Big Wheel

There is also a movie in development.

While alcohol can be relaxing, I would advise staying well away from it for now--especially if you tend to be a "sad drunk." I also have serious reservations about antidepressants--I think some of them have understudied, personality-changing side effects--but I'm not a doctor. If you do visit a mental health professional, I would at least ask about options that combine therapy and medication. Sometimes just having someone you can talk to helps a hell of a lot.

Same as above posters recommended, plus lots and lots of exercise. You'd be amazed how much better you'll feel, mentally, once you get the physical thing together. This WILL get better.

Well, I just want everybody to know that you never sent MY cds EITHER. On the other hand, I never bought any from you....

In the case of drummers, you're simultaneously insulting their mother and their aunt...now that's just unforgivable!

Interesting. I guess it works either way, since the melody sits on a common tone between the two (the fifth).

Wait, what's the first chord if you play it in "minor"? The way the new real book has it is: I | V7/bVI | bVI etc. (In G, G | Bb7 | Eb ) Is it just the common sub to a iii chord, ie, Bmin7? Or do you mean you change the G chord to a G minor chord?

Only 280--I know the exact number because I just finished cataloging them. That doesn't include an additional 50 or so that are in the 9 box sets, though.

Welcome man, and dig the avatar. And don't be shy. I started posting on the BNBB when I was 16, I think.

My guess is that this one can be at least partly blamed on the TV Food Network's writers. These shows are usually more scripted than they look.

A lot of this stuff is overblown. The fact is, if you want to send something really private, you shouldn't be using email to do it, period. I'm not thrilled that GMail might be eventually used to keep a record about me, but that's life in the digital age for you. Also, you can delete cookies with some browsers, I believe--I think Opera lets you do that. All that said, by all means, if you don't trust them, don't use it.

For some reason that story gave me an image of Miles-as-Gollum: "Fisshhhhhhhhhh....we loves it, O yes, my precious!"

You're too late. There already are KFCs in just about every major Asian city and some of the minor ones.

I've never seen the Middle East crowd get particularly rowdy, but yeah, this does NOT sound like their cup of tea. (To those unfamiliar with the Middle East: picture a dark, seatless drunk tank with copious amounts of beer being spilled.)

When I went to Southeast Asia a couple of months ago, I was determined to eat whatever they had to offer, no matter how offensive it might be to a Westerner's palate. Since I didn't speak the language I'm sure I missed out on all the really good stuff (I've heard they eat all manner of things like bats and grubs in Cambodia at least). Probably the most bizarre thing I had was fish-stomach soup at a little Chinese-style joint in Bangkok. My traveling buddy (a vegetarian) was sort of revolted but it was actually pretty good. My hunch is that Americanized "hot and sour" soup is basically the same thing, although they either take out or don't tell you about the fish stomach part when they serve it here. Oh yeah, durian's not for everybody either. I thought it was ok but couldn't bring myself to shovel down more thana few bites.

Yeah, that's one thing that's easy to forget--many women get their hair cut a lot less frequently than men, so much so that the costs can sometimes even up. My girlfriend trusts very few people to cut her hair and the result is that she hasn't cut it in at least a year. I think the only place in the States she'll get it cut is some shop in NYC where it costs around $200.

Ask and ye shall receive a link...

Unlike, of course, the good old U.S. of A....not while there's missile shields to build and other countries that haven't been invaded! Edit--in fairness to both USAid and UN, it seems that both are roughly at the same place in the humanitarian process- people are still flying in to figure out what needs to be done.

I paid a visit to my old school today and one of the sax players I know gave me a little blindfold test. He pops a CDR in and says, "Guess who this is." This sick solo version of Caravan comes on. The guy has more technique than just about anyone I've heard...especially that left hand...holy shit!! If it hadn't been for the recording quality and the modern harmony and rhythm I would have guessed the Steve Allen overdub joke record, the one where they bill it as the forgotten three-handed pianist. It was almost too perfect, so I guess "Arturo Sandoval playing piano." "Keep guessing." It's clearly not Chick, not Brad, not Keith...he would never articulate like that...then they go into this montuno section, which is ALMOST authentic, but not quite..."he's not Cuban." "Just guess." I had been listening to Michel Camilo on the radio a few hours before, and this guy had even more technique than that but the articulation was somewhat similar, so in spite of my earlier assertion I take a wild guess at Camilo. It was Eldar! I'd never heard him before. Turned out the sax player had played with him at the Brubeck Jazz Workshop. Goddamn...a little real life experience under his belt and that kid is gonna have it all put together pretty soon. I got the CDR to take home with me, but I dunno how much I'm gonna be playing it anytime soon--listening to stuff like that just makes me want to cry and never play again when I hear how much kids like that can get out of the piano.

What was Kenny Burrell's first record?

Nobody's mentioned Herbie's Takin' Off yet? Dex, Higgins, and Freddie don't hurt... Joe Henderson's Page One is pretty high up there too with McCoy and Elvin.

Yeah, you can hear it on some of the records. It's all over Conrad Herwig's Latin Side of John Coltrane, for example.

Except WISH wasn't a debut album either. Joshua had at least the self-titled album out on WB before it.

Almost certainly a scam. Are you sure the link you click sends you to an ebay web page, or is it a subtly different URL?

Off topic, but I just heard the Syndicate playing live at the Cork Jazz Festival on the radio...seriously badass.