Big Wheel

From the few anecdotes I read at the BBC's website it sounds like Bali is mostly ok, though it still received some very high waves, which is pretty amazing considering how far and presumably protected it is from a tsunami originating off Sumatra. Most of the tourist stuff there is on the eastern side of the island, lessening the chance that anyone you knew was affected.

My God. I believe we have at least one board member from Malaysia (LAL). Hope he and everyone he knows is all right.

I listened to a couple of tracks from the first album in a store listening station awhile back. She's certainly a very strong technician, but the album felt waaaayyy overproduced. For now I prefer Eldar Djangorov if I want to listen to a pianist with crazy chops.

For a DVD, the price is right--it's only $12.99 or so in most stores.

Hm...as I'm based in Boston these days I'm not sure exactly who is left there. The morning guy would probably dig it, I think. They have a rotating staff in the afternoons so I'll try and listen in this week and see what their tastes seem to be. They webcast, too, so you guys can check it out too and see who might be best.

Everything $14 and under was discounted to $10 at Circuit City today, so I picked up: Bjork--Vespertine Blakey--Caravan K2 edition Jill Scott--Beautifully Human. Still haven't started hitting the OJCs and the Dusty Groove Jazz in Paris titles. My signing bonus is going to disappear in no time flat.

Miami's WDNA (www.wdna.org) uses Bob Parlocha over the graveyard shift, but everything else is live and local. I can put you in touch with the folks there (and put in a good word) if you want. They do mostly straight-ahead jazz with a heavy dose of Latin jazz in the early afternoons. I think DJs have a considerable amount of leeway in what they're allowed to play, as a few of them have IMO horrible taste. But it's mostly very good.

While we're on the subject of forum upkeep, any chance "miscellaneous music" could be restored to its proper place alphabetically? I guess I'm just anal retentive.

Jeez, what an asshole that first commenter especially is. He couldn't be more wrong on the facts. First of all, AFAIK there is no such "minority act" in existence. I remember learning back in high school that there was some Supreme Court case that ruled that any organization with more than 10 members had major limits on how it was allowed to disciminate, but that's a pretty far cry from claiming that only "whites only" clubs are illegal. If they were, wouldn't the KKK, Aryan Nations and American Neo-Nazis have been sued out of existence by now? Also, my guess is that 99% of all Italian restaurants (or at least the ones that aren't entirely staffed by a single family) hire cooks of Latin American or maybe Asian origin and couldn't care less about hiring only other Italians. Their labor is likely way too expensive. I'd bet that VERY few sushi restaurants these days go out of their way to hire all Japanese cooks. Many are likely Korean or Chinese; to the extent that the owners are discriminating in favor of East Asians, it's probably mostly because they want someone who "looks the part" to the average gaijin. And before I forget, congratulations, Einat!

HUGE game. The one game all year I go out to see with friends in a bar, and it's this one!! I thought for sure they'd find some way to blow it, even with only 90 seconds on the clock. The Dolphins are so screwy that they'd probably have been worse off having the offense on the field for those 90 seconds.

A player with his own website. http://www.supremeartist.org/

Very impressive, Brownie! Here's the full photo:

Anyone have any idea who this jazz musician is? I'll post the answer in a day or two if nobody guesses correctly.

If you buy from ropeadope.com everything is $9.99. The first DJ Logic record and one other one are $5.99. They say they ship via FedEx, which sounds expensive, but maybe the prices are low enough that it's still a good deal.

Whew! Good thing, because I can tell BoG is going to be in heavy rotation for a while. I read some of the Amazon reviews of the Fillmore discs. Quite a few people seem to be disenchanted with the editing. Does it detract from the music?

Is the sound on the RVG enough of an improvement to justify upgrading? I have the old US CD version, the one with the bonus track.

Now you have to get "Live at the Fillmore East". B-) Does that include all the material from the Band of Gypsys record? D'oh! I bought a used copy on a whim...now I'm thinking of taking it back.

For me, Hendrix's Band of Gypsys.

Ah, but that's only his Earthling name. I'd write out the Saturnian version here, but it's kind of hard to render five-dimensional letters on a two-dimensional bulletin board.

Well, I got the gig. The process took so long from start to finish that it's sort of been an anticlimax for me. But at least I'm not unemployed anymore!

I file mine under the first letter of his real name. Unfortunately I still haven't found my copy of the Saturnian-English dictionary, so I don't know where in the alphabet that letter belongs...

And if you look at the Consumer Price Index as a measure of inflation, that money gets you less than half (almost a third) of what your dad could buy.

How about Dodo Greene? Consistently bad.

Larry Young: Unity Great tune selection, great band, energy all the way through, different moods throughout. Jimmy Smith: Back at the Chicken Shack The holy grail of groove. Horace Silver: Blowin' the Blues Away Nary a dull moment on this one for me. Blakey's Indestructible might make this list also. Also Blue Train, for sure. I think I would also have to include Takin' Off. Even the lesser-known tunes (Alone and I) are gorgeous. edit: I see that FFA's deleted his post, which discussed consistent albums as opposed to artists. Sorry if I misread the question.

Bonds's defense that he didn't know is absurd. I certainly make a point of knowing what's in the vitamins and medicines I take, and I'm just some shmo who sits on his ass all day. Bonds depends on his body for a living. You're going to tell me that he just smeared on whatever Conte gave him without bothering to find out what was in it? Bullshit.