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I think that's commendable. Maybe she's owning up to responsibility. It'll be interesting to see how long she actually serves. Not because she'll get off easy because she's "famous," but because the jails have been so overcrowded that in most offenses like these (less than 60 or 90 day sentences I believe) the perp only serves a day or two - or is even just "processed through" without staying. But if that happened to Paris - if she really got treated like the average Joe - there'd be folks rioting in the streets that she got off because of her celebrity.

Chuck will dig this one... As Lon might know, I'm rather fond of my Decware Zen, but it simply wasn't putting out enough juice to really get my speakers singing. I was hoping to purchase a pair of used Klipsch Fortes, but that fell through and I have to make due for the time being. So I broke out an old Marantz 226b (mid-70's) that I picked up at the flea market for twenty bucks, and I'm using that strictly as an amp, feeding it with a Cambridge C500 control amp ('cause I need the remote and I like its internal phono pre). CD player is a Cambridge D300, turntable a Music Hall MMF-5, speakers are Polk RT800s. Aside from a couple pair of semi-silver interconnects that I bought off Ebay, all other wires are cheap and generic. Anyway, the sound from that old Marantz is heavenly. The added power (and it's only about 40 watts iirc) really improves the sound from the Polks, which always seemed a bit thin when powered by the Zen (which only outputs a watt or two after all). I wouldn't call the Marantz exactly tubey-sounding, but it is fairly mellow and has a great bottom end. Before I settled on it I compared it with an old Kenwood A/V amp I had laying around (which I've since passed on to someone looking to get into vinyl) and it was like night and day... and I'm no audiophile who hears differences in the slightest equipment modifications. I think I'll save my money and stick with the ol' Marantz for a while. My system has never sounded better.

I agree. Ella was my favorite female jazz singer for many years - since eclipsed by Dinah W - but her songbooks series remains just about perfect. Her singing on the Cole Porter Songbook is especially memorable for me, but I don't think I've heard any truly bad Ella.

Well I wasn't surprised by this at all. No argument from me about Melinda's chops - she may be the best pure singer that's ever been on Idol, but there's a lot more to a singing career (and getting votes) than just one's voice - as anyone who's seen (heard!) some of the pro celebrity guest singers on the show can atest.

When did Don Cherry turn from trumpet-playing to hockey?!?!?!? Guy Took a puck to the face?

Should we start a poll to determine a close time?

Ain't it the truth.

I'm rather ambivalent about this. I really don't see the need for one, I'd rather we not have one and further segregate music by genre... but I also don't feel any great desire to deny a Classical Music Forum to those who do want one. What to do, what to do? (I'm open to bribary...)

And where the hell would Sun Ra fit in?

Wasn't it the French director Godard who said that all you need for a movie is a gorilla and a gun?

I totally agree. I agree too. I understand that this is predominantly a jazz board, so it makes sense to have a "Misc. Music" forum to discuss anything other than jazz, but I hate to ghettoize other music genres beyond that.

Cheapest way to sample some of this stuff (if you don''t mind downloads) is emusic.com.

I do the same to mollusks and sea urchins, but that's just me being an asshole...

Those 36 guys who voted for John Patton back in 1965 must have been really cool cats!

I'm not sure if I even understand what the conflict - the "big deal" - is. So you disagree with Cuscuna's opinion - so what? Would it have made a difference if he actually listed the "screaming pretenders" by name? Would you really lose respect for him just because he criticized a group of musicians - even an entire sub-genre of music (and he obviously didn't go that far) - that you presumably enjoy? I agree it's fairly sloppy writing, but it's done more in an effort to prop Rivers up than to specfically tear anyone else down.

There really should be a Roy DuNann Collection. The best engineer ever imo.

I like "undun."

True dat, but it always pissed me off that most of the Tzadik albums were missing a track or two.

Technically, I suppose, you are correct, but would you really have preferred if MC actually wrote that he disliked such players as Doyle or Moondoc or Gayle or whomever? Would that have accomplished anything in a piece written in praise of Sam Rivers?

For those of you with only a track or two left at the end of the month... Per Henrik Wallin, Johnny Dyani, Erik Dahlback http://www.emusic.com/album/10842/10842588.html Tete Montoliu Trio http://www.emusic.com/album/10981/10981453.html

Yeah, Clem, I'm in the trenches of the biz, but sad to say and cliche as it sounds, I don't think I've read a seriously "good" book since college. I'm superficial all the way...

First Aqua Team Hunger Force "bombs" and now this! What will those insidious Canucks think of next?

I definitely agree with you there.

Yeah, saw him last summer (?) with his organ trio.