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for those who don't know the story, here's an excerpt from an interview in the May 2003 issue of Straight No Chaser: SNC: Was there a particular experience in you life that caused you to embrace the faith [buddhism]? WS: When our daughter [iska] was born she had some immunisation shots and six hours after she had them we saw that in her cot she was jerking. We found out later she had brain damage. As time went on, while I was out on the road, I would hear that my wife had to drive my daughter to the hospital because my daughter would have seizures, this happened many, many times. Herbie Hancock’s daughter was born around the same time and Herbie’s wife and daughter and my wife and daughter would be together some times when the seizures started. Herbie’s daughter was vaccinated by the same doctor's office.

thanks to you all. i'm taking my cue from roy haynes, whose recent 80th birthday was commemorated with year-long celebrations. so let the party begin, and let it not end until the booze runs out, the women grow weary, and the band packs up to go home.

well, it sure beats a price tag of $118.25 over at amazon marketplace.

i like to separate sex appeal from sax appeal. my vote goes to claire daly, a helluva bari player. i spent some time with her at a gig at cleopatra's needle. she's charming, funny, and very appreciative of her fans. so yeah, i guess i find her attractive too.

I guess I'm rather surprised to see this listing at the Iridium, of all places. Looks great. ANTHONY BRAXTON Thursday, March 29 - Sunday, April 1 Iridium $30 featuring: Stephen Lehman (alto & sopranino saxes) James Fei (alto sax & bass clarinet) Taylor Ho Bynum (cornet, flugelhorn, trumpbone) Jessica Pavone (viola, violin) Jay Rozen (tuba, euphonium) Carl Testa (bass, bass clarinet) Aaron Siegel (percussion, vibraphone) Andrew Raffo Dewar (soprano and c-melody sax,clarinet) Reut Regev (trombone, flugelbone) Sara Schoenbeck (bassoon, shenai) Nicole Mitchell (flutes) Mary Halvorson (guitar)

here ya go ol' man, now stop yer complainin' as for me, i'm gonna snuggle up with this little number as you can see, it's gonna be a good year!

good thing junior stepped in between the two. it was about to get ugly.

sounds like a fair deal to me. write it up and i'll sign it!

imo, he's a good technician, but not a very good trumpet player. he may have gumbo, but he lacks soul.

here's a link to the band: siegmund freud's mothers

woo hoo! money to buy more jazz cds!

from a 1999 article in the revolutionary worker: Another L.A. visitor at the concert was Mamie Blythe, the wife of Arthur Blythe, a musician who got his start in Horace's Arkestra. She told the RW: "I'm here because I love Horace. I love Cecilia [his wife]. I love all the kids. We had a wonderful time back then [the '60s and early '70s]. We were like...we were revolutionaries, and we were warriors, and anything that would uplift the African-American, an American, we were for it. That's why we did things for the Panthers. That's how `Seize the Time, the Time is Now' came in. Horace did the music, Elaine Brown did the lyrics. But anything that was activist, we were there, from colleges to parks. Horace always kept a house for the musicians to go and play at. And any musician that came through town and didn't have a place to stay, they could lay their head..."

has anyone ever tried to use the exact audio copy software to burn a copy of a free jazz recording? i have, and more times than not, i've run into a brick wall. when eac scans music, it slows down the reading process when it encounters possible sync errors. with most music that's fine. with free jazz, however, eac frequently misinterprets dense passages or frenetic solos as errors. today, it ran for over 12 hours trying to read through just one track of willliam parker's the peach orchard - and it still couldn't do it! more than anything, i find this situation rather funny. it takes me back to a time when i couldn't or wouldn't open myself up to appreciate freer froms of music. i used to think as eac does, that these less obvious forms of expression are errors, mistakes, random noises. i guess that's how a lot of jazz sounds to many people. so, do you think i should bring this fact to the attention of eac's creator? maybe request an updated, avant garde-friendly version of the software?

what, you mean they prefer someone else's idiocy to our's? actually, i think there's something missing here on the board. something that might get more people to actively participate in discussions. what we need...is a mascot! any nominations? photos or illustrations welcome

it's posts like this that help me get into the spirit of the holiday season.

he's a very spiritual man

Dr. John sez this is the right time, but the wrong place for this thread. Why don't you post it in the recommendations or miscellaneous music forums?

i agree. to focus on the sound quality of such historic recordings at the expense of the artistry contained therein is like saying you can't appreciate the little lady below 'cause she's missing a few limbs.

the secret to dmitry the dentist's success (he has a rig set up at home):

this cool: or maybe this cool:

Answer to queston #1: No Answer to queston #2: Who am your grammar teacher?

Last night while I was at the supermarket buying some vittles, I decided to cash in a heap of pennies, nickels, and dimes using the automated Coinstar machine. Lo and behold, I discovered a new option. Instead of receiving a slip of paper to be cashed in at the register, I can get a slip of paper with a code on it that can be redeemed for credit at Amazon.com. What's more, when you choose this option, you don't have to pay the 8 cents on a dollar fee that Coinstar usually charges. You can use the credit to make a purchase now, or redeem it for future use. It's the perfect crime, I tell ya! No credit card bill to explain to the wifey. Just make sure to go through the pockets of your pants for change before she does, unless you're still wearing them, of course. here's a link for further info: amazon-coinstar

a link: going for myself

just ordered it, thanks to this thread.

i'm a fan of classic hollywood musicals. comden and green wrote lyrics and screenplays together for almost 50 years, including such gems as singing in the rain and on the town. betty Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Robbins, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, rehearsing On The Town, 1944 © Photofest