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Mike--does that address of Jack's replace his attbi address?

Here's their publicity agency, with a nice bio/review: http://www.bighassle.com/a_sexmob.html I'm guessing Ropeadope will take up the slack for the moment... I actually like the earlier records more than the Bond album, though I am warming up to it with more listenings. There is also a self-produced CD called "Theater and Dance" that is AFAIK only available through Bernstein. A good deal more subdued than the other Sex Mob albums, and possibly a better indicator of what the MTO sounds like.

It's a medium-to-large sized band (~10 players, no piano, sometimes banjo) playing arrangements that sound like they could have been written before 1930. Basically a mix of the typical Bernstein let-it-all-hang-out style and New Orleans jazz/early swing. Typical personnel includes the usual downtown crowd: Peter Apfelbaum, Ben Perowsky, Ben Allison on bass. More info here, though this page will probably be changing soon: http://www.jazzstandard.net/jazz_listings/...listmaster.html

Only 10 other people saw this in the 3 days it was up? That alone should qualify me for the title of chief thread-killer. Anyway, I heard back from the good folks at Ropeadope and they informed me that the MTO record is coming out in the spring! BTW, for a real thrill, go to what was as of a couple of weeks ago Bernstein's site at www.sexmob.com. (ADULTS ONLY.) He forgot to renew his registration...isn't the Internet wonderful?

Not distracting at all to me, although I don't listen on headphones where his noises would be more obvious. IMO you are missing out if you don't pick up at least Evolution I. Absolutely wonderful.

I wonder where the idea for the real title came from. There's a zoo-type attraction less than 10 miles from my house in Miami that was around in Duke's day--think that could be it? http://www.monkeyjungle.com (Or was "monkey jungle" a common phrase back then?)

Those images are from Geocities, which prohibits linking to images hosted on its webspace. The reason Mule can see them is because they are already in his browser cache from viewing the pages where the images are located.

I checked ebay and most seem to have fairly high Buy it Now prices. I'm looking for the ones that hold 200-300 discs--anyone know where I could get one for less than they're asking on ebay?

Search for the New Land Morgan the Pirate

Ok, I just tried searching myself for that post. The most successful method for me was searching for "blues AND Turrentine" (no quotation marks in the original). I'm not sure quotation marks work on this search feature like they do in others. Some other observations: 1) You can't search for just "Z.T." because the search terms must have at least 5 characters. 2) Part of the problem might be the apostrophe--I know certain applications have trouble with them.

Are you using quotation marks around your phrase?

Downloaded some clips of this group from sexmob.com (which, BTW, seems to be down now--maybe for updating since Sex Mob has a new record coming out). I dig what I hear. Does anyone know if Bernstein has any plans to record this band? They gig fairly frequently around NYC but never seem to make it out to the provinces.

Keep in mind that this board still has far fewer posts than the BN board did. I'm guessing that's one reason why it's faster here--not as many threads to search. But yeah, overall this board software beats the crap out of that version of UBB. I haven't noticed one bug yet.

Sorry, didn't mean to imply that Jordan's disposition by itself was enough to justify a "boycott". I was speculating that Jordan's attitude might have resulted in Bertrand having a bad experience at one of his gigs.

Judging by the comments in the Miles autobio, the feeling was mutual. I have read quite a bit about Jordan having an obnoxious disposition--on the old board Victor Christensen mentioned something to that effect (Jordan lives in Copenhagen now).

From the disco album?

A good friend of my takes up the entire frame for about a second in "Wild Things." An extra who got lucky. Quite a few films have been shot in Miami, where I grew up. I recognized quite a lot in "There's Something About Mary"--one scene is filmed in a plaza right across the street from my dad's office building. The Birdcage also has a lot of familiar stuff. Also, I've been to Seaside, Florida, the Panhandle town where The Truman Show was filmed. Weird place.

Heard it and liked it well enough. There is also a sequel, also on Mack Avenue.

And it can be had at GraveyardMall.com for $6!

Though I went with "Eggs and American bacon," I actually hate most breakfast foods. I find them WAY too bland. If given the chance, I'll take leftover pizza over cereal or pancakes any day. Big fan of cheese omelets and bagels and lox, though.

Yecchhh. I will confess to enjoying their cherry wheat, even though it's about as girly as beer can get.

I need only listen to "Solea" on Sketches of Spain to realize what a great trumpeter Miles Davis was. It ain't all about having Maynard Ferguson-level technique. Of course context plays a role in affecting one's listening experience. But Miles would have affected me deeply on an emotional level regardless of who he was or where he was from. We're talking about the guy who recorded "Blue In Green," for chrissakes. You can't listen to that and tell me your experience would be fundamentally different if you didn't know who Miles was.

No, there are two different 2CD sets: You're referring to Meet You at the Jazz Corner of the World. The set reg is referring to is a 1959 session with a different band (Lee, Hank, Timmons, and Merritt) that came out in the mid-'90s in the Doubletime series. See here and here for details.

When my local HMV closed it doors in May I was able to scoop up a few nice discs for about $4 each. One of them was Marc Cary's "Trillium", a piano trio with Tarus Mateen and Nasheet Waits. Because of the presence of Mateen and Waits, comparisons with Jason Moran are inevitable. Cary's got more McCoy Tyner and less Andrew Hill in him, so the compositions aren't quite as intriguing, but the playing is great, very spirited. Does anyone know if he's working as a leader these days? I noticed that he's been on the Roy Hargrove electric album that just came out as well as a similar effort by Russell Gunn, but that's about it for the last year or so.

I'm gonna dissent here and say Locomotion. Yeah, it's a riff tune, but I'm a sucker for the blues with a bridge. And that ending is sick!