Big Wheel

I just popped in James Carter's new one, "Gardenias," which is a hybrid SACD, into my computer CD drive. This is a CD/DVD-ROM combo player that I think is an NEC DV-5700A model, if I'm reading the Windows Device Manager correctly. Anyway, the CD won't play. When I click on "play CD" in Winamp, only 1 track comes up, it's exactly a minute long, and...it won't play. Searching for the tracks in My Computer brings up nothing, except that the CD apparently contains 1.99 GB of data. Anyone know what the problem is here?

I just tried to access Alan Lankin's page and it looks like it's down. Anyone know what's up?

Eric Reed has a new Christmas album on MaxJazz out. Haven't listened to it yet but will post a quick review as soon as I do.

Yeah, but still, it seems like it would be a little cumbersome. I haven't sat down at an organ in a long time but I would think it would be awkward to set the two keyboards at right angles in this case, what with the pedals and all getting in the way. (Or can you remove the pedalboard?) Then again, I've seen Medeski do some crazy shit with Wurlitzer, B3, and an acoustic piano behind him to boot, so I guess anything's possible.

Listening to this right now. Boulware sounds good on "Live Bait"--is he comping behind his own B3 solo on Rhodes here? I like this track and "Dissertation on the Blues" a lot. "Light My Fire" on acoustic guitar seems a little out of place. Overall, pretty good stuff. Kenwood Dennard is a master of the funk.

It's a hell of a lot of fun. Too bad I have exams in January...

Wow, it looks like none of those items have a reserve. Someone could get real, real lucky...

I've picked up some deals when the local HMV went out of business but nothing even close to that. Why wouldn't they just send the leftover stock to other Sam Goody stores?

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?