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It's better than a trip to the "dentist". And yes, it is "safe".

Happy Bruceday!

Happy birthday Michael!

Happy Birthday Victor!

I know nothing about this procedure, but wish you a quick recovery and will send good vibes your way.

Ask Duke City.

Josh Lyman Toby Zeigler C.J. Craig

Gobel warning.....

The warm winter made the high-heating-cost warnings not such a big deal. Seems like the only nasty weather has for the most part been out east. In KC we're just now heading into some cold weather- it's been a very warm and dry winter. We could use some precipitation. Did anyone get socked with unusually high heating bills this winter?

It always makes me think of....

Challenge?

"Big Daddy" Don Garlits Shirley "Cha Cha" Muldowney Don "The Snake" Prudhomme

Glenn my man! Outstanding news! Congratulations!! I'll look forward to meeting her when I see you in April!

Number two and three kind of go together as a "package" so you can play along with the shower scene.

Well, ok, good, but where's Live From Los Angeles? That one totally features "standard big band instrumentation", and according to the Doug Payne site ( http://www.dougpayne.com/on67-75.htm#LIVE%...20LOS%20ANGELES ) there's a buttload of unissued material. I know it's recently been reissued in original form, but if Universal's not releasing the rights to it for this set, just freakin' say so. Maybe The Kennedy Dream is supposed to be compensation? I'm getting this set anyways, but jeez, sometimes the Mosaician logic is beyond my grasp. They did say studio sessions in the title, and LFLA is a live date. I guess that's their "out". A similar situation is when they left Stepping Stones off the Woody Shaw box. I'm looking forward to this one. I've always liked Fantabulous.

Could I request an update of the current list? It seems to be maintained by couw (aka John), could you bring this up to date please? Thank you so much my friend!

Actually it's a kingdom.

Beautiful sound on the clarinet. RIP. I enjoy this recording:

My favorite Basie writers (in no specific order) Billy Byers Neal Hefti Thad Jones Frank Foster Ernie Wilkins .....did I say Billy Byers?

Thanks for the info Jim! Glad you're still there.

I tried to go over there when I thought this board went down today and it doesn't seem to be there now. What's up?

more to come....................

Agreed! Happy Birthday BM!!

Sorry I missed the hang- I'm in Texas doing my gig. I wish I'd have been there- I have great enthusiasm for Mingus Ah Um. ......and Wes is the poor man's Aric.

Damn! Hope everything is OK, or at least getting better.