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happy birthday! hope you had a great evening with randy weston yesterday, a fine day today and an even better year to come...
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another one, not new orleans though, from www.danieljacksonmusic.com Froebel Brigham, Leon Petties, William Doty, Fred Jackson, Haold Land 1949
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Movin' Along features James Clay on flute if I remember correctly... don't have the cd here right now; indeed clay plays flute except on like one track (and montgomery plays electric bass on a number of tunes - maybe that contibutes to the weird sound as well...)
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from the track list it looks a lot (but not exactly - round about midnight...) like the fine riverside album movin along
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Which Jazz box set are you grooving to right now?
Niko replied to Cliff Englewood's topic in Mosaic and other box sets...
doesn't sound like his thread will help you, but who knows http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=38693 maybe searching the board more may help more... -
And Behind Door No. 1, a Fatal Flaw
Niko replied to Brownian Motion's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
i tend to call that number zero - matter of personality i guess -
one track is on the BOSTON: Jazz in Beantown 1951-1955 compilation from sagajazz, see www.sagajazz.com for details http://www.amazon.com/Boston-Beantown-1951...3269&sr=8-2
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And Behind Door No. 1, a Fatal Flaw
Niko replied to Brownian Motion's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
i vaguely get what you mean; would you say, playing a lottery (together with a million others and only one of us gets a price) is a 50-50 situation for each of us, because each of us either wins or loses... ? Although that's in no way comparable to the singular experience of the game show in question...no I would not say that. Because in the lottery, it's a matter of "if I win, then XYZ number of people must lose". On the game show, the question is simply "will I win or will I lose". There are no other competitors. as i said, i think i partly understand and can appreciate you argument, people tend to take statistics to seriously... but then i think it is strange to make such a huge difference between a lottery where one person (out of a million) must win and, say, a random generator which gives you the price with a probability of one in a million... does the guy in Oklahoma who ends up with the money in the first case really make that much of a difference (turning a 50-50 opportunity into a one in a million thing)... -
And Behind Door No. 1, a Fatal Flaw
Niko replied to Brownian Motion's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
i vaguely get what you mean; would you say, playing a lottery (together with a million others and only one of us gets a price) is a 50-50 situation for each of us, because each of us either wins or loses... ? -
And Behind Door No. 1, a Fatal Flaw
Niko replied to Brownian Motion's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
so if you have a disease that, say, kills 90% of those who have it within one year; and then you get a possibility to exchange this disease against one that only kills 2% within that same year, you wouldn't do it? (you may argue that this type of thing doesn't happen too often) when people tell me i shouldn't be afraid of flying because the odds that something will happen are ... (very good number), i always say it doesn't impress me because i will fly only once and when the disaster happens i won't care how unlikely it was... but in that goat thing where you can really improve the odds its stupid not to do so, (again, that's like taking a motorcycle ride although you don't enjoy it if you could have walked instead) -
belated happy birthday!
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http://www.wmg.at/programm_e.htm couldn't find out much about it but under November 10, you see the concert Zieff gave in Vienna five month ago...
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Unexpected Consequences - Smoking Bans/Drunk Driving
Niko replied to BeBop's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
And personally, I like playing in bars without that shit making the air unbreathable. And coming home smelling like somebody's ashtray (not to mention the smell of all my gear, and thus my vehicle, etc.) I can sympathise. I hate that atmosphere, too, and I'm a smoker! MG same here, happy about the smoking ban despite being a smoker (was however pissed to notice yesterday that the 10 squaremeter smoking area outside at the train station has been removed...) (big thing in the newspaper here yesterday, "the first victim of the smoking ban", a 60 year old pub owner had hanged himself, claiming that with the smoking ban in force nobody came to his pub anymore) -
New EU customs rules in December 2008
Niko replied to Claude's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
thank you Claude! -
not forgetting that one, no no... currently at a point where i have to concentrate a bit to know all the cds that are on their ways here, but of course, the clarke won't be around for long...
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Big John: accent on the blues
Niko replied to chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez's topic in Artists & Recordings
Looks like you grabbed it, Jim. Well done. Let us know what it's like idc, won't you? MG can't play it at work, so no idea whether it's longer than 10 seconds, but this shop here has a sound sample http://www.jetsetrecords.net/en/product/162517228001 -
a great year for him (and also nice from the labels that all the paris stuff (except for that one session which is not out on cd?) is available easily on just 5 cds without any doubling (two vogue, two jazz in paris and the americans swinging in p) (not so easy for the 1958 paris stuff iirc) ok, i just ordered the vogue volume i was still missing... (more accurately i ordered the second of two older cds, street scenes and lucky sessions which collect (a rearrangement of) the two vogue volumes plus some gigi gryce material...)
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a great year for him (and also nice from the labels that all the paris stuff (except for that one session which is not out on cd?) is available easily on just 5 cds without any doubling (two vogue, two jazz in paris and the americans swinging in p) (not so easy for the 1958 paris stuff iirc)
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rip, will pull out the oscar pettiford debut album tonight...
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only have the lucky thompson and really like it (more than my other 1956 lt paris stuff, one vogue disc and one jazz in paris...), the cd is very long (iirc), four sessions, all of which are great, a quartet with martial solal, a quintet with solal and fellow tenor guy lafitte, a quintet with henri renaud and emmett berry and (personal favorite) a piano-less quartet session led by guitarist Jean Pierre Sasson
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Big John: accent on the blues
Niko replied to chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez's topic in Artists & Recordings
not in my price range, not my medium and all, but just for the record (and in case anyone is interested) there is a used copy of a Marvin Cabell Solo Album called "Dream Images" on dustygroove http://www.dustygroove.com/item.php?id=7b9...3Djohn%2Bpatton -
Hey, thanks for listening! And pat yourself on the back. I was sorry Brownie had retired from the board, since I thought he was the most likely guy(or Lon) to do really well, but I doubt they could do any better! I thought there were only Bluenote 1955-65 folks here, but I guess there are a few weirdoes here who know the ancient stuff as well! more pats on the back from me, WOW! this was scary!
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Happy Birthday Allen Lowe
Niko replied to clifford_thornton's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
!happy birthday, allen! -
that's what i did too in the beginning but i have (at least in my office, no idea whether this will work with other peoples setups...) "discovered" an alternative, i click on this black bar at the top of the picture (where it says "size reduced to 68%" or the like) then the pictue opens but is usually still to small to read... THEN there is some icon which appears when i move the mouse cursor around in the lower right corner of the image and when i click on it the picture is zoomed in and i can read it... (still surprised that it works)
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