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It's Jazz at the Leeharmonic!

From this thread: Unless I'm reading this wrong, today's your birthday. Right? If so, let me wish you a Happy Birthday, and the sincerest thanks for all the thought-provoking commentary and keen insight you've provided over the years. It's not hyperbole for me to say that, although I'd have been a musician without your writing, I'd not have been the same kind of musician, and definitely not the same kind of thinker. Happy Birthday, and much, MUCH thanks!

Stapler.

The CIRCLING IN BN 2-fer now available for $7.99: http://www.dustygroove.com/jazzlp.htm#28312

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/16/business.../16cred.html?th Card Seem at Risk? Try a Stunt Double By JENNIFER BAYOT Published: May 16, 2004 After days of searching the Internet, Gen Tanabe of Palo Alto, Calif., found the rare 19th-century memoir he wanted to buy for his father for Christmas last year. But he had no intention of giving the Web site his credit card number. "The site looked like it might have been run by a teenager in a back room," said Mr. Tanabe, who writes books about college planning and financial aid. "I didn't know how secure it was, or what they would do" with the number. Online vendors typically encrypt credit card numbers at their Web sites, but the numbers must be decoded later to receive payment. And they are often stored in databases that may be vulnerable to hackers or dishonest employees long after the purchase. What if there was a way to fool those who would try to fool us, so that purchases could be made online without any danger of card numbers falling into the wrong hands? A few companies are trying such a plan: think of it as the stunt-double approach to online shopping. Anyone with a credit card from Citibank, MBNA or Discover can request a temporary account number for use when buying online, by telephone or mail order. The temporary numbers are linked to customers' real accounts, but they generally expire after one use, unless the cardholder requests otherwise - for example, by placing a spending limit on the number. Cardholders can get these numbers in one of two ways, depending on their issuer. They can download software that generates such numbers upon request or upon detecting that a cardholder is at the checkout page of an online retailer. Or, in the case of Citibank, which is owned by Citigroup, they can also register online, then revisit the company's site each time they want a new number. To avoid giving his real card number to that small online bookstore, Mr. Tanabe, 32, used a temporary number to buy the present for his father. "I probably wouldn't have bought it otherwise," he said. The temporary numbers can also prevent retailers from renewing purchases like magazine subscriptions or gym memberships without issuing reminders. Many customers forget that vendors may automatically charge their customers' credit cards for such recurring fees. Fraud remains a big concern for many online shoppers. In a survey of 12,000 consumers at the end of 2003, Forrester Research, based in Cambridge, Mass., found that about two-thirds were "very or extremely concerned" about the theft of their credit card numbers during online activity. Chris Hoofnagle, a lawyer for the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, says such temporary numbers ease those worries. Mr. Hoofnagle says he has used them himself, to prevent online retailers from keeping his card number in their files. "If the company stores your credit card number, that database just becomes a honey pot" for hackers, he said. The temporary numbers, he said, also make him more comfortable buying from newer or unfamiliar vendors. The free service has been available for more than a year, but few people seem to know about it. "I think if you interview 100 consumers, you'll find 100 consumers who've never heard of it," said John Gould, director of consumer lending and bank cards for the TowerGroup, a research company based in Needham, Mass., that was acquired recently by MasterCard. Industry analysts say consumers tend to rely on other protections - including the card companies' promise not to charge them for fraudulent transactions. Last month, in fact, American Express stopped offering its temporary-numbers program, called Private Payments, saying that other safety features already offered plenty of fraud protection. Some consumers may think that their credit card accounts are safe because retailers encrypt their card data at the time of purchase. Though the numbers may then be safe in transit, retailers must still decode the numbers to collect payment. Mr. Gould says it is impossible to ensure that all retailers take the next step: encrypting the numbers again, according to rules set by the card networks. "This is too big a territory to patrol; in the U.S. alone, you've got over 400,000 merchants online," he said. "You've always got the issue of the merchant who is careless. But the real problem is, you've got the merchant who's a fraudster, whose intent is to steal your information." ANALYSTS also suggest that the card issuers have done little to promote the feature because customers pay nothing for it. But the companies say that the numbers are still relatively new and need time to catch on, especially because their use requires some effort. "And since it's not being offered by every issuer, you just don't have the repetition or frequency to get people talking about it," said Steve Furman, director of marketing e-commerce at Discover Card. Although many consumers say they worry about fraud risks, some may not want to bother with temporary account numbers. "Consumers will tell you one thing and do another," said James F. McCarthy, senior vice president for emerging products at Visa. "There is only so much they will do to protect themselves." Citibank refers to its temporary numbers as virtual account numbers; information is available at www.citibank.com/us/cards/tour/ cb/shp_van.htm. Discover, meanwhile, calls them single-use numbers and offers them on its Deskshop page (www2.discovercard.com /deskshop). MBNA customers can create the numbers through the company's online ShopSafe program (www.mbnashopsafe.com). The companies have tried to make the numbers easier to use. A cardholder can now charge monthly phone bills and other recurring payments to the same disposable number, rather than entering a new one each time. Similarly, a cardholder can register a number with a favorite merchant for continued use only with that merchant. "You'll never need to reveal your actual credit card number again," said Amy Radin, executive vice president for the e-business unit of Citi Cards, a division of Citigroup.

From Dusty Groove again: The title's possibly a bit misleading here -- as the record's not so much a memorial to Dolphy, but a repackaging of sides that were repackaged originally as such in the 60s! If that's not confusing enough, let us just explain that the set features 9 tracks from Dolphy's important recordings for Alan Douglas -- tunes that have shown up over the years in a variety of formats, but which are probably most famously known under the album titles Iron Man and Jitterbug Waltz. The format of the work is quite unusual -- and at times is closer to Dolphy's Blue Note recordings than most of his other work of the period -- with an approach that is both spiritual and angular, always touched with Dolphy's keen sense of modernism. Players include Clifford Jordan, Sonny Simmons, Prince Lasha, Richard Davis, and Bobby Hutcherson -- and titles include "Love Me", "Ode To CP", "Mandrake", "Iron Man", "Burning Spear", and "Music Matador".

Now at Dusty Groove (and tell me that THIS ain't some choice hypeage...): What can we say, with a line up like this? Lee Morgan leads an astounding combo here that includes Dizzy Gillespie's Orchestra -- and some of the best players of the period! The line of trumpets includes Talib Ahmad Dawud, Carl Warwick and others behind Lee & Diz, Ray Connors, Al Grey and others on Trombone, Pee Wee Moore on baritone, Wynton Kelley on piano, and perhaps the groups most unsung hero Charlie Persip on drums -- who just kills it on these tracks! A great live testament of a great group, and that's just about all there is to it. 16 tracks in all, running 78 minutes! Includes "A Night In Tunisia", "Autumn Leaves", "Dizzy's Business", "Anitra's Dance", "Begin The Beguine", "Left Hand Corner", "Yesterdays", "Wonder Why", "Cool Breeze", "Birk's Works", "Whisper Not", "That's All", "I Remember Clifford" and more. So Dizzy's orchestra was a combo, and Lee was leading it? So, I DON'T have this, but where/how else has it been issued?

Uh, I forget...

Recieved via e-mail: Monday May 17 2004Â 8:00P Dixieland Digs Ornette Phil Schaap, host Hear the music of Ornette Coleman--the originator of "Free Jazz" whose work was noted for its insistent focus on simultaneous improvisation. The traditional Dixieland jazz band features (tentative lineup): E. Dankworth, trumpet; Roswell Rudd, trombone; Ken Peplowski, saxophone/clarinet; Kenny Davern clarinet | Randy Sandke trumpet | Wycliffe Gordon tuba Greg Cohen, bass and others 129 West 67th Street (between Broadway and Amsterdam) Merkin Concert Hall Tel: (212) 501 3340 Fax: (212) 501 3317 Box Office Tel: (212) 501 3330 Fax: (212) 501 3378 Box Office Hours: Sunday - Thursday: 12-7pm

Matt, you hear a lot more in Potter's playing than I do.

The "Creativity...." piece is found here: http://www.downbeat.com/artists/artist_mai...e=Wayne+Shorter

I played a few gigs w/her when she lived here in the DFW area. She's good, not great. But considering the competition these days, she's better than most.

Family commitments prevent me from making the FW show, dammit.

Thanks for that, Mike. That fits perfectly w/what I hear of Smith on this album.

Wow. Larry, as a teenager who soaked up damn near every word of every article/review in DB back in those days, that sticks, along w/Litweiler's Mobley piece, as one of the most memorable pieces of writing of the lot. Especially the phrase "What I hear on this album is a musician trying to disappear. I wish he wouldn't." I remember surreptitiously reading that in, I think, my sophmore World History class and thinking that this was a phrase that would someday be considered "historic" in its own right. And you forgot about it! Although we fundamentally (but respectfully) disagree about Wayne's post-Miles work, I have to say that that review, especially that closing phrase, is perhaps the most cogent exposition of the "disappointment with Wayne" faction I've ever come across. And you forgot about it! What I hear is the sound of a great critic trying to disappear. I wish he wouldn't. B)

An pretty convincing argument could be made that the post WWII concept of "Soul Music", that genre-ignoring blend of Gospel, R&B, and Jazz, either began w/Dinah, or at least that she was one of the very first to purvey the message. Did she EVER sing anything that sounded less than natural?

A pretty interesting cat. I first heard of him through some student "stage band" charts that he wrote for Alfred Publishing back in the early 1970s. Nothing too remarkable, but they served their purpose well. Around that same time, I picked up the Everest L of the Mingus Period album and noticed the name, There was such a differencebetween what "John LaPorta" was into there and what "John LaPorta" was writing for student jazz ensembles that I wondered if it was the same guy! Heard him on the Crown Woody Herman "tribute" album, and as a member of Woody's 40s band, and played out a few of his method books back in my student days. What I found most interesting about him was the tale told in the Warne Marsh bio An Unsung Cat, was how he was studying w/Tristano and was able to essentially tell Lennie to fuck off when Tristano's "mind control" techniques got out of control. Not many people seemed to have been able to do that. Gotta get that autobiography.

Looks like the saxes are (from L-R): Billy Mithchell, Frank Wess, Marshall Royal, & Frank Foster. Sonny Payne's on drums.

The VERY best doublers might well be guys who don't have a jazz profile.

Natural.

So, Jim, how did you even come to hear about the "Fifth Third Bank" in the first place??? -- being that you're a Texahioan and all. On the striaght job I'm working, we get a lot of checks from Ohioans written on this bank, and the name has always struck me as totally bizarre. Now that I know how that name came to be, it strikes me as being even MORE bizarre.

Although one brief solo on a Bardot side is not the evidence with which I'd care to use to come to a definitive conclusion , that sounds about right!

What's the story behind the name of the Fifth Third Bank?