Big Wheel

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Here's mine and the original I was working with. My art skills are pathetic.

I'm in awe of how accurate Jim's and Chuck's are. I couldn't even get mine close to a likeness.

Which is exactly why it would fit right in with Jim's tastes! Seriously, that was the first thing that came to mind when I thought about a mixture of sweetness and onion/garlic-like flavors.

I wonder if the blowing changes on the Unity version are different. I played through it tonight and it doesn't really remind me of the one in my head (I'd just sit down and transcribe the damn thing, but my copy of the album is sitting at home about 1000 miles away right now...) OTOH, maybe Larry is just playing some funky voicings...

Jim-- You, sir, would probably love durian. If you have any Asian markets in your area, see if they ever have them.

Thanks! Is that for both the head and the blowing? There sure seems to be some wacky stuff going on around bars 4-5 of the head.

Yes, but log files show that there are not all that many inquiring minds about that actually click to read the rest of the article. Just one of the many problems. Fair enough, but fair use is fair use, at least in the US. I don't see how this argument is much different from arguing that using quotes in scholarly journals and books leads to declining sales of the quoted books and back issues of periodicals. You can't write with sources very effectively if you can't show people the parts of the sources that are relevant to the point you are making.

I was under the impression that most bloggers usually don't lift entire stories for posting. Rather, they usually will quote a paragraph or three and provide a link. This at least seems close to fair use. But I don't frequent Kos that often, so I've never really seen what they do.

Anyone know the changes? This tune has always intrigued me.

I haven't heard all of We Three but that version of After Hours IS essential. Phineas is baaaaad.

Dude, didn't that hurt like hell to keep your eyes open? I tried scanning my face when I first got my Visioneer flatbed and thought I was going to be blind for a week from the flash.

That's strange because I really like WHISTLE STOP. Everyone is in fine form: Hank, the leader, a top-notch rhythm section that is just cooking. Maybe you don't dig the compositions, although I find that hard to believe as well. Give it another chance. Whistle Stop is an awesome record, in my opinion! A love-at-first-listen affair, for me! Maybe my favourite Dorham, together with the Jazz Prophets' recordings. No, I dig the tunes. I just sometimes think that the band doesn't gel in a way that I find enjoyable. As I said, the remastering may play a role (weird, because I can usually hear beyond it).

True, but he hasn't done any of those things here. In any case, making a big deal about him can only serve to bait him to come over, which I don't think too many here particularly want.

I don't think that Dorham is overrated but I can see how he can leave some people underwhelmed. There's something about Whistle Stop that leaves me cold about half the time I play it. I'm not sure if it's the music or the RVG remastering, but it just doesn't seem to crackle the way you'd expect it to. The writing is top-notch, it's just the playing that I sometimes find lacking.

There is a fun and sort of bizarro cameo by Hal Singer (playing himself) in the late Soviet movie "Taxi Blues." Check it out if you can find it!

Yes Big Wheel, that is the beer, it is of course spelt Yebisu, sorry for the confusion. As you can see, it is brewed by Sapporo and is their premium beer. Definitely recommend picking some up if you can find it. Beer update: No luck finding Yebisu in stock around Boston yet. But I think there is a sushi restaurant around here that serves it. All else failing, I'll try the markets in Chinatown. Anyone in the States seen this beer? John, have you ever tried Hitachino? The guy at the liquor store recommended their red rice ale to me today. At $4 or so a bottle I decided to skip it this time. Did pick up a 6-pack of the Anchor Christmas Ale today, as a gift to a friend.

Shouldn't we be doing just the opposite, since that may be the reason Crouch is such a douche? I don't think anyone's very grateful to the admissions director of the art school that turned down Hitler's application...

Here's one I spotted in the (sort of) wild this summer.

How do we know his age? He could be 40 for all we know.

The BN Herbie Nichols box. Broke one of the mini jewel cases the first time I pulled it out of the box. I am not a fan of LP-style cardboard either.

Parallelism, for one. Two major triads together have an interesting edge and make for a more consistent pattern than a major triad followed by an augmented triad. I guess I was reacting because as a pianist I went through the same thing with theory--a stage of adhering to the idea that you have to extract MAXIMUM COLOR out of every harmony just because you can. Real jazz contains so much chromaticism that it really isn't productive to focus on playing all the "right" extensions over dominant chords...especially once you start going outside, doing modal side-slipping, etc. etc. etc.

That strikes me as sort of weird. Hasn't every other Water title been from the post-Alfred Lion era?

The use of the words "arpeggiating" and "patterns" are enough to indicate that nobody is talking about sitting long and loud on the dreaded 4th. As Mark Levine likes to say, there's a reason it's called jazz theory.

Complete and not particularly original troll: http://www.audioasylum.com/scripts/t.pl?f=music&m=116896