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Ed Blackwell: Drums Mark Helias: Bass Carlos Ward: Sax, Flute Graham Haynes: Trumpet Absolutely definitely inarguably yes.

Wayman Carver would like to make a statement for the record, please...

Ok, I have now knowingly heard Rush. For 12 seconds! It sounds ok for what it is, I suppose. Certainly not BAD for what it is.

I don't know that I've ever actually knowingly heard Rush. Seriously.

Different paths lead to different places. Herb Geller's path could and did lead to working with Bert Kaempfert. Nothing wrong with that. Skills put to use. Ornette's path couldn't and didn't lead to working with Bert Kaempfert. Nothing wrong with that either. Different skills still put to different use. but - I put Herb Geller's opinion about Ornette's in the same class as I do Phil Woods' about Anthony Braxton - which is simply hey, you do what you do really well, and you've seen a lot, heard a lot, done a lot, and you understand a lot. But you don't understand everything, nor should you be expected to. So just go ahead and be wrong. It's ok.

This.

So far, a perfect score!

Can too be!

Just goes to show.

It's easy to forget today that Paul was the original London/Hipster/Swinger/Scenester of the group, before John met Yoko and he Linda. A casual awareness of Ayler in 1968 doesn't seem odd at all.

Yeah, true. But I usually leave the room at some point during SNL musical spots, so I'll give him full pros for hooking me in and then keeping me hooked for the duration.

No idea about that, but I did not know until now that Dyan Cannon is David Friesen's sister. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Friesen

Grohl played drums behind McCartney's second number on SNL this evening and was not fucking around with it.

Just finished three hours of It Takes A Thief on Antenna TV. The last episode had a score by Benny Golson, and was more or less indistinguishable from the two episodes that preceded it (but they were also all good, as far as that kind of thing goes), although Golson's score did incorporate some very nice bass/percussion interplay during the "tense" moments. It's fun now to watch these shows and listen to the music first, with the actual action becoming secondary, imagining a conductor directing cues, listening for odd meters, differing instrumentation, that kind of thing. Come to think of it, this episode did have a few solo soprano sequences (all composed, nothing improvised), and that wasn't in the other two. The best part of this episode, though, was watching Al Monday play his games with both Tina Louise & Mari Blanchard. Now that was distinctive!

Well, now, that's leading the league in cutting to the chase!

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Indomitable!

What did they do with Basement Jaxx? I'd like to hear that!

Fair enough. I mean, shit happens, even weird shit. But geez, mixing up a used Brubeck CD with a new DG CD, somebody in the chain must've been working with their eyes closed.

Yeah, all I really wanted to know was if there was some sort of "consensus" here about this Rafal Blechacz guy, did he bring some flame to the game or not. Apparently there's not, so I'll assume that he's not really a stirring enough performer to have fired anybody here's imagination (except Moms, who fired right back at him!). I'll get out of the house and send the damn thing back, and never order from Amazon Seller Import CDs again! This is just too big of a mixup for which to have a logical explanation.

There's a lot of truth in that, but I do find it possible for an interpretation to "bring out" aspects of a composition in such a way that what I once found wholly/largely uninteresting now piques moments of interest. May or may not change my ultimate opinion of the piece, but it'll also give me a better idea of why I dislike it because X, even though Y & Z.

Those sunglasses and earrings suggest that she's still living the Glamorous Life.

It dawns on me (finally) that the takeaway from this thread is that, other than Moms, nobody's familiar enough with either the pianist or the recording to suggest yay or nay. Hardly a ringing endorsement, then!

It was a good one from start to finish, thanks. No stuck G# key (but my bis key, that's another story...). Thanks again for all the well wishes!

What label is ti on, and what time is dinner?