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I think virtually every Reform or Conservative synagogue uses at least a few - that's how popular her music was among cantors and rabbis.

Via Dave Liebman's newsletter. I'm getting reallllly sick of xtranormal videos but sometimes the dialogue is just too good.

I saw Jamire Williams with Jacky Terrasson a few months ago. The cat can really play.

The Andrew Hill solo Select is also at the same price. At the other end of the spectrum, they are carrying many of the Mosaic Singles for $27.30. Does anyone know if Amazon will intentionally delay shipping an order if a customer requests it? I want to lock in the good price on one of these, but am not going to be home for the few days when the order would most likely be delivered. For obvious reasons I would rather not have a package sitting out waiting for me during those days if I can help it...

Well put, and seconded.

http://www.jazzwisemagazine.com/news-mainmenu-139/67-2010/11736-jazz-breaking-news-beatles-stevie-wonder-and-king-crimson-numbers-feature-on-kurt-ellings-new-album-the-gate- Oddly, Elling's voice fits that song perfectly, I bet. I can almost hear him singing that line "she sleeps in a chair"....just seems like the kid of material he'd pick.

Interesting. I used to go to a lot of card shows/autograph signings when I was really little and I think I have a signed ball by Feller in a closet somewhere, but never met him. Ted Williams was definitely among the most ornery of the ones that I remember. The nicest: Johnny Bench and Ernie Banks. He was nice to me when I met him at a booksigning about 20years ago. Even posed for a picture with me. I guess he was in a good mood that day. Which one, Williams or Feller? Williams was mostly just brusque and impatient in general, I think. Instead of handing you the ball after he signed it he'd kinda toss it toward you on the table in a way that suggested he was there purely for the money and had zero interest in wasting any time talking to a kid. Understandable now after reading about how competitive (i.e., Type A) the guy was.

They had the same deal this time last year. Anyone want to buy my individual season sets? I have the first four seasons in 3 sets (seasons 1 and 2 are bundled together).

Interesting. I used to go to a lot of card shows/autograph signings when I was really little and I think I have a signed ball by Feller in a closet somewhere, but never met him. Ted Williams was definitely among the most ornery of the ones that I remember. The nicest: Johnny Bench and Ernie Banks.

By "new" they probably mean "sealed boxes on eBay." Though if you adjust for inflation, maybe that's how much Mosaic boxes in 1984 or whatever cost in 2010 dollars...

Speaking of Louie Bellson there's this record, with Alex Acuña and Manolo Badrena, Francisco Aguabella and Cachao, and...Cat Anderson on a track or two?

Cool. I am actually trying to find comfortable earplugs that I can wear to sleep (just bought a big pack of the disposable Howard Leight LPF-1s). But will keep those in mind for when I want a pair for concerts.

I only have Lunch in L.A., the Fantasy record. But if you like solo piano it's a great one. Currently $5 with shipping at Amazon Marketplace.

just curious, what brand/model earplugs do you use?

Have you tried something like this? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421 I don't have enough experience with the guts of Windows to say for sure whether this will work in XP when the folders were originally created in Windows 7, but seems like it could be promising.

What version of Windows are you running? I would imagine a Google search should easily turn up how to get administrative/superuser access when viewing these folders in Windows.

How would you like it if someone spuriously called your integrity into question? The insinuation was that I must have some ulterior motive in "defending" Facebook (which I wasn't doing). In other words, because I presented a contrary point of view to Chris's, it must somehow follow that.....I'm failing to disclose that I am a Facebook employee (nope, not one, and no plans to be one, although I have acquaintances who are), otherwise professionally affiliated with Facebook (sorry, not that either) or simply a hopeless Mark Zuckerberg/Facebook fanboy (anyone who knows me would collapse with laughter if you seriously suggested this). This baseless smearing is the reaction of a child and is beneath an adult. Sorry if observing that seemed harsh, but I call 'em as I sees 'em. PS: This happened 5 months ago and I've since forgiven Chris's youthful indiscretion.

A local quasi-malapropism: I constantly say "Hey, let's go to Mitchell Brothers" when referring to local landmark Mitchell's Ice Cream.. Mitchell Brothers is a rather different local establishment...

Haven't seen much yet that's very appealing to bargain hunters. The best I've come across so far: -Amazon has some scattered music deals, with the recent Beatles remasters at $8 a pop. -J&R has a bunch of decent movies for $3-4.

Put them on the sfbay craigslist right around, oh I don't know, 4:20 PM. I suspect you'll find a hungry customer.

Agreed - though there is indeed rap on Voodoo (the one track where Method Man and Redman guest, and although it's lewd it's also pretty awesome). The story of how Voodoo was made is cool - it sounds like D'Angelo eventually wrote and performed most of the material himself, but it came out of this sprawling marathon where he and Questlove and others would often just play whatever struck their fancy, old 70s soul covers, you name it. Would love to see a DVD showing some of the more interesting moments.

You might be thinking of Hugh Schick. In case anyone was curious what Schick is up to these days, he's the guy in the black baseball cap in the photo. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703904304575497990334592752.html#project%3DSLIDESHOW08%26s%3DSB10001424052748704129204575506281365314958%26articleTabs%3Darticle

Randomly came across this clip of Branford on Space Ghost: Coast to Coast. Good stuff. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQaUQO_FFM0

Just curious -- why do you think that all of the segment that you find vital, creative, and interesting exists underground? Why does the larger community that must in some way give (and/or have given) rise to this segment of the music not have enough of a taste for this segment to make it a popular, above-ground thing? Where's the disconnect, if that's the way to put it? Isn't that simply the norm for the vast majority of great 20th century art, regardless of genre? Bebop was underground, the new thing was underground, Morton Feldman was underground, hell, rock 'n' roll was pretty underground at the beginning. And most things that start out underground stay underground - Cecil Taylor's music never erupted past the underground in my book. The only reason Cecil appears in jazz history textbooks and today's underground hip-hop doesn't appear in hip-hop history textbooks is that it's too early for most academic types to start in on analyzing the latter. Genres get old and The Man ruins them. Jimi Hendrix --> Starship --> hair metal. Public Enemy --> most shitty contemporary hip-hop. Maybe the disconnect is that the big players of the music industry got so good at marketing that they suddenly realized they didn't have to focus at all at finding and distributing quality music. Any band, good or bad, would become the hottest new thing as long as they put enough marketing oomph behind it, so who cared if the bands were good or bad as long as the shareholders got their usual dividend every quarter? Yeah, eventually something bubbles up that changes things (like the way Seattle post-punk eventually killed hair metal), but the mass public only gets sick of bad music years after that music actually starts sucking - and chances are they would have gotten sick of it even if it were good. Although Justin Bieber does sound all right if you slow him down 800%.

13 replies and nobody mentioned Yusef Lateef? Also Steve Turre on conch shells along with trombone.