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Seriously, I'm looking forward to this. I've got no idea how good it will or won't be, but two albums in two years from Sonny (even if one was a live tape), that's an encouraging sign. And Bret Primack deserves major kudos for getting Sonny a web presence, as well as for seemingly assuming the role of the cat who's going to "nudge" Sonny here and there when nudging is called for.

Is Sonny Lester the son of Bobby Lester?

I've got that album (great stuff imo) but have never actually looked at the personnel or read the liner notes.

the Moonglows kicked both they ass.

Really! That's a connection I wouldn't make.

Well, the ringtones sound good: http://www.sonnyrollins.com/sonnyrollins_ringtones.php

Does he box on it? Or was he getting boxes from the food pantry? This thread has suddenly gotten very confusing...

Roy Clark Clark Kent Kent Carter

Who are the Cole Bear family?

What was the connection between Bill Dixon & Jimmy Cheatham?

Sounds reasonable to me.

Zsa Zsa Gabor Eva Gabor Gabor Szabo

Buy one, then steal the other. Wait a few months and do the same thing in reverse. Then donate the stolen sets to a public library. Win-win, unless you're the one getten stolen from. But that too can be fixed over time.

If you flunk out of college, rather than just failing one class, you've got other problems than Cecil Taylor.

Thanks for the heads-up. I didn't know that, but will be on the lookout for it.

Nope. I don't do movies (or TV, if that's what it was on) too much any more. Just a few HBO series, Earl & The Office on NBC, MSNBC & TCM on and off, and sports, that's it for TV. For movies, I'm just like "eh....". Almost all the stories have been told already. the special effects are better, but the acting ain't. And what I probably should see, LTB usually ends up bringing home from Blockbuster eventually. Charlie made me watch Kung Fu Hustle the other night thought (against all my protestations, I might add), and that ended up being a gas. So I can be had. I'm a lot of fun, really. Make your ass laugh all night long, tell you some good stories, drink you under the table w/o getting sloppy, all that good stuff. But if I ever end up single again (god forbid), I'm gonna have a helluva time convincing a woman to go out with me, because "dinner and a movie" ain't for me.

Pussy Galore Odd Job Dr. No

Yeah, "White Stripes" I know. I jsut didn't know that they each had their own names...

Oh. I should've just asked my son.

Henny Penny Loosie Goosie Ned Flanders

Forgive my ignorance, but who is Jack White?

Jermain Taylor James Taylor Jimmy James & The Vagabonds

You can improvise and still be practicing. Has to do with the intent, parameters, and direction of the improvising. Are you "working things out" or are you letting it all go and just playing? And yes, that does mean that a lot of "jazz" (most, actually) is ultimately just so much practicing in one form or another (which is not to say that this practicing does not have a beauty and validity of its own). The number of people who really play, who truly improvise w/o it being some form of "practicing" are few and far between. Hope no bubbles are being burst here.

Anybody heard from johnagrandy lately?