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No! Can you post it?

Johnny Nash.

Not piss-your-pants-like-a-little-baby-man excited, but don't miss a single day checking the mail, if you know what I mean.

From Dusty Groove (the BASTRADS!): Various -- Take Five -- A Collection Of Various Interpretations . . . CD . . . $15.99 (Item: 80678) Roof Music/Trocadero (Germany), 1960s/1970s/1990s Condition: New Copy Was there ever a greater jazz hit than "Take Five"? It's hard to think not -- especially when hearing this sweet little set! The master compilers at Roof Music have come up with a new take on the compilation -- instead of "different songs by different artists", they're up for "one song by different artists" -- and this time around, the song is especially great! "Take Five" was first penned by alto sax genius Paul Desmond when working in the famous Dave Brubeck quartet -- and although Dave's recording of the tune sold a bazillion copies, it also led to some really incredible other versions of the track served up over the years! The tune has a loping, modal groove that opens up no matter who seems to take it -- and which lends itself equally to both jazz and vocal versions, no matter what the setting! If you only know Dave's original, prepare to be very surprised -- and to highly enjoy very alternate versions of "Take Five" by artists as diverse as Carmen McCrae, The Specials, Sydney Youngblood, Monica Zetterlund, Young Lions, Jazzkantine, Quincy Jones, Trudy Pitts, George Mgrdichian, and Helge Schneider. And heck, the CD even features a different take on the tune by Dave Brubeck himself! I dunno...

But seriously - how does that function function anyhow? What are the mechanics?

Only when formulating guesses for the Blindfold Tests.

Who knew? Not me, that's for sure! http://www.4reference.net/encyclopedias/wi...ey_Montana.html

How about a Paulie & Chris "reality show" (for Fox, of course...) where they go out into amongst public in character and off somebody who pisses them off. The victim will be in on the gag, of course, and the fun comes with watching the family deal with the horror. Kinda like "My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance", only even MORE funny!

Too bad that the two Elektra/Musician albums by The Griffith Park Collection (Chick, Freddie, JoeHen, S. Clarke, & L. White) haven't made it to CD. That stuff was a big-time return to form of Corea as a probing, ahead-of-the-curve acoustic "advanced inside" player w/o any "concepts" attached, which is how I personally like him best.

Yeah, I saw the show and was wondering if anybody else caught the Hank reference. The Bernie Mac Show might well be the best mainstream sitcom on TV today, if not in the last 10 years. It's that good afaic.

See if THIS what you're looking for.

Got mine Saturday & listened once. Never before has the word "bonus" been used so appropriately!

They extended the run? I thought that it was originally supposed to be five and out.

The mystery for me is whether Tony will end up dead or totally psycho & locked up. Anything else will be a sellout.

Yeah, like getting away from your problems, if only momentarily, doesn't feel good in and of itself. Never mind all the neuro-chemical stuff going on. Damn straight it feels good. This guy was a judge? Of what, livestock at the county fair?

Well, yeah, sure, ok, but it's still a useful review that gives me a good reason not to buy the book in question: if I can't trust it on what I DO know, why should I trust it on what I don't? Do I figure that the law of averages dictates that since they messed up royally on what I do know that they suceeded splendidly on what I don't? From people playing odds like that are casinos perpetually profitable! If a review gives me news I can use, really use, then I think the reviewer used good judgement, because I have been communicated with in a personally relevant manner, which I THINK might be sorta the object of the game. If not, then how the hell should I know, and/or why should I care? I just figure the writer's perspective and mine are too far apart for either one of us to give a rat's ass about the other's, and I'm cool with that, having been on the giving end of that stick often enough to not mind being on the receiving end of it sometimes. It's a big world. He/she is merely writing for an audience that I'm not a part of. On with the show, doncha' know.

I'm just glad it was Martha Stewart and not Martha White. A man can live without Acorn Squash and Honey Pies (delightful as they may be), but damned if he can make it without bisquits and cornbread.

It would be much more accurate to say that I "knew" Charlie. We lost touch a long time ago. But my memories remain fond ones.

Five Moes, two Curl(e)ys, one Larry, and no Shemp, not even during the recording ban. That's when they brought in Marshall Dillon.

People get high (on anything) for a simple reason - it feels freakin' GREAT. But that's just the tip of the iceberg, which is, if you'll remember, what sunk the Titanic...

Hey, Shelley's a homeboy - raised in Houston, a protege of Don Wilkerson & Arnett Cobb, and currently gigging around the DFW Metroplex (and elsewhere, obviously!) living right here in Plano, Tx, USA. His Leaning House CD is still in stock at www.cybermusicsurpluss.com HERE, and is highly recommended. A really nice cat, too, full of fun and plenty of spirit. Buy the CD and have a party! Charlie Young was a classmate of mine at NTSU, and a casual but good friend as well. We arrived the same year, 1974. He was a really well developed player at the age of 18, but the growth he underwent and maturity he developed in the time he was there was nothing short of amazing and was extremely inspiring to watch. He's the kind of guy you're proud to say you went to school with and hung out with, because he went through all kinds of crap, personal, professional, and social, both within the school and outside it, and came out on top every time. Definitely one of my few "heroes" from my time there.

Carefully cropped to prevent same, John.