[happy b-day to me, by 22nd b-day today]

merry birthday, CJ.

[Who are you just "discovering"?]

Bill Evans & Milt Jackson (solo stuff).

[Finally! An A&E "Live by Request" worth watching]

@ B3-er

how bout:

Sonny Rollins

Max Roach

[Top 100 Songs of the past 25 Years]

Miles' cover of Time After Time didn't make it?

[Patti Smith]

i love Patty Smith. i've seen her twice (way back in the late 70's). she puts on a great show. i believe i have all of her recordings.

[Jack & The Beanstalk is about]

didn't Sigmund Freud once say, "Somethimes a cigar is just a cigar." ?

[It's Finally Over!!]

awww, heck. "Junior, put up the shotgun".

[The Ultimate IQ Test]

77!!!

wooo hoooo, that's the best score yet...hey who's playing the Deliverance song?

[The Food Thread]

No offense intended, but I find most of Joy of Cooking's recipies to be rather bland.

true, but, the "how to" stuff is worth the cover price. my new favorite book is Alton Brown's "I'm Only Here For The Food". IMO this book should be in everyone's kitchen.

[Rock On...]

records:

The Beach Boys-everything

The Beatles-everything from Help to Let It Be

Santana-everything from Santana to Caravanserai

Bruce Springsteen-everything from The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle to The River

The Rolling Stones-Exile on Main Street, Let It Bleed, Some Girls, Beggers Banquet

Black Sabbath-Paranoid

songs:

AC/DC-Back in Black

Ted Nugent-Stranglehold

Spirit-I Got a Line On You

Mountain-Mississippi Queen

Led Zepplin-When The Levey Breaks

[June Listening]

Bud Powell-Bud In Paris

Dave Brubeck-Time Further Out

Jerry Garcia/Dave Grisman-Shady Grove

Plagairhythm Nation-The Evolution Controll Committee

Bill Evans-Eloquence

[Now that S.W.A.T. Has finally made it to DVD]

DRAGNET

[The Food Thread]

[A.A.A.D.D do you suffer from it?]

i think i....um, i was gonna say sumthin'...hmmmm, now what were we taking about?

[Your 'old slippers'....]

Miles Davis-Kind Of Blue.

Tom Waits-Small Change

KoB was the Jazz album that converted me, and i still sit in amazment at the interplay between the horns, the fat lines RC lays down, and Jimmy Cobb's right hand.

Small Change came out around the time i was in the military. i had never heard him before. his lyrics, his voice and the music (Shelly Manne on drums) were, and still are, mezmerizing to me.

{thread hijack}

GoM-get well soon. i'm glad you can still post! smart move: a helmet.

{hijack off}

[Explain the etymological origin of your user name!]

i'm an RN. years ago i worked in at an infusion (intravenous therapy) home health company. previous to that job, i worked at a large hospital as an "infusion RN", on the IV Team. when i went to work in Home Health i had tons more IV experiance than anyone else there. if someone needed an IV and no one else could get an IV started, they'd call me. pretty soon the other nurses there started calling me 'The Jacman'. kinda like Superman. the 'the' got dropped, and everone started calling me jacman, and the name stuck. i work at another company now, but several of the folks from the first company work there also, so now everyone at the new place calls me jacman, too.

[Gregory Peck RIP]

G*d Bless him.

i'll never forget 2 of his movies: To Kill A Mockingbird and Gentlemen's Agreement (which my Yiddish grandmother called Gentilemen's Agreement).

[Ken Burns, "JAZZ"]

And as for Branford’s “bullshit” quote... Branford was trying to say the idea of listeners having to prepare themselves before listening to Cecil (or jazz?) was nonsense –not Cecil’s music. The interview transcripts bare this out.

Branford discussed this in a recent magazine interview (can't remember which one tho). his quote was edited to fit the agenda.

it would have been nice if they had let at least 1 tune play all the way thru.

[The Bar-B- Que Pit]

Weber Charcoal grill for me. luckily for me, i live in a place were i'm able to (and do) grill year round. "Og make fire", at least 4 times a week. nothing like grilled asparagas.

[The Japanese "R" & "L" Thing!]

i have a Carlos Santana (Japanese import) CD called "The Ballade". i'm not sure what a 'Ballade' is, but Carlos is playing ballads.

[Jazz on DVD]

also worth mentioning is the release of Ralph Gleason's old TV shows, "Jazz Casual". i picked up the Dave Brubeck episode a few weeks ago. next on the list is Coltrane.

has anyone seen "Let's Get Lost"? it was a documentary about Chet Baker. i saw it in the theater and then a couple of years later on Video. haven't seen it on DVD yet.