robviti

here's my write-in candidate: for the youngsters, that's john mitchell, nixon's attorney general who was convicted of conspiracy and other charges connected to Watergate.

for those of you who missed the mosaic, collectables has reissued most of the dates included in the box set, albeit spread across several cds: Jimmy Giuffre Three - Atlantic 1254 (1957) The Music Man - Atlantic 1276 (1958) Jimmy Giuffre Clarinet - Atlantic 1238 (1956) contains The Four Brothers Sound - Atlantic 1295 (1958) contains Trav'lin' Light - Atlantic 1282 (1958) contains Western Suite - Atlantic 1330 (1958)

wilkerson died in 1986, so the b.b. king date could have been his last. i might be wrong, but i don't think fred "hootin and tootin'" jackson and fred jackson jr. are the same person (perhaps father and son?). the latter, whom you cited, is a very active r&b saxophonist who continues to record (his recent credits include earth, wind, and fire's 2004 release).

Bobby Hutcherson Quartet Village Vanguard May 17 - May 22 Mike LeDonne-p, Dwayne Burno-b, Billy Drummond-d

when you really think about it, we're all black, since the first humans evolved in africa about 2 million years ago.

sorry to break the news to someone born twenty years after the fact, but zeppelin is considered one the original heavy metal bands.

I'm not sure if anyone else will find this local tale of "dis-organzied crime" as amusing as I do. Anyway, here it is: Police Arrest Men Who Claimed To Find Buried Treasure LAWRENCE (AP) -- Two men who made national headlines by claiming they found a buried treasure in a back yard were charged Friday with stealing the collection of old currency from a house where they were working. Days after Barry Billcliff, 27, of Manchester, N.H., and Timothy Crebase, 22, of Methuen, went on the circuit of national TV shows to tell their tale of finding the stash have now been charged with receiving stolen property, conspiracy and accessory after the fact, Methuen Police Lt. Kevin Martin said. The arrest, in fact, interrupted their planned appearance Thursday night on ABC’s "Jimmy Kimmel Live" because they were being booked by police around the time the show was airing. They were to have been interviewed from the yard where they claimed they had found the money while digging. They were to be arraigned Friday morning in Lawrence District Court. Crebase told investigators the men found the money in the gutter of a barn they were hired to repair in Newbury, police said. "We got an anonymous tip two days ago," Capt. Kris McCarthy told the Eagle-Tribune newspaper of Lawrence. "These guys are roofers. They found the money on the job site. The story after that was all made up." The men said they found 1,800 bank notes and bills dating between 1899 and 1928 while digging in the yard of the house Crebase rents. The materials had a face value of about $7,000. Domenic Mangano, owner of the Village Coin Shop in Plaistow, N.H., examined the find and said the currency was authentic. He gave varying estimates of its worth, ranging from $50,000 to $100,000. The men’s stories, though, attracted suspicion because of discrepancies. The depth of the buried crate, for example, ranged from 9 inches to 2 feet. The men also gave conflicting reasons for digging in Crebase’s yard. They told one reporter they were preparing to plant a tree. In other reports, they said they were trying to remove a small tree or dig up the roots of a shrub that was damaging the home’s foundation. Even Billcliff’s name was the subject of confusion. He complained to the Eagle-Tribune that some media had misspelled it Villcliff, but told The Boston Globe that he had purposely given the wrong spelling so that "people wouldn’t try to track me down or come looking for me." Billcliff insisted the discrepancies in the story of how the money came to be found could be explained. "It’s like watching a car accident," he told the Eagle-Tribune. "Sometimes someone will say something and someone else will say something slightly different, but mostly it’s the same." Christine Tetlow, of Manchester, N.H., who identified herself as a longtime friend of Billcliff, defended him. "They did not steal this money," she said. "He’s the nicest guy in the world. He’d give the shirt off his back to anybody. If you need money, he’ll be the first person to step up and give it to you and never ask to get it back." "I guess that 15 minutes of fame" did them in, Tetlow said. The men made several appearances on national television this week, and police noticed details of the story changed with each appearance. Police Chief Joseph E. Solomon told ABC’s "Good Morning America" that authorities might never have suspected anything had the men not sought publicity. "Had they just put the money away or, you know, gone somewhere outside of the area and sold a little money at a time, I don’t think anybody would have known or suspected anything," Solomon said. "Sometimes wanting to be famous is really the downfall of people." (Copyright 2005 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)

great thread. puts me in the mood to start my own harry allen hissy fit.

you'd better keep going back further than that. drugs have always been present in the lives of some musicians, including those who play jazz. here's an excerpt from a book on louis armstrong, a quote from pops himself: "Speaking of 1931 - we did call ourselves Vipers, which could have been anybody from all walks of life that smoked and respected gage. That was our cute little name for marijuana, and it was a misdemeanor in those days. Much different from the pressure and charges the law lays on a guy who smokes pot - a later name for the same thing which is cute to hear nowadays. We always looked at pot as a sort of medicine, a cheap drunk and with much better thoughts than one that's full of liquor."

you can drive that baby to the airport to take a flight in this honey, the bumble bee!

on the other hand, it certainly wins the "truth in advertising" award.

all kidding aside, you might do better by picking a more obscure artist. sales staff are more apt to frequently clean up or restock a popular artist's section, and there's goes your hidden booty.

of course, it's all a matter of personal taste. i, for one, prefer the "weaker" time for tyner and tender moments over the recordings you consider "classics" that are slated for reissue in the mosaic set.

I also remember her character "Hotsy Totsy" on "Welcome Back Kotter." I read somewhere that she was engaged to a Port Authority cop who was killed on 9-11.

sorry i'm late to the party. happy birthday mark! thanks again for helping make my recent visit to chicago so enjoyable. hats off to sal and eric too. maybe we can all get together again next year.

don't forget, that's on top of the sale they're already having on all blue note titles, which are 25% off.

check out the testimonials on the website: "I've used the IC 5xs and heard a clear, consistent improvement each time -- reduction of brashness and increased sense of solidity to the sound. I might also have heard more low-level information, but that is not as clear. This is amazing." - April 2005 "I have commenced using the new lot of GSIC-30s. The thing that I particularly notice about the GSIC-30 is that the sound is more "musical." Also, there is less of a "digital edge" to the music, a somewhat bigger and more cohesive soundstage, a little more air and slightly more resolution in a system that was already very resolving. All this makes listening a more enjoyable experience." - March 2005 "Enya's 'Watermark' - impressive! Kenny Rankin's 'Kenny Rankin' - been listening to this for 20+ years -- probably for the first time I noticed the wide swing of recording differences among the various cuts. Taking it up a few engineering notches: West Side Story - Dave Grusin -- If you don't have this one, think Gato Barbieri meets Lenny B. Jump factor way up!... both Jon Secada and Gloria Estaban's voices are much clearer - with better separation between singer and orchestra, as well as among the individual instruments - with great punch and snap. The following seems consistent: the window is much cleaner, so if the CD is well-recorded the improvement is significant, the stage much larger, deeper and wider, and the music comes well out into the room. The pace, rhythm, and flow of the music is much better (especially appreciated with large-scale music). So, the chip has made it obvious that, in spite of dedicated lines and SOTA vibration control, power conditioning, and cabling a fair amount of veiling persists." - Robert Hart, Audio Tweakers, Inc., Ft. Lauderdale, Feb 2005 "I had the opportunity to try the intelligent chip on 3 CDs last night and another this morning....On all of the first 3 discs the improvement was quite obvious. I found that the full effect didn't set in until a few seconds after treatment -- and in all 3 cases the sound became much more relaxed and a sense of space and dimensionality became more apparent. The best way I can describe it is that the "decay" of the sound is greatly improved. Notes flow from one to the next instead of "start-and-stop." The forth disc didn't fare as well as the others; it is an older CD that obviously wasn't recorded or mastered as well as the others, so there's probably less detail to extract from this disc. "I listened to entire discs after treatment instead of just a couple of tracks for demonstration purposes. This is, I believe, the greatest testament to the effectiveness of the chip. I treated one disc this morning by placing the chip beneath the player. It worked that way too!" - Patrick Conroy, Feb 2005 heck, it this thing can make enya and dave grusin listenable, it can't be all bad!

most people i know say "ken-ney dor-um."

I just received an email announcing the lineup for the JVC Festival in Newport, R.I. Here's what they wrote: Friday, August 12 8:00 PM (6:30 PM doors) JVC Jazz Festival - Newport : Eartha Kitt / Artie Shaw Orchestra / Under the Direction of Dick Johnson at Newport Casino Saturday, August 13 11:30 AM - 7:00 PM GEORGE WEIN PRESENTS: JVC Jazz Festival - Newport at Fort Adams State Park Wynton Marsalis Septet, McCoy Tyner Trio w/Ravi Coltrane & Terel Stafford, TRIO! Stanley Clarke - Bela Fleck - Jean-Luc Ponty, Charles Lloyd Quartet, Patricia Barber, Medeski, Martin & Wood, Jon Faddis Quartet - "Gillespiana," Saxophone Summit featuring Michael Brecker, Joe Lovano, Dave Liebman, Carla Bley & Lost Chords, T.S. Monk Sextet, Newport All-Stars, Howard Alden & Warren Vache Duo, Kurt Rosenwinkel Quartet, Mark Whitfield Trio, Others Sunday, August 14 11:30 AM - 7:00 PM GEORGE WEIN PRESENTS: JVC Jazz Festival - Newport at Fort Adams State Park Roy Haynes 80th Birthday Celebration feat. Wynton Marsalis, Chick Corea, Gary Burton, Joshua Redman & Christian McBride plus Roy Haynes Fountain of Youth Band, Dave Brubeck Quartet, Steps Ahead (2005), Chick Corea Trio, Dave Holland Big Band, Joshua Redman Elastic Band, Don Byron Ivey-Divey Trio, Gary Burton's Generations, Joe Lovano w/Hank Jones Trio, Cannonball Legacy Band feat Louis Hayes, Matt Wilson's Arts & Crafts, Bill Frisell Trio, Larry Coryell, Russell Malone & Benny Green Duo, Others

i've heard from a reliable source that kenny dorham's name is actually pronounced "kin-knee door-ham." what-chall think o' dat?!

now i'm glad i didn't attend the sunday afternoon show as planned. i did attend the 8pm set later that day and didn't observe any obvious conflict or friction. in fact, i thought the quartet performed better than it had during friday's late show, although the company was certainly great that night! thanks mark, sal, and eric.

i totally agree with claude. get the domestic reissues.

could someone suggest some good places to look for jazz cds in chicago (especially used)? below is a list of places i might visit. please feel free to add or subtract from the list, offering a tip of the hat to your favorites (the mart and the bastards two of mine). thanks in advance. Jazz Record Mart Dusty Groove Reckless Records Out of the Past Records Record Emporium Laurie’s Planet of Sound Hyde Park Records Raffes Record Riot