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I just landed at SFO and will be driving across the old span in about 15 minutes. I drove across it on the day of Loma Prieta too, when a section of the top deck collapsed. But I'm fearless/foolish.

Quit posting. Let the thread (and the memory) slip back into oblivion.

I hope it's a great one!

$96 bucks. Congratulations, Jim. You're funded!

$96 bucks.

So I open this link ,and in the first two rows (12 CD's) they show CD's by Boney James, Molly Ringwald, Madeleine Peyroux, Jane Monheit, Harry Connick Jr., two different titles by The Rippingtons, and "Smooth Jazz Hits: For Lovers". Makes me not anxious to scroll through the other 10,718 titles... It's organized by "POPularity". I always go directly to the last page.

$173! Let's do it!

http://speakeasy.jazzcorner.com/speakeasy/showthread.php?31905-JazzCorner-s-forums-to-close-on-July-1 There really wasn't much going on over there lately. Like for several years. So I'm not heartbroken.

I agree, if this is more focused on the music, it would be a good complement to the Pullman book.

Someday, I'll have a '61 Avanti. Yes, please.

Since I don't smoke marijuana (or tobacco), I'm taking my pesticides "straight". Why do I feel like I'd be better off "cutting" them with pot or cigarette smoke?

Any fans of the HP12C around here? Remarkable device, continuously produced since 1981. I've got three of them, include one dating back nead the beginning. Other oldies but goodies: My Thorens TD160 and an AR turntable and some pre-production Richard Vandersteen (model 2A) speakers, from back when I was living in Goodspeak's back yard (not literally).

My main amplifier is pushing 40; my turntable is from 1978; speakers 1978. My C-Melody sax was made in 1925. (This is all academic, since all my "stuff" is in storage while I've traveled 24/7/365 for the past 15 years.) Of more modern vintage, but living in "dog years", my Creative Labs Nomad MP3 player is from 2000...and still gets regular use - bullet-proof! nomad 2000--WOW!!!! I still get 12 or so hours of listening on a charge...and the thing will keep a charge for many weeks. And it's great because all my vegan "friends" are horrified by the leather case.

My main amplifier is pushing 40; my turntable is from 1978; speakers 1978. My C-Melody sax was made in 1925. (This is all academic, since all my "stuff" is in storage while I've traveled 24/7/365 for the past 15 years.) Of more modern vintage, but living in "dog years", my Creative Labs Nomad MP3 player is from 2000...and still gets regular use - bullet-proof! I've got my grandmother's sewing machine, and some tools forged by my blacksmith great, great, great...grandfather back in the early 1800s. My paperweight is a rock.

Interesting that Patrick would hint at an Organissimo tour in the mid-Atlantic area, and become the first of three consecutive posts from members in that area.

I was reading the Peter Pullman, Bud Powell bio and it reminded me that Israels played with Bud (in addition to Bill Evans), plus with Cecil Taylor/John Coltrane in '58...George Russell. The man has been around. Yet, you look at his picture (or see him) and you wouldn't think. When I knew him - circa 1980 - he looked like he was about 32 years old. And now he looks younger than I. And a notable educator too. Chuck Israels website

I had the good fortune to study with Mr. Israels for a couple of years - way back when. A great experience. I'm in.

Maybe if you'd brought J.C. Moses along to part it...

If you can't walk on it, try turning it into wine.

There was certainly access to medical, legal, financial records far beyond anything I'd read before. And many interviews with just about everybody who was important and even remotely available after, say mid-1990s. Another thing I found interesting is the near-equal role given to Elmo Hope as a peer, along with Monk.

Wishing you a day of happy. (Whatever happy means to you.)

I've opted to post this before reading reviews already posted. Perhaps I'll have reactions to other people's "take" in a later post. Just wrapped up a four-day, sixteen-hour journey through Bud Powell’s life and music. I’m exhausted. This book is comprehensive in terms of recreating a near-day-by-day accounting for Powell. Board the Bud Train on page one and you’re on the express for 386 pages (not including a hundred more of notes). Like a train, it moves in almost purely chronological fashion. (Virtually no flashbacks or previews: “This would be the last time Powell played with…”.) The book is written for music lovers. It doesn’t get into composition, theory and analysis of the music, instead focusing on whether the outcome of a session was good, bad, disjointed, et cetera. Sessions – whether in a club or recording studio – are recapped and dissected, sometimes over the course of many pages. On the other hand, non-musical events pass in a blur. Brother Richie dies in a sentence and Mother Pearl in a footnote. I seem to recall Bird dying in there too. But these are “just the facts ma’am” events. If Bud had any reaction, one gets the feeling it isn’t covered because it can’t be documented. On the other hand, the book hints he may not have had much of a reaction to much of anything. The notion that Powell’s life was all about the next drink is certainly the theme here, more central than I recall from previous biographies, though that may be my own repression of troubling memories. Author Pullman has some eccentricities, though they didn’t bother me. He refers to everyone by last name, so “Buttercup” is Edwards; for the this took some getting used to because when I see “Edwards” I think “male” – whatever reason. He prefers the terms “afram” and “euram” in place of African-American (or some other variation) and European American; this usage grew on me. All in all, a good read unless you’re looking for a sympathetic or even humanizing treatment. (Sorry if that latter term sounds harsh.)

Apparently (I haven't gone through the list) 361 box sets on sale at ImportCDs. Multiple genres. Quick ook shows lots of Bird and Trane. Bill Evans. No much out of the mainstream. Complete Wes on Riverside for $125. Not sure if that's good price, but nice set.

Four weeks in NYC without a free moment. Now down to my last day, so I'm going - morning work be damned.

Stitt (#208) is going, going, (gone), while Mobley (#181) lingers on. (To be fair, though, Mobley was a 7500 set issue, while Stitt was just 5000)