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You ain't the only one. A low point for all concerned, IMO.

Kevin, I have friends from Manila. Not really jazz fans, but I'll see what suggestions they have.

Looking forward to hearing this one. Maxjazz is a great company with a president, Richard McDonnell, who couldn't be nicer.

Strangely enough, I was on a pretty long bike ride yesterday and I couldn't get "Pinball Wizard" out of my head (which would have been fine had the chorus not repeated itself about 108 times). Maybe a spill would have put some Stan Getz on the mental jukebox! Only joking--hope you're feeling better today, GoM.

Classic.

There is more, but not much at this point. It's important to distinguish between sessions marked in the BN discography as "unissued" and those marked "rejected." Cuscuna has shown a willingness to reevaluate and often release those in the former category; those in the latter rarely, if ever, see the light of day. One I can can think of is the Kenny Dorham/Grant Green session that a few people clamored for on the Blue Note board. Not sure if it was "rejected", though, or merely "unissued." The rejected Tyrone Washington "Train Wreck" session will probably never make it out while Cuscuna is still running the show.

Supposedly there was a deal between Miles and Blakey in 1964 to swap tenor players. Wayne would join Miles, and Sam Rivers would become a Jazz Messenger. Only problem was that Sam Rivers decided he didn't want to play Blakey's music, and backed out, I think to form a group with Andrew Hill. If I remember correctly, this is in the notes to the Sam Rivers Mosaic box.

Which is THE Spike Jones record to get? Are there any albums, or just collections and compilations?

Oh yeah. Those Playscape discs are wonderful. Check out the new Peter Madsen Monk solo piano disc, too.

She actually left Tokyo the other day but should be back there in a couple of months, before she leaves. Also, she will be spending most of the summer in Kanazawa, so if anyone knows of any good shops there (I know, it's probably in the boondocks as far as CDs are concerned) I'll send those recommendations to her also.

My girlfriend is in Japan right now and offered to pick me up a couple of discs while she was there. Are there any shops in Kyoto that have good jazz selections?

I had my picture splashed across half of the front page of the Miami Herald about seven years ago--it was a very slow news day, evidently. Think I'll just let you all find that ugly mug for yourselves, though, if you're so inclined.

Apologies if this offends anyone, but the mention of DC Talk got me to free-associating and... Bassist Unaware Rock Band Christian

Bird: Kim, Thrivin' On a Riff/Anthropology, Chasin' the Bird, many others Sonny Stitt: The Eternal Triangle, The String (ET w/o the ET bridge) Diz: Dizzy Atmosphere

Monk: 52nd St. Theme (modified bridge) Bud Powell: Wail Bud Powell: John's Abbey Thad Jones: Fingers Kenny Dorham: Straight Ahead

Golson and the Philadelphians was a United Artists session. Patrick Roques did a very nice job of approximating a Reid Miles cover for that one, though.

Slightly off-topic, but how does the new record compare with the recent one with Johnny Griffin?

Meat through the mail? Check out www.texasinabox.com . IIRC the sauce wasn't too sweet either.

My point was only that there are many, many schools in the US that have been created by religious orders (the Jesuits, the Methodists, the Puritans in the case of my school) that either have always been entirely secular or gradually accepted a secular approach to education--they aren't "religious schools" anymore. I admit to being on shaky ground with the federal funding/tax exempt issues--it was my impression that merely being a "religious school", not just practicing racial discrimination, meant that an institution wasn't eligible for federal money.

I agree that the link is pretty far removed but IMO, the problem is not with the link, it's with the people. Norah Jones posts to norahjones.info, however infrequently. At least one of, and probably two of, the moderators at norahjones.info, even if not racist, supports an institution that is. Maybe they don't fully grasp what BJU is all about--they just admire it for being an explicitly "Christian" institution. But if you were a child of an interracial relationship, would you really want people with some kind of tie to these insitutions supporting you?

The Bob Jones thing in a nutshell: BJU never really hit the public radar screen (at least, not in urban areas so far as I know) until the campaign for the 2000 election, when George W. Bush gave a speech there. The university is essentially devoted to promulgating the hyper-evangelist brand of born-again Christianity that many in the extreme Right in America so love (of course, there's an undercurrent of complete intolerance for Judaism, Islam, and "Popery"--Catholicism). Everyone has to take religion classes every year, and the nature of those classes' material is in lockstep with the ideas of the school's president, Bob Jones III. You should see how their so called "biology" department tries to incorporate creationism! (See here) I'm not sure of the school's accreditation but there have been definite issues with federal funding in the past because of its overtly religious approach--lots of respected colleges in America were started by, and even are currently affiliated with, religious groups (like Emory University in Atlanta, a Methodist institution), but very few require their students to take religious courses of study. The reason for all the uproar over the Bush visit was that BJU at the time did not allow interracial dating among its students. Supposedly, Bob Jones III said, that policy had to do not with any stance that any race is superior to another, but that in the Bible God simply decreed that the "one-world" principle was forbidden--that is, homogenization of races was a no-no because for one reason or another, God didn't want people to mix. I think this all has something to do with the separation of the races of the world at the Tower of Babel. Here's a transcript of Bob Jones III's interview with Larry King on "Larry King Live."

This is a particularly curious release in light of our recent Wynton polls. Nash sticks to tenor on this one, titled "Still Evolved". Rhythm section is the very un-LCJO group of Frank Kimbrough, Ben Allison, Matt Wilson. Wynton plays on half, with Marcus Printup sharing the trumpet duties. The compositions are quirky, and Marsalis's playing is a bit left of center--reminds me somewhat of his work on "Black Codes." Printup plays on the bluesier tunes, while Marsalis is on the more modal tunes. Overall, pretty good stuff IMO. The sound is pretty nice too, with Allison's bass particularly well captured.

Mmmmm....Kevin, have you ever been to the Midwest Grill in Inman Square? I checked it out the other night for the first time--it's a Brazilian Rodizio that for a little over $20 gives you all you can eat grilled meat that they bring to the table item by item--chicken, steak (awesome), lamb, pork, chicken hearts, kielbasa, plus a whole lotta other crap. The pork and some of the chicken were a little on the dry side but everything else was damned good. I haven't been to Redbone's yet...have been meaning to for quite awhile. There is an old BBQ chain in Miami called Shorty's that has some of my favorite BBQ sauce around. Also great if anyone is down there is a joint called the People's BBQ that mixes Southern-style barbecue with some Bahamian specialties--great!

Isn't the former BNBB member "Rocket Number Nine" living in Jakarta? Perhaps that has something to do with this coincidence...