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Saxophonistical Seconds to the recs toi check out Mel Martin's site, especially if you play the instrument. Might be the only Wayne Shorter interview on record where he stays concrete all the time, the subject being horns and other shop talk. But that's just the tip of the iceberg. Griff's comments about Jaws are as priceless as they are informative. Etc. Check it out.

All PM's received, and options (intiguing all) are being weighed. Thanks!

Like the off-screen life of Warren Beatty, this board is proof that quantity and quality need not be mutually exclusive. Well, SOMETIMES it is...

The trick is in seeing that the money never runs out. THAT requires creativity, flexibility, personal charm. and sometimes even a job. But only as a last resort. Nobody said fun was easy, but consider the alternative. Set your priorities, pay your bills, take care of your family, and blow the rest. If there's no "rest" to blow, put your kids to work and take all their money. It's good training for when they have to pay taxes, and as much as they'll curse you now, that's how much they'll thank you later. Especially when they ace the English class unit on Dickens w/o having to so much as crack a book.

Well, if I can get a souvenir DVD memento treasure keepsake afterwards (with sound, of course) to help me cherish the moment forever, I just might go. "Transient" media is going to become the collecting craze of the 21st century, so I might as well get a piece while I can. Which is also the thought I've been having about Norah. But Nick's got this grin that tells me that he's been down that road before, so I dunno...

I ordered mine at CD Universe last night, when I saw that they were charging $3/disk less than what Dusty Groove (the bastards!) was selling them for (and from where I was just about to order them until I remembered this thread). So I multiplied $3 X 6 ('cause I ordered them all, because things are temporarily flush, thank God), took the whopping $18 savings, and applied, what, $6 of it(?) to upgraded second day shipping. So I STILL saved money, even as I spent it. I'm doing my part to rescue the American economy from its doldrums, and to keep EMI a happy, profitable corporate dicksucker. Plus, I demonstrate a theory of Economics that our political leadership still fails to grasp - if you're broke, you're fucked, but as long as you're not, it's not really "money", it's just numbers. As long as income exceeds outgo, let's party. Yeah, it really IS just that simple.

Has anybody seen Ravi lately, like in the last 24 hours? If not, I think I'm staying home. Just to be safe. Life is short enough as it is.

Much congratulations!

A new couple just moved into my neighborhood. Their names are Nick and Norah Shankar. Nice folks, young, always singing out in the yard while they do stuff. This afternoon, they sent me a note inviting me over for homemade Ravi-oli (their spelling). I'm kinda nervous about where they got the meat, but I don't want to risk alienating potentially good neighbors. What do you think I should do?

List price on a CD is like sticker price on a car. Never, NEVER pay it.

Well hey Boy Howdy! The Prestige stuff is usually considered their "best" work by those who don't care for the more Third-Streamish directions of a lot of the Atlantic work, and their Pablo sides were nealy unanimously hailed as a return to that earlier sond, so this set looks like it might very well be a winner. I might even get me one my ownself.

Can't forget Glenn Hardman, who made that session w/Prez. I thin he played what was then considered jazz organ full time.

A "tree" of hubcaps. Seriously! It's used as a percussion instument. Kinda like a bell tree, only...hubcaps. It's a cool sound. You'll see. Or hear, actually...

Did y'all dig how Trane said "Art Blakely"? Down home like a mutha!

Fwiw, MESSAGE TO OUR FOLKS is my "standard" album to introduce people to the AEC. But I'm not arguin', no sireebob!

Dude - both our cars got seriously wracked in the hailstorm we had this past spring. Filed Insurance claims on both, and got big checks for both. Fair enough - the damage was major. Took the cars to an "approved" body shop, and guess what - they wanted to TOTAL both vehicles! Said it would cost more to fix them than they were currently worth. Called the insurance company, and they generously offered to take back their claim check and pay us salvage value. We're talking a 1999 Accord w/75K & a 2000 Civic w/25K, both of which are in otherwise excellent condition. Our only other option (allegedly) was to keep the cars and the money, and be stuck with a "salvage title" for the life of the cars. We would only be eligible for liabilty coverage, too, no collision or comprehensive. Phuck that. A little more prodding of the insurance company rep, though, turned up the interesting tidbit that we could keep the money, have the cars repaired using their money and ours and get the full coverages reinstated if the vehicles passed a visual (yes, only a VISUAL) inspection from our agent. Not a company rep, but out local, around the corner agent with whom we've been dealing with from the first day we moved into this burg. Well, as fate would have it, my mother-in-law recently sold her property in Virginia (Smith Mountain Lake) and bought a smaller place in Ohio, where her family roots are. She needed some help packing and such, and the lovely and talented Brenda was "between jobs" as they say. Soooo... The folks in the rural Roanoke/Bedford/etc. area are a lot like the folks in East texas - somebody knows somebody who can do ANYTHING. Sure enough, Brenda's mom found a guy who did body work. She took one car up there, and the quote was for less than half of what the insurance estimate was for ONE of our cars. She checked the guy out, got references, made sure that he got good parts, etc, and put him on the job. It was damn near flawless - a few minor things that he said would have jacked the price up more than they were worth, and things you gotta be looking for to see. We's well pleased. So, Brenda comes home, and drives back in the other car to get it fixed whikle she helps her mom actually move. Same deal - quality work, and a ridiculously reasonable price. We get BOTH cars fixed for less than ONE claim check, take 'em to the insurance agent, get the "inspection", and full coverage is restored. We get a claim check (which we offered to return, btw, but were told that it would not be necessary!) that comes in MOST handy during Brenda's unemployment, and a lesson in how NOT to "trust" insurance companies and body shops to work together to provide a sensible resolution to a fairly simple problem. Now, watch our rates go up!

I know it might sound fishy, but I'd just like to have a reference copy handy for study, etc. Not looking to pirate it or anything. It's 45+ minutes long, and sitting through the whole thing (or playing "guess the timeing of THIS part") is something I'd rather not do If I don't have to. This is the kind of thing I could (and would) listen to strictly for personal study. First time through, I really got into Trane's voice, how "down home" it would be at times, and then how the guard would go up, and then the curiosity would come out, all that. A printed transcript doesn't begin to convey that. But I suppose there are copyright laws involved, eh? Gotta respect that, I suppose. Shoot, if there was a legit CD copy for sale, I'd buy it!

http://slought.org/toc/archives/display.php?id=1161 I hate to "steal" content from another board, but this is some pretty major stuff. You can get it in Real or Windows Media versions. Is there a way to save this to my hard drive for future reference?

Well, if you're providing Belushi mood enhancer, man, I'm REALLY bummed!

This is a point with which I will not quibble, since it I agree with.

Could be, but it's listed as an "import" and is being donated by Harper through Lois Gilbert's site, with a portion of the proceeds going to a fund to aid jazz musicians in need, so I'd think it's possibly a "real" copy. But you never know...

It's like, dig - it's like between "cold" and "cool". It's..it's... COAL!!!

Found the Williams/Edison disc Saturday, bought it, and listened to it twice yesterday. I was expecting/hoping to like it. I didn't. Boring. Trite arrangements, with every gap filled by these predictable little scored licks instead of an instrumentalist adding some personality, few to no solos, and WAY too "light and polite" for my tastes. Nobody's best, or even remotely best work. Sweets is on EXTREME autopilot (although there is one passage on OPEN horn), and Joe is doing his best supper club act. A few (literally!) good bars of Jimmy Forest here and there, but that's it. I might pull it out again in five years and be blown away by it, but it will be AT LEAST that long before I find out. A major disappointment for me, I'm afraid.

How can one be a minor AND be a man, at least legally? I'm confused. Maybe he meant "miner" instead - they come in all ages! Or maybe he was really saying "My Norman". Maybe it's the latest in hepcatjivetalk and the rest of us just aren't gone enough to dig his crazy lingo. That darn Stanley - always saying stuff!

Oh, one more - who, if anybody, was considered the "direct heir" to Ike Day? Wilbur Campbell?