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Miroslav Vitous?

NOOOOOoooooooo problem.......

Cheap sunglasses - $9.95 Room with a good view of the sunrise - $250.00 Ascension to the heavens in a blinding light - Priceless. There are some things that money can't buy. For everything else, the Creator has a Master Card. We can do a standup act if you prefer...

The lemon & the pineapple both mix well with Uncle Sam cereal as a "way to go" day-starter. Plain does too. Pomegranate not so much, but pomegranate by itself works for me big time, at least as far as flavor. And passion fruit. Heck, the only Chobani yogurt flavor I've had and not immediately gotten on board with is honey, and that's just because I recognized the danger, like, before the first spoonful was fully in my mouth.

Fage has yet to make me all DAMN!!! and stuff. But Chobani definitely has, at least on some flavors (including those two + the apple-cinnamon).

or not...HA! Nice to have met both you and your lovely wife. Enjoyed chatting about Warne w/you as well. You were lucky, I didn't get fully wound up about him. Y'all never would have gotten home if I had... Hope to see you both next time. I understand that there will be one!

Radar Major Burns Smokey Bear

= (at best) rehearsal. MG The only time it = an (at best) rehearsal is if the musicians are playing at each other trying to do some basic calibrations that should have been done at an actual rehearsal. To do that in front of an audience is only salvageable if you let them in on what's going on, why it's necessary, and beg their understanding. Then you might have a successful performance. Might. Depends what you mean. Louis Jordan and Ray Charles both used to work on new songs live, as you say, getting the calibrations right, then, when they'd played about with the songs and were pretty sure the audience would like them, go into the studios and record them. I never heard of either of them begging their audiences' indulgence or even telling them. Nah, I'm talking much more basic than that. I've been on gigs where people will stand around discussing how some new "composition" is supposed to go for, like, 10-15 minutes, on the bandstand, and then turnaround and start playing w/o as much as a word of apology/explanation to the audience before or after. I've also seen people get up and leave the second or third time that happened - in the same set - and to be honest, I'd just have soon done so myself. Then there's the question of having sound checks/getting instruments tuned/can the drummer and bassist hear each other/etc. going on after the set starts. Sometimes it's a logistical inevitability, sometimes not, but I really don't think it's something that you don't acknowledge to an audience if it goes on for too long and is too obvious. You're handling the "private" part of your business on "public" time, and I think it's a bit lax and/or arrogant to do that and expect an audience to not wonder wtf is going on, why are these guys being such amateurs (or behaving like it, anyway). So you should be proactive about that type thing wen it happens. Just my opinion, though, and far from universal.

I've seen a few dance floors packed to this one (which I suspect is built for dancing and not for listening): Slick? Hell yeah. They put wax on dancefloors to make them slick, and when somebody asks, they got wax powder they sprinkle on it to make it even more slicker. So, yeah, slick, functional, and proud of it! Anyway, I'm cool w/Dr. John in some kind of place and in some kind of way. He's cool, But he ain't Alan Toussaint. He's Dr. John/Mac Rebennak.

I got no problem with any of it being called anything. I tend to hear it all as functional music for whatever time it happened in, and that function is pretty much always the same - communicating through rhythm (infinite variations of a basic pulse/impulse) and "blues" (which is a lot more than just a set of measured devices). I can't hear a "label", but I can hear music and what that music is "doing" (and who it's being "done" for...). This is more perfect every time I see it, although I'm sure there are those who find it more an abomination everytime they see it. Rhythm & Blutopia!

= (at best) rehearsal. MG Oh, that depends. If they play in front of an audience and don't listen to each other, you got a big mess. You want players listening to each other, always. Now, if they play in front of an audience and listen to each other in the service of getting more in tune with the music of the moment in order to more/most fully realize it, then if the audience is also listening for the same thing, you have a successful performance and happy people all around. If the audience is not listening for the same thing, then maybe it's a mismatch between audience and performers, in which case, it happens, and for any number of reasons. Keith Jarrett getting snitty at a large festival crowd is not the same as Keith Jarrett getting snitty at a crowd of drunks at some backstreet pizza parlor that he got booked into through some cosmic fuckup (not that such a booking would ever happen to Keith Jarrett, but "things like that" do happen to many people, and only sometimes are they not justified in being a little miffed about the whole thing). The only time it = an (at best) rehearsal is if the musicians are playing at each other trying to do some basic calibrations that should have been done at an actual rehearsal. To do that in front of an audience is only salvageable if you let them in on what's going on, why it's necessary, and beg their understanding. Then you might have a successful performance. Might. Playing for/to an audience is all well and good, but there are just as many different types of audiences as there are people playing to them. There is no "one size fits all" "right" way to do it, other than to hope, pray, and do your best homework to get the right players playing in front of the right people. Myself, I'll never meet an audience more than halfway, nor will I expect them to do the same for me. If it can't happen, let's both do what we gotta do to get through the night. If you gotta leave, fine. If I gotta play stuff I don't really dig but don't really hate, fine.But if that still don't get it, neither one of us should be here together doing this thing at this time. But life is not fair. Hell, people who are deeply in love get married, have kids, and then fuck around, fuck up, and get divorced. Musician/audience relationships are never as deep as that. Never. And anybody on either side of the equation who lets it get that way is acting in an ill-advised matter with misplaced priorities about both music and life. Obviously more rehearsal is needed!

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Chobani Root Beer Yogurt, please. Chobani slightly frozen in a too-cold refrigerator is one of those things the you don't realize how happy an accident it was until you take the first bite. Yes. But a root beer float made with thick Chobani vanilla yogurt...not auto-rejected. Not.

Walid Badir Abdul Wadud The Wadullas: http://www.wadulla.com/

Just wondering, why?

Emma Samms Residents of the Tamms Correctional Center The Tams http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oycKx6xmHOs

Players listening to each other = listeners.

I feel like a victim.

Clara Barton Dee Barton Dee Dee Bridgewater

Very much enjoyed seeing and hearing that type music played in a room for a change instead of on a stage. It's righter that way for me! :tup :tup

In all seriousness, I'm a fan of dancing. To anything. Especially jazz. Any kind. Anywhere. I'm just not good at it. At all. Bad knees, bad ankles, and some perverted center off gravity. But I'd give damn near anything if I was.