RDK

Roscoe's is indeed the place for chix & waffles - though I gotta say, as much as it pains me, I'm almost always slightly disappointed after eating there. It never lives up to my lofty expectations.

Alternately: one makes a loud, annoying racket and the other's a leaf blower.

"And charbroil me..."

The White Stripes.

. Damn Bush!

No, nothing wrong with human breast milk, Jon, but you try locking your wife in a barn all day with cold suction cups strapped to her teats and see how she'll react when you demand she also cook you dinner.

Ben & Jerry's new ad campaign?

Here's one for Weizen and Berigan...

What happened? ... Where am I? You're in the sort of jazz forum that Frankie thinks we are.

I wouldn't say that. To be fair, I haven't actually heard Shaun Barrowes' new album. For all I know he could be just as good as John Tesh or Kenny G.

Just dropped on emusic: Sal Nistico & Tulio De Piscopo "Just Friends" Can't find any other info on it at the moment, but the samples sound very nice. Will probably download it later after a bit more sleauthing.

For what it's worth, this just dropped on emusic this morning.

Well if Frannie says he's good, that's good enough for me!

I hear you can download it for free off of Demonoid. Have you tried that?

That just may be my new sig line after this election.

Among the comments re: that youtube clip...

The sign of a great filmmaker(s) imo is that they leave their audience arguing over their ouevre.

Good one Chris. Hey, this is the way of the world. I'm fascinated by antiquity. I cannot even begin to fully imagine all the marvels lost forever. . . . It's been said many times before, but this is what you get when you live in a throwaway society/culture. I wouldn't necessarily blame this on a "throwaway society" though. I mean, how much can we actually hope to "keep?" This probably deserves another thread, I don't mean to derail this one, and I certainly don't want anyone to think I'm insensitive to the historical loss here, but seriously, most art is disposable - or at least transitory - and only a very small percentage of the whole is truly important and/or genuinely "artistic." As someone in one of the above-mentioned links noted, I think it was Decca that released a ton of shit recordings during the 40s-60s that few here would ever care to hear again. Obviously there are important pieces mixed in with the crap - but do we (and, increasingly, can we) hope to save it all, especially with the oppressively strict public domain issues that make it ever harder to release the stuff with little commercial upside? On another thread on another forum, people were bemoaning the lost/erased video tapes of old TV shows, which were wiped out far more thoroughly than any music catalogs ever were. At the time, of course, people thought of that as a more transitory medium - unlike buying, say an LP record, a TV show was broadcast only to never be (expected at least never to be) seen again as there would be something new on the very next week - and much of that history is now lost. But look at the sheer numbers there and tell me what should/could be saved. With 4 networks showing 3 hours of programming each night for 50 years, that's over 218,000 hours of programming (and that's a very conservative estimate)! Yeah, losing and/or destroying anything by Duke Ellington is a tragedy in my book, and perhaps even worse is losing the more obscure stuff by artists who aren't stars and whose legacies are now lost, but I think it's far more important to dwell on the music that has been released during the CD boom of the last twenty years. That, and to seriously reevaluate the PD laws that keep the more obscure stuff from seeing the light of day in the first place. Besides, this is jazz: aren't we supposed to be looking forward anyway? Now where's that "Devil's Advocate" emotican?

I have an MMMF-5 and am very happy with it.

If you're referring to my post and my use of the words "easy" and "easier," that had nothing to do with "good." I'm not sure how you're reading that into it. Everyone has their own tastes and levels of tolerance when it comes (especially) to the more "outside" stuff, and I was merely suggesting that Braxton's Arista years may be more accessible ("easier" if you will) to someone not familiar with Braxton and/or with more outside jazz in general. Whereas I might encourage anyone looking to hear Braxton for the first time to perhaps consider this Mosaic set, I wouldn't do the same, for example, with his GTM, which might drive a less daring listener away from him altogether.

Yeah, as someone who's only a part-time fan - much of his work is way over my head and doesn't at all "swing" for me - I think this is actually some of his most accessible music. It's not "easy" by any means, but it's easier (for me at least) than most Cecil Taylor. Haven't heard the 160-piece band stuff though...

Ouch. That looks ike a lot of work (well, for you or whoever made that at least). Don't know what the specific problems were with the RRK set, but have you tried using mp3tag?