Big Wheel

Everyone is correct. G7#9 describes the specific chord you are playing. However, Tony is also right: under Jamey Aebersold/David Baker "chord/scale" theory, G7#9 is a shorthand way of denoting the "altered" or "Super Locrian" scale (the 7th mode of Ab melodic minor). Under this system, you could add a b9, #11, and #5 to the chord and STILL acceptably write it as just "G7#9," rather than the full "G7 b9,#9,#11,#5." But it wouldn't sound half as funky.

I posted about them in the other Grammy thread. That was pretty sick, although I agree with you that they could have settled down a little with no ill effects.

Why do I have a feeling that's akin to my claiming "technical difficulties" whenever I fall asleep for a minute when I'm doing 5am air?

"Legend"? Bah. Better a no-name gainfully employed than a legend living in my parents' basement upon graduation, I say!

No, but the Robert Randolph/Earth, Wind and Fire/OutKast/George Clinton segment ROCKED. Too bad the Chick Corea/Foo Fighters "collaboration" turned out to be nothing more than a shitty gimmick.

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Dewey Square and Yardbird Suite have the same changes in their A sections but very different bridges.

Funny you should mention it--I once went through the whole Omnibook categorizing tunes by the origin of the changes. 90% were blues and rhythm changes. Dewey Square was one of the only ones I couldn't pin down.

Interesting! The article kinda downplayed the whole MIDI aspect of it, so I didn't realize you could use a keyboard as an input. I assumed that you were supposed to click on the keys or use your keyboard to play different notes. Had a REALLY old simulator program for DOS that did just that, in fact. If you rig it with a laptop, is there any delay between the time you press a key and the time the sound comes out of your amp?

I never usually read MacWorld, but we get it at work since all we use there are Macs. The other day I checked it out and they had this rave review of these "virtual instruments" that you can somehow hook up to sequencing software. One of them was this analog synth-looking thing and the other was this organ software! I don't get it. I mean, it looks pretty cool and all, but what's the point? You can't play them like the real thing at all, so aren't these things basically toys?

Sincerest condolences, Tom. Hope you're hanging in there!

Thanks! I feel old. If anyone wants to give me a birthday present...I'm looking for a job! Failing that, I can send you my address so you can tell Mosaic where to send the Mobley set.

Part of the problem is welfare reform. There are a lot of single mothers out there who have to work two jobs and have no way to take care of their kids.

Ok, so a quick search says then that Michael Howell is on guitar, Henry Franklin bass, and Ndugu on drums....but I have no idea what the record is.

with Hampton Hawes??

D'oh! This is the SECOND time I've accidentally deleted my BFT answers before hitting the submit post button. I'll finish out my guesses later, but here's disc 2 number 5: 5. It took me 2 days or replaying this in my head to figure out exactly who this was. I've worked at a couple of radio stations, and I instantly knew that I'd heard this tune at one of them, but I couldn't remember which one or why or who it was. Finally, I got it: it's this guy.. Last year another guy at the station produced a program of his complete work, and this tune was used as the "bed" for the 30-second promo he made for it. I was running another program at the time and had to play the promo 4 or 5 times. Don't know what album it is, but I'm 99% sure it's him. Not quite gritty enough for my tastes, but a nice performance nontheless.

Randy, do you mean disc 2 number 5? I figured out that one but still need to type up the rest of my guesses.

If he didn't get an interview, how could they have known anything about his "demeanor"? My guess is that this guy came across as a snob and that Claypone is right--there's more than meets the eye here.

Same for me. Oddly, the iMac I use at work had no problems, but then I came home and every PC on campus that I tried wouldn't connect.

MTV articles, like all other texts, must be carefully deconstructed with a view to the specific discourses and narratives of their times. Until we look at the variety of multifaceted interpretations of such discourses of power, we will never be able to grasp their true depth.

Someone from something corporate is informing us of Something Corporate, a band who indeed toils for that same corporate something. It's all very postmodern.

Perkins is up and running now! BTW, special thanks to our own Daniel A for providing a hefty chunk of the material for this show!

www.cybermusicsurplus.com appears to still have the Monterose, and it's very cheap. Looks like they ship to Taiwan, too!

Up for the second half of trumpeters: On now: Booker Little (Time Records). Harold Land's The Fox is on deck.

No doubt, and I have a borrowed copy of Vol. 1 myself. But putting Real Books on Ebay and advertising them? That's practically ASKING to get busted.