Big Wheel

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.

I think to fully appreciate Lenny Bruce you had to really hear him in his own time. I've got the Carnegie Hall concert and while there are some parts that are amusing, there's nothing really laugh-out-loud funny for me in it. I've owned the set for about 3 or 4 years at least and still haven't made it all the way through both CDs in one sitting. Seems like the key to really getting Bruce is to understand just how uptight most of America was in the 1950s, because much of his shtick just seems so tame today. George Carlin borrowed a lot of ideas from Bruce, I think. The reason he's more laugh-out-loud funny is partly that he has a more coherent theme to his act and partly delivery--Bruce's jokes tend to hit you in kind of off-kilter way, and there are few punch lines to grab on to. Even on his early albums Carlin was a master at using his voice to keep the audience focused on whatever story he was telling, getting the setup just right for the punch line.

I think Dan is talking about Wendy Liebman.

If she is who I think then she is about 22-25. She went to LaGuardia High School in NYC. I remember she was a very good player who carried their whole big band, though it sounds like she's gotten more tasteful than she used to be. That was about 6 years ago.

Inspired by both the recent rocksteady threads and Hans's exhaustive classic blues list, I thought it would be good to have a similar thread for Jamaican recommendations, perhaps categorized by style. My collection is sorely lacking in this music--I think its sum total includes 2 Bob Marley CDs, plus a smattering of Skatalites mp3s on my PC. Other than that I've got a passing familiarity with dub and listen avidly to the great local public radio reggae show when I go home for breaks from school, but that's about it. Part of the reason I haven't jumped in headfirst is that the jazz listener in me is wary of compilations, which seem to be everywhere in the reggae and ska sections of the record stores. So, what should I not be living without?

It is probably an IAJE connection. Green is (or was, anyway) pretty high up in the Florida IAJE leadership.

More bizarro worlds... Lebanese Jazz Forums

Features Charles Mingus and Marquis Foster, on Roost. Sounds like a nice date--does EMI still control the masters?

179-MD-CD Atlantic New Orleans Jazz (4 CDs) $64.00 1 $64.00 174-MD-CD Tristano, Konitz and Marsh $96.00 1 $96.00 My own moratorium begins tomorrow.