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I remember when Rhino was doing way-cool stuff like putting out Wild Man Fischer albums, reissuing the G.T.O.'s album, and giving The Turtles the respect they deserved as eccentric Pop heavyweights. They're still doing cool stuff, but a lot of their early releases seem to be OOP now, which is a drag.

That's what it is all right, the MONK'S BLUES LP coupled with the original Lincoln Center LP, minus "Played Twice", which was quartet. Part of a little series of two-fers w/pencil sketch covers. Another was by the Donald Byrd-Gigi Gryce group. Don't know what else was in that series, if anything. Sorry - reissue, not original.

Hey there, Zoot. What prompted you to buy the album back in the day? You from Chicago?

Still in stock, I see... If you want to get into one of the best, freshest, and most innovative groups of the 70s, here you go. If you want to hear some prime Henry Threadgill, here you go. If you want to hear music that blurs the line between "free" and "inside" to the point where it practically ceases to exist, here you go. Not likely to be reissued on CD any time soon. If you don't have a turntable. stop living in the past!

I've been married for 20 years, have two teenagers, and still have to deal with the "you call that music?" syndrome pertneer every damn where I go. How do you THINK it was?

So do some ISP servers (or whatever they use) update (or whatever it is they do) a list of active domain names more regularly than others? Is that why some people could get on and some not, even though your domain name expired? Teach me, 'cause I don't know how this stuff works. Please! And you're lucky - I keep hearing about these predatory types who swoop in and snap up expired domain names in a flash and then "hold them hostage". Glad that all is well.

I had the same problem this morning from one of my computers, but not the other. Organissimo is back on both of them now.

Dude, a Red Sox Series triumph would be more than fine with me. After a Cubs one, of course... You think that we'll ever see either one, even if we live as long as both of us combined?

Oh wait, that's DAN, not Paul. Sorry, bad eyes right now. But if the Pats were your team too, Dan, same goes for you. Enjoy!

REALLY!

Well, sure, winning with faceless efficiancy beats the hell out of losing with personality, No bout a doubt it. It sure as hell beats LOSING with faceless efficiancy, ala the last few years of Landry's Cowboys. That run got even me, a devoted Landry hater, to feeling sorry for the poor saps - all of the stylelessness of their illustrious predecessors and none of the substance. Tough gig, that had to be. But hey - if I had my druthers, I'd take take 'em both - winning AND personality. That's the ultimate - chops and charisma. Kareem & Magic's Lakers, Jordan's Bulls, Ali's Ali, Madden's Raiders, Louis Armstrong. For two seasons, before Jerry Jones, the Dallas Police Department, and a few insatiable noses fouled it up, we had that here, and I tell you, it was glorious. Imaginations and championships both were captured. Top o'the world, Ma, top o'the world. Of course, if it was my team that was winning Super Bowls with all the flair and elan of a 1971 My Three Sons episode, I'd be satisfied. But it's not, so... Seriously, I'm glad you're enjoying your team's victory. Honestly, I am.

Heard this one last night. Produced & arranged by Bob Belden. A little different, not always a straight blowing date, but more Moody as featured soloist in a variety of settings, which at times are almost Shorter-ish it seemed to me. Moody sounds comfortable and engaged. No surprise there. I liked it. Don't know if it's necessarily a "classic" James Moody album, probably not, but I think it will reward repeated listenings. Certainly not a drag, that's for sure! Worth checking out unless you only want "a certain thing", I'd say.

The June broadacast seems to have been pitch-corrected from what was on the Fresh Sounds issue. Haven't A/b'ed them yet, but a casual listening seems to indicate that it has.

One of the two times I saw him live was w/his own group, in Chicago, at the "alternative" (Underground?) Chicago Jazz Festival in 1981. Forget who all was in the group, but I think Vandy Harris (or maybe Ari Brown) was on tenor, and there was an incredible singer, apparently lost to all since I've repeatedly tried to get info on her w/o success, names Ka'tetta Aton. A thoroughly amazing night of music. I'll remember for the rest of my life, I hope, several spots where the music got going REALLY good and Malachi was pulling the strings on his bass like an archer's bow, WAAAAYYYY past where any human being should be able to pull them. Yet his pitch remained perfect, and his tone true. You'd have to have seen it to believe it. This was a man who understood the bass, was all about being the instrument and knowing it more than intimately. This was not a man who played the bass, or who played music and just happened to use on the bass to do it. This was a man who dug as deeply as possible into his instrument (and I suspect his life, as well as those of others, from the ancient tot he future), and brought it all up and out through that instrument of his in a way that only his instrument could purvey. It takes wisdom to play any instrument with that much depth and command, but the bass may very well be the most demanding of al in those respects. Malachi had unsurpassed wisdom, depth, and command. In the deepest possible sense, he was a master. Their numbers have always been few, and they seem to be getting fewer. Pay attention to him and his peers, even if you don't understand them now. With any luck, someday you will.

No. He recorded it on his lazt Columbia album, the big band thing w/uncharacteristically horrible Oliver Nelson arrangements.

I'm all for teamwork and supreme intellegince, both of which the Pats have in spades, and rightfully deserve credit for. What I'm not for is winning without as much as a gnat pube's worth of personality, which is something else the Pats have in spades. Winning is winning, sure, but hay Zeus, freakin' Christo, when you have enough anti-charisma to make a last second win predictable and actually BORING, (did anybody seriously doubt that the game would end EXACTLY as it did, and find the FG anti-climactic?) I'd look in the front office and see if a guy named Faust has an office somewhere. This is America, not (fill in the blank with your favorite efficiency uber alles entity). If you want football as corporate entity, be my guest. I can do bad by myaelf... Quality of life, babe, quality of life.

Can your heart stand it?

Congrats tot he Pats for winnng, and for being the most exciting and charismatic team since the Cowboys of the 70s. If this is the future of the NFL, my Sundays will be forever changed!

Janet's the best thing about this one so far. Uh....cancel that. Carolina TD.

Paul Bley, maybe.

4th down spot TOTALLY BOGUS.

Earl's mention of the Country Tavern in Kilgore (outside of Kilgore, actually) is right on. Those folks do ribs that are to die for. Onion rings too.

Can't comment on the price, but the music is mostly golden.

That was my first impression too, due to the length, structure, and instumentation. I think it's likely that any number of listeners will have the same general responses to certain things based on certain criteria. It's like when a lot of people hear 20s jazz, they'll say "CARTOON MUSIC", or when they hear organ, they say "ROLLER RINK". We're generally more hip than THAT in these parts, but "simialr impressions" don't necessarily infer lazy listening/thinking.