Big Wheel

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

My brother has played with Rene Marie in Richmond, but I haven't heard her. Everyone there tells me she was amazing. I had forgotten. Good of you to bring this up! Better get "Vertigo" for yourself for Christmas then. Excellent stuff. The Jazz Standard disc is nice too.

He did use Phil Woods who studied with Tristano at some point.

You have to get the first Basie/Williams album. Simply gorgeous.

Ok then. Best Buy had WIJS for $6.99, so I grabbed it. At that price it won't hurt too much to part with it if it doesn't strike my fancy.

To those who have heard this one and the debut: If this rates 10 out of 10, how does the earlier album hold up?

I was one of the first to hear a bit of material on this box--the producer sent us a couple of tracks in advance when my radio station played a Jaco tribute. Don't remember a whole lot...I think my impression was that it was interesting but not really essential or anything. If you are a Jaco freak or interested in what the Miami scene was like in the late '60s and early '70s, get it, otherwise, I'd probably spend my money elsewhere.

John, is this the beer you were referring to? http://www.epinions.com/content_6748016260

Never seen an Ebisu in the States but will be on the lookout.

Sapporo is good stuff. Only had one but greatly preferred it to Kirin.

Anyone know of any CD shops offering crazy deals for tomorrow? At least one site is trying to keep track of the sales but the only major CD retailer it includes is Best Buy, which has a few good CD/DVD specials but not much jazz on sale.

Oh, come on. You gotta get your cheap movies the old-fashioned way--buying pirated copies in Southeast Asia and sneaking them in, of course!

I like cranberries, but have definitely run across some truly revolting examples of the quivering jellied variety usually served on Thanksgiving.

Went in again for yet another round yesterday and interviewed with the guy again. I hear Monday or Tuesday. At least I get to keep the CD.

Out of the percussion-heavy Blakey records I have heard The African Beat is far and away my favorite, but these are pretty solid also. Get them if you cannot have enough Blakey. If you are willing to wait for cheaper US releases, my guess is that they will be out in the next 18 months or so--they're about the only Blakey records that have not seen reissue in the US in at least the last decade (perhaps never).

Did you get Sangrey's Blindfold Test #4? That track from the album he did with Eddie Gladden on drums is nasty. Worth searching out...I think it was titled "Never Again."