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I've used Skype to talk to someone in Mexico. You just need two computers with the software, and you can talk over the computer line as long as you like for free. The sound isn't as good as a land line, but it usually works pretty well. You can also use it to call someone from your computer to their landline--that's the Service that you have to pay for.

If FEMA's the promoter, they'll probably be forced to play Kenny G songs.

David Murray's Home is my favorite of his Octet recordings. The two George Adams-Dannie Richmond albums (with Jimmy Knepper and Hugh Lawson) are outstanding. Don Pullen's Milano Strut is worth acquiring for the haunting performance on organ of the title track. There are lots of wonderful recordings on these two labels from the 1970s/80s.

I really like the first side of the LP (Sneaky Pete, the Mercenary, Sonic Boom). The Lee Morgan/David Newman pairing is also on Lonnie Smith's Think.

Excerpts from The Onion on the hurricane... God Outdoes Terrorists Yet Again September 7, 2005 | Issue 41•36 Louisiana National Guard Offers Help By Phone From Iraq BAGHDAD—The 4,000 Louisiana National Guardsmen stationed in Iraq, representing over a third of the state's troops, called home this week to find out what, if any, help they could offer Katrina survivors from overseas. "The soldiers wanted to know if they could call 911 for anyone, or perhaps send some water via FedEx," said Louisiana National Guard spokesman Lt. Col. Pete Schneider. The Guardsmen also "would love to send generators, rations, and Black Hawk helicopters for rescue missions," but, said Schneider, "we desperately need these in Iraq to stay alive." Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld praised the phone support, but noted that it would take months to transfer any equipment from Iraq to New Orleans, saying, "You fight a national disaster with the equipment you have." Government Relief Workers Mosey In To Help NEW ORLEANS—Federal Emergency Management Agency director Michael Brown, leading a detachment of 7,500 relief workers, moseyed on down to New Orleans Monday afternoon. "Well, I do declare, it's my job to see if any of these poor folks need any old thing," Brown said from his command rocker on the command post porch, adding, "Mighty hot day, ain't it?" Follow-up teams of emergency relief workers are expected to begin ambling into the Gulf Coast region as early as this weekend. "They should be getting the trucks good and warmed up anytime now, and they'll be cruising into town just as soon as all the reservists stroll in," said Brown, who is currently at his desk awaiting offers of food, water, and evacuation buses to roll in from "somewhere or other." White Foragers Report Threat Of Black Looters NEW ORLEANS—Throughout the Gulf Coast, Caucasian suburbanites attempting to gather food and drink in the shattered wreckage of shopping districts have reported seeing African­Americans "looting snacks and beer from damaged businesses." "I was in the abandoned Wal-Mart gathering an air mattress so I could float out the potato chips, beef jerky, and Budweiser I'd managed to find," said white survivor Lars Wrightson, who had carefully selected foodstuffs whose salt and alcohol content provide protection against contamination. "Then I look up, and I see a whole family of [African-Americans] going straight for the booze. Hell, you could see they had already looted a fortune in diapers." Radio stations still in operation are advising store owners and white people in the affected areas to locate firearms in sporting-goods stores in order to protect themselves against marauding blacks looting gun shops. Bush Urges Victims To Gnaw On Bootstraps For Sustenance WASHINGTON, DC—In an emergency White House address Sunday, President Bush urged all people dying from several days without food and water in New Orleans to "tap into the American entrepreneurial spirit" and gnaw on their own bootstraps for sustenance. "Government handouts are not the answer," Bush said. "I believe in smaller government, which is why I have drastically cut welfare and levee upkeep. I encourage you poor folks to fill yourself up on your own bootstraps. Buckle down, and tear at them like a starving animal." Responding to reports that many Katrina survivors have lost everything in the disaster, Bush said, "Only when you work hard and chew desperately on your own footwear can you live the American dream."

Apple needs to come out with an 80 or 100 gb model. (I only have 7 unused gbs left on my 60gb model--panic is starting to set in.)

Stopped at an unfamiliar Half Price Books and found: three used CDs for $8 each: Cal Tjader's Latin Concert (OJC) (with Vince Guaraldi, Willie Bobo, Mongo Santamaria and Al McKibben--the best recording I've ever heard from Tjader) Sonny Stitt--MCA/Chess reissue of his first Argo LP. Ahmad Jamal--Nature (with Othello Molineaux on steel drums) and two new Xanadu's for $5 each Shorty Rogers and Art Pepper--Popo J.R. Monterose--Straight Ahead.

Sums it up... By Rupert Cornwell in Washington Published: 03 September 2005 Why has it taken George Bush five days to get to New Orleans? President Bush was on holiday in Texas when Katrina struck. He then spent Monday on a pre-arranged political fundraising tour of California and Arizona, which he did not cancel or curtail. On Tuesday he surveyed the hurricane damage - but only from the flight deck of Air Force One, prompting criticism that he was too detached from the suffering on the ground. He didn't give a speech until Tuesday afternoon - 36 hours after the storm first hit - and didn't embark on a proper tour of the region until yesterday. Key advisers have come under fire for similar levels of detachment. As the full magnitude of the disaster unfolded, the Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, was seen buying shoes in New York, and Dick Cheney remained on holiday.

It is shockingly expensive but that 30 inch Apple Monitor is a thing of beauty (I wish I had one).

Much thanks.

Any time it feels like I could make a grilled cheese sandwich just by going outside, it's hot enough.

I like his small group recordings (New Ideas especially) and never paid any attention to his big band--but, I recently picked up Live in 3-2/3 4 Time--and that is, unexpectedly to me, a very compelling record. Ellis plays very well on this one. I don't know about the rest of the big band's recordings, but this one I would definitely recommend.

Thanks very much. Receiving The Hank Mobley and Roy Eldridge Mosaic sets as birthday presents pretty much guarantees that!

David Fathead Newman: October 7 at the Univerity of Texas at Dallas Conference Center in Richardson. 8 p.m. $20 972-883-2787

Nat Adderley isn't in the elite of the trumpet players of his day--I much prefer Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard, Donald Byrd, Blue Mitchell, etc.--but on the other hand, he always seemed the perfect foil for Cannonball--I don't think the group would have been better with any of those trumpet greats.

I don't care for her either. As for new blues, that fellow Otis Taylor is making interesting music.

I would recommend instead buying the recordings of her deceased father (Johnny Copeland), a very fine Texas blues guitarist--for example, the album Copeland Special, which features George Adams.

I have Eric Kloss' Land of the Giants on a Prestige LP. It says Recording by Dave Jones. Another Prestige LP from this era, Melvin Sparks, Akilah!, recorded by Rudy van Gelder.

I pulled out as many pre-OJC Prestiges as I could quickly find. Roland Kirk with Jack McDuff--Kirk's Work--Prestige 7210--Recording: Rudy Van Gelder (RVG in the wax) Richard Groove Holmes--Spicy--Prestige 7493--Recording: Rudy Van Gelder (Van Gelder in the wax) Booker Ervin--Heavy!!!--Prestige7499--Recording Richard Alderson (cover is pre-Fantasy but LP is post-Fantasy). Jaki Byard with Strings--Prestige 7543--Recording Richard Alderson (cover is pre-Fantasy but LP is post-Fantasy)Jaki Byard Experience--Prestige 7615--Recording Richard Alderson (cover is pre-Fanstasy but LP is post-Fantasy) Brother Jack McDuff--I Got a Woman--Prestige 7642--no information Johnny Hammond Smith--Black Feeling--Prestige 7736--Recording: Rudy Van Gelder--Van Gelder in the wax. Johnny Hammond Smith--Here it 'Tis--Prestige 10002--Recording: Rudy Van Gelder--Van Gelder in the wax. Houston Person--Person to Person--Prestige 10003--Recording: Rudy Van Gelder--Van Gelder in the wax Houston Person--Prestige 10044--Recording Engineer--Rudy Van Gelder--Van Gelder in the wax (Post-Fantasy release, I believe) Dexter Gordon--Generation--Prestige 10068--Engineer Rudy Van Gelder, Van Gelder Studios--Van Gelder in the wax (post-Fantasy release, I believe)

The Fantasy catalog of jazz labels is the greatest single collection of jazz recordings in existence, I would think. I've scarcely ever heard an OJC or OBC that I didn't like (or love). Keep them in print and keep issuing new gems, and I'll keep buying them.

So you don't want a CDR copy of the extremely rare LP Charlie Parker and Ornette Coleman Jam Session in Fort Worth, 1954?

I was napping that day.

http://forums.allaboutjazz.com/showthread.php?t=10706

As for your cassette adapter, buy one of the Monster brand. The two I've had do not make any annoying clicking sounds. In contrast, the Sony cassette adapter was horrible, making loud clicking sounds that got worse the longer it was used. I believe that you can plug your ipod into the new BMWs--of course, that is a rather expensive ipod player.