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I've always tipped but i'm so old I remember when 10% was the norm. I became a big tipper after both my kids began working in restaurants. (The system in NY where people working in restaurants can get paid less than the minimum wage is nuts. )

I remember when I was studying with Marshall McLuhan he complained that people would confuse him with Rod McKuen.

Brooklyn Rider string quartet on Thursday night. The program was made up of works commissioned to celebrate one of the composer's "inspirations". Composer's included Vijay Iyer (who was inspired by James Brown), Bill Frissel ( John Steinbeck), Gonzalo Grau (Chick Corea) and Rubin Kodheli (Henry Threadgill). Good stuff.

I'm fond of her album Azure-Té. I used to get the title song confused with Ellington's Paris Blues. I was surprised to find that Louis Jordan had recorded Azure-Te.

I saw a string quartet in a 350 seat hall last week. It was wonderful to hear unamplified music. (It's so rare that spellcheck doesn't believe that unamplified is a word-- or did I in fact spell it wrong.)

Showboat? (Though not ones played that often by jazz musicians.)

Spaceballs is one of my favorite stupid movies (high praise from me). I still LOL at some of the lines: "Yogurt! I HATE yogurt!" "I'm a mog - half-man and half-dog. I'm my own best friend." "What's the combination? OK, I'll tell you: 1.......2.......3.......4.......5." Rick Moranis said that at one time they were planning to do a sequel called "Spaceballs III: the Search for Spaceballs II".

Thanks. I found the Ornette film on YouTube also.

Most of us have outlived Jimmy Blanton and Charlie Christian. A lot of us have outlived Bird. In fact of the jazz musicians I most admire the only ones I haven't outlived are Benny Carter, Ornette Coleman and Sonny Rollins. And of the the first generation of rock and rollers we still have Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m4xkY0WgVw#t=736 Am I the only one who had never heard of this great 1967 short film? (Can't find the YouTube thread or I'd post this there.)

Happy B'day and many more!

It's available from ITunes under the title "Capital Vault Series". (At least I think they're the same.)

Congrats to both of you. (Especially to Ann for putting up with Chuck.)

Anyone else notice that although the notes say that Sweet ad Lovely (12/4/47) is by Dexter Gordon the discography indicates it's by Teddy Edwards.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30708237

I've been playing this a lot. Love it.

That's explained in post 30 but I'm curious about the thanks to Bill T Jones and Jac Holzman. BTW Record is really good.

stan hasselgard "be-bop king of sweden" with chuck wayne and max Roach? rest must be gene di novi and clyde lombardi. must be from September 1948. Keep boppin´ marcel and another one: Thanks. That's impressive that you figured it out.

On page 19 of the booklet there's a photo of Bird in front of a 3 Deuces sign advertising" King of S........Sta(n?) .......Ssel Quintet." Bird is blocking the rest of the sign. Who was playing there? (Booklet says the photo is from 1950.)

From Jazz on a Summer's Day? Ahhh. The Sound of Jazz. Monk later complained about Count Basie staring at him.

From Jazz on a Summer's Day?

I hear it's pretty good.

And many more.....

Saw the Spiegleman show at the AGO today. I was very interested after having seen his great lecture with music entitled "Wordless" in Santa Barbara. Problem was that I went to the Alex Colville show at the AGO first and that knocked me out so much it was hard to look at anything else after. (I skipped a Michelangelo exhibit they had in favour of the Colville and the Spiegleman.)