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Chuck praising a record with Michael Brecker AND Roy Hargrove on it? Jeez, just when you think you know a guy....

Yeah, I can't say that I'd buy all of her CDs (or even one), but what she's doing certainly seems like a step forward in guitar technique and stuff like that. I mean, she's doing the tapping thing AND percussion AND all this other stuff with just a guitar. Truly fascinating, if only for the process...

Ok, my mouse accidentally landed on the last (i.e. - farthest right) blue square of somebody's "ranking" scale or whatever you call it, and this little yellowish vertical rectangle with a circle towards the top of it popped up. Move the mouse away, and the image goes away. Happens for all members. Can't click on it or anything, it just shows up. Looks like an i-Pod, actually. What is it?

I also wonder what being married to Chan was like for Woods, at least early on. Think about it - you're an alto player/Bird disciple, and here you are ****ing Bird's ##### not TOO terribly long after the body went cold. Even if it was pure love (and I have no reason to think otherwise) that would HAVE to be some wied shit, at least early on. like the Lenny Bruce line about "yeah, man, I got Bird's axe", only a LOT heavier. I mean, not only are you now competing with Bird's PLAYING... TOO wierd.

My son hipped me to this woman, who does on accoustic what Stanley Jordan did on electric, only at a higher (and extended) level, I think. Maybe there's precedence for this type of thing outside of the jazz world, but I'm unaware of it if there is (and would welcome edification thereof). Is it "jazz"? Well, my son just showed me two video clips from her website, and I'd have to say "Yes, no, maybe, maybe not, WHO CARES?" The woman's definitely got a thing happening, and it's MUSICAL, so there. Labels are for soup cans, right? Check it out: http://www.kakiking.com/ This ain't no Shooby Taylor freakishness, either. This is some seriously serious shit! Thank you, Charlie. You're keeping me young. Sometimes...

Like she knew what (or who) was coming?

Regardless of how they were billed, pretty much every Joe Turner Pablo album was a jam session. This one might not be good, but it is definitely GREAT: Call the plumber!!!

And a veteran of how many years on the road? And how many more years on the road were to come (and a lot of them with Benny Goodman!)? After a while, some guys erect a bulletproof musical shield around themselves, just to keep going in a functional manner. Not saying that's what Zoot did, necessarily, but I've seen it happen more than a few times, and Zoot at 31 had a LOT of miles under his belt, figuratively and literally. Plus, I wonder what part the realization that his type of playing was slowly but surely becoming "passe" (to use an overly broad word, but not as it applies to the popular taste of the time) played in whatever retrenchment, such as it was, that happened. He had to sense that his musical "youth" was over, and that does wierd things to people sometimes, too. As for Woods, I have no excuse, and neither the need or inclination to look for one. But as I've stated elsewhere, I think he remained an involving player until roughly around the time he returned from Europe. A DIFFERENT player, to be sure, but an involving one nevertheless, one in whose playing I hear a lot of tension and inner turmoil, not doubt not a little of it coming from the musical double life he was leading and how that played off of what he no doubt started out wanting to be. But after he came back from Europe and accepted his position as "Great Jazz Altoist" and cut out all the musical tension in his career, I think he got just plain silly. No comments on the Fathead/Zoot similarity? It struck me when I was listening to Zoot's solo on "On The Alamo" from the Benny Goodman Moscow album a few years ago. Their phrasing impulses (which is what I call how, when, and where, a player decides when and how to begin, end, and shape a phrase) seemed quite similar, and the more I thought about it, the more I heard it in other places.

Who said it? Warne Marsh?

Said by Frank Zappa. Open to debate, apparently: http://home.pacifier.com/~ascott/they/tamildaa.htm

Why, so her rear end can go up in flames? She's already GOT that bigass brush for crissakes!

Now THAT'S disgusting!

Yeah, what else can you do with that besides make oatmeal creme?

Little Debbie done BEEN all growed up. Little Debbie got the DEVIL in her heart!

And look at the size of that baseball bat and that karakoke mike/personal massager/whatever it is that her party pals come to the door with! I tell you - Little Debbie got the DEVIL in her heart!

Jimmy Noone played like Don Patterson at one time? Damn, you DO have an extensive collection!

I see that Little Debbie's door swings both ways! Little Debbie got the DEVIL in her heart!

Little Debbie® is fresh from the horse show with her pony Oatmeal Creme - and they've won a blue ribbon! Little Debbie® comes dressed in overalls and gingham shirt, boots and trademark straw cowgirl hat. Oatmeal Creme comes with a saddle, bridle, blanket, brush and includes a blue bow around the tail. http://www.littledebbie.com/shop/Breyer_OatmealCreme.asp Is this a porn movie waiting to happen, or what? "Oatmeal Creme" inDEED! Little Debbie got the DEVIL in her heart!

Driving a car from your bed to your toilet?

"YEE-HA!!!!"?

Lester Bowie?

Donald Byrd - ROYAL FLUSH

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