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Were you interviewed over Chinese food?

Probably have all I want, but it's a good offer for somebody. And a generous one!

Possibly...how old and how many?

Yeah, like when trying to be social with some oatie-doatie Nice White Guy who's really into it, I'll allow a limited quantity of "Americana" before excusing myself. That's weakness, not kindness. Kindness would be simply smiling and never making eye contact and just keep going. Because you tell me - when is that word EVER used when it doesn't lead directly to a trail of money-wanting? They call it "monetizing the culture". I call it new (maybe) owners, new pawns, same bullshit.

I think it's a word used in attempts to monetize the culture, so I don't let it mean anything to me, nor do I allow myself to use it myself except in moments of weakness.

B/c what I have is a scratchy LP, and an MP3 that I "found" at my" friend's" place.

You first. I 'd not want to been seen as "setting the tone"'...but ok....blazers. No blazers in my jazz, please. Feel free to continue, as there are no wrong answers.

Tres mas, Gigantes, tres mas.

Hay belated happy here as well, and thanks for the tips - and different perspective - as I re-explored Kenton. Much appreciated, for real.

I'm trying to figure if Donald Fagen has anything intresting to say in 2012 that will make me wonder if he has anything interesting to say in 2012. Hmmm....

I used to play poker (draw * stud poker, not this weenie-ass hold'em that these youth of today seem to get all happy-happy about) with a guy who one night had the 1st side of Nefertiti playing durning the game. That was it, that one side, auto-turntable (I miss those!( over and over and over. Finally I said to him, juses Paul (for that was indeed his name), what the hell is up with this, I mean, great side, but we're playing cards here for a long time, can we get some variety? And I'll up it a quarter. He saw my quarter and raised me a dollar and said, hey, fuck you, it's my crib, and besides, what the hell are you doing LISTENING to it, you should be focusing on the game. I called his dollar and said because you know, it's NEFERTITTI for god's sake, how do you NOT listen to it? He showed three aces and said, look dumbass, you don't need to LISTEN to it ALL the time. Your conscious mind already knows what's there, now it's time to let your SUB-conscious mind absorb it. Fuck you, you know you may have something there I said, since I only had two pair (kings and queens, not bad, but not three aces, right?). So yeah, I figure there's a time to listen, a time to block out, and a time to let your sub-conscious do its thing. It was a good hand and I'd bet it again, but...sometimes a good hand meets a better hand. And then, you lose!

I've been listening to this one this afternoon, and if the price ain't too nasty, I think I might spring. Really not a bad album, like I said, kinda hits a zone. And for those who are interested, It's a Chuck Rainey/Harvey Mason hookup on most every cut.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWSc08JcDOw They let bedroom music have cool changes in the 70s.

I notice that the first Marlena BN (just titled Marlena) is not being included, which is no great loss, imo. Mostly generic George Butler/Wade Marcus voidity, although Richard Davis is on a cut or two, and...you can tell it right away b/c it's the only thing that really jumps up and out. Could - SHOULD - have been so much better with just a few better choices made at a few junctures. Pulled out my copy of Who Is... to see what made such a difference between this and its two predecessors, and the answer jumped out just looking at the credits - Bernard Ingher. All over the place. So, no wonder.

Man, some of this shit is NUTS. http://www.jinglesamplers.com/audio/PAMSFanTrack5.wma 3:56-:3:58 = a Giant Steps cop, directly. The guys making these things were not oblivious, just...industrial. I think I might have taken an arranging class with a guy who wrote some of these things, not sure. He was definitely out of that world, just not sure about these...incredible ear the guy had, just not "of the same world" as "serious jazz" to put it mildly..., still had incredible skills, he did, I'm still equal parts pissed off and in awe when remembering his classes). He nearly had a seizure when I did a chart on "Played Twice", went off into some otherworldy eyes rolling up in his head rant about "ugliness" and all that...I jsut had to tell him, hey, it was my call, I liked it, it's Monk, get the hell over it, every note in there is justified, which shut him up even if it didn't calm him down....but all was well when I did "Duke Ellington's Sound Of Love". Apparently Monk inhabits the Post-Jingle Zone but a Mingus ballad is useful. Some kind of world, eh?

I think Bird used to do stuff like that...not sure about the baseball part though, but could be wrong.

Dallas & jingles used to be Bread and Butter. The whole point of getting in a "lab band" for many people was to work up and get an in into that scene. From there led the way to all the other serious money gigs. Several generations of musicians thrived, even if it left the "lab band" scene fatally corrupted as far as "real jazz" went more often than not. I dare anybody over a certain age to not recognize at least one of these tracks, if not the actual call letters: http://www.jinglesamplers.com/audio/HaveYouHeardTrack01.mp3

I've seen Donald Harrison on Treme more than once.

This guy is Donald Harrison's nephew, and I think I like him, because I like that.

Por que no sonic boom?

When did they do that?

I don't think the Yankees could afford to lose Valverde as the Tigers' closer, but Leyland says that the staff will meet and discuss. That's a tough call to make when your closer bombs badly like that twice in three games...he's your guy and you gotta let him get back on, he ain't worth too much if he don't want to, and he's worth even less if he does and then keeps repeating the bombs, so...what do you do? Bring in Al Albuquerque to kiss balls? Talk about disrupting the hitter's rhythm! Yankees should be fine w/o Jeter. That's a deeply veteran team that should know how to "move on" (to use Girardi's wise post-game words). All the angst about Rivera proved to be just that - angst. It worked out, the team picked up, moved on, and here they are, best record in the AL playing the AL postseason entrant who had the worst regular season record. And yet neither team shows signs of being a consistently dominating one, lots of shifting of favorites depending on scenarios, very....fluid game dynamics, and most of them revolve around pitchers handling their business instead of the batters handling theirs (especially if every game's gonna run 15-20 innings from here on out...who breaks first will not be as important as who breaks last, because at this rate, there will be breakage. Almost has to be.). Jeter not playing is but one piece of what is in theory a very large and wide set of pieces to this puzzle that could fit together any number of ways. Like Girardi said, obviously you feel better having him in, but his absence creates opportunities for others, so...so, Hate the Yankees, but dig Girardi. Go figure that. I've come to realize that fans angst out a whole more about this type thing than do players. A lot more. And yes, feel free to deliver the first guilty verdict to yours truly.

Delmon Young - not an ex-Mariner.

"sound system" meaning a mobile system, right?

That book I cited interviews Jimmy Savile, who talks about starting playing records for a chain of dance halls called Mecca and how it grew from just him in one hall (the Mecca Locarno) to 52 halls and 400 DJs across the country. He makes it sound like he started around the late-40s/early-50s and kept building all through the 1950s, into the 1960s. The next guy the book goes to is Ian Samwell...the name "Mecca" comes up again, as does the Lyceum & 1962. I know nothing about this, so these guys could be totally bullshitting for all I know. It seemed interesting to me, though, that, from this telling, the "beginnings" of DJs/dance clubs were in actual established dance halls that had been hiring live bands. Should I toss the book for being a bunch of lies or should I keep reading?