Guy Berger

Made an order at alldirect earlier this week. I'd had a few of these on MP3 but nice to be upgrade to "legit" versions: Keith Jarrett, My Song & Koln Concert George Russell, Ezz-thetics (no s?) Thelonious Monk, MONK Wynton Marsalis, Black Codes Charles Mingus, Tijuana Moods (2 cd version) Roland Kirk, Rip Rig and Panic Stan Kentzon, City of Glass Charles Lloyd/Warne Marsh, The Flowering/Warne Marsh

RIP... can't imagine those early and mid-period Weather Report without him. Guy

That's funny -- my jazz dreams are totally different. I don't play an instrument in real life aside from noodling on guitar, but I've had dreams where for some reason reason I get up on stage and have to play an instrument I don't know how to play. (One time it was piano, another time it was soprano sax.) The crazy part is that once I start playing, it sounds great*. Anyway, those were good dreams. *I've never been unfortunate enough to dream that I was in the audience listening to myself playing an instrument. Guy

That's wishful thinking by New Yorkers. Cleveland will surely sign him to a long-term max contract once he becomes a restricted free agent at the end of next year. Guy

The weather.com forecast usually includes an hourly probability of rain, 0%, 10%, 20% etc. My question is whether this probability is hourly only. So for example, if for each hour for the next 3 hrs it says "20% probability of rain" does that imply that the probability for rain sometime over the next three hours is 48.8%? (1 - [0.8*0.8*0.8]) Or is that just short hand for "20% probability of rain for the next few hours"? Guy

He's still one of the 2 or 3 best coaches in the NBA, ergo great. Probably even good enough to take a shitty team like the Knicks to the playoffs. Guy

I just read the article -- it looks like only half of the engagement is being issued, and the best performance ("Creation") is not going to be included. It won't include a great performance of "Impressions" either. Verve, you suck!

No, you are right. I think the only tune on the Laserlight from 1965 is "Song of Praise". (And stupidly, the same track appears twice on that CD, once under the name "Brazilia".) I'm not sure how they will be able to fit all four Half Note dates on two CDs -- it'd be a shame if they omitted anything. Guy

Tubular Bells sucks! Hopefully this album is better... Guy

Parts of it have been available on a semi-legit (ie find it at Tower) Laserlight reissue, but I imagine this one will be with much better sound. The music is incredible. Guy

Eicher always admitted he got the trio record with Peacock from Bley as it was issued, as an album ready for release, produced by Bley himself. The sessions for this overlap with others IIRC. ← Is the Bley with Peacock album a reissue of the Savoy sessions? Guy

I've bought KoB only once (the 96 version) and Giant Steps twice (the original CD issue, then the deluxe edition). The only CD I've acquired more than twice is IaSW -- the original CD version, the box set, then the remaster. Guy

I read in a Time magazine article that this joke was told by Abraham Lincoln:

Don't Downtown Music Gallery and Omnitone stock them as well? Guy

Anybody want to take up the "A Love Supreme is overrated" claim? Guy

Sand tablets are more expensive than they used to be... Guy

I just bought 97 cent ear bud headphones for use at the gym. Sound isn't great, but not really necessary. If they last for at least a month then they'll turn out to have been a great investment and I'll buy another set as a replacement. Guy

Booby is on this one too. Guy

Is this in print? What does it sound like? Guy

$10.50 a disc doesn't sound that steep to me. ← Relative to $5.50 a disc... Guy

I think Universal only owns the distribution rights, not the catalog itself. Guy

Nobody except Wade. Aside from him, Shaq and Eddie Jones, the Heat suck. Guy

The Heat might need a center. I don't think Shaq's body can handle a full season + title run anymore, and it's only going to get worse. Guy

Not sure if they changed their packaging since I got my copy of Horace Tapscott's Dark Tree. That was annoying but completely user-friendly in comparison to W&W. Guy

And yet I like it better than some of the more straight-ahead GG dates from the early 60s -- Green Street and the Sonny Clark Quartets. Some of the solos have a quiet intensity to them. Agreed that given the personnel, the record could have been better. Definitely a great record, but not sure why you say it is undersung. It's routinely mentioned as one of the greatest BN albums, and Grant's best. Guy