Big Wheel

Thanks Mike - will check that board out. I did find this local company, http://www.soldrums.com/conga.html , but these drums seem well above mid-range! I was initially planning for a budget of maybe $400 per drum, tops.

Clifford Jarvis

So I was in this funky bar in SF this weekend and these local dudes, mostly Cuban I think, were playing guaguanco inside. 3 congueros, chekere, some other random sticks and blocks and shakers, plus a coro. Anyway...I'm thinking I might have the bug again to learn this stuff (I know the basic tumbaos and montunos on piano, but never really learned to understand the music inside and out). I kind of have the sense that mastering Afro-Cuban styles starting with salsa piano is kind of like trying to build the Great Pyramid starting at the top of the pyramid. So this time, I'm thinking I should get a drum. What's a reasonable price to pay for an entry level, but decent tumba or conga? And how much maintenance does it need? Is there a size I should start on?

They renovated the whole place around 2005. Luke Kaven hasn't posted here in a while but maybe he can give more details.

I've never noticed this much Keith in Hays's playing either. Maybe he was listening to a lot of Keith that week? What I love about Hays is the way he just makes everybody he plays with sound better without an excess of flash. Having a feel that perfect is really underappreciated.

This Anthony Wilson show is nothing earth-shattering in terms of doing new things with the music, but bebop fans will eat it up.

Ah...I think I figured it out. It appears that they are just pulling all the Amazon and Amazon Marketplace prices, but instead of showing you the Amazon.com price as the primary price and telling you that it's available from Marketplace sellers "used and new for $5.99", they instead just show the cheapest one as the primary price. So scienceblog.com is a pure affiliate - they don't process your order or do anything else with what you bought, they just get commission from Amazon for sending you over there and buying from them or one of the sellers in the Marketplace.

Has anyone seen this site before? http://store.scienceblog.com/ They appear to be using an Amazon API to essentially create another frontend on top of Amazon.com....but some of their listed prices are significantly cheaper than Amazon's. When you click "checkout," it takes you to the Amazon sign-in page. I haven't yet tried to enter Amazon from here. Is it a bad idea to enter my Amazon password on this page?

Maybe he stamped it every time he played the record, just so he'd know how much wear and tear it had gotten? Does there seem to be any rhyme or reason to the number of stamps?

The first half of the A sections sounds to me like Rodgers/Hart's "Lover" (which a Google search shows Chestnut has played in the past) but the bridge is totally off, I think.

I think those species are rare and I'm assuming the idea was to sell them for lots of money as pets. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/unleashed/...gling-case.html Back in the day in Miami, before I was born, there was a rare bird aviary/sanctuary near the house where my parents eventually moved, and one of the species they raised were red-whiskered bulbuls (native to Asia). A storm damaged the place and freed a large number of them, and they ended up thriving in Miami. The funny thing about them was that they would perch on our windowsills, see their own reflections, and then peck the shit out of the windows. They stopped doing that after a year or two, so either the bulbul population figured it out eventually or whatever windows we had bought during renovating the house turned out to be less reflective.

Quick update to this: I went into the Oxford Circus HMV today and most RVGs, though not all, were still £4. However, the real deals are the doubles - I picked up the aforementioned Cornell 1964, Dorham's Round About Midnight, and Groovin' at Small's Paradise for £5 apiece. I almost never see any of these for under $20 in the US whereas the singles are frequently discounted to the $7-8 range. One question on these: are they still being copy controlled? All the doubles I bought had the "this label is subject to copy control" on the back traycard but I was under the impression that EMI had stopped actually putting all that CC crap into the marketplace.

I didn't get an email about this one either. I just checked the website and there it was.

You have to buy 10 CDs minimum, so a good choice for bulk orders. Selection this time around is middling but I picked up the Joe Maneri discs, Eskelin's Arcanum Moderne, and a few others.

The connection is closer than that. Wasn't Dexter Lars's godfather?

That's crazy. Did MC say if the Harris/Green is going to include that lost master of "Four and One"?

That's pretty much why I had the "disturbed" reaction - if you can do this with a machine and make it sound this good why should we even bother continuing to make it at all? It turns out the trickster in this case is also a "real player" from Israel (which I had suspected - nobody who isn't really deep into this stuff would be able to make the groove so dead-on) but still...not sure if that really changes anything.

Apologies if this has been posted before - it's been going around for a couple of weeks. There's something unsettling about this - I don't know whether to be awed at the effort, disturbed at the tricks you can do with Pro Tools et al, or laughing at the resemblance to a Japanese chindogu "useless invention."

Are these new or used?

Are there similar prices in the brick-and-mortar UK HMV stores? I'm going to be in London in April and figure I should do a shopping run if I get the chance.

Dunno if anyone has posted about this on the board (searching for "soul" doesn't really work) but in case they haven't, here are some episodes I've been enjoying: http://www.thirteen.org/soul/

These are very strange times we live in. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb6ul_2UC-4

More recognizable than the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra?

Thanks everyone. It was actually a pretty awful birthday for a variety of reasons but I appreciate the kind words.

The first time I went under the knife I was on IV sedation (not exactly anesthesia, but similar). I woke up while they were still working on me and slurred "are you guyzzz done yet???"