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No problems here.

Oh. Sorry, my bad. So this is that "Anabolic Initiations for the Rest of Us" show on Fox then? Guess I need to watch more tv. Or not.

Crisis.

Whaddya mean "we"?

When did they drop Ed McMahon?

I doubt that, but I would bet that we'd not be so happy to call him everything but a chil of God. He doesn't suck. He's like Chuck Mangione - he's "competent". He's just not...relevant. At least not to the world I live in and the jazz I live with (past, present, and future). He would be more than easy to ignore if he wasn't so "elevated" as you put it, Ray. As it is, he's the most aggrivating kind of irritation - they kind who you would LOVE to ignore and let live in peace in their own parallel universe, but the kind who insists on being seen and heard everywhere all the time (in jazz terms, anyway). Icky-POOH! I'd love nothing more than for him to shut up and play his horn for those who enjoy hearing him do so. Then we could all live happily ever after.

With apologies to Lee Konitz, nothing else makes sense. Or AS much sense.

I'm tired. I'm always tired. Not enough hours in the day/night. No matter what I get done, it's never enough. There's always more. Subtract 4, add 15. No end in sight. I've got my world on a string (and it ain't mine). Fuck this.

Please post frequently.

I wish I had time to go fishing.

No, THIS is baiting:

The seller's in Puerto Rico, so maybe it's some local "flea market"-type bootleg thing. Definitely not legit, unless there's a whole set of reissues aimed at the Carribean market that gets no publicity elsewhere.

Haven't watched it in ages. Does Ed McMahon still host?

What additional track on disk #1?

All things considered, I'd rather have Captain Beefheart selling ladies' underwear made out of cat food. Or vice versa. But nobody ever asks me these things until it's too late.

The guy lacks communication skills and common courtesy, but unles paper was signed, nothing legal prevented him from taking a better deal if he found one, which it sounds like he did (Guy: "Sorry, I've already got somebody else to do it." Other Guy:"How much are they doing it for?" Guy:"$XYZ." Other Guy:"Oh, WE'LL do it for $XYZ - $ABC!" Guy;"Well, I'm sure they'll understand. You got it." OR... Guy:" Hey - I've heard of you. You packed 'em out at Club Drixxle last week. We don't have anybody booked yet. It's yours! Glad you called before anybody else did!") Happens ALL the time. Sad but true. Your "real world" options are to either get back in touch with him and undercut the other band, which is a REALLY slimy thing to do, but is also something that happens all the time (although it's a practice I refuse to participate in even though it's cost me more than a few gigs) or else file this guy under "Can't Trust Him Any Further Than You Can Throw His House", and do business with him accordingly in the future. I'd suggest the latter, because in THIS business, with communication skills and personal ethics like this, this guy's BOUND to hit it big pretty soon!

An online friend occasionally shops thru ejazzlines and seems to be happy. Don't know about the other one.

These melodies really strike me as similar to the more ethereal things that Miles was doing in the period leading up to IN A SILENT WAY. Probably more of an "in the air" thing than a direct influence/copy/whatever, but I think it shows a commonality between Cecil's ethos and more "inside" jazz that might sometimes be overlooked. In keeping w/Joe's earlie comment, the timbre of the Dixon/Lyons front line emphasizes this, too, at least to my ears. Try imagining any of these melodies isolated and then played in a WATER BABIES type setting - it's not at all hard to do!

Dick Wellstood Not a band, but still...

If you're talking the A&M stuff, it doesn't feel so good to me, but the guy could definitely play "real" jazz competently, and he put care into the production and composition of his commercially oriented material. Beyond that, I have no concern nor comment. It's not my bag, but let those that enjoy it enjoy it, and tell anybody that doesn't extend you the same respect to fuck off and die.

I see it has Hadley Calliman on it... CLICK!

No need to say anything, just call 1-800-DAS-BOOT, and the boat will be handled appropriately and discretely.

Is that you, Pete?

I think he figured out that he could either work hard in one way and get the results that everybody else got, or work hard in another way and get the results that HE wanted to get. Nothing worse than busting your ass and not liking the results.