Niko

unsure how relevant this is to the matter, but i found this quote by John Lurie fairly interesting and convincing Q: Miles Davis and Frank Zappa were two terrific players, but were perhaps equally as renown for their ability to recruit top-flight talent for their bands. You also fit that description, with your bands having included John Medeski, Steven Bernstein, Michael Blake, Marc Ribot, David Tronzo, Billy Martin, Jane Scarpantoni, and the list goes on and on. What are you listening or looking for when you select your musicians? A: How they fit together is important. For example, if the drummer is macho, then the bass player has to be a little lenient. There is a big masculine/feminine thing in who I hire. Not male/female but just a sense of who is sensitive and who is strong. It is best to have both in the same person, but if you don’t, then you need to balance it out. I have hired some musicians without even hearing them play; just seeing how they pack up their instrument after talking to them can be enough. from this interview: http://www.jambands.com/features/2011/02/01/john-lurie-sustains/?1

i read bill's message as saying something to the effect of "at some point i realized i need some sort of medication because otherwise i would molest children or at the very least endorse the molestation of children, but then medicare stopped paying for my medication so..."; and i firmly believe that once you realize you need this type of medication you should either kill yourself or make it your primary goal to have access to that medication - any other decision - including bill's - deserves exactly zero respect. now admittedly my english is not that good and i haven't been to vietnam, anyway, if i understand you, face-ob, right, you read bill's message differently, you say it means something like "the bad guys in prison don't give me my medication and thus i want to molest children all day - too bad none are around"; maybe you are right though i'm not convinced, my compassion with this type of medical condition is severely limited. anyway, let's not forget, he's not yet convicted.

looks like homeland security was involved in one way or other http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Delego what bugs me a bit about the message from bill is that to me it conveys a spirit as if child porn was made from water and the right kind of white powder like so many other addictive substances people use to cure their depressions... here's a photo of bill in vietnam btw http://www.flickr.com/photos/34815186@N05/

allen, you have to click the plus on the right (again and again)

i understand it like this: someone who openly has relationships with both males and females, a few months or years of this, then a few of the other, is bisexual - someone who leads a "double-life" being straight, married and all to the outside and while having more or less secret same-sex relationships for fear of whatever should not really be considered bisexual... just like a jazz musician isn't a ... musician as well just because he played a great timpani solo on an album of ... music...

great to see someone else loves those nimbus west records (especially the Nate Morgan), if you order them directly from the label, tom albach brings them to the post office in person (at least that's my experience) http://www.nimbuswest.com/ here's a recent video of Dadisi Komolafe (sound gets better around 1:50) must be one of the most boring interviews ever but there he is... also http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/06/02/national/main20068285.shtml

admittedly, the one thing i am not so sure of is whether "our" Bill Barton was really a registered sex offender... he doesn't seem to be in any of the databases and iirc i only read/heard about that through media reports but not through anything official - but then maybe he was deleted upon arrest... anyway, i find it encouraging that those who knew Bill personally tend to be even more shocked than the rest - shows that this is not a thing about "internet acquaintances" or the like...

it's all in Noal Cohen's great discography + the posts in this thread...

actually, the fact that there was a guy on youtube called blackbart2010 who liked jazz is the only chance i see for our bb being taking accidentally for someone else who used the same handle there. otherwise, using a forum name so close to the real name almost looks like a plea to be taken off the streets asap. innocence is getting less likely after four months i guess, since uploading a file should be easier to prove than real world child molestation. i can't pretend to myself thinking he is innocent, i'd rather apologize and change my opinion at some point if he is.

don't get all this...

you did tell me!

Congratulations!!

that opinion would be my choice as well, if i could choose

stupid question about th US: he's been in there for four months now (and what he allegedly did is not a mystery murder but - so it seems - a straightforward to check offense) what are the chances he's in there innocently?

all the indictments so far only contain charges of uploading (no doubt because that is the only thing which can be proved "online", remember that initially the indictments also didn't have the accused's names)... but fwiw, the board had a "producers" subforum so you can be fairly certain that at least in some cases further (horrible) charges will be added

only chance is that he's not guilty, chances he's not the arrested guy are virtually zero. feels seriously awkward!

here is an email from bill barton, written a year ago to the jazz programmers list where he says his address changes to 333 Summit Avenue in Kent, WA http://lists.jazzweek.com/pipermail/jazzproglist/2010-July/044984.html so name, age, city and the 333 (which is seen in the video) match... which doesn't mean he's guilty but which makes it unlikely it's not him; here it says William Barton aka blackbart2010 was arrested already in April http://mynorthwest.com/?nid=11&sid=524954 which matches his disappearance, here is the youtube channel of a guy calling himself blackbart2010 who likes Chris McGregor http://www.youtube.com/user/blackbart2010 and here http://www.justice.gov/opa/documents/indictment-blackbart-second-phase.pdf is more info if you want it...

weird, i can't see it! maybe they have different rules depending on where you live...

for an example i could test: the picture in post 19264 here is not displayed, but jeffcrom probably did not notice because he had looked at the picture here before posting and thus could see it... this is increasingly getting a problem because more and more sites don't want their pictures displayed elsewhere... the safest way out is to upload pictures to one of those image repositories, forgot the names of those, not as tedious as it sounds but tedious anyway...

some pages prohibit linking to their pictures (to keep their data traffic low) but if you clicked on the picture and have it in your browser cache, it will look on your computer as if the linking had worked... kinda hard to test these things, but in theory you should not see a picture in my post initially, but if you click this link http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/8d7c59c94f32d0916b1ed84441b1a8df/3368570.jpg and then reload the post you should see it. (at least that's my guess about what happened)

the new johnny dankworth set also has a fairly exciting line-up with Red Rodney, Lockjaw, Cecil Payne... will spin them soon...

Happy Birthday, Shawn! I wish you all the best for the next year!

welcome back!

they all look the same to me

and the Fatha Hines record is signed by Fatha Hines (who - unlike Wynton - wrote on the reconrds' label and not on the vinyl); cometing with those Wynton-signed 78s are the two ugly Pearl Bailey posters who were signed by just about anyone (guess it's easier to convince Lee Konitz to sign a Pearl Bailey poster than a Duke Ellington 78, slightly different with Wynton M))