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Stravinsky - Three pieces for clarinet solo still can't really play it after all these years...

as someone who has still trouble reading English I must say I was very happy with the recent shift in personality - let to posts i could actually understand without much effort ... so i do encourage multiple memberships in this case...

quit smoking after reading allen carr's book and it lasted for a bit over two years... started again two years ago however, hope i will make it once more... i know the first two weeks of not smoking pretty well by now (like, i know depression will come on day 4 or 5, first time around i didn't really know how to take it by now i can more or less laugh about it... usually i start again after two or three weeks when i stop taking quitting to smoke seriously enough... put differently, i don't think the physical addiction is the difficult part if you have a strong enough will... despite the fact that i am smoking i would definitely recommend carr's insightful book... huge respect for anyone who's made it!

This was not a random reporting, Jazzmoose. Yours, however, is. if I tell you i am a psychic and the third child back in the second row of your first class is being molested by their uncle, you would immediately report it? hope you had great holidays!

to me this sounds like you didn't really grow up with that music (nothing wrong with that, actually i am a vaguely similar case i didn't start to listen to pop music until i was in my early twenties - although i did of course hear pop music before... once in a while i recognize a song i heard during driving lessons or the like - wouldn't call these formative experiences though... (in my case the difference is of course barely noticeable, six years, moreover these six years, don't make that much of a difference))

talking of divides... didn't notice until now that jetman and jazzjet are two different posters...?

iirc rage against the machine was what got the bands started in my high school; the one band from those high school days which is still around was started by someone whose then favorite artist was George Benson... http://www.myspace.com/therainrock played for a few years in a band before realizing that the others had all been listening to the first Louise Attaque album over and over again... (not a bad album at all... when i first heard it, it felt like i knew it better than most musics)

are you aware of Griffin's Duo album with Martial Solal? heard it only once and was in the wrong mood then... but i've been told been since that it's pretty good interesting list! (the first of these lists where i don't own a single item (although i actually like many of the artists))

just remembered, not quite sure whether caiman is among them but many of these american packages come to me from new zealand - maybe that's their way of saving international air fares...?

don't have one... but does anyone have a really good example where one band is the most influential one in some genre but another one made the better albums... (coming a little later, or doing something that's more difficult to use as a blueprint...)

Calexico played on the "I'm Not There" soundtrack (which has some KILLER performances on it, btw). I found them to be quite impressive and have been thinking of checking them out. Is "Feast of Wire" the best place to start? this was my first step into checking them out (after a few years of being on the fence about it) it definitely sounds like a pretty good place to start (meaning: it is good and sounds roughly like the calexico stuff i had heard so far), reading about it i read it is more song oriented than earlier efforts (which is fine with me but may not be the thing of every jazz fan) asked someone a few years back and he recommended the album with the car on it (just looked it up: it's called The Black Light) (talking of impact on pop culture: feast of wire contains their homage to gil evans out of the cool "crumble" (nice gesture though i easily prefer the original)) does anyone else know more?

That's a big affirmative. hmmm, i tend to believe you with stuff, so...

thank you!! (no more baby face willette... had hoped they'd ad Stop And Listen to the next batch...) will get the Clark , the Moncur and maybe the rivers i think...

disclaimer: they won't be as big as Lennon/McCartney except possibly in japan and they're not really rock (although they do roll) i just got Calexico's 2003 album Feast of Wire and it is very nice to have around

maybe it's unfair to equate impact on popular culture with making great music... (and absurd to say i am not going to listen to it unless it has made an impact on popular culture (which is comparable to that of) as dylan lennon and mccartney - nothing against horace parlan... but do you really think his impact on popular culture was, say 5% that of dylan (or even leonard cohen)) that said, does the impact of (Stones), Who, Led Zep really still last? dylan/lennon/mccartney, hendrix i can see... don't speak for my generation too often, but looking at history i see morrissey/marr at least as large as the who

john patton "soul connection" arrived today and then i got used and very cheap, maybe in response to the rock thread, both very fine upon first impression Can - Soundtracks Calexico - Feast of Wine (strange sell out, they seem to go by letters, the shop where i got the bonnie "prince billy cd last week)

the two discs that never reached me were woody shaw's song of songs and don patterson's dem new york dues, which they had kept in their program for quite some time at varying prices (between 10 and 20 $) even after they hadn't been able to fill my order - now they are not in their program anymore, so maybe they have improved their service.... just looked through the 300 most recent feedbacks, 5 orders didn't arrive (some of this may of course have other reasons than unavailability) (and 3 or 4 more negative feedbacks like a used cd sold as new...)

Good to hear Caiman does try to honor its orders from Europe in a big way. My reason for asking was this: If (as it is) all too many seem to be complaining that Caiman will list items at an attractive giveaway price but will not go out of their way to actually sell them at that price if it means they have to track down an item that is not available literally everywhere, then could it be that they will also list lots of items but might not possibly make every effort to ship them overseas if the flat shipping rate as per Amazon rules might not cover shipping expenses fully? A bad rep goes a long way, you know ... And of course 3 euros will get you more dollars these days but still it isn't that much, and overseas USPS shipping rates have gone up considerably in recent months again so the exchange advantage is offset somewhat. However, if you are saying there is no need to worry about buying from Caiman overseas, then all the better ... moreover, getting the money back has always been totally unproblematic (the only thing is you have to keep your order in mind - if it's like 10 days over time send them an email and they send the money back) really, maybe you will order rarer stuff than me, but typically you will get like 19 out of 20 cds at a very good price and for the 20th you'll possibly have to write a brief note... had better experiences with cheap than with medium priced stuff so far btw...

not sure whether i understand your question, i have ordered quite a bit (like 60 discs within the past two years) through american amazon sellers and there have only been problems like twice, both with rare ojcs... , don't think it has to do with 3 euro being not enough if it doesn't work (and besides - at least at the current exchange rate - shouldn't 3 euro be at least roughly sufficient...?); caiman has (except in these two cases) been perfectly ok, but dvdlegacy and importcds made a slightly more reliable/faster impression... (for ojcs ebay has proved to be better, mainly because newbury comics is active there)

I asked this question above. Timmy never answered. Wonder why. But we are lucky there was no Vicky or Violet in the class, too. wonder what they had done if the psychic had said all children at the school were abused except for one...

guess you just had a streak of bad luck then... but i've put it to an end now

haven't experienced this... can't try now but this link i posted yesterday on the wrong rock thread and watched it... can you see it?

maybe not literally but... from this great website (many fascinating photos, maini looked quite special on photos... just speculating, but this site may be the reason that the recent boxed set has a richer booklet than the fruscella box): http://www.hollywoodmuse.com/joe_maini_website/

after all it seems one doesn't need to be jimi hendrix (or particularly innovative) to record a great rock album (or charlie parker to play fine jazz) (and being still awake (alive) is not necessary but enormously helpful for writing songs that matter to people) btw, has anyone else here experienced this enormous frustration of thinking you have written a great rock/pop song and afterwards people ask you (a little worried) whether it was jazz... (will never forget that bitter look from some moderator after we had started playing; he thought i had made fun of him when i told him to announce us as pop music...) (and later that night a 15 year old kid from one of the other, much younger, bands came up to us and said the music had reminded him of the velvets and that helped a bit)

been playing this album (which i ordered after the discussion a few weeks ago) quite a bit in the last few weeks... think i somehow agree with MG (although i am hardly familiar with holmes and mcgriffs other output, just have one album of each groovin with jug and main squeeze)... somehow i don't usually listen to it as an album i will rather play one or two of my favorite pieces (don't feel like calling them songs... but they are great and atmospheric), namely mozambique... vaguely reminds me of a conversation i had years ago about some philosophy book (Baudrillard?) where i complained it was unreadable and badly structured and a friend said, if you want to make use of it just open it in some place and read a few lines, it's more a construction site of ideas than a (scientific) book... something about creating pieces like this feels wrong to me... but then you can have such a great time with this cd (btw before i had heard it i was a bit worried about having two organs play at a time... nothing wrong with that here - but the three guitar players feel like one or two guitar players too much in places to me...) if i'm a bit lucky i may find their studio cd in my mail box when i come home from work today... (or Soul Connection...?)