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Having said that, INTERSTELLAR SPACE is the keeper, the one to have if you're having only one. ff that one never, ever reveals itself to you even slightly, it's not the music's fault. ACENSION is nothing but a blues jam session taken to the n-th degree, SUN SHIP & both "Meditations" albums are pretty accessible if you're even slightly inclined towards the music, check out THE OLANTUNJI CONCERT if you're not phased by amateur recording quality, you might want to save OM until later, get to LIVE AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD AGAIN sooner than later, and cautiously bring in the wife for EXPRESSIONS, if she does stuff like turning the headlights off for a few seconds at night on unlit highways yet still likes candlelight and bubble baths. An incomplete list, but there it is. And remember - the newest music of this bunch is almost 40 years old and it's both ahead of its time, very much of it, and totally outside of it, dpending on which aspect(s) of it you focus on. One thing it's NOT is disorganized chaos. Anybody who tells you otherwise is either not paying attention or is letting their negative emotions about the music interfere with an objective look at what's going on inside it.

Just do it.

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www.redtrumpet.com From the RedTrumpet e-mail: To celebrate the annual “Reason to have a party and eat good food Day” please take the following discounts off all “In-Stock” items on orders placed through Wednesday February 4th FOR ORDERS UP TO $200 - TAKE $2 OFF of EVERYTHING “IN-STOCK” FOR ORDERS ABOVE $200 - TAKE $3 OFF of EVERYTHING “IN-STOCK” THIS SALE APPLIES TO EVERYTHING IN-STOCK ONLY (NOT SPECIAL ORDER OR PRE-ORDERS). The total amount of the order of in-stock must exceed the above amounts. Does not include shipping costs or tax. NOTE: Unfortunately, we cannot combine this sale with any other offer or to any outstanding orders and must ship immediately. The sale is for items that have been released not pre-orders, and cannot be combined with any other offers. Offer excludes ALL Analogue Productions items (please contact us to inquire on these). To take advantage of this sale, just shop as usual on our Web site and when you check out, type "NEW ENGLAND” or “CAROLINA” [whoever you want or wanted if after, to win] in the comments section of your order (not the Coupon section -- it won't work). Votes will be tallied and announced in next week’s e-mail! We will apply the appropriate discount while processing your order, so it won't appear on your online invoice but will be deducted when we process and ship your items. PLUS, All orders over $30.00 get free Media Mail shipping. If you have an hour or two, there are some deals to be had. Do the Advanced search for "Jazz/BigBand" (and nothing else), and browse. I don't buy a lot from Red Trumpet becaseu mostof what they sell is expensive Japanese imports. BUT - they also have many domestic Verve/Impulse & Columbia Monk reissues for $9.99. Order enough to go over 30 bucks (not too hard to do if you don't already have tehm, and that comes to $7.99 each and free shipping! This broadest possible Advanced Search also will yield some interesting pre-owned LPs as well. Here's what I got, and the price I paid after the sale discount: Benny Powell: Ya Betcha B.P.!! (LA Phonograph LP LAPR 003) Pre-Owned (SS/SS) small tear in shrink (bottom left corner) $8.00 Various Artists: In Performance at The Playboy Jazz Festival (Elektra LP 60298) Pre-Owned (M-/M-) GF,2 LPs,1984 Concert $3.60 Mal Waldron: The Opening (Musica LP 2003) Pre-Owned (M-/M-) $5.50 Hampton Hawes: Hamp's Piano (MPS CD UCCM-9017) New "Big CD Sale" $7.19 Miles Davis: Doo-Bop (Warner Music LP WB 1-26938) New $7.99 Michel Legrand: LeGrand Jazz (w/Davis, Coltrane, Evans, Webster) (Universal/Verve CD 8300742) New $9.97 Stan Getz: Captain Marvel (+3) (Expanded Edition) (Sony/Legacy CD CK 86086) New $7.99 There's more to be found if you've got the time to wade through it all. Just make sure the item is marked "In Stock". Red Trumpet's website has real time inventory updating, so if they say it's in-stock, it is. I've had only one glitch with that, and that was for some REALLY obscure Warne Marsh Japanese thing. But they finally found another copy and honored the originally listed price when they did. I don't do a lot of business with this outfit, but everytime I do, the service is flawless. Order with confidence. www.redtrumpet.com

http://www.redtrumpet.com/search/advanced....6&s_submit.y=13 Enter the name of the team you're pulling for to win the Super Bowl in the "Comments" section and get $2.00 off EACH album. Seriously.

LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION!!! http://apnews.excite.com/article/20040130/D80D7E280.html Chef Fired for Attracting Too Many Diners Jan 30, 10:23 AM (ET) STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - A Swedish chef said Thursday he was shocked to find out he will lose his job because his cooking is too good. An engineering company in central Sweden said they won't renew chef Richard Norberg's contract because he attracts too many people to the company's cafeteria. "Some feel that the staff has had to stand in line for too long and that they can't choose where they want to sit," a disappointed Norberg said Thursday. The ABE engineering company in Oernskoeldsvik, 235 miles north of Stockholm, leased the cafeteria to Norberg six years ago. Since then, his traditional Swedish pancakes, pea soup and pork chops have attracted an ever growing stream of visitors. "The number of guests has increased by many hundred per cent," ABE staff manager Curt Lundqvist said. "We simply do not have enough room." Lundqvist said the eatery was now seating many more guests than stipulated in the lease contract. The cafeteria's lunch crowd has tripled to 300 guests since it opened, due to the traditional Swedish cooking, the central location and the reasonable pricing, Norberg said. He said he was shocked when he was notified that his contract wouldn't be renewed at the end of the year, although he had been aware of dissatisfaction about the growing number of guests. "I thought this was something that we could solve," he said. Lundqvist however, said the popularity had become too great for the engineering business. "We produce pipe-installation parts, we don't run things like this," said.

http://news.excite.com/odd/article/id/3821...06|reuters.html Decomposing Whale Explodes on Street Jan 29, 10:52 am ET TAIPEI (Reuters) - The decomposing remains of a 60-tonsperm whale exploded on a busy Taiwan street, showering nearby cars and shops with blood and organs and stopping traffic for hours, local newspapers said. The 56-foot dead whale had been on a truck headed for an autopsy at a university earlier this week, when gases from internal decay caused its entrails to explode in the southern city of Tainan. The whale had died after it was beached on the southwestern coast of the island. PHOTO

With a knick-nack paddy-wack...

http://news.excite.com/odd/article/id/3234...46|reuters.html Court Says Cop Wrongly Fired for Masturbation Video Jan 29, 3:28 pm ET SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A San Diego policeman who sold videos of himself masturbating after removing a police uniform was wrongly dismissed from the force, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Thursday. An officer named in court documents only as John Roe sold the videos on the Internet vendor eBay Inc., where his hobby was discovered by his supervisor. Roe never identified himself as a San Diego police officer in his sales pitch and gave a fictitious address in northern California. The San Francisco-based 9th Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with Roe that his dismissal by the San Diego Police Department in 2001 was unjust because his off-duty actions were protected by First Amendment rights to free speech. "We hold that when the employee's speech is not about his government employer or employment, is directed to a segment of the general public and occurs outside the workplace, that speech satisfies the public concern test," the court found. Judge Kim Wardlaw, dissenting from the three-judge panel, called the decision absurd, saying his actions were not free speech but conduct violations related to his job.

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&u...l=Apb2tk6rxtkrg Don't know how to get ahold of this one - somebody gave me a copy. But it's good, damn good. Nothing at all on here you've not heard before, but the vibe is right, and so is the groove. A bunch of players here that I don't ordinarily get into (including Mr. Alexander), but they all sound fine on this gig. Something about a good organ groove that makes familiarity so often breed contentment instead of contempt. And this altoist, David Lee Jones (an unfamiliar name to me), sounds like he's coming to this groove from the inside, which always works for me. Not necessarily a side to listen to over and over, but DEFINITELY a good one to play over and over, if you know what I mean. Check it out!

Both Konitz/Haden/Mehldau discs, even if Mehldau often gets on my nerves here sometimes with his just-TOO-damn-precise phrasing. Lee is in exquisite, topper than top form, so relaxed and so lyrical, and Charlie's with him every step of the way. They'll be reissuing these as "classics" further on up the road. Bet on it.

Most enjoyable to hear Amy's evolution from a pure "meat and potatoes" player to a somewhat more individualistic voice over the course of this set. Very enlightening AND entertaining to hear him adapt some of the more vocal aspects of what Trane was getting into at the time to his own voice, without ever becoming overtly (or even slightly, for that matter) imitative. A real sleeper of a set, imo. Recommended.

I dig this one for Billy Harper just as much asfor Lee! "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" was a "hit" on the jazz radio shows in these parts back in the day. A most worthy "sequel" to "More Today Than Yesterday". Nice of Fantasy to add the two "leftover" tracks that appeared on CHARLES III too. Those late 60s-early 70s Prestige organ dates continue to grow in stature, don't they. That Bob Porter knew how to put a session together, eh?

Professionalism is never in bad taste.

Be strong, and know that you and your family will be in my prayers. Hang in there bro.

Tati's big deal (esp. with the Hulot character) is man's realtionship with technology and modernism. Take Mon Oncle for example. You've got Hulot's apartment juxtaposed by the ultra-modern house his sister(?) lives in. You'll notice that there is an entirely different musical soundtrack for each environment. And this is to say nothing of the hideous sound that that fountain makes. The irony, of course, being that the purpose of a fountain is to beautify. Playtime's commentary on modernism is more pronounced and rather obvious. M. Hulot's Holiday--I should have started with this one--is focussed less on modernism and more on simple things like doors, folding chairs, automobiles and such. (Which, in their own way, are technology as well and I think Tati sought to point this out.) Check out this essay on Hulot's Holiday. It sums up Tati's aesthetic rather well. Yeah, I got all that, an dI get Ebert's points as well. Do I lose whatever credibility I have left if mention that I even see the huge influence that Tati had on the visual element of Jeryy Lewis' better directorial work? (maybe my friend ws right about the "French" thing) I get the "theory" of it all but I just haven't connected w/Tati. I guess this is one of those things where I'm doomed to be on the outside looking in.

Yup, that's pretty much what I would have said. It's similar to the way I feel when I watch A Shot in the Dark or Dr. Strangelove. I seldom laugh out loud at those films either but would still call them brilliant and hilarious all the same. Hmmm.. I laugh at loud at those movies, especially Strangelove, which never, ever fails to crack me up big time. I'm not at all averse to more subtle forms of humor, either. But for me, I guess Tati's "sub-subtle", too low in the mix to engage me at any level. Seriously, every time I rent one of his films, it takes me several attempts to get through them without falling asleep. EVERY time. The point about big-screen vs tv is interesting, though. I can see how the subliminal impact of the bigger screen might have an effect on the cognizant perception. Also, is ther some subtext to his work that I'm not picking up on, some context that frames the whole thing that I haven't caught on to yet? I appreciate the skill, craftsmanship, timing, and all that, I'm just not even as much as slightly amused by the guy after 15 minutes or so, and I feel like I'm missing something. I dunno, it just seems lighter-than-light to me, and I think I need some kind of counterweight to hold my interest, some dark side, or something. I asked a friend of mine who had lived in France for a while what the deal with Tati was, and he said, "It's a purely French thing. Simple as that." Maybe so. Maybe I CAN'T get it. Nobody gets everything, I suppose. No disrespect for Tati or anything like that intended, although it might sound otherwise. If what you see is what you get, then I guess it is one of those things you either get or you don't.

Keep spreading the word. The music needs young, enthusiastic fans just as it needs young, enthusiastic players. If you're getting new people into the music who are capable of treating it seriously, you're doing a good thing. Please remember, every mistake made is an opportunity to learn a lesson. If you play your cards right, you can learn a lot by screwing up a lot. So go for it, and always be humble, but never be timid.

Hey, I'm old school. SOMEBODY gets some money somewhere along the line.

Giv ethe kid a break. He's putting the word out in more than one place. Same words, maybe, but what the hell. He's 19 and full of vigah. And if he's not 19, well, we'll deal with that...

Do a search of the jazz-Out-Of-Print items. No real "bargains", but I found the Woody Shaw thing on In and Out I've been looking for for years, and there's other stuff in there too. Better carpe diem if you find something, though, , 'cause I think I got the last/only Woody. Supplies might well be limited on these things.

Hey Tony, you got any fake books for sale?

Is Tati one of those things you either get or don't? I've tried. I recognize the brilliance. I'm a bit of a student of all forms of humor and the "science" thereof, so I understand what his deal is, and how superbly he does it. But I just don't laugh. I'll keep trying, though.

Reason says New England, and most of the gut is leaning that way. But I've got a funny feeling about Cajun power coming into play. Like I said elsewhere, there's a BUNCH of Cajuns in the Houston area, and if you think I'm trying to be funny, I'm not. That's a VERY tightly-knit culture, and the whole psyche/vibe thing might just prove to be the extra boost that bumps Delhomme up the notch needed to go all the way. Maybe. I'll be pulling Panthers, but if I was betting (and I'm not), it would be Pats. My 17 year old son, who has a better than 90% pick-rate the last two seasons (straight picks, no spread, and no gambling, not that I know of anyway, which is kind of a drag... ) is picking Carolina, but says he's not sure because the only playoff games he's missed on this season have involved New England, which kinda proves what I want to believe - New England SHOULDN'T win so much, but they do anyway, so there you are, dammit. Totally gut feeling, though - whoever wins will do so handily. Another Stupor Bowl. Hope there's good commercials this year!