Brad

Do you mean participate at all or do you mean getting a disc but not posting anyththing? On a separate front, what would be a good interval between tests. On the sign up thread, I saw RT suggesting every three weeks. My concern is that you don't want this to get stale and I think we've had a good interval between Jim R's test and Jim S's test. We all lead busy lives and try to fit in listening to our music as much as we can so having this too frequently could be a bit of a concern.

Jim, Received your package on Thursday and they went out Friday. Over and out.

Hiroshi has announced the following: The following CDs are scheduled for release on January 21,2004. Universal UCCV 1056(Verve) Haden, Charlie feat. Joe Henderson/The Montreal Tapes Sony VRCL 18816(Hybrid CD) Friedman, Don/My Favorite Things King KICJ 466(Paddle Wheel) French Jazz Trio/Sometime Ago Victor VICP 62579 Hooker, John Lee/Face to Face Venus TKCV 35324 Bernstein, Peter/Stranger in Paradise BMG Fun House BVCJ 38057-8(Bluebird) Miller, Glenn & Andrew Sisters/The Chesterfield Broadcasts(2CDs) 2940 The following CDs are scheduled for release on January 28,2004. * means cardboard sleeve Universal UCCC 9072(Cadet)(24bit) Lewis,Ramsey/Live in Tokyo* Universal UCCC 9073(Argo)(24bit) Jazztet,The/Big City Sound* Universal UCCC 9074(Argo)(24bit) Jamal,Ahmad/Portfolio of Ahmad Jamal* Universal UCCC 9075(Argo)(24bit) Goldie,don/Trumpet Caliente* Universal UCCC 9076(Argo)(24bit) Johnson,Bud/Off the Wall* Universal UCCC 9077(Argo)(24bit) Stitt,Sonny & Bennie Green/My Main Man* Universal UCCC 9078(Argo)(24bit) Leslie,Bill/Diggin' the Chicks* Universal UCCC 9079(Cadet)(24bit) Bryant,Ray/Up Above the Rocks* Universal UCCC 9080(Argo)(24bit) Fleming,King/Stand by* Universal UCCC 9081(Argo)(24bit) Moore,shelley/For the First Time* Personally looking forward to Sonny and Bennie's My Main Man.

I think I remember hearing something on WKCR a couple of years ago about his passing but I couldn't find anything on the web so I'm not absolutely sure.

Not early but still good are Kenny Drew, NHOP and Phillip Catherine. Just picked up a Steeplechase of a German concert.

I agree with Jim. When I watch people play those bones, I marvel at the music they can produce out of it. Just looking at it, you wouldn't think so. Nobody's mentioned Jimmy Cleveland, although he gets mentioned ocassionally. But the guy who never gets mentioned at all and his one album that he did as a leader is just great bop, and part of the great tradition of Brookly bebop, is Matthew Gee. He can play! What about Tommy Turk, who participated in some JATP sessions. Hard to find his leader albums.

It's been released on Roulette but as with all Roulette cds, it's very hard to find. Your best bet is to keep an eye on Ebay.

Soul Stream captured the essence of that prior BNBB thread in a nutshell. There was much debate about what or what we could not read into it. I don't recall if there was ever a general consensus about it. My feeling was that it didn't present a good picture of Hank's state of health at the time and in about 7 years he would be dead.

I'd have to agree with Rooster on this one. Music is always being reinterpreted, especially in jazz. In this case, we may not care for the results but the idea is an old and established one.

B3-er and Use, isn't it time to close all Deep related threads. They just seem to be a general waste of time.

Regarding the observation that Dana made, there is a certain absoluteness to the book, I'll agree. By the time I got to the end of the book, I was wondering if, for example, Bud's common law wife, Buttercup, was as completely bad as he depicts it. From what I've been able to read so far, she doesn't sound like any angel. But I didn't get the idea that everything Bud did FP agreed with. What came across was a person trying to help his jazz idol live as much a normal life as he possibly could. He probably prolonged his life by his help. I also think his strong observations come from someone who was constantly around Bud for several years. His constant presence with Bud helps make this book so gripping. He witnessed the ups and downs that someone with mental illness (or possibly epilepsy) suffered.

Do you have any plans to come east, like to New York?

To further elaborate on what Chris said about Danny's accomplishments, I've picked up Blues for Philly Joe and the Glass Enclosure and they are excellent, top notch swinging music. Really incredible music. Here's the AMG review of Blues for Philly Joe: Drummer Danny D'Imperio's fourth album as a leader is similar to his first three: high-quality hard bop with the emphasis on lesser-known tunes. Using a talented septet (with trumpeter Greg Gisbert, altoist Gary Pribek, tenor saxophonist Ralph Lalama, the great bop pianist Hod O'Brien, guitarist Steve Brown, and bassist Dave Shapiro), D'Imperio revives such songs as Duke Pearson's "Tribute to Brownie," Curtis Fuller's "Time Off," and Benny Harris' "Reets and I." Hard bop fans will definitely want all of D'Imperio's well-conceived recordings, including this one. The Glass Enclosure Review: In his series of releases for V.S.O.P., drummer Danny D'Imperio has successfully kept hard bop not only alive, but creative and fresh. This CD has one of his finest recordings. The arrangements are quite inventive; the 11 rarely recorded songs are superior (including Quincy Jones' "Jessica's Day," Freddie Redd's "Thespian" and Lee Morgan's "Need I"), and the musicians (in settings up to a ten-piece) sound quite inspired. Their rendition of Bud Powell's complex "Glass Enclosure" is quite definitive. Among the star soloists are trumpeter Greg Gisbert, altoist Gary Pribek, Ralph Lalama on tenor and pianist Hod O'Brien. A high-quality and frequently exciting CD that rewards repeated listenings.

I think that was the whole purpose and it's a good exercise in democracy (please no smirking) to gauge the feeling of the community.

What we do without you, Weiz --, I mean Red Me--, I mean Dr. Freud Mark, In view of some of the recent changes with that forum, it seemed like time for taking the pulse of this community once again. I don't remember if one had ever been taken so I thought I'd do it. Obviously, the members feel otherwise. That's democracy in action. Are we clear now?

Jim, That makes two of us. My apologies for over reacting as well. You have enough to worry about without the ravings of another madman

I think the post is self explanatory, but to help you here, my concern is should a thread be deleted because the moderators deem it silly. As long as it doesn't run afoul of the rules that Jim has posted, then it shouldn't be closed. That, in a nutshell, is it.

Is it time for a middle school english teacher to step forward (realizing that I might be called STUPID by the perspicacious one)?

Why do I feel there's no "love" lost between Deep and Patricia ?

That's right Brad. The burden is heavy on the shoulders of he/she who wields the power. Solomon had it easy, when all he had to do was threaten to cut a baby in half. It's not an enviable job but one which he ought to be given very high marks for .

I believe he's saying that since the rule was incorrectly stated, anything that happened to him while it was in effect was invalid and any warning he received should be rescinded so that he's back at 0% again, starting now.

Hold on a goddamned minute! Whether or not there should be a political forum is an important issue. Obviously I bow to the will of the majority. But you've recognized that it's an issue. Why otherwise would you have first, segregated it from most of the discussion that goes on here, and secondly, tell members that you could use an ignore function. In addition, you think the premise of the thread silly so you're going to close it for that reason? Do we have censorship here, just because you deem it silly? Or are you going to give me the Tom Evered answer that "it's our board and we can do we want." It is but that belies the point. There's plenty of silly threads that go on this Board and I don't see them being closed. By starting this have I offended anybody? As far as I know I haven't maligned a particular group of people like was done recently. And I haven't called anybody names or insulted them, even though just the other day, somebody asked if I was a narrow mined bigot because I didn't like somebody they didn't like. It's not actually whether or not there should be a political forum that's got me steamed but the fact that you think you should close it because you think it's silly. I'm not usually quick to anger but this has

I thought I'd throw this up for discussion since several people have asked for the ignore function on the political forum. My vote: get rid of it, although I'm probably in the minority.

Barak couldn't have said it better. We are sorely in lack of visionaries today.

As one of the biggest critics on the political board (although I have visited it ocassionaly, but very very ocasssionally), I'm tempted to put my name on the list but I prefer to have the option to go there and self censor myself, unless you're going to get rid of the whole thing, which I wouldn't object to either.