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Best Birthday Wishes, 2012!

That time again?! Happy birthday!

Long story made short: I'd called in a membership and additional contribution in June. Aside from a credit card (over)charge, I haven't heard anything. No reply to e-mails sent to "info@..." address. Too late to dispute credit card charges. Won't be able to claim member discount if I blow through LA next week. But I would like to get something for my money.

Butterfield, Kraftwerk. Actually, I probably would have found it easier to vote for Kraftwerk in about 1978.

Agree. I guess that's the vantage point from which I started this thread. I'm non-religious. I've got a loved one dying. Prayer gives me something to do, and, as a non-religious person, I can't "do it wrong". If I was religious, though, I'd have a tough time convincing myself that my desired outcome is somehow better than whatever "God" had in mind.

Apparently Bay Area jazz station KCSM is reporting Vince Wallace's passing. Any confirmation? Also at SaxOnTheWeb forum from Tim Price. 5 October: Now also being reported on Rico Reeds blog Sad news.

Happy Birthday!

The used market provides liquidity. If buyers had to keep every record they purchased, with no possibility to re-sell, the original purchase price would be diminished considerably. Presumably, royalties would be diminished as well. I won't get into it here, but this is why there is all the recent noise about what becomes of one's iTunes library when one leaves the planet.

All the happiest!

Yep. I worked "near" (not "for" or "closely with") Sony on the CDP-101. Nothing a few years of psychotherapy couldn't mitigate.

And how's that working?

Without getting too deep into the merits of each brother (setting aside the rest of the clan), it's interesting how different the Ratio is here as opposed to in what I perceive to be the "general jazz market". My impressions of the market are skewed, of course. I'm mainly looking through used CD bins to kill a few minutes between this and that. So I'm seeing (1) what sold into the market and (2) is now being re-sold.

I was actually thinking about this Ratio because I recently broke down and bought Branford's "Mirth and Melancholy" (with Joey Calderazzo). I'm a sucker for duo recordings - tenor/piano, tenor/bass, tenor/drums. On the other hand, the duo album with Branford and Ellis, "Loved Ones" never really did it for me. I'll give this one a few listens and pass it on.

Absolutely! I've been reading the Forbes magazine with brief bios on the 400 richest Americans. (This year's list is focused on philanthropic works - no surprise there.) When I read about all the people who seemingly never go without (anything money can buy anyway), just by virtue of their luck in parents, it's amazing. This isn't a slam on the rich, per se. But the whole silver spoon thing... The lesson here, in my experience, is the harder you work, the better your "prayers" work. Sometimes. But when loved ones become terminally ill, I say my little non-denominational, non-directed "prayers".

The answer was "no".

Leader Dates Branford: 9 Wynton: 0 Ratio: Not Meaningful Sideman and Leader Dates Branford: 15 Wynton: 8 (Blakey, Joe Hen, Herbie...) Ratio: 187.5% Just messing around today.

I wonder how many people NOT on the organissimo forums pledged. Perhaps we could move the fundraising to PayPal/direct to/through Jim, if the Kickstarter thing doesn't work out.

Miles and Gil Evans, $25.98, shipped. http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B000002BDB/ref=sr_1_150_up_1_main_olp?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1348970356&sr=1-150&condition=used

How 'bout Jimmy Cobb? (born 1929) I don't know of any recordings with Bird, but, if San Francisco State University, President's Medal proclamation is to be believed, he "collaborated" with him.

New York Magazine this week.

I thought of him last week, and did the same thing, and...he's not. http://bostonjazzscene.blogspot.com/2012/04/musiciansthe-major-contributors.html JSngry, better than Google. Thanks. When's your IPO?

Truth!

I did a quick Google to no (easy) avail. Is drummer Marquis Foster still alive?

Congratulations on severing the cable, Jim. I'm certain you will be better-off both financially and spiritually. (Especially since it doesn't sound like the telly was a family gathering spot.) I gave up television, movies and videos in 1978 and never regretted it. Okay, it left me socially inept at cocktail parties, but in all other was it was a blessing. I understand that you aren't going cold turkey, but every bit helps. Just like exercise, eh?

Chuck Nessa - Proprietor of Nessa Records Chuck Nessa - the guy who posts mysterious apologies from Chuck's account.