JSngry

Time for a refill!

All kinds of shit ends up being something else. And yet life goes on.

Seems simple to me - if the $2500 max payout is explicitly presented to all players in a no-mistaking it place/manner, then the "erroneous deposit slip" metaphor would seem appropriate to me. Case closed. Otherwise, it's legitimized old-school Vegas mob shit, and I would encourage a negative publicity-generating campaign until somebody steps up & does the right thing.

Showmanship = physicality = just another means of expression = communication Of course, it'll vary widely based on the quality of both performer and audience (such is symbiosis, when it exists), but the point is that "regular" audiences (i'e. - people who don't participate in music as a purely "academic" exercise of pure intellectuality and/or theoretical analysis) are more than capable of receiveing messages from visual as well as from aural stimuli. A performing artist ignores this at his/her peril unless he/she is lucky enough to only perform for people who thorugh either natural inclination or behavioral modification are only capable of processing musical information through their ears. But otherwise, if the object is to communicate, then by all means, communicate by all means. In other words, sometime the "showmanship" is actually a part - to one degree or another - of the music, and looking at it as something "apart" is a mistake. Sometimes.

No "quality drop", even slight, between this material & the first-releaseds then?

You know who I'd like to see come back from the dead, open a big ol' can of Whoop Ass spinich, and then go all righteously Popeye and shit? Goddard Lieberson, that's who.

Slightly dissenting voice here re: Horizon. I find it "good", but not "great". Sparks don't really fly for me, here, they....just waft in the air. Same with Focal Point. I did see the same lineup w/Gary Bartz instead of Ford, and that was more like it. I would recommend the live stuff w/Azar Lawrence (on vinyl, so as to be spared some editing), but if Al's not into Sahara, I don't know...

Looks like Gen-X done sold us out agin.

I'm sorry, there must be some joke here that I'm not in on...

Dude - wake up. We are them now. I never fought in WWII...did you? No, and my dad never fought in WWI. This shit is not "cool" again. It's simply being repackaged to sell us back to ourselves. If it makes you or anybody else feel somehow "vindicated", go for it. But we are The Establishment now, and today's young people think we're just as out of it as we thought our folks were. Stuff like this leads me to believe they're right.

Dude - wake up. We are them now.

Uh...

THE RIGHT TIME (JEPHTE'S KING STREET VOKAL) Nothing to watch, really, just a great remix of a great song off a record. Donny McCaslin on tenor, btw.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=T8l3jJ8Pu3E

I'm still wondering... as in former WBEZ host? I believe so. No(?) As in Detroit altoist who makes a most intriguing cameo on James Carter's ...Baker's Keyboard Lounge side.

I'm still wondering...

Nitpicking indeed... What, is R&B that's played with professional polish by definition "not real" enough? What kind of vicarious thrills are we looking for anyway?

Not listed is Mariano's appearance on the track "Cruel To Be Kind" on this one:

Larry Smith still alive?

Rhythm.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=KDZtcUnSxr4 Oh HELL yeah!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jgH2E04PS5Q

http://youtube.com/watch?v=yfbhq5cvMUw Deal with it.

What, no Gypsy Kings?