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83, but I'm with Dan in that I need to lose some weight...

I don't get out as much these days (or I'm not "let out" as the case may be), but as Jon said I have met NOJ. I've mostly met some guys from the ol' BN board who don't (or rarely) post here: Chris, Jason, and Terence (TJazz). I'm also fairly certain that a few other L.A. cats (like Adam) and I have been to the same concerts without us realizing it until after.

I would actually go to Starbucks if they had them there. Sort of like those old Marvel Comics Slupree cups from 7/11...

Man... that place has got to be TENSE! Yeah, but think about all the, uh, "not technically sexual" ways that the students apparently relieve their tension....

In comparing the set list with the dedication list, I'm certainly glad to see that RRK made the cut. B-)

You beat me to posting this (no pun intended). This has been in the news a lot in the last few days and I think it was Bill Mahar who riffed on this on his show last weekend. It will be interesting to hear the responses of those behind such abstinance programs - which isn't to say that abstinance is a bad thing, just that it's very difficult to regulate human nature...

The problem with Che is that he was both offensive and annoying. I like to think I'm not offensive...

I was just over there myself - what can I say? I stop and stare at car wrecks too. Any offensive posts must have already been removed. Only his annoying stuff remains.

Pretty much just a multi - once a day when I remember to take it... My mother tries to sell me on all sorts of "homeopathics." Her medicine cabinet looks like a pharmacy - but I won't have any of that...

Thanks again, Flurin. You've exposed me to so many "new" names that I should probably curse you for making me want to check some of them out - and making it so relatively difficult to check out.

Don't forget, before Gulacy there was the master... Steranko...

I'm desperate for a Shorty Rogers Disc 2! I've pieced together all the others...

Don't give Revenant any more ideas!

Or at least a "ham and che" sammich...

:rsmile:

"Not with a bang but a whimper."

Funny, but I was gonna say that I can't imagine the sound. Which makes me very curious to hear it. You'll have to let us know, David, the next time you perform on the left coast.

I think we've just had a breakthrough...

I remember dragging my dad to see it with me; I must have been around 10 or 11. Really freaked me out at the time; not so much any more.

The last time I was in Orlando it was strictly no frills for us - and an old friend comped us through Disney/Epcot - but it's a huge tourist town and Disney is only one of several major theme parks in the area so I would expect that there are a number of finer restaurants in Orlando itself.

I've been listening to this the last few days and it's really growing on me. It is pretty inside and certainly about the most accessible Wm. Parker that I've ever heard - which may be why a few are rather cool to it. It doesn't jump out and grab you by the balls like some of his other recordings. My favorite track may be "Phoenix," which sounds like the Jarrett trio doing some 70's Philly soul...

Oh, hell, I know that, it's just such an easy shorthand. I bet that most of what I listen to would have been considered "outside" at some point - like Bird and Diz getting the traditionalists' panties in a wad sixty years ago. But isn't it also true that a-g is any jazz played without a piano?

Great pics, Al. So that's what Sangrey looks like! Seriously, wish I coulda been there. As for being a BN kinda guy somewhat intimidated by a-g jazz, I know what you mean, Al. I've been listening to a lot more "out there" stuff lately and catching more of those kinds of shows live, and I have to concur with something someone wrote (perhaps here) that was either attributed to Sam Rivers or said in regards to him: that it's often much more interesting to see an a-g jazz performance in person than to listen to it on an album. I'm not sure why that is, but I'd have to agree. There's just something about the energy and interaction of such a performance that simply can't be captuted on a recording in the same way that a more "conventional" jazz performance can often be.