Big Wheel

Are there any Harden discographies online? I'm considering putting on a radio program of his music and that of other hard bop trumpeters of the period, and am trying to get a feel for how much is out there...

An acquaintance of mine is putting on this show. Check it out! Sat., November 8, Henry Grimes trio w/ Mixashawn (Lee Rozie) & Andrew Bemkey, Harvard U., Lowell House, Cambridge, MA, Junior Common Room, 9 p.m., $15 (half price for students, free for Lowell affiliates), (617) 493~2965, email contact: <schoonov@fas.harvard.edu>

You are correct, sir. (click) Personally, I like the BIG Kit Kats. But I'm a weirdo.

impossible, what are the good record stores in brookline? that's a part of town I don't venture into enough.

Here's one that I don't think has made it to CD: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&u...l=A0v6ktr7lklmx

Yeesh! The only time I tried Red Bull was when finishing up a term paper last year. I ran to 7-11 around midnight and got two, one of them the sugar free variety, which I drank around 1am--pretty terrible. Then I downed the other one at around 8am as my roommates were waking up. I felt a sudden surge of energy and banged my desk while yelling "I AM GOING TO FINISH THIS $#%^& THING!!!" (It was due around 10 or 11, I think). Then about 5 seconds later, CRASH! I felt instantly drained. Never again!

Hey, I'm from Miami--went to the ticker-tape parade in '97--and now a proud member of the Red Sox Nation, so this Series was TWICE as good for me. THREE times if you consider that Miami had a Mets farm team before we got a team in the bigs, and that the first game I ever went to was in Shea!

I've got a NASTY piece of spyware on my system that is apparently broadcasting the web sites I visit to marketing companies, 'cause today I got some bullshit email about things that might interest me, given my "preferences ". I've tried for three days to delete this thing--Ad-Aware and Spybot Search and Destroy aren't wiping it out, and I KNOW it's there--I can see the thing keep coming up in my Windows task list!

Prestige Blues-Swingers: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&u...l=A8vtxlfge5cqw Nice disc!

Go for it. This is some of the most original jazz of its era. There are a few tunes that aren't quite as strong IMO (from a non-Afro-Cuban, more swinging session) but overall this stuff is great. If you enjoy the Bird tracks on Verve cut with O'Farrill--"Mambo Mangue, "Okie Dokie," etc., you will enjoy Cuban Blues. If you don't like it, I'd be willing to buy it from you, as I actually don't have my own copy yet (I've been listening to the one at the radio station where I work).

I agree. So good for the '60s, in fact, that they waited until May 1970 to record it!

I think you could at least make a case that the beaning of Garcia was accidental, even though the timing was suspicious. Yes, Pedro usually has great control, but something was clearly wrong with his stuff in the first four innings. Even Fox's commentators noted that after Jeter's home run--the curveball was just not breaking very well at all. Maybe he was trying to gain an edge by scaring the Yankee lineup, maybe it was just a wild pitch. In any case, I was surprised to see Torre claiming after the game that the ball hit Garcia in the head, when it looked pretty obvious from replays that the ball struck him on the shoulder blade. Also, IMO it's also sorta arguable that Pedro had threatened to bean someone in the head again, if the only evidence is that gesture he made to the Yankee bench. Seems to me the TV commentators were trying to sensationalize the whole game a little bit. BTW, am I the only one who gets the impulse to stick it to my TV Elvis-style whenever Tim McCarver opens his mouth?

Well, I have a lot of respect for Don "Jabba" Zimmer's many years in baseball. (Although I don't know if I'd want to be a reporter who has to see him naked in the locker room during post-game interviews.) But he deserved what Pedro just dished out to him.

Where does one order from to get the midprice discount? I checked Cadence and they still have some of these (the Giuffre, for instance) marked at $16.

"Life Wish" just came on. Nice!

You'd think that with all the devoted research that Mosaic does that they could spend a little time and money looking for and listening to Japanese CDs. After all, it's the superior quality of the Japanese releases that cuts into their sales in the first place; wouldn't it make good business sense to make sure that their own stuff is just as good so people don't skip over it in favor of TOCJs?

B-b-b-but who is Conan going to be able to make fun of now?

Been spinning this quite a lot over the past couple of days. I like this one more than the Bond album. There's this one style that Bernstein has really made his own over the years--kind of a New Orleans rock 'n' roll jam, but with a lot of stuff going on in the background--and they bust that particular groove out on "Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand," the highlight of the disc as far as I'm concerned. The band absolutely tears the roof off by the end of that cut. Other personnel besides the core quartet: Roswell Rudd, Peter Apfelbaum, Brian Mitchell on wurlitzer, Doug Wieselman (cl), Marcus Rojas on tuba and Haitian trumpet (does anyone know what a Haitian trumpet is?), Dave Tronzo on slide guitar, Scott Robinson (slide saxophone, acl), John Kruth (mandolin), and Mark Stewart on something called "inventions" on the aftorementioned highlight.

Saw her live w/Jensen at the Stanford Jazz Workshop in 1998. A good show iirc.

Very true, at least as far as the main texts are concerned. Marx saw historical materialism (the feudalism-->industrial capitalism-->communism progression) as immutable as Newton's laws of motion. However, Marx also had some interesting things to say about Russia. For some reason, Marx encouraged Russian radicals in the late 19th century (I think it was the Decembrists my prof was talking about but I'm not 100% certain). He liked their commitment to the cause and suggested that it just might be possible to skip a step or two and go straight to communism in Russia from the czarist feudal/agrarian order. Something like that. I apologize for being sketchy on sources but I do remember it coming out of my prof's mouth at the beginning of his class on Soviet history three years ago.

Should I email them and demand a commission? For more twisted Monk interpretations, check out the Brilliant Coroners. Their thrash-metal version of "Brilliant Corners" rules.

Don't mean to rain on the parade, but these words were not actually penned by George Carlin--see here for details.

ex-DHQ? Who's playing with Holland now?

Hang in there! We went through Hurricane Andrew in 1992 and were without power for about 10 days (not fun in 95 degree heat in August). If you're located inland, I wouldn't worry too much about flooding, but high winds could still be a problem--make sure you have plenty of batteries and water on hand in case the power goes.

Besides Roche's great contribution, that solo of Gonsalves's once they go into the slow section is NASTY. Not to mention the ending!