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That melody that Trane starts singing...wow....

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Yeah. The Urban Cave.

Jim: Read the first post again. He said that you can bring the artists with you, not just the records. In other words, you can take Monday with you! Still not going? OOOOOOHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

Why is everybody in such a hurry to get to these desert islands?

Must've been Bingo Night at the Cave...

I appreciate how that article focuses on his compositions. I've long felt that the best of his WR compositional output forms a body of work that goes far beyond "just" tunes to jam on. We're looking at a new (even though it's been 30 or so years now, you still gotta consider it "new" just because few, if anybody, have followed up on it) form of composition for a new type of instrumentation, one that delves into the ensemble possibilities of synths to create a new kind of "big band" format. It's a logical extension of the possibilities of a B-3 combined withthe "big band writing for small combo" style of Horace Silver. Yeah, Zawinul's deep. Not everything he's done has been deep, not even, but oh well. The guy hears things that "nobody else" does. Ignore him at your own risk.

Hal Singer Lee Morgan C.H. Guenther

Can't you make an electronic payment for the minimum over the weekend? Check this out - I have a Bank Of America bill due 12/31. Says right there on the bill: Payment Due Date: 12/31/2006So I go to make an online payment & it says thta the payment will be credited Jan 2, since 12/31 is not a business day. Fuck that. I'll pay by phone, take the hit on the fee, and be done with it. Nope. Same deal. Make it on 12/30, get credited for 01/02. I'm talking to some CS zombie and I ask him straight up - Define "Payment Due Date". "That's the last day you can make your payment and not have it considered late." "So why is a payment made before the Payment Due Date going to be considered late?" "Because the Payment Due Date falls on a Weekend" "So it's not really the Payment Due Date then, is it." "Yes, it's still the Payment Due Date." "So you're telling me that words on a piece of paper have no real meaning then, right?" "No, that's not what I'm saying." "You're a liar, aren't you." "No sir, I'm not. Is there anything else I can help you with?" "Yeah, you can get your head out of your ass before it gets stuck there permanently." Click.

Indeed. And this is an amazing album:

A party that comes naturally, as opposed to one you gotta suit up for. Among other htings...

Geez man, I was wondering when the discs were going out... Anyhoo... Just finished both downloads. Don't expect any problems burning. Glad I looked in!

I was born into it. My parents had the RCA Glenn Miller AAF box for as long as I can remember. They might have even had it a few months before I was born. Had an aunt who gave me her copy of The Kenton Era when I was 15. Got the first Smithsonian set in 1974 as a high school graduation present. First one I ever bought myself was, I think, the WB Bird Dial set. That was 1976, iirc, maybe 1977.

Pretty sure the tune is a Bird Verve thing. "Segment", "Diverse", something like that. Not sure who's version is on the jukebox.

Yep.

I'm not poor, thank you. I got me some money, and I'd like more. I'm all for motherfuckers making BIGASS bucks, including myself. But there's different ways to make it, and not all ways have the same outcome on society. Quanity is not the issue. Quality is. And that's very much a matter of priorities and discernment. Collective priorities right now suck, and discernment is so narrow in scope as to render the word all but meaningless. "Revolution of the mind" is an oldass phrase, but it ain't obsolete. Not yet. If it is, take me home.

Buy a lot of Sony & Univedrsal stock and start acting a fool? Seriously, I don't know. I don't own any stocks myself, other than a few options granted through my job. But somebody's gotta start making enough noise of the type that starts putting corporate decisions that so many people don't like (and in their hearts probably feel are wrong) in a negative enough light that it starts to have an adverse effect on image, which in turn should translate to a negative impact on stock prices. That will get their attention. Think about it - the only real reason so many of these decisions are getting made is that the common comatosity dictates maximum profit uber alles. Perception driving reality driving perception. Change the perception, change the reality, and in turn change the perception. Why doesn't "Megacorp announced today that it will be be be brining back 2500 jobs to America that it had outsourced" cause a rise in Megacorp's stock price? Because everybody's convinced themselves that it shouldn't. If enough people would say, "Hey, you GO Megacorp, bring those jobs back home!" and start buying Megacorp's stock as a show of support, then hey, stock prices go up, right? Pretty soon, GiantInc says, "DAMN, we gotta keep up w/Megacorp. We better bring some jobs back home too!" And on and on it goes. New perception creates the new reality that drives the new perception. Yeah, I know it's not that simple, and yeah, I know it's not that easy. But we didn't get where we are today w/o collectively buying into a perception that created a reality that created a perception. Shit don't have to be this way. So I'm saying that we need to buy out of the old and into the new. Just make it happen, one step at a time, and don't quit until we get there. If we can't do it, then that's admitting that we have absolutely no control over our destiny, and I ain't buying that shit for one motherfukkin' minute. In the words of the Profhet Nike - Just Do It.

Dude, I know you're a good guy, no question about that. So I'm not busting you personal chops on this. But... It's statements like the one above that contribute to the current climate, that give "the powers that be" the juice they need to go on ahead and do what they do w/o fear and w/o remorse. I guarantee you that that's the first line of defense when they get called on their bullshit - "We have a responsibility to our stockholders". And then when confronted, that's their first tact, to throw it back in your face - "Well, would you rather have a samller return on your investment than a larger one?" Like they're just doing your personal bidding in all this and you should by god THANK them for creating instability, distrust, and angst in the world you have to live in. And to the extent that nobody steps up to the plate and says WAIT JUST A MOTHERFUCKING MINUTE ASSHOLE, we want a return, we want to make money, we want you to make money, hell, we like money, we want everybody to make money, just not at the expense of the long-term health and stability of our society, then yeah, they're right. Thing is, this ain't nothing new. This is the oldest trick in the book, the work of the silver-tongued serpent who steals your soul under the guise of simply "giving you what you want". We can all claim that it's not our fault, but when the beast files the papers in the Case Closed drawer, it will simply smile and say "You had a choice and you made it. I just gave you what you wanted". Jan, I think you're not old enough to have lived for too long, if at all, in a pre-Reagan-era America. So this may well be all you know. But some of us are old enough and have memories long enough to know that although "business realities" are always going to be what they are, and something over which we ultimately have only a modicum of control, the degree to which those realities play themselves out are very much a matter of choice. A generation of Americans has been hypnotized into thinking that they don't have these choices, but I'm here to tell you right now that goddammit, you do. You do, I do, we all do.

"To ball" easily got past the censors because is was common slang for "to party". Among other things,...

Best!

Mine's beat with a stick too, but I found it at a Goodwill for 50 cents back in the early 80s, when James was considered passe and washed up. But damn it's good. If it's ever been reissued in Japan, I'd say that it's worth hunting down and paying a reasonable J-price for. In the meantime though, Hot On The One finds James in post-mountaintop HardPartyFunk mode with a great band and an enthusiastic Japanese audience playing both old faves and some of the cult classics from the mid-late 70s Polydor sides much more spiritedly than on those records. There's worse things in life.

Hell, there was a Walgreen's right there, why didn't she just grab a lozenge?

It is "sucky". It's a illusional/delusional "reality" that people buy into. It's a rationalization for simple, old-fashioned greed. And it has but one eventual outcome. Shareholders who value the notion of a "good-enough" profit that comes accompanied by things like long-term social responsibility and a respect for cultural values had better start speaking up loudly and immediately, before it's too late, if it's not already. WAKE UP!!!

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And the Del Shannon clip just confirmed a long-standing suspicion of mine. That cat was plian ol' WEIRD.