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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."

Did you notice if he had started to stand up just before the slurring began? I think the change in blood flow can really exacerbate the effects of the booze. A friend of mine had a couple of glasses of wine when we were out to dinner once, and seemed fine until we got up to go. As soon as we left the place she started giggling and stumbling around, barely able to stand up.

One night about 8 years ago I heard a bum on the Miami Metrorail holler: "Can't give the kids Kool-Aid....they'll just put iodine in it." I've said some interesting things myself, but most of them are too lewd for a family audience.

You can find some obscure recent Liebman on a duo recording with my former teacher, Mike Gerber: http://www3.sympatico.ca/cactus.red/cactus/cactus.html

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Lesotho is completely enclosed by South Africa but isn't part of South Africa. There's an article on FastCompany.com that talks about Levi's making their new line of cheap jeans, to be sold exclusively at Wal-Mart, in some Third World country. I don't think it's any of the ones mentioned so far, though. Might have been China.

Seems like whenever there's a burnin' straight-ahead alto player on the radio and I can't figure out who it is, it's Harrison. Looking forward to checking this one out.

Here are the main ones I listen to: 1. Doc Severinsen 2. Arturo Sandoval 3. Chet Baker (personal favorite) 4. Dizzy 5. Louis 6. Harry James 7. Miles Davis Ok then. It looks like you generally are listening to people who focused on being brilliant trumpet players rather than producing different textures and grooves the way Miles attempted to do on Sketches of Spain and Bitches Brew. Obviously there are some exceptions to this generalization (Dizzy's Perceptions comes to mind for example) but in general the artists you are listening to didn't experiment in the same way Miles did. My recommendation, then, is to listen for different things in Miles's music. Don't dwell on whether or not his range is crappy, or he's cracking notes, or whether the music swings. This music does not swing in the same way most of the other things you are listening to does. Instead, listen for the emotion in the music--in the parts of Solea where the trumpet sounds like Miles is almost crying, or in the parts of "Bitches Brew" where the echoplexed trumpet makes him sound so vulnerable. Listen to the rest of the bands, too. Don't just focus your ear on Miles--these works are grand collaborations between musical geniuses, not just trumpet features. And if you feel like it, spend some cash on some 20th century classical music to get a better feel for where Miles is coming from on these. As well as some of the other '60s players--Don Cherry, Booker Little, Bill Dixon, and so on. And if you still don't get it, then listen to Bev's recommendation.

Aside from the fact that they're intelligent black guys and their rap is socially conscious, what's the difference. They still sample and the point of posting that link was to show a well-articulated argument on a very similar issue. That TNR article has absolutely nothing to do with the issues we're discussing here. Nobody is talking about the content of the Beastie Boys' lyrics.