Big Wheel

Sadly, I do not think we managed to get the East Wind LPs. The rest of those '70s albums are great though. I think I do remember seeing "From California with Love" in the bin. My guess is that it will be played right when the program starts again on Friday at midnight ET.

I've forgot to mention this earlier, but my radio station is playing most of Andrew Hill's recordings (as a leader and a sideman) this week. The show will be on mostly in the mornings (5am--1pm ET). You can listen at http://www.whrb.org and check out the program guide at http://www.whrb.org/pg/MayJun2004.html . Also on tap this month is a big Mingus program, among others. On Now: Divine Revelation

Dan beat me to the punch on the Blue Note recommendation. One correction: I believe the "Tower Records" he is talking about is actually the Virgin Megastore in the Sunset Place mall.

Marcus, Sent you a PM.

It's all over...almost 7 million hits at this point. Winning bid: $3850!

Don't mean to hijack the thread, but a-MEN to that. Strangely enough, the first time I really "got" Ray Charles was when I saw him doing some weird NBC weekend special that featured figure skating to the music Ray and the band played live on the side of the rink. I had to run to the piano to figure out what he was doing posthaste!

Crazy. I had no idea Gordon Parks was also the director of the original version of SHAFT.

Marty, did you pick these up at a FYE? I was in their Coconut Grove store when I was home a few weeks ago and picked up a bunch of remaindered Bethlehems, only then the deal was 2 for $5, not 3 for $5.

Is that how the counter works? I thought it counts every loading of the page as its own hit, regardless of whether the hits are actually coming from unique users.

Oops, guess it was pretty boneheaded to try changing and verifying the email 3 times then...

Weird...when I do a gallery search there's nobody in it...not even the people in my Friends box. Also, I tried to change my email address since the one I entered when I started my account doesn't exist anymore, and it looks like it's changing it, but then I log out and it's like Friendster "forgot" my new email that I just entered. Anyone know why this is happening?

Ah what the hell...my friendster account's been dormant for a year and i started it up again. If you do a user search for Adam Turner i'm the first one with a picture attached, posing in front of the sign.

We just had a freak thunderstorm here, with buckets of rain for about an hour. The thunder has now subsided, but it's still raining.

CONGRATULATIONS! When do the b-3 lessons start?

I'm taking the US Foreign Service exam tomorrow. 7 hours in a testing room...I'll probably look something like this when it's all over------>

No, Ron Carter has a reputation for being kind of an unapproachable jerk. This wasn't the first such story I've heard like that.

I've been listening to the Jazz at the Plaza session from the Miles/Trane box and while the Trane solos are very good, I sure as hell wouldn't have wanted to have to follow any of Cannonball's solos. He was ON that day.

Not sure that's always the case...there are some great simple blues heads, but oftentimes blues heads were just scribbled down in a hurry because they needed another tune at one of those Prestige jam sessions. Another one that comes to mind: Cedar Walton's Cedar's Blues. Also Joe Henderson's Homestretch.

The mention of Roland Kirk made me think of his version of Creole Love Call. A great, if simple, head.

Some of my favorites: Farmer's Market Speedball Birdlike Is Jaki Byard's Out Front a blues? That one is definitely one of my favorites.

What about stupid rhetorical questions?

BTW, a friend of mine who I played a gig with Saturday is good friends with Darkfunk. Maybe we could collectively lobby him through my friend for things we want up there? If 50 or so of us want to hear something, he just might put it up there.

You should be able to simply navigate with your browser to the page where the mp3 files are, then download them in the usual way (right click then "save as" or whatever). He usually has a couple of albums/boots up at a time and changes them once a month or so.

Hicks made the list, at #19.

The same thing happened to me last summer on a busy street in Boston. Fortunately I wasn't going too fast and just barely grazed the car door (having a helmet on didn't hurt either). Glad you're ok, Brandon. From what I've been able to tell, bikers are ambivalent about bike lanes. At least in Mass., the cyclist is considered a vehicle just like a car and many feel that dedicated bike lanes like the ones we have in Cambridge make motorists forget this. Also, some drivers are unsure of the rules concerning them.