make use of in cataloguing their audio recordings (and which, in some cases, earlier discographies do not contain either). Information about jazz compositions, geography, performer attributes, and the production and distribution of recordings will all be available and usable within the advanced search function.

Found it! Google's compiled assumptions about me are in something called Ads Preferences. It's decided I am interested in jazz, hotels, Japanese cuisine (?), travel and a few other not too far off-the-mark topics. A little scary.

What's the name of the Google feature that lets you see Google's profile of you, built by its algorithm? I've forgotten. It's been out there a while...like well over a year. I'm a 12 year old girl who likes Powder Puff Girls and crochet, or some such thing.

Happy Birthday. SoulStream!

half.com, the eBay fixed-price affiliate has millions of them But it's just asking price. Ain't no one bought it (in the case of the Pullen/Adams).

Happy Birthday, 2013, kinuta!

Journal of Texas Music History, Vol. 4 [2004], Iss. 2, Art. 3 With roots in Texas gospel and blues, Ramey put his stamp on some of the most important music of the era, playing bass alongside such musical giants as Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Billie Holiday, Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk, and fellow Texan, Charlie Christian. Ramey had the rare ability to play two styles—swing and bebop—and, after his return to Texas in 1976, he reminisced about the role he played in the transition from one to the other.

Okay, I'm not TOTALLY confused on this one, but... Ernie Andrews vs. Ernestine Anderson.

Belated birthday best. Good luck to you and your father.

On one level, I can relate to dismissing all IPAs based on one sample. It's a distinctive style, with such prominent hops. It took me more than one sample, but I now know better than to order wits and hefeweizens and rausch beers (if I ever drink again).

Tried one and they're all crap?

The last batch of beer I ever brewed (circa 1979) was an IPA. Really a great style of beer. More hops = better beer.