JSngry

Dude, if I found a PC that could buy Mosaics, I'm not so sure I'd turn it down...

Same.

But it's my only line!

Ok, ciagrette tax ain't gonna fly here, so I'll drop it. Puff, puff, puff... But the eduaction thing - explain to me why it's advantageous to get my fellow citizens educated and then discourage them from driving once they are. And what about mass transit? Does a bus get taxed as a single entity, or does every rider pay the same tax? And what about people who can't get to where they need to go by bus? And do we cut a break for people who have to drive to and from work, and just tax the "recreational" driving? OOPS! There goes a helluva lot of shopping, dining out, movies, and such. The already fragile economy just got more fragiler! It's one of those concepts that sounds like it's fair, and a REALLY good idea, but it's really not. Not unless you want to shrink the notion of community, and that ain't the way of the world these days...

Why should people who don't have kids in school subsidize those who do? For that matter, why should people who buy cigarettes subsidize those who don't?

Time to start practicing driving in reverse...

Thanks, Bertrand. Given that this album is 45 years old, your description of these people as "elderly" today leads me to think that they are the same ones as on the album. If they have stories to tell, now might be the time to get them to do so...

OUTSOURCING!!!!

Dude, I know where you're coming from, but that's kind of a, uh... weird way to put it...

Fresh, interesting, exciting, up to the minute, expoloratory, compelling, intriguing, unpredictable yet ultimately welcoming, everything you'd want in modern music. Tape loops, samples, deconstructions, reconstructions, studio post-production assemblies, splicng galore, digital madness, everything you might not want in modern music (don't bother me none, though!). Roy Campbell, Vijay Iyler, Andrew Lamb, Guillermo E. Brown, a.o. Not that any of them "solo", much less survive intact. Again - everything you might not want in modern music (don't bother me none, though!). Just had a few listens, but so far, I'm tempted to call this the ON THE CORNER of the Post-Hip Hop Century. Yeah, it's THAT kind of a thing. If you're still interested (much less reading) after THAT comment odds are good that you owe it to yourself to check this puppy out. It's good. DAMN good. The tradition LIVES, even if it has morphed one HELL of a lot. If you ask me, that's how it's supposed to happen. Check it out!

The spoken intros from GREAT CONCERT are worth the price of admission themselves. Put me down as a "Chill Of Death" kinda guy, too.

God, looking at those pictures (other than the one of "Cousin Barbara" - meeEEEEEOW!!!), all I can say is that I really DO hope I die before I get old. If it's not already too late, that is...

The THREE BLIND MICE CD version was first issued on LIVE MESSENGERS, a BN two-fer LP from 1978.

There's a cat around here named Robert Sanders who played jazz recorder.

For the jazz cassettes?

Sorry Jim. The 50 year limit is up on some already and some fellow in Europe named Jordi has 'em. Well, at least I can get them cheap!

No dude, that's DON Kirschner, the cat who brought us The Monkees & the great Neil Sedaka comeback of the 70s. One of the all-time greats. Where would music be without him? Bill Kirchner's a very talented cat.

Lo and BE-hold, he's on this Don McLean album as is WILLIS JACKSON!!!

He also solos on the Mingus Bohemia thing on Debut/Prestige/OJC.

It's one to have, but far from the first one.

Ah yes, Budd. How could I forget!

Well, ok, not to quibble (although it will sound like I am), but in, say, 1945, or 1946, who WAS playing bebop tenor? There were bebop records being made, and there were tenor players on some of them. Dexter? Not exactly bebop, not yet. Moody? A little soon, still. Pretty much, you had Byas & Lucky Thompson. Not even Hawk at his most modern in those years sounded as organic to the music as Byas did. My point, such as it is, is not that Byas played what came to be known as bebop. We can see that today, clearly. But that there for a few years, when certain elements of the style were still "open for negotiation" so to speak, if you heard a bebop record, and it had a tenor player, and that tenor player was playing "state of the art" in the context, odds are almost overwhelming that it was Don Byas. Of course, other players eventually figured out (or, more likely, decided to) bring the Bird thing all the way over to tenor, and that's when Byas' playing began to be less than state-of-the-art in the idiom (I'll discount the whole "Brothers" school in terms of actually being "bebop" per se, although that's certainly not something I'll go to the mat for). Actually, "bebop" might not be the right word, but I do think that "modern", in the context of the time frame, is. Which goes to the point of Byas' influence. If you're a young tenor player in 1946, and you're eating up all the bebop (or semi-bebop) records, who are are you going to use as a role model on your instrument if you don't want to go the Prez route or the Jacquet one? You buy those Dizzy RCA sides, and there's Don Byas sounding totally modern. You buy some Continental things, there's Don Byas, doing the same. etc. Ten years later, yeah, you've absorbed some more stuff, some "truer" bebop. But at the time, who've you got? Don Byas & Lucky Thompson (who like I said, showed a strong Byas prediliction early on). So waht I'm saying is that, before all the dust settled, for a little window of time, Don Byas WAS the modern tenor voice. The fact that he didn't remain that might have been a contributing factor to the bitterness he's said to have carried with him until the end. That's my take on it, anyway. Happy to hear, and learn from, other's opinions.

Hey, mental problem or not, they're both legal. If she is a psycho, it's his problem now, not ours.

Spyware is a real problem (not necessarily for this program, but in general...) The other day one of my kds downloaded (without permission, of course ) the new "hot" file-sharing thing called Lime-something or another, and WHOA, spyware all OVER that thing. Over 250 files and registry entries worth. Took me 3 days to get everything fully cleared up/off. Insidious, that's what it is. So I'm a little antsy about anything involving "free software" downloads such as this right now...