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an hour??? wow. Huh? Can't you go an hour, Greg?

Awesome post, Moose, hee hee! The bitch next door to me is a real screamer. Their bedroom is right next to mine, so I don't need F.B.I. equipment to hear them. She once slugged me on the mouth, so they are not on my list for Sunday dinner, lol. Both she and her husband are grade A assholes.

An interesting point, and one that had occurred to me already:- A Serbian house producer called Gramophonedzie has done a remix of Peggy Lee singing "Why Don't You Do Right" with the Benny Goodman orchestra, from 1942. It's called "Why Don't You?" It has two breakdowns where you just hear Peggy and the orchestra, with Fox Trot rhythm at the same speed as the electro section - 125 BPM or so. It goes over great with the young dancers. Google it and give it a listen. There is a lot of scope for the use of portions of jazz tracks in this way. It's just waiting for someone who knows jazz to do it. Also, sound bites of live intruments can be recorded and mixed in.

... in any day. My late wife, who was a classically trained pianist, heard Dave playing some Mozart, and she said he was fantastic. (Glad she liked it - Wolfgang is a dweadful bore to me, and I've stood outside the house where he was born, lol. It's in Salzburg.)

That's an excellent post, Lucian. You nailed it. People do like the tempo to be in the 120s. After a lot of experience with house, I tend to favor about 126 BPM. I deeply love jazz, but I don't go anywhere now to listen to or play it. That's because (as has been mentioned) there are virtually no young people there. Most jazz fans today that I have met are grumpy old farts that I don't want to hang with. That's one reason why I got into house. It is not only awesome to listen to and mix, but it is very popular. I think the house family of music is today's cutting edge, for all types of music. Two things I like about it are that it usually swings like crazy, and that it has influences from a lot of jazz and Latino music - for example, the rhythm is often a samba (though the young 'uns are unaware of that). Also, you will often hear a jazz solo, e.g. sax. As an example of that, check out Funkagenda's mix of "The Man With The Red Face", which has a scorching alto solo, as well as a real groovy bass vamp. So, we can sit at home, or in a dirty tavern and fret about jazz, or we can go out and have a good time - and, maybe, pull at the same time (or, at least, socialize with some lovely people).

Lol, I will play in E for you, Allen! Early in my alto days, I mainly played with guitarists, and E is the only key they know. On the alto, concert E is C#, and I had to learn to play in that key in a hurry. (Hee hee, try asking a guitarist to play in Ab. Cover your ears as you ask.) Seriously, though, what pianist can't play in Ab??

That is definitely not true. Rock 'n' Roll barely even exists today. We dance to house and pop, sometimes with a house beat, usually referred to as "dance". Also, although I detest them, "r & b" and hiphop.

iTunes and Napster are a pain in the ass, with that wretched DRM. However, I have some software called Tunebite that gets rid of the DRM, using the simple device of playing the track in question and recording it. Output is good old 320Kbps mp3.

And almost living on their fucking laptops ...

There is absolutely no way that Bill would have been intimidated by Elvin. Apart from anything else, Bill's favorite drummer was Philly Joe, not Paul Motian or some other lighter sounding drummer. And I don't have a decibel meter, but Philly Joe and Elvin were about equally loud.

You guys seriously need to get out a bit more, lol.

Can I post some of my electro house mixes, Jim? Hee hee.

Yes, they sure are trilbys. I have two, in my large hat collection. Check out my navy one from Newurban Hats: http://www.newurban.co.uk/p300/showstopper-trilby-hat/product_info.html The girls always try to steal them on the dancefloor, and I have lost two. The latest theft was perpetrated by a blonde who apologized last Saturday - I told he she could just keep it.

Your experience parallels mine, Neveronfriday. Dave sure deserves a lot of honors. I've always liked "Gone With The Wind", along with its matchmeet, "Southern Scene". By always, I mean ever since the LPs first came out.

Yes.

Bless him, Peter. That's great. Re the quiet dorm, I find boys (i.e. 18 through mid 20s) today to be so quiet and shy, almost emo. Hard to get them out of their shells. I've taken them clubbing and they sneak off in fear, leaving me to stay there and dance for hours.

How about some little tapes I have that contain recordings. They go from side to side.

I love the album, and have ever since it first came out. "Night and Day" really cooks, and is followed by a great "But Beautiful". But I like it all, including the joke item where Bill plays stride and Elvin imitates Gene Krupa. It's good to hear Stan and Bill with Elvin (the only time for Bill, I think), not to mention Ron Carter and Richard Davis. This was a kinda unauthorized release in 1974, produced by someone who didn't know much about it. Two other precious, unapproved Verve albums that they also put out at that time are one with the Clark Terry - Bob Brookmeyer quintet, and one of various items by Gil Evans, including a marvelous quartet version of "Cheryl" (trombone and rhythm section) that was excluded from the CD issue. (Michael was in one of his pompous moods when he produced the CD, lol.)

John, I'm insulted, lol. (Speaking as a soprano player since 1965.)

I'm surprised that there are so many disks in this set. For a long time, I've felt that John was under-recorded. All I have thus far are the sessions with Miles (on which he just about steals the show) and a copy of "The Heart of Things" that I obtained from a Swiss-German satellite TV station - they used to play CDs on air after broadcasting was over for the night.

Lon! Watching Seinfeld indeed!

Somehow, I missed this. I've never heard any of it. But it's not surprising. So many tenor players recorded on soprano at that time: Wayne Shorter, Zoot Sims, Gerry Mulligan and so on. (Yes, Gerry was a tenor player, hee hee.)

A great Bulletin Board Moment!

I have the Mosaic, but it has crap sound and I replaced all of it with a combination of LPs and TOCJ CDs. Marvellous music, of course. I have all Jackie's BN material, including the session with Ornette Coleman, which I like very much, even though normally Ornette is a bore to me.

That teacher was talking pure, pretentious bullshit.