Niko

ran into two charly reissues of vee-jay albums at 4,99 each at the local store, a twofer of Lee Morgan's Vee-Jay albums and the Louis Hayes / Yusef Lateef album (that one with alternate takes)

same here... didn't know Syd Barrett's drummer Jerry Shirley recorded with BB King...

!happy birthday!

before a bunch of people come here claiming that learning to improvise this way can only lead to boring unimaginative results... i really like the design of the page and enjoyed clicking around on it quite a bit!

so if we agree that he is the fount of all things smooth, then people have been listening to smooth jazz for over 20 years, the usual definition of a "generation". I think you're putting to much emphasis on "understand" - its more like fans of the G-ster think "OK, I know what jazz is about" and I think that most of us would say that you don't anything about jazz from listening to him. As for the harm done, let me try an analogy. Let's say that some poor lost soul mistook the New York Mets for the New York Yankees. His knowledge of the Yankees would be a franchise of no great success, with two world championships in three World Series appearances in nearly fifty years of existence. I think true Yankee fans would very much want that person to know that the team in fact has a far more illustrious history covering most of the last century, and that he knows nothing about the "real Yankee franchise". guess with a european perspective it is easy to overlook how big a business smooth jazz actually is... concerning your analogy, you mean, we, the true jazz fans, should be hurt by those who think jazz is about kenny g; what i tried to say was something along the lines of "don't take these idiots to seriously/don't be hurt", those who truly appreciate kenny g wouldn't want the real deal anyway, and those who say they dislike jazz because they dislike kenny g (are they the majority?) should be easy to cure...

1) i can't believe there ever was a whole generation listening to smooth jazz 2) what does it mean to "understand jazz"? who can deservedly claim to have understood jazz? someone who listens to hank mobley the way others are listening to the Yellowjackets? what's wrong with people wrongly assuming they have understood something if it doesn't do anyone harm? (i mean, in rocket science i would see the problem but here..)

saw the first snow of this winter today (just in the air, not on the ground)

just in case anyone else is wondering about jazzbo's new title (4 8 15 16 23 42) http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequence...h&go=Search

thank you very much!

my girlfriend upgraded her copy of Blood on the Tracks and i vaguely remember being astonished ( ) by the difference (more than with any other such upgrade)... my favorite album is Desire, followed by Blonde on Blonde... (but i don't know all)

there are some copies of this on ebay, mostly vinyl but also a pricey copy of a 1985 cd... http://cgi.ebay.com/A-Message-From-Newport...1QQcmdZViewItem Thanks for the info, Niko! another boring day at work...

there are some copies of this on ebay, mostly vinyl but also a pricey copy of a 1985 cd... http://cgi.ebay.com/A-Message-From-Newport...1QQcmdZViewItem

Why do I smile when I read this? Then read again and smile again? Thanks, Jim. the one thing that makes me feel a bit uneasy (wrong word) about my own interest in jazz is that i was interested in the discographical stuff even at times when i was hardly interested in the music at all, at the moment i believe i am interested in the music but i am somewhat reluctant take this belief serious

two favorites of mine (though haven't heard them in quite a while) which i didn't see mentioned upon quickly going through the thread are from Abbey Road You only give me your money Because we played Tommorow never knows in church at our high school graduation and it felt like a really great moment, we had asked one of our music teachers to play one note on the church organ in some places, in the beginning of the rehearsal he would play stupid fills and we said, "no we don't want these, we just want to hear this one note from you", which felt very cool at the time (and only looks a little hostile and stupid in retrospect), i had a damaged radio plugged into a guitar amp because we didn't have a second guitar player; while we played the priest walked on stage several times to tell us we were to loud and we said we wouldn't turn the volume down (actually we couldn't iirc); those were the days

not much to add talked to an old man at a used bin recently he said "there are not many young people listening to jazz", i said "there are not many old people listening to jazz"... listened to my favorite punk album again, Fehlfarben "Monarchie und Alltag", there is this song where they complain that - despite the fact that they had started listening to only the best music as early as 1976 - nothing much had changed in the world around them since (the song is from 1980 or so) don't think there is much cultural significance in listening to music; tend to agree that there is a lot of exposure to jazz in today's world, some people just don't like jazz; my girlfriend has had much more exposure to jazz then she ever wanted, she is a far better musician than me and certainly hears stuff in "my" music that i'd never notice, if you play here a handful of jazz tunes she can tell you which one i like best; ... she doesn't like jazz... i don't think jazz band was the most dorkish thing to do in my high school, chess club and rock band (where you'd accompany one of the teachers on Bruce Springsteen and Bryan Adams songss) were far worse (but unlike in the US, overhere there are no prestigious school activities like football team or basketball team or the like...) when we packed our stuff after the last jazz band rehearsal weekend a (very wise although i didn't notice; he never liked jazz despite being a great musician and getting more than sufficient exposure) friend said to me "these were our rock'n'roll days and looking back later we will think that these were the greatest days of our life. But you must never forget that there was nothing great about it, the band sounded really bad, the rehearsals were incredibly boring and the teachers who led the band were dorks" and i thought "of course he's right; but how should i forget how dorkish all this here was" looking back now (not even ten years later) these days really look happy and exciting and full of music but then there's what he said...

Said the guy who's not even a fan of jazz. uhhh.... beg pardon? I'm still waiting for an explanation of this mystifying comment. he referred to the album in your avatar (just trying to get a little life into the discussion)

just found the New York Times Obtiuary for Don Sleet http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html...752C0A961948260 is the info in bold correct? (seems a bit silly to ask...)

happy birthday!

(belated) happy birthday!

thanks for bringing this up again wasn't here yet the first time around... beautiful!

reuben wilson - love bug, just won this on ebay for 8 euro including shipping

something else, is james anderson the tenor player on jimmy ponder's jump, the j.a. from this one's for j.a.?