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Whoa - when did Trilok go grey and shave his moustache? I was wondering about that too.

Mahavishnu was a huge influence on my teen listening habits.

I thought it was called sheep cake. Maybe I do have something wrong with my hearing... .

My interest here is Jan Hammer, of all people. I really like his pre-Miami Vice Moog and all these obscure albums keep popping up. And Jack Bruce too.

Oh yeah...I'm Elmer J Fudd, millionaire. I own a mansion and a yacht. But I don't feel like I have to let everybody know.... Still celebrating that birthday?

It's about the same, except in NYC, we don't have anybody to tuck us in. .

Yeah...mysterious terms, no relating all those patterns to harmony. Maybe I'll try to get into it again this year, my reading is better these days.

I've had the Lateef book for years, I worked on it a bit. It seems like he was really influenced by Vincent Persichettis Twentieth Century Harmony: Creative Aspects and Practice.

Maybe he'll have Wynton on the show and share his thoughts.

Just curious to see if anyone got anywhere with it. Part of it's legendary status is how folks barely got into it.

Is there anybody here who has any experience with this?

The potential is still there.

Or like those clocks I took apart when I was a kid and had spare parts left over after I put them back together.

Cool. It's a slick lookin' gtr. I expect a full product review!

Pulitzer Prizes, 2008 (III) .

That's when I picked mine up. Amazing, isn't it? .

Man, I've never heard of this one: Charlie Mariano: soprano saxophone (5-7), alto saxophone (1, 4), flute (3), nagaswaram (2); Zbigniew Seifert: violin; Jan Hammer: acoustic and electric piano, Moog synthesizer; Jack Bruce: bass; John Marshall: drums; Nippy Noya: percussion. 2008 Re-release on cd for the first time. Originally issued in 1976. A standout electric jazz/rock album, "Helen 12 Trees" have been issued for the first time on CD . The lineup features Mahavishnu Orchestra/Jeff Beck Keyboardist Jan Hammer, the brillaint Jack Bruce on bass, Soft Machine Drummer John Marshall on drums along with Polish violinist Zbigniew Seifert. The compostions are energetic and complex and Marianos encompasses boisterous jazz rock to majestic Indian tradition. [The CD reissue by SPV is a 24-bit remaster done in Japan from the source tapes. It is beautifully packaged in a gatefold facsimile cover of the LP, with full liner notes in English and German, and the black CD is encased in a lined sleeve. The entire package is house in a heavy-paper outer sleeve (that also contains original art work) to protect it. It not only sounds wonderful, but it also looks great. The best thing besides the music is that its cost is totally manageable for ardent CD buyers.]

April 11, 2008 Ferguson Tops O'Brien for First Time By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 7:45 a.m. ET NEW YORK (AP) -- Recently sworn-in U.S. citizen Craig Ferguson is being embraced by his new countrymen: The late-night comic hit a ratings milestone last week with his first victory over NBC's Conan O'Brien. The CBS ''Late Late Show'' averaged more viewers than O'Brien's ''Late Night'' (1.88 million to 1.77 million) for the first week during which they each competed with all-original shows since Ferguson started in January 2005. It caps a slow and steady climb for Ferguson and raises a red flag for future ''Tonight'' show host O'Brien, although NBC says it is still happy with O'Brien's audience. ''He's getting looser and looser all the time and for the last few months it's clear that he's having such a good time that you can't resist it as a viewer,'' said veteran late-night hand Peter Lassally, Ferguson's executive producer. Ferguson, a Scotsman, passed an American citizenship test and was formally sworn in on Feb. 1. He'll be host of the annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington later this month, a high-profile gig for a comic. Although Ferguson had slowly become more competitive with O'Brien in the ratings, the writers strike was crucial to the surge, said producer Michael Naidus. ''It was a tough thing but for us it just let us play with the show in a looser way,'' Naidus said. ''We threw out everything and now just have our writers doing a comedy show.'' The strike also put a brighter spotlight on late-night programming and Ferguson benefited from the attention, with correspondents from newspapers and magazines writing flattering stories about him, Naidus said. NBC acknowledged Ferguson's victory but noted O'Brien -- the designated successor to Jay Leno when Leno steps down next year -- still led among viewers aged 18-49, the youthful demographic the network bases its advertising sales on. Among the younger half of that demographic, O'Brien gets more viewers than David Letterman, NBC said. NBC also noted that CBS got a boost by having all-original shows at the 10 p.m. hour last week, possibly increasing its audience in late-night, while NBC was still in reruns.

It makes Keanu seem human. .

It's a neat idea and it has potential. I wonder what the latency is, the time between the "pluck" trigger and the sound. .

probably more interesting to play a real harp or guitar or somethin'. .

I remember filling in the gaps in my late Coltrane vinyl collection in '89 or '90. Someone died and they bought this massive collection of free jazz. .

They put up these shelves a few years ago. The light reflects off the cases and make it impossible to read the titles. .

I used to go there at least once, if not more, a week. Now I'm lucky if I get there once or twice a year. They used to have a nice selection of late 20th century & contemporary modern classical, but it's really dwindled with the decline in CD sales. I picked up a lot of vinyl there when it was cheap... .

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