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Happy B'day and many more!!!

Austin, Texas. But it's really not in Texas culturally. There's a university and I read somewhere that housing prices are falling there. Every place on the West Coast seems to have become insanely expensive.

Ysabel's Table Dance from Tijuana Moods.

In his book "This is Your Brain on Music" Daniel Levitin points out "No known human culture now or anytime in the recorded past lacked music." Good book btw.

Not to mention juvenile. It's selling itself as something to use on your Myspace page.

Does anyone else see your info? e.g. The people with the software?

When I opened this thread there was a notice at the bottom of some of the postings that said I was using a MAC and Safari, gave my ip address and said that Van Basten knew about it. I tried to copy the note it into this post but couldn't. What the fuck is that all about?

I agree, though I'm still pissed off about Such Sweet thunder. If you're being paid to produce a cd you should see to it that the take which gets the most discussion in the notes shows up on the cd. As to being a nice guy: apparently he tried to throw George Avakian out of his father's funeral ceremony.

I've even read (though I don't agree) Miles credited with creating, or at least popularizing, hard-bop with "Walkin".

I got the Laurie e-mail, then an e-mail from CD Baby, but as jlhoots says it's already out of stock. I'd suspect that it wasn't in stock yet, but if Ron S was able to order it I guess they did have at least some copies.

So, just for kicks, can we compile an Organissimo-approved list of the "100 essential" albums? I'd be curious to see it. Well we sort of did that with "One Artist one Album". (BTW I think this New Yorker list is pretty good though it leaves out many of my favorites e.g Where's The Blues and the Abstract Truth? Allowing any artist only one cd or box set would make room for a lot of other artists and recordings. )

And Miles's recorded comments. You can get the whole session on the Complete Miles on Prestige box set but they leave out the famous argument.

Ooooops. My bad. Make that December 9, 1956.

I've just come across 2 cuts Billie Holiday recorded with Percy Faith's Orchestra on December 9 1957. (You Better Go Now and Them There Eyes.) They seem to be radio transcriptions for "The Woolworth's Jazz Hour", whatever that was. They're pretty god arrangements with Lady Day in fine form. Does anyone know anything about them?

So sorry to hear this. My sincere condolences.

I didn't get that at all! I think Juno was taken with Bateman's character because she saw him as a real cool older guy, and he was perhaps a little flattered. As she got to know him, she realized that he was somewhat shallow and immature, and that it was his wife (who at first seemed like a typical yuppie) who really cared about the baby. I think that the whole relationship between Juno and the couple helped Juno to see past first impressions in her perception of people, to "grow up", if you will. Very good assessment. And Sonic Youth isn't "just noise." While the film was in rough cut form I helped arrange a screening for my son and a bunch of his highs school friends. They booed when she said the Sonic Youth line. (They liked the film a lot, but did object to a couple of scenes you can see as deleted scenes on the DVD which imply that Bateman was just an older lech.) BTW on the DVD, the director (Jason Reitman) points out that as the movie progresses and Bateman gets to know Juno he begins to dress more and more like her.

The only time I was in Montreal during the Jazz Festival I went to see Daniel Lanois. It wasn't jazz but it was great.

I bought this because of Gil Evans. But that was 30 years after I bought my first Mathis Lp: the soundtrack to my teen age make out sessions. IIRC he was discovered by George Avakian who was in San Francisco to sign Dave Brubeck.

IIRC there was a jazz dj in Toronto who played Desafinado to death. Getz used to thank him for putting his (Getz's) kids through college. As a result the Lp broke big in Toronto and then swept the continent. As to the beginnings of Bossa Nova: where (if anywhere) do the Bud Shank/ Laurindo Almeda "Braziliance" (1953!) and the soundtrack to Black Orpheus fit in. I think Black Orpheus is post 1958 and maybe Brailliance is only Bossa Nova in retrospect.

About 40 years ago I had a girl friend who only owned one jazz Lp: Don Sleet: All Members. I had a couple of hundred of jazz Lps by then but I'd never heard of Don Sleet. Must admit I never gave it a listen. (The arrogance of youth.)

I did hit a few restaurants: Commander's Palace, Little Dizzy's and Maximos. The Gospel tent was hard to miss. Just inside the gates and good shelter from the storm. But none of the music made me feel the spirit. On the other hand Sister Teedy was in the Economy Hall tent backed by a Norwegian Jazz Band and she almost made me a believer.

I've never been before but my wife took me for my 65th birthday. I loved it. Didn't hear much jazz (caught a bit of Ellis Marsalis but it seemed the wrong venue in which to hear him so I moved on.) Did catch a lot of New Orleans R&B: Irma Thomas, Allen Tousaint, Barbara Lynn (I know-- she's from Texas) Dr. John, Tab Benoit . Found myself in a crowd bouncing to Eddie Bo while the smell of marijuana wafted in the air and the rain came down. Decided that there was no where else on earth I'd rather be at that moment. He had a great alto sax player he never introduced. Reminded me of Hank Crawford with Ray Charles. I forgot: I did hear some jazz. To get out of the rain I went into the Economy Hall tent where Michael White and 2 other clarinet players were doing a tribute to George Lewis. I really enjoyed it. Went to Snug harbor Sunday Night and heard Henry Butler. He was in his jazz mode (which probably disappoints the fans who come to hear him sing). He plays like Don Pullen-- if Pullen had grown up in New Orleans. And of course I ate a lot of great food that my heart doctor would not have approved of. Next time I'll try to go for both weekends.

Happy birthday to a guy with a great name!

I'm waiting for the naked tits on page 3 of the WSJ. None of the articles about him seem to remember that that's how he boosted the circulation of The Sun in the UK.

I've always liked the Sackville recording but I may be biassed because I was present at the recording. IIRC there's no audience sound on the recording but Bill and John did sell admissions to small audience.