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Saw Ornette at Royce Hall last night. With Denardo, Tony Falanga on one bass, Charnette Moffett on another and Al MacDowell on what the program claimed was an electric bass but it sure sounded like a guitar to me. Great show. I'd never seen him live before, but his repertoire was much more diverse than that of concerts I've heard on record. At one point they played a Bach Suite for Cello (I presume there's more than one but I don't know the number-- it's the famous one; my wife's been using it to practice on electric guitar. ) On most numbers Falanga played arco and led off with the theme. Turnaround was played even more like a dirty blues than it was on Sound Grammar. At first I thought MacDowell was using a wah wah pedal-- then I realized it was Moffett. And Ornette did quote "If I Loved You". I guess he does it whenever he plays Turnaround. Speaking of quotes: There was one number that kept turning into The Star Spangled Banner. Anyone know what that would be? A little bit of trumpet (used mainly for punctuation it seemed to me) and one fiery violin solo. At the end he got a huge standing ovation. Someone yelled "We love you" and someone else called for him to move back to LA. For an encore he played what I think is Lonely Woman. I was enthralled. BTW Is Charnett related to Charles?

I ordered the box set from Amazon because I wanted the bonus disc with the Trane cut. I already owned a DVD called Wes Montgomery in Europe with the Belgium broadcast and what I presumed was the same London Concert. Figured I'd trade that one in, but I've discovered that the London concert on the older disc is a different one! From March 25th (they say) with the Maburn, Harper, Lovelace quartet. BTW The Belgium concert looks much better on the Jazz Icon release.

I second that, if you like the sound why change it? Ignorance. Didn't know I could do that.

My 15 year old Velodyne (sp?) subwoofer is starting to rattle. (OK it's been rattling for a long time.) Anyone got suggestions for a replacement?

Can you give any example of this from the first 2 episodes? I've always presumed that he does the opposite. ie. put together his interviews, and then find film footage to illustrate them I usually find the interviews interesting, but the clips rather random. Since he doesn't source them we never really know where they're from. Is the footage actually of the battle being discussed? Is it even from the same continent? In Jazz if you were familiar with the footage you became aware that he even played different music on the soundtrack than that being played by the musicians on the visual track. Ilike documentaries taht explain where there footagae is from and how it came to be.

I (fittingly) bought this while I was in NY last month. The introduction is by Berman but the intros to each section are unsigned. Are they by Berger?

I think these photos are really important. When we see the photos of the atrocities we all like to believe that they are committed by people who are somehow unlike ourselves. They aren't. We all like to believe that we would never work at a concentraton camp but do we know that we couldn't be convinced that it was for the betterment of the country? And (to finally get this moved to the politics thread) I found living in the US in the months leading up to the invasion of Iraq pretty scary. It seemed to me that when the government and the media collude they can convince most of the populace of almost anything. It's informative to go back and read what the such supposedly liberal publications as the New Yorker and the NY times wrote in those months.

And why does the audience begin clapping in the middle of the bass solo on Stella? Has Miles walked back onto the stage?

Terry Gross interviewed Greenspan today. Didn't discuss his career in music but ended with an airshot of The Henry Jerome Band. She said Al Cohn was in it.

According to this data base there are no Medjucks in the US. I've often thought I wsa a figment of someone's imagination.

I heard an interview with Johnny Mandel once where he talked about playing in the band with Greenspan.

I was a little disappointed in the record but I'll give it another listen. Saw her singing with The Foo Fighters and she was pretty great.

I just did this to order the Jazz Icons box set. But Jim, is this worth the (admittedly minor) effort?

A friend of mine recently published a book called "Voices of Sag Harbor" which consists of interviews with residents of that Hamptons town one of whom is Hal McKusik. My friend was surprised I'd heard of him. In the interview McKusik says he owns an old house from which he sells antiques. He still free lances in New York but prefers playing in Sag Harbor.

About a week after my last post on this topic I visited a friend in NY who handed me a DVD-R he'd made from the broadcast! Didn 't know anything about this thread or this board, just thought I might be interested. It's better to be lucky than smart. (And having some good friends is even better)

The liner notes for "More Live at the Bee Hive" states that the cds present "the group with its second tenor player, Harold Land, who Rollins would replace in November." Who was the first tenor player?

Hey! Hey! I'm over 50. I'm not ready to do that yet. What do you think, that 50 is OLD or something? I can see it at age 90, though. When I am 90 I may feel quite differently. Well, I'm being 12.9% funny boy, but only that much 'cause I'm moving in that direction myself...sincerely so. I'll be 49 next month and I'm already experimenting with various harddrive combos and ideas for keeping "soft" files and stepping up the eBay selling again of the hard copies. It's not physically messy 'round here, but I'm surrounded by all of this - what I'm beginning to see as - detritus. No complaints from my sweetheart here at home about quantity - she knew who/what she was getting. I'm just feeeeeling the weight of it all. It's gone from about 26 or 27K to about 32K titles in the past 9 years. ...and you realize that just building an add-on to the house or carting them to some external storage facility doesn't pare things down - it just moves it out of sight. Ideally, it would be nice to get it down to what the Buddhists refer to as the "Ten Thousand Things." Now if I could just somehow store all of these books and manuscripts on disc - short of scanning... 32K!!?? Are we talking albums here?

Shit I missed it again. Beverly married Freddie Slack and (I think) ended ehr days here in Santa Barbara. Great version of A Train which has been on youTube. If anyone knows this is on again please give some warning.

So has the Universal Music Group offered up anything that might be of interest to the denizens of this establishment?

I don't know if all of this is jazz but all of it is good. Shoot Me Up with Your Love is a hit. Highly recommended.

God question. I've changed it.

* What is your dream of happiness? Perfect happiness is something which doesn't exist in this life. The goal is never to be too happy or too sad. *What is your greatest fear. Not getting close enough to my aspirations. *Which living person do you most admire? I'm afraid I don't admire people that much. Maybe my plumber. * What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? Not always being resolute enough. * What is the trait you most deplore in others? Slovenly personal traits. *What is your greatest extravagance? Overindulgence in good food. *What do you consider the most overrated virtue? Probably thriftiness. *On what occasion do you lie? When I'm absolutely forced to by one of life's stupid entanglements. *Which words or phrases do you most overuse? Probably "You dig?" *What is your greatest regret? Not saying some things to departed associates. *What or who is the greatest love of your life? Of course my late wife, Lucille. *Which talent would you most like to have? The one I have. * What is your present state of mind? Peaceful but active. *What do you consider your greatest achievement? Listening to my inner consciousness and summoning the strength and determination to acat on it. *If you could come back, as what would it be? A more evolved, intelligent being. *What is your most treasured possession? When I lost so many prized possessions on 9/11, I learned a lesson: possessions are not "where it's at." *What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? Being in the belly of the beast in a straitjacket. *Where would like to live? Wherever I can be left alone. * What is your favorite occupation? Music, or whteer conbtributes to the edificatino of of others. * The quality you most like in a man? Listening more than talking. *What do you most value in our friends? Loyalty. *Who are your heroes in real life? Anyone whose life is lived giving more than taking. * What is your motto? "Do unto others," and secondly, one I made up watching TV: "Images and lies, and bad for your eyes." The intro says this month (they mean September) he turns 77 and plays his first concert at Carnegie Hall.

I've tried to find this on-line so as to post it. So far to no avail (sp?). Now that I have teh questoins I'll type in the answers when I get a chance.

The magazine calls it The Proust questionaire and it's one page long. It's on the very last page so you can read it in a store without buying and lugging around all 8 pounds of fashion ads.

The If I Loved You quote is hard to miss, but I thought Larry was pushing it a bit with his reference to the lyrics. But I was just listening to Turnaround on Tomorrow is the Question from nearly 50 years ago and at about the 5:12 mark Ornette quotes If I loved You! Since the songs have nothing in common melodically (at least as far as I can hear) I presume that Larry is right and Ornette uses it because of the lyrics. BTW Are there other versins of Turnaround that quote it?