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Based on the ones I met in Almaty, that'd be a "yes" and a "no".

In my case, I'd say "yes": Master of Music Online Earn your Master of Music in Music Education Online. Free Brochure. Music.KentStateOnline.com Given historical perspective, I suppose if I was going to "attend" Kent State, online would be the way to do it.

Enjoy!

I get an ad for Google AdWords. This leaves me feeling like I've entered some sort of circle.

I'd "second" these especially from the original post Dave Bailey - The Complete 1 & 2 Feet In The Gutter Sessions Joe Gordon - Introducing Joe Gordon, Lookin' Good! Jimmy Woods - Awakening!!, Conflict ...and I'd add Eddie Johnson - Indian Summer Shelly Manne - At the Blackhawk 1-5(if this one's still below yor radar)

I be late, but I be sincere when I say Happy Birthday, TonyM

News to me: They've got 'em on the left coast too, just down the street from where I'm working this week. San Jose Mercury News: Three female Vietnamese coffee shop workers cited for being topless San Jose Mercury News

HELLyeah!

Thanks, Organissimans, for giving me a pleasant retreat from 2011.

Among five "unearthed gems" - Roscoe Mitchell, Before There was Sound (Nessa) Among five reissues - Roscoe Mitchell, Complete Old/Quartet Sessions (Nessa) The same issue (January 2012) has a nice review of Von Freeman's Have No Fear

And someday, they'll look back at us, our liposuction and our Botox (Botulinum toxinis considered the most powerful neurotoxin ever discovered.)

Hey, I've got (and I enjoy) that album!

I could guess, but I'd be wrong. I'm guessing that it's someone like Hank Jones or Milt Hinton, both of whom appeared on a very high number of recordings a sidemen.

All the best!

I had a weird thing going with my travels. I seemed to cross the paths of two musicians often, and several others rarely. The two that I had many opprtunties to see were Kenny G and Sam Rivers. I took advantage of those opportunities with Sam Rivers...to the point that he actually recognized me in large crowds. I'm grateful for all his music, live or through recordings. Nice guy. (My apologies for the entirely too-loose use of the word "musician" with respect to Kenny G.)

Leeway's suggestion is good for another reason: it's a tremendous help to have a discography from which to work. In my few completist ventures, I never knew what I was seeking or when I was done.

A more serious thought: Xanadu. Some good music on those LPs. Not to many or so tough to find as to be impossible. But a challenge and an accomplishment. Or maybe Uptown. Nessa would be good if it suits your tastes, but, I'd think, harder.

Crown. (Only kidding. I collected them for years. Amazing array of titles/personnel lists, often unrelated to the actual recordings. Add in the "United Superior"s and such for a bonus.)

Actually, I think he plays Thursdays or Fridays at Smalls (NYC) with TimMcCall in a quintet.

You know Dwayne? http://www.myspace.com/clemonsbenkoquintet

Gotta be Conte Candoli from the Chase/Steeplechase concert, February 1952. ("Just Jazz")

I agree with many of the in-concert observations (Art Ensemble), and would add one that was both essential AND distracting: Rahsaan Roland Kirk.

In a sense, I feel like it's 1984-90 all over again. Stuff started coming out on CD that wasn't available on LP. I was a CD resister. (Still am, though I accept CDs grudgingly now) And today, there's all this material on DVD and youtube that won't ever find its way to CD or LP. Obviously licensing and commercial value play a role in that decision. So I can get it for free on youtube (and listen with my eyes closed, if it comes to that) or live without.

I haven't watched television, a movie, a video or really any entertainment with a visual component since the 1970s. These days, it seems like DVDs, youtube and the like are all the rage. (I did visit youtube for the first time yesterday, for a non-music video; the experience was a bit mentally disturbing - a processing problem?) I still don't have ay interest in television or movies - music is enough to fill my few "free" hours - but I am interested in how much and how it contributes to your listening experience. My own experience at concerts is certainly enhanced by the visual portion, in part because I play, and it's always been a source of learning. But I think all the "hopping around" (camera angles and positions) that I can't control (like I can my own visual attention) would be confounding. But seeing Art Blakey in the 1960s, that'd be good. Yes, I know the answer is just to go out and try some of this wealth of free material and see how I feel about it. But I'm also interested in how YOU feel about it. We did, for the most part, get by without the visuals for years. Do any of you find the visual element distracting/detracting?

Link And what of this latest "surround sound" thing?