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A legendary film. Available on DVD (w/the Beach Boys footage restored!): http://www.thevideobeat.com/store/product_...products_id=467 You'll also want to see the "copycat" TNT Show produced by Phil Spector: http://www.thevideobeat.com/store/product_...products_id=467

David Frye Rich Little Mr. Big

A longtime fave. Definitely, I think, the most "accessable" of the coloborations w/Moncur. Downright playful in spots!

Just picked up Moods, and Chris Potter puts in an incredible cameo on one tune. I don't even care for Chris Potter (personal preference only, certainly a great player). But DAMN does he sound good here, loose and very intense at the same time. Dave Kikoski, a player I like a little more, has also done what I think is among his best work on a Monday side, Episodes In Color. Which has me wondering... Why is it that this type of music (I've been informed by my road partner Ira Bassett this evening that it CAN'T be pop because it's too good ) seems to open these players up in a way that "regular jazz" doesn't? I'd like to say that maybe it's because "regular jazz" is sorta, uh... not really relevant to these guys but they just haven't figured that out yet. But that seems a bit smug and harsh, even if it might accidentally be true... And if it should accidentally be even only microscopically true (which is probably the point, because, after all, "regular jazz" is forever going to be relevant to every living soul on the planet from now until the end of time, right?) , what might that mean for all the other youngish folks who keep running around trying to establish "straight ahead" cred in the 21st century? Maybe all it means is that it's easier to be yourself when you don't have the jazz police looking over your shoulder. Yeah, that's it. NWA had a point after all...

Cappy Dick Slylock Fox No Shit Sherlock

Jim, the new Collectors' Choice catalogue arrived Wednesday, and I see that they are offering The Hi-Lo's - Listen!, "their debut album for Starlite, which appears here on CD for the first time anywhere in the world! Includes June In January, Little White Lies, Fools Rush In, She's Funny That Way and more." I don't have any of those songs. By the way, it's $15.95. GREAT! That leaves one more Starlite album and one more Trend single.

Sick mind, Texas mind, same thing...

Not necessarily.

The Bobsey Twins Betty Boop Jessica Rabbit

A Mosaic Select type set of the Hi-Los pre-Columbia material (all of it owned by MCA/Universal/Whoever) would be kickass.

Hammond's attitudes towards thigs racial were (and still are) not at all uncommon among "white collar liberals". A weird, well-intentioned but ultimately insulting combination of a sublimated "noble savage" mindset, a less sublimated sense of envy that "these people" have what their life lacks in things "visceral", and the inevitable arrogance of presumed "rightness" on all things socio-political that comes from being in a position of privilige. That last onejust comes with the territory, it seems, and is found across the ideological spectrum. "Patronizing" is probably too weak a word to describe all the levels of wrong inherent in attitudes like Hammond's, but given the real lack of malevolent intent involved, I guess it'll do.

Never knew that Buck Hammer toured the Orient...

Just use Himmelstein's Settin' The Pace notes. The classics never go out of style.

Oh my god,yes! I remember the first time I heard the title track. August 1974, when I was moving into the dorm for my first semsester of college. Literally stopped me dead in my tracks, held me mesmerized, and shook my soul like few things have before or since, At the core of Billy's music is a feeling that life is a blessing, and that life is sacred, That's probably true of all great music (and lots of not-so-great music), but not too often does somebody have the courage and passion to state it so directly and unambiguously. At least not in the "secular" realm, which perhaps raises the question - is Billy Harper's music in the least bit "secular"? Truthfully, I don't think it is. What, if anything that "means" I don't know. But surely it means something.

Saint Mary Saint Joseph Allan Toussaint

Jesus (on the cross) Herbie Hancock Willie Bobo

I think he just bought (and listened to) that Four Freshmen Mosaic.

Randy Moss Don Mosse Dumbo

Nick Cave Fred Flintstone Fred Gladding

Games 2 & 3, Mavs make shots, control the pace of the game by doing so, and win. Games 1 & 4, Mavs shoot like shit, let the Suns set the pace by doing so, and lose. The Phoenix D didn't do squat to shut the Mavs down. Their own shooting impotence took care of that. Ought to be obvious what they have to do to get this thing done. They can. But will they?

How many people in the world have ever been named Thornel?

Yep.

I think the Mavs should beat Phoenix. Not sure about in how many games, though. Could be as little as 5. The Suns are the type of team the Mavs used to be until Avery got hold of them an taught them how to really play the game. Thing is, it's a team that hasn't fully internalized those lessons, and it's a team that will still occasionally lapse int their old ways. If they do that for too long in any one game, they'll lose that game. And if they do that for too long in too many games, they'll lose the series. Phoenix's shooters can and will take you out in a big hurry, and they can be counted on for at least one hot run per game. And Steve Nash. god blees him, is a freak. So yeah, the Mavs should beat Phoenix, and they should beat either Miami or Detroit. But it's far from a given. And until they do, some skepticism is indeed warranted. They've got to prove to everybody (especially themselves) that they have what it takes to maintain that championship focus. Hopefully the series against the Spurs was the big turning point that all of us Mavs fans hope it is. Only one way to find out. All I can say is this - there is nobody else I'd want coaching this team at this time than Avery Johnson. That's one helluva man.

Coke Escovedo Sheila E The Fantabulous Johnny C