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Listen to catesta, he's a man of the bread these days.

I don't remember sending you my self-portrait! Oh yes. In exclusive 3-duck, even. Not every one has a portrait in 3-duck...

Yes plus video even. I never did get a copy of the video.

balance and motion.

Hell yeah...I think it's about time for the laughter meditation class.

That's what people think on the Keith Jarrett Yahoo group. It seems like every time I see David Binder on the net, he's involved in some kind of controversy, a flame war or something like this. I seem to remember inviting him over here to join in the chat a while back, but he didn't like the place then. Not up to his standards, I guessed.

But you could smuggle weed! A missed opportunity if you ask me...

Good thing he didn't run over anyones foot.

did you ever him perform with george lewis? No. George was still teaching in California at the time. I heard a bunch of solo shows (including the DMG DVD) and some duets with Rod Poole and some other local folks...I can't remember their names.

I've been listening to a bit of this while running around taking care of business. I'm glad I had the opportunity to hear him in NYC while he was still around.

Sounds like The Straight Story by David Lynch, but I don't remember anything about booze in the movie.

Er... how come you even WANTED an Australian passport? Just in case...never know when you'll need another identity.

more explanation...please.

I guess all I have is a Feldman disk. They're so cheap, I don't think it would hurt to check out others.

It's $10-12 in this part of NJ.

I read this yesterday..it made the music sound interesting, but I still can't be bothered to check it out. Maybe as a cutout...

That's laugh riot. You should be very ashamed of yourself Dan. I don't know how you can ever, ever show your face around here again... Bad dog. Bad, bad dog...go to your room. As for me...no. I haven't used one since I was a little kid and post 9/11 events dampened any chance of any travels abroad for this.

Richie Beirach - the Snow Leopard

PAT METHENY “Day Trip” (Nonesuch) The guitarist Pat Metheny has made some of his most engagingly forthright music in trios, enlisting just a bassist and a drummer for support. “Bright Size Life” (ECM), his auspicious 1976 debut, falls into this category. So do a surprisingly small handful of subsequent studio albums throughout his prolific career: roughly one per decade, each with a different trio, and each more or less a classic. It’s no small thing that “Day Trip,” his second since the turn of the century, is at least as good as any of the others. Mr. Metheny entrusts a lot of heavy lifting to the bassist Christian McBride and the drummer Antonio Sanchez, a rhythm team he has already tested on the road. (They’ll start up again in a few weeks for a tour that ends March 18 at Town Hall.) And he savors the contrast between these proficient sidemen, which might fancifully be described as the difference between earth and sea. Mr. McBride is a bedrock player, authoritative with tempos; Mr. Sanchez has a way of articulating pulse as a play of current and tide. To anyone even casually acquainted with the big-horizon sweep of the Pat Metheny Group (which also features Mr. Sanchez), what comes next is obvious: Mr. Metheny stands in for sky. Yet his playing, on the brisk near-sambas that bookend the album and virtually all that comes between, only occasionally feels diaphanous or airy. More often it conveys a sense of proportion, substance and coherence, along with rigorous clarity; solid benchmarks for any great improviser at the peak of his game. And for the first time on a trio record, Mr. Metheny includes only original compositions here. They make unpretentious sense as a whole, with foursquare ballads clearing a bit of breathing room between ebullient post-bop exertions. More than halfway through, there’s a pair of pointedly titled songs: “Is This America? (Katrina 2005),” a calm acoustic elegy, and “When We Were Free,” a waltz first heard on the Pat Metheny Group album “Quartet.” But the message takes a back seat to the music, which tenders its own rewards. NATE CHINEN, NYTimes. 1/29/2008

Way too go! I know someone who had a bit of a drinking problem (not funny) and she hurt a few customers cutting their hair. I hope it wasn't too bad, fortunately, she's in AA now and still has a job.

Maybe I'll get it someday...don't hate Jarrett, it's all very nice, but not really blown away by his playing. I should get this new one and check it out.

Woah...welcome to all the newcomers! I was never much interested in AAJ, a few months ago I got a new computer and it's been impossible for me to log in there. I never made more than a few posts at AAJ over the years anyway, so it's no great loss. The musician's forums are interesting to read sometimes.

Tisziji Muñoz is a blast.

exactly what i was thinkin'!