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  1. It was either jazz or doing a nickle in Sing-Sing.
  2. Funny, but that's exactly what a Hari Krishna said to me once at the airport.
  3. There are times when Chuck's terse answers call out for further explication. But this, I hope, isn't one of those times!
  4. This may be the reason why they don't reproduce the original LP covers in Mosaic boxes.
  5. RDK

    Gary Burton

    Those duets are fine; I think i prefer the live recording. Actually, most of his ECMs are very good. I have a particular fondness for Times Square, with Tiger Akoshi, and Real Life Hits. I've more recently gotten into some of his Atlantics, like Throb.
  6. Don't recall exactly, though prior to my "getting into jazz" I was familiar with a few players due to my taking drum lessons as a kid (my teacher was a huge Buddy Rich fan) and growing up in Rochester, home to Chuck Mangione. Really fell hard into it around 1980, and an early "inspiration" was, of all things, the Rolling Stone Album Guide that came out around then - not the later, yellow covered Jazz Guide, but the Red covered Guide that covered all genres of music and had a jazz section in back that had albums with lots of stars by them by artists that I had never heard before. I was a teenager experimenting with lots of different styles of music then and, using the RS Guide, I started picking up a few of their choice picks, which led me to a few of my first jazz LPs: Miles' In a Silent Way, Mingus' Ah Um, and that great BN Monk twofer. From there it was simply more "experimenting," picking up one five star album after another, checking out jazz LPs from the public library, and (once in college) scanning years' worth of Downbeats on microfiche.
  7. Great set, Jim! I cracked up at "Hi Zora."
  8. And that's what's wrong with our system. It's bad that we have a large and dynamic economy?
  9. Good luck to them. It's a tough business right now. Personally I wouldn't worry until they release The Intimate Braxton.
  10. Exactly. That, and you can't use them in dimmers. Still, we've replaced whatever bulbs we can with flourescents. They're much improved from only a few years ago. Haven'y had them in place long enough to comment on their longeviy.
  11. Many thanks for the tips, Rat. Never been to Phoenix and it's turning out to be a bit of a compromise since our planned trip was cut short by some courtroom conflicts on my wife's part. The Grand Canyon may be cut as well (not a big deal as I've been there before), but we would like to hit Meteor Crater and hopefully Petrified Forest. (We may be driving up to Colorado in August, so we might drive through GC and Mon. Valley then.) Sedona sounds interesting, though - thanks for that. Aside from having to be in Phoenix Fri-Monday, we're pretty flexible, though this is our longest roadtrip with the kids (now 6) so it's also something of an experiment in temperament.
  12. Sounds good. I don't know the area at all, but I will have a couple of days between driving the kids to various deep holes in the ground to check out the local jazz/record scene.
  13. Now that's what I'm talkin' about! Thanks!
  14. "Difficult" music?
  15. Heh, that was the very first Dylan LP that I ever bought. Still have it, still love it despite it's, uh, faults.
  16. Bumpity bump since I'll be in the Phoenix/Scottsdale area next week. Any good clubs or used CD/record shops that I should be on the lookout for? Heck, forget jazz - any good local food establishments (particularly of the bbq, diner, or funky kind) that I shouldn't miss?
  17. I've got Gamecube and a friend just gave me his Xbox after he upgraded to a 360. The girls and I have been really hooked on Star Wars legos - very fun! The one game I really want, though, is "Katamari" (sp?), which is only available for PS2 I think.
  18. The problem, though, is that a lot of what, from that era, was once considered "difficult" has been accepted and mainstreamed over the years - such as early be-bop, which must have seemed shocking coming on the heals of the big band/swing era. Even Ornette Colemen, so cutting edge at the time, hardly seems difficult any more. Maybe you could try some Stan Kenton tracks. On my last BFT, i was pretty darn shocked that so many didn't recognize (or even like) the late-50s Mingus track "Tonight at Noon." Some seemed to think that it was too outside or even a.g. I never would consider it "difficult" music now, but I bet at the time it was.
  19. Wow. Very sorry to hear that, though it sounds like you're on the mend. Best wishes to you for a full and speedy recovery.
  20. It isn't small to the coach who was fired, the program that was dismantled, or especially the three young men who had their entire lives turned upside down. But it should be "small" to the rest of us. Chuck is right. Guy No, that's a silly argument. One might just as well say that the wars and genocide going on now are "small stuff" too compared to what might result, long-term, from global warming or the eventual explosion of the sun. There are always "bigger things" to worry about, but that doesn't mean we should ignore the lesser issues.
  21. Some fun stuff here... http://www.secretfunspot.com/ You can find the mail order monster in the Mail Order section.
  22. Congrats, Matt!
  23. Classic! Gee, what are they trying to sell here?
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