JSngry

" Since 3 is pretty much a holy number across time & humanity (and eliminates the possibility of "either/or"), consider Dizzy's position that Monk had the chord changes, Bird had the rhythm, and he had the organizational principles. Harmony, rhythm, & structure. Sounds like a plan to me. Now, which one is "more important"?

...except that the Redcross recordings were made while Bird & Diz were both working nightly (more or less) in the Eckstine band, and by most accounts were brining the same thing to the gig that they were working on in the room, albeit in considerably more formalized settings. Point being is that the band provided opportunity to continue developing and presenting and refining the ideas on the stand and off. The "problem" with the music today (and in many instances of the past) is that jam sessions and gigs too often become one and the same. Both are essential elements, but either one by themselves lead to dead ends - gigs to the institutionalized downsizing of ideas, jam sessions to the institutionalization of self-indulgence. Seems to me that Shipton's point is valid in and of itself. Where he errs is saying that the bands were more important than the jam sessions. Both were factors, and the music would have not come out as it did minus the presence of either. Yet another example of either/or-ism, about the most useless intellectual conceit going.

The Maharishi Song

In the world of A&M-era CTI, "devastatingly depressing" & "hauntingly beautiful" can fairly be used interchangeably.

Well I'll be darned!

Vista. no doubt, is eternally grateful! Really, I don't know WTF is causing some people to have great experiences with it, some horrible ones. I suspect that - again - Vista is not something to install over/on a preexisting OS/configuration. It was definitely introduced too soon. but I don't think that Microsoft is going back(wards) either. So it's either move ahead or buy a Mac, I guess.

What I mean by "publicly" is, does anywhere on the XP box/disc/manual/whatever does it saw "Windows NT 5.1"? Even in really tiny print?

Well, they covered it up really well...it's the least "Windows-ish" Windows I've ever worked in, which is maybe why people either love it or hate it...

Is that publicly or privately? I've worked with NT at work...frankly, XP was my preference. But this is NT 6.1 you say...

That should be setting dependent. If it's a library computer, they probably don't want you doing what you're trying to do. I don't have any problems like that using Vista at home since I don't have it configured that way. I've only been using Vista for about two months, since I bought a new box, but I love it. It's much faster and stabler than XP ever was, but you need the right hardware for it. It's all moot anyway as I should be getting my (free) W7 upgrade any day now. My sentiments exactly. On your home machine, you should automatically be set as an administrator. If you're not for the odd program, right click & select "Run as administrator" As for 7, I'm hearing "great things", but...I duuno, I've got no beefs with Vista Ultimate & hardware/software (mostly) designed for it. I think I'll leave well enough alone, especially 7.0. I don't like anything .0!

Huh? That's not Vista's fault, that's the "fault" of your version of Word not being forward-compatible, which would pretty much be impossible! She's running Office 2007 (which does have a learning curve but is really fun to work in once you negotiate it, especially Excel) & you're not. The fact that Office 2007 allows her to save a file in the old .doc format as well as the new .docx format shows that it is backwards-compatible! Dude, this hasn't changed since...I don't know when. 3.x? Right click the folder you want to make the shortcut to and take it from there. If you can do it in XP, you can do it in Vista.

Never heard or felt an untrue note from him. TIP.

Sounds to me like he came in, noodled around a little while they recorded him, and then it got spliced it up and put it in as needed. Definitely a curiosity and not something to get all cummy about, trust me!

You want a GW curiosity, find the Acid Jazz side he's on: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&a...10:3vfexqlhldde

Big band!

Michael corcoran was his name, Dallas Morning News was the paper. Most Overrated Musicians Of All Time (or something quite similar) was the article, & Otis Redding was also included, fwiw. Corcoran got a tiny bit of cred for documenting something in the Austin scene once upon a time and rides it to this day. The article in question was so ludicrous, such a combination of obviousness & obliviousness that it was impossible to tell if it was tongue in cheek or not. Corcoran "left" the paper a bit afterwards. Nobody objected.

go ahead and get it. But use the store's restroom while you're there, just to get something extra outta the deal.

It's almost "easy listening". Get it, but don't pay too much.

Perseverate.

Yeah, Bill Evans taught Leon Russell everything he kn9ows, and vice-versa.