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Christy Mathewson Walter Johnson Pete Richert

So, let's celebrate life.

Binky Griptite is one of the greatest show business names in the history of the world.

Yes, worthy of Jim McKay.

My grandfather on my mother's side was named William Fritz. He died when I was seven, but if he had lived long enough, I could have started calling him Yusef Ahmad. And then I would be the dead one.

Yes, Denver. And now he's dead: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=e...6lr%3D%26sa%3DN

He just retired from touring after doing about ten years with Herbie Mann, returned to his home town (Can't remember where that was). Denver?

Is she the lady who sometimes wears a ballerina outfit on her gigs? I've heard good things about her from people I trust.

You think it was just a lucky coincidence that George Fenniman asked Buckley to sing a little bit of "A-Tisket..."? I don't.

"Feeling comfortable" in a particular bag is not necessarily something all musicians want at all points in their lifes.

Kurds Elizabeth W. Hey Little Miss Muffett

Have you ever heard the album? It's....uh....loud.

Kenton/Wagner/Richards They say these type things come in threes...

Oh god man, don't let them hear you say that. They'll take it as a challenge and actually do it.

No man, what I meant was that on any given big-band CD, KNTU will pick the cut/cuts that sound most like what the Lab Bands want big bands to sound like. Those two cuts I heard fit that bill to a tee, especially "Buddy Boo", which was one of my first jazzloves in the original Chico Hamilton incarnation. The original was nice and coy, this big band version was bright and obvious. I'm sure there's other, less... blatant music on the album. Oh well. The only time I listen to KNTU any more is on Sunday nights, for the House music show. That they do right. I've been a fan of Collette in general, and highly recommend his "oral history" cd (2-cd set to be specific). An invaluable document.

Opal Nations (of Pewburner Records) Opaz Opie

uh-oh-OH!

I heard "Buddy Boo" and one other thing on KNTU for a couple of days last summer and kinda thought that the band overpowered/overplayed the writing. But that was just two songs, and KNTU, propaganda orifice of the Lab Band Mafia that it is, would be prone to programming something like that anyways. Are there ballads? I'd like to hear that.