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Anything in any way notable ,or just another singer? As always, thanks in advance.

Chico Hamilton's a freakin' TRIP, baby!

I have it on good anecdotal evidence that at least one mortgage company's branch offices were set up to run like high pressure auto dealerships - if you walked in and walked out without signing something, somebody didn't do their job. Ain't no government pressure there...

Oooooh...that's the one that drives me up a wall! At least it's obvious that "the market" is not a person (I think), but this one really misleads people and screws up their thinking. Don't know why; it's just as obvious, but there it is. Well see, the assumption is that "the market" will act in perpetual self-interest, because "the market" is composed of free-willed individuals who would be crazy to engage in self-destructive business practices. But if they do, they will fail, a vacuum for "good" businesses will be created and, of course, filled. The fatal fallacy to that premise is the assumption that "the market" will equate "self-interest" with "sustainability". Well, hey, human history shows that when humans are left completely to their own devices for too long, with no external guidance, regulation, and/or "morality" imposed on them to some degree, "competition" inevitably devolves into "cannibalism". That all may be "natural", but there's a helluva lot of things that are "natural" that we've proven ourselves to be capable of evolving beyond - if only we accept the notion of the self as part of a larger, at least equally important, whole. Shit, the mafia has by and large figured out that when you have "enough", it's best to not get greedier, but to just keep the sustainability going on and on and on. There is enough to go around, dig, and if some get more than others, tough shit. It's when somebody gots nothing (so to speak) and somebody else still wants more from them that shit turns sour. Libertarianism is the Communism of the 21st century - sounds great on paper, appeals to all the right chords emotionally, but requires a perfected species in order to function as planned. Ain't gonna happen, and although I don't blame people for trying, I do blame them for believing.

Anybody else hearing about this? http://www.ifaonline.co.uk/public/showPage.html?page=815617

Good point.

Just voicing my opinion. "Thread Police" kinda bug me in general. Let it roll like it rolls. Remember that Great Day In Harlem board? They had pre-fab threads set up for damn near everybody. You wnated to post about earl Hines, you posted to the Earl Hines thread. You wanted to post about Mahavishnu, you posted....on some other board. Poit is, though, most of these people have enough diversity in their career (both while alive and what springs forth from after they pass) that I myself don't see the harm in having a thread about some guy's Don Ellis book, another one about Don Ellis Wounded Bird reissues, another one about any youTube clips that spring up, etc etc etc. I like the notion of event-specific threads as well as "artist corner" threads, no need not to have both. Just my opinion.

I guess I better delete this subject about Don Ellis. It brings too much discussion and emotion it seems ! Isn't it? Durium No, leave the thread, please. It serves its purpose perfectly well.

Anybody know if there's a connection between the weirdness on the Russian stock exchanges & our own financial teeteriness?

I wish Don Ellis had lived long enough to get to play with drum machines. That would've been something to scare everybody in one form or another, I'm sure.

I think we oughta just let people post. It's a bulletin board, not a textbook.

The track listeing seem to have been pulled from the CDU page: http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=7748906

This is too serious an issue to play "gotcha" on, because there are indeed "ties" enough to go around, and I do believe that we are just seeing the tip of the economic crisis iceberg (just saw Sec. Paulson blame the "housing crisis", but damn, in my highly unsophisticated eyes, we just ain't got no real money, period, except them at the very, very top, the rest of us live on paychecks and credit cards and whatever little bit we can save or "invest", Countrywide collapses, stockholders get screwed, but Mozillo & Sambol get gazillions and perks, and they ain't unique)), but on this specific matter, Johnson was gone a long time ago, yet Davis remains, front & center. And Gramm... what will we do with Gramm that will not land us in jail or the electric chair? Phil Gramm is not your friend. Many other people may or may not be as well, but never, ever think that Phil Gramm is your friend. especially when it comes to your money.

Seek it. Find it. Buy it. Own it. LOVE it!

The more relevant question is what would Phil "Nation Of Whiners" Gramm do... and I think the answer comes out just about the same either way... (do I smell a move to the Political forum coming up?)

I used to work for Countrywide (payment processing, nothing to do with loan origination or brokering or anything like that, so DON'T SHOOT!!!). Still do, only now Countrywide is Bank Of America. Now BOA has bought Merrill Lynch, so I guess we gotta make room for the bull. As if we have room for any more...

Dude, how about that real-life celebrity chef commercial that comes out of nowhere? AWESOME!

You should've asked him if he had any "experiences" with The Third Wave....

Oh c'mon, somebody please look at this one. It's a hoot from start to finish!

Ah! One down! Nobody can ID the drummer?

Just to be more clear, the names are used in the consumer, not historical, sense.

http://classicshowbiz.blogspot.com/2008/09...ring-edgar.html Skip ahead to 24:55. Nifty. Or waatch the whole episode. Edgar Bergen was a funny MF.

Well, ok, I didn't even remember the song until I googled it.

FWIW, I just use the highest speed possible, and get good results 99.99% of the time.

I don't find Braxton at all "weird" or anything else of the sort. Never have. It's just that he has a lot fewer "filters" on his reality than most of us do on ours, which makes him only seem weird. The truth is quite the opposite. It's kinda like Texas seems weird if all you know is New York (or vice-versa) extrapolated out into...pretty much everything - time, space, politics, history, ethnomusicology, sports, animals, fungi, toenails, you name it. I've never found him weird, but I have found him shocking, stimulating, and more than a few times, incredibly damn funny. "Weird" to me is a feeling that somebody's "reality" is at root fundamentally at odds with mine, although not necessarily malevolently so. This has never been so with Braxton. Thinking about & contextualizing things in a manner which I would never have considered myself? Yeah, absolutely. But weird? Nah. Not even. So I'd say: If I like omnicity, then I'll LOVE the Anthony Braxton set