Big Wheel

I'm with Jim on this - not having seen the new one. After Pulp Fiction he seems to be trying to keep up with the kids. basically agreed w/ all of the above, except i have a much greater dislike of him than you guys it would seem. tarantino annoys me to no end. i suppose you have to give him some credit technically, but for me he's all style and no substance. and that can be ok sometimes but not w/ him imo. he reminds me of a little kid yelling "Look at me Ma, look at me!!! Look! Look at me Ma!!" and when Ma (ie: the audience) looks, he's either purposefully picking a booger or flippin' you the bird like it's the funniest thing ever. he's mainly a snotty, immature brat who got lucky. "Made ya look, made ya look!" somebody should slap him upside the head. and he also represents another thing that annoys the shit out of me: overly self-conscious 'irreverence.' as if irreverence for irreverance's sake without any creative underpinning or point being made is sooooo cool and hip. it's not. it's childish. "Look at me, look at me! i'm being irreverant! i said something non 'P.C.' aren't i cool? you're not the boss of me! violence, crudeness, ha ha ha. i'm so irreverent. look at me, look at me! nobody is as irreverant as me. just look at all this blood. i'm so hip." people who see his hyper violence, lack of development, and overly self-conscious lazy comedic 'irreverance' as great film-making are mistaking creative for blank. i think he gets wayyyyyy too much praise. often he's merely a skilled button-pusher. and i don't think that's a very positive, or creative, skill to use in and of itself. What he said. For masochists only: watch all 10 minutes of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX8aUixCpek.

You need to convert it first. There are a lot of audio tools out there that will do this. In the past I've used one called Foobar2000: http://www.foobar2000.org/

It was an online game but the games are not exportable so I had to recreate the diagram from scratch anyway. It's pretty simple to do with the diagram generator Templejazz posted upthread and you can then save the picture file as an attachment and upload it to a post.

Here's an interesting position that appeared in a game I just played. I'm White, Black is to move. As best as I can tell Black's best move is the not very pretty 1...Qa3. Everything else is going to lose material. The actual continuation was the more natural-looking 1...Qe4? which gets crushed by 2. Bd3 Qe6 (virtually forced) 3. Re1. Edit: I guess both of us missed 2...Bh6, which appears to at least prevent immediate disaster. Although things still look pretty yucky for Black after 3. Bxe4 Bxd2 4. Bxd5. I played the Morra Gambit in this game and had always heard how this opening can put an opposing queen on the run, but never managed to pull it off until today.

They're in a higher circle though than the people whose job it is to destroy unsold CD inventory for tax reasons.

Japanese pasta. Udon noodles topped with: Homemade ponzu sauce (50/50 mixture of soy sauce and water, plus some squirts of lemon from the Meyer lemon tree out back) Chopped green onion A few drops of sesame oil A shaking of sesame seeds and some Japanese furikake seasoning on top. Probably not consumed exactly in this form by real Japanese people, but it tastes good. Going to buy some cherry tomatoes and long beans and make a green papaya salad tomorrow.

Seems unlikely. Why would Trane have then hired him for all of his records on Prestige? Did Bob Weinstock just force him to use that rhythm section?

Noticed on the DG website that they are promoting a "Sidewalk Sale" on the 15th. I had a crazy idea of getting a cheap weekend fare to Chicago and checking it out. Does anyone know any of the details (what genres are included, new, used, etc)?

Bringing up this ancient thread because it seems like the most appropriate place. Jimmy Smith was an underrated master of intros. Listening now to "Indiana" from the Small's Paradise set...that intro where he quotes Misterioso gives you almost no indication of what's about to come next, but it somehow works. Same goes for the Bach-like intro on The Champ two tracks later, with that crazy dissonance on the second-to-last chord of the intro. I always dig it when a player throws in something surreal/random like that.

Ah, aesthetic Stalinism.

Listening to it on Rhapsody right now and I'm pretty sure it's a contrafact of It Could Happen to You. Edit: D'oh, missed FFA's post above. Countdown is only a quasi-contrafact. It's Tune Up radically reharmonized with Coltrane substitutions, just like he did to "Confirmation" to make "26-2".

Yes. Yes it is. And is it Grobin or Groban? Either way, it's c-r-a-p. I was trying to figure out how you found that and then remembered we have a new thread, a mere five years after that old one, lamenting the death of jazz. WHY WON'T IT JUST DIE!?!?!? Funny stuff. I still like the idea of Jimmy's Rants! I actually remembered the post. I have a really weird associative kind of memory, and at the time of the original post I had never really heard of Josh Groban. Thus, since the thread was the first substantive thing I heard about him, to this day every time I hear the words "Josh Groban", my brain thinks "Josh Groban is fucking terrible." It was pretty easy to find via Google.. http://www.google.com/search?&q="...mp;oq=&aqi=

Funny, I've heard someone express these sentiments before... http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...st&p=110861

The drum beat on that actually sounds almost the same as Paul Wertico's drumming on the title track to Metheny's We Live Here. Maybe not identical, but the similarities are close enough to make me wonder if they sampled it.

Especially since this board has a looooooong history of being inundated by Street Team Spam for innumerable such acts. That's close to what I was trying to say in my post (now deleted I think). I thought that Dan's response was harsh and over the top. But given the board's history I kind of understand why a person might be thinking that way.

Yeah, it's tough to tell for sure. I just got shipments 2 and 3 of my order and thought it was rather odd which ones still haven't gotten here. Art Farmer Farmer's Market Bill Evans Interplay Sessions Arturo O'Farrill Blood Lines Strangely enough, the Evans and O'Farrill are still available on Oldies.com but don't show the sale pricing anymore.

The Four Seasons stuff is covered a bit in this thread: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=23589

Listening to the Billy May/Anita O'Day version of "Get Out of Town," one of my favorite Cole Porter tunes. That thing May does with slyly changing the I chord (the tonic minor) to major at the beginning of the second A section is seriously hip.

Yeah, I saw they have it. But was it deleted from Rhino's catalog?

By the way, was this set deleted from the catalog? It's showing as "discontinued" at Amazon and I'm having trouble finding it at CD Universe.

Interesting. Given that Joe's card was already expired when it was tested, that points to whatever compromising that may have been done being quite a long time ago, which is certainly not unheard of. If I'm a fraudster trying to avoid detection, I'm probably going to stockpile lots of credit card numbers and sit on them for at least a little while before making purchases. Or, as has been mentioned here, maybe a site a bunch of us buy from got hacked recently and the hackers got access to a ton of old customer data.

I think it would be useful if the board members who have experienced this fraud let us know where they've been buying music in the last month or two. Seems likely that some site we've all been buying from has bad security. For example, I've made recent purchases at Concord and at Oldies.com, both of which I buy from rarely. Have others on this thread been buying from these sites?

Is the Stitt's Bits box a complete rendering of these sessions or just a compilation of material from them? I've been waiting to jump on the individual CDs but if I can get everything for $5, seems like a no-brainer.

Given that you are both in Texas (and possibly using the same ISP) it makes me wonder if the site is blocking a whole range of IP addresses. If your ISP is routing your traffic through the same datacenter you could be assigned IPs in a similar range to one another. Might want to test with other AT&T customers in TX to see if they have similar problems.

Questionable whether they are the "best" HS jazz band just because they won Essentially Ellington this year. EE rewards bands that rehearse the 6-10 Ellington competition charts to death, which doesn't seem to be the best measure of how good the band actually is. You can win with 2-3 strong soloists and a band that is only okay if you practice those charts enough. They were good, but probably not the best, in 2000, when I competed against them at the same competition (we placed ahead of them). I would guess that depending on the year (or even the day of the week) one of the performing arts high schools or Hall High School in Connecticut has a band that can smoke them.