JSngry

Charlie showed me the trailer a few weeks ago, rather excitedly, actually, and you know what? It looks like a video game. EXACTLY like a video game. For those of us who haven't had our perceptions of "reality" shaped in some kind of way by video games, this might be off-putting, but there's a whole generation (or two) on whom the medium has had a profoundly McLuhan-esque effect. So I'd keep that in mind, fwiw, the medium being the message and all... And about Reeves, sorry, but both Bill & Ted movies are on my "always watch" list whenever they're on TV. No, they're not "good", but that's at once besides the point and exactly the point. Part of a well-balanced pop culture imbibement, I'd say.

Not a problem, I'm here to help. Now, let's see if you can tell me which one's Kramer: Kick out the Junior Mints!

BTW, that Baalbeck DVD comes highly recommended, and not just for the music. There's some nice interviews with the players (including a longer-than-expected one w/Jamal), some footage of getting to and setting up for the gig which allows you to see the venue in the daylight, plus some views of said venue by night. NEver heard of this place before (I know, damn provincial American... ) but good lord, what an INTERESTING place to play a jazz gig!

Did some pokin' around and communicating yesterday and got to hear a copy of this 2001 DIW release, a tenor power trio led by drummer Alex Deutsch with Jamaaladeen Tacuma on bass. Pretty slammin' funk grooves mostly (but far from exclusively), and Garzone confronts the music any/every way but predictably, going from off-center R&B to straight out free, with stops in between, always with incredible control over his instrument and his expressions. A most enjoyable date. Those who, like me, dig Odean Pope's trio work w/Gerald Veasy & Cornell Rochester will likely find this to their liking as well. It's the "same thing only different", if you know what I mean.

One request, though. When I first started looking to listen to the show live, I was under the ignuntazz assumtption that Indiana was in the Central Time Zone. Needless to say, I got the experiential experience of "Tune in at this same time next week, and you'll hear the end of the show again".... So, maybe tag a "EST/EDT" designator on your signature?

Sounds like they're using an alternate edit rather than an alternate take. If both were contemporaneously released in some format, then I suppose they're fair game for a "complete" set, although they should be properly labelled. But otherwise, calling it an "alternate take" is nothing more than flase advertising.

A few weeks ago, I was watching the Baalbeck DVD, and was struck by how Jamal's music really offers a totally different concep of jazz improvisation. It's not so much about playing the head and then going of into a series of solos as it is about constantly playing/paraphrasing the melody in different ways, and the improvisational element comes not just from the lead voice, but from the trio as a whole. In other words, the nature of his music is focused more on spontaneous arrangement than spontaneous composition. It's at once less and more complicated than the usual approach to jazz improvisation, and it's an approach that I think that most jazz musicians couldn't handle for any sustained period of time.

OH Yeah!

They might not have been tendencies, but I do think they were implications.

If you know you can do anything you want to do, what do you have to look forward to? Plenty, but did anybody make this kid realize that? Or did everybody just turn him loose to go where he already knew he could go? Failure is sometimes a beautiful thing.

The original Acid Jazz

Maybe Stevie Wonder is their target consumer and they figured that he'd not notice the change.

And, as I remember, April's showers are used to water Billy May's flowers.

Ok, I wanna be fair. I'll go up to $64.95 AND free postage. Deal?

And David, the love is reciprocal.

IOUs?

Well, $99 was too much for me in the first place, and I know you don't want to take a loss, so how does $75 sound?

Carol Burnet?

You wonder why so many people were getting high in the 70s? Hell, it was to numb the freakin' pain!

Yet I couldn't add another thumbs up to the above multiquote. Too much math for R&B!

YES! Me three! [Tried to post 15 thumbs-ups, but that's "more emoticons than this board allows" -- but certainly not more EMOTION !!! ] I wonder if quoted images count. Let's see...

That's 19 total, the most I could get in. 12 quoted & 7 new [edit - 20 actually, 13 $ 7, missed the smiley]. Yet a new post can only allow 10 images. I guess that since that consisted of 3 quotes, that the individual images in each quote are viewed as a single image. Anybody know how this stuff works?

YES! Me three! [Tried to post 15 thumbs-ups, but that's "more emoticons than this board allows" -- but certainly not more EMOTION !!! ] I wonder if quoted images count. Let's see...

Nope...