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Hee hee, I'll make you jealous, because, as an excited teen, I got to meet Eddie Condon and his mates on tour, in their hotel after the concert. I chatted to Eddie about Bix. Also present were Bud Freeman (a real nice guy), Buck Clayton, Pee Wee Russell and a few others. Pee Wee was pissed as usual, and I didn't get to talk to him. His forehead was red as a beetroot.

Chill, Aric, lol. Most LPs sound great. I've got a few of the 70s Blue Notes with the dark blue label, and a few 70s Impulses with the green label, and they play fine. In the case of previously unissued material (e.g. some of the 1961 Trane Village Vanguard tracks, and a lot of Blue Note twofers), those issues were the only ones you could get, and we never gave it a thought at the time.

... by Fedde LeGrand, featuring Ida Corr.

Chuck, is the CD of Lorraine Gordon singing in the shower still available? (Hans, she sings one tune in Nederlandse.)

You'll need one of these when Lorraine Lion Gordon is in the neighborhood.

Fats Waller playing "Impressions". It sounds great with a stride left hand.

Lol, she's just being a New Yorker. If she said that to me, I'd just laugh. I don't mind feisty people at all. A lot of the best people in their fields are feisty or grumpy. There are one or two on this board. In my case, you would have to interrupt because I played too long. But all tenor players are long-winded. Lee's problem is that he plays alto.

I don't like W.M.P. a lot, though it's not all that bad for playing vids and music on the computer. Winamp and VLC are a lot better. All three will play virtually any format, and I have software to convert the format if a file won't play.

That is so right. Conan is too intellectual for a program like the Tonight Show. I also think Jay is a very nice guy. But he's a very shallow interviewer. He's had many interesting guests and it's frustrating, because they never get into anything interesting. Jay is best when they have something like a dangerous snake and he lets it slither all over him.

I'm sure it doesn't really matter. Don't worry about it. In the 60s, no-one would have even given it a thought. We just bought LPs and enjoyed them. Besides, the second issues of BN and Impulse were prepared by Rudy, and they are sonically identical to the first issues. In the case of Impulse, the only difference was that the orange and black disk label was replaced by a black and red one. The BN labels remained the same.

I used to like the old NYC Conan show back in the 90s, when it was still fresh. The band was pretty good, too, and the studio acoustics way better than on Leno's show of the time. A show highlight was "Bob Dole's psychedelic prostate", lol.

Duke wouldn't have minded that at all. He had no taste. I was at a concert he did in Adelaide, Australia, in about 1969. It was a lousy concert because the musicians were all worn out from all the traveling, but very exciting to meet all those legends. (Barry Ulanov used to call the inevitable medley "the usual bloody bore".) During the second half of the show, Duke got a young girl out of the audience to dance some Gogo.

What a fucked up country the U.S. is! A fantastic guy like that! And Britney is stinking rich. "Gimmie Gimmie". Truly, New York's No Lark. At that time, Bill Evans was said to be getting his electricity from an outlet outside his apartment door. Fortunately, Helen Keane rescued him and hooked him up with Creed Taylor. And, back in the Birth of the Cool days, Gil Evans' New York apartment had no heat! Sonny's solos are hypnotic, like someone said. Especially on "Leapin' and Lopping", which is one of my favorite albums ever, and certainly my favorite Clark.

Mjzee is right. Every track has a unique "carbon footprint" (lol) and is easily recognized online. For example, if I stick in a CD, to rip it with Winamp, something called Gracenote kicks in and the uploaded tracks all get their titles and timings added automatically. (With a few exceptions that prove the rule.) Also, with my (horribly user-unfriendly) Nokia phone software, I also get obscure album art that I've never seen before. One rare example of that was a pic of Jennifer Cardini, which was added to the tile of "August in Paris", by Shonky.

Matt Gröning said "We hope to have all our episodes out on DVD in time for the next format to show up".

Windows Media Player always causes questions, my son. (That's my imitation of whoever Alec Guinness played in that stupid Star Wars movie.) You have to learn not to ask.

I will tell you one thing that the bbc has in its archive. Not Jonathan Woss, but four fantastic episodes of its Arena series featuring Slim Gaillard (1989). Those were awesome, and I'd love a pirate copy.

My Math Ph.D. supervisor said that he wished he could hear the Beethoven late Quartets again for the first time. I know exactly what he meant. Apply that to "Kind of Blue", "Parker's Mood" and so on. Lol, the crew cut! We all had them when I was a kid in grade school, plus the Davey Crockett hat - those were pretty cool, and I'd love to wear one clubbing today.

I've done a lot of Googling about the "C melody", and I'm curious to try one. My early sax mentor called it "neither one nor the other", lol. It would be good if it had a proportionate bore and a dedicated reed. After noticing that Gerry Mulligan avoided the Selmer baritone and used a Conn (from when they were good), I'd love to try the variant that he used. Apparently, the low A on the baritone fucks up the intonation of some notes, and Gerry and Pepper always used the low Bb horn. Who needs a low A anyhow? (I blew one once at a jam session, and it was very easy to play.) I didn't know what it was called when I had it, but my first sax, a Selmer, must have been a "balanced action". It was in poor shape and I didn't like it. What a difference when I traded it in for a new MK VI alto. As Allen said, it just about played itself. (Though it was hard to blow below low D, for some reason, a problem not shared with my MK VI tenor or soprano.) Every Yamaha that I've tried (alto and tenor) played great too.

That's the main point, Jim. I have about 4 Trane books (if you include the one about Impulse), and enough is enough. I also have some of his recorded music, lol. On another note, imagine a fantastic, fully developed, vastly experienced musician of Trane's caliber "studying" with some doodling sitar player. I like the odd bit of Indian music occasionally (and I liked Joe Harriott's "Indo Jazz Suite" as a novelty), but, as with the bagpipes, a little goes a long way.

How do you download these iPlayer things? (I mean a permanent copy, not one of those Napster files with HIV.) Be nice to have a copy of the Blakey. It's not as if we are drowning in videos of him, or Lee Morgan, or John Gilmore.

"Jaded", by Deadmau5. It's very simple melodically, but excellent. Swings like crazy, with intricate time displacement, and has great harmonies.

I agree, Chris, and I don't. My son downloads Conan and puts it on occasionally when I'm at his place. Conan is a bright lad, but the monologs are mega boring. "We have a great show for you tonight!". And he says "yeah" after each new topic is brought up. They seriously need some writers.

Really good to see those pics. I'm glad it wasn't recorded, though, lol. The album Trane did with the Duke was not the best either - Duke was way out of his depth and wisely kept a low profile on that session.

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