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RIP John Wooden. A class act all the way.

Not sure, but it's not valid at any of the Arizona Borders.

Use them online: http://www.borders.com. I guess my point is that Borders doesn't really have much anymore that interests me. As far as DVDs and books, as mikelz777 said, the coupons reduce from FULL retail so the deals aren't particularly competitive with online options. The 40% coupon is about the only one I pay attention to, and the last time I went to use one I couldn't find anything I wanted. I used to go to Borders to for music and would usually browse the rest of the store and often pick up a couple impulse items. I miss browsing CDs- it's not nearly as much fun online.

Recent recording w/John Allred. Very nice session, swings hard.

It's funny, I used to jump on these coupons. I don't even go to Borders anymore.

I was in Austin at the time. Maybe it was a Texas phenomenon.

Every time I see this one it looks like she's a spider.

So a question for those who still have CDs purchased in the 80s- have many (or any) shown any signs of degrading?

I resisted for a while. I remember when they started to become available (mid 80s)- I was on the road with Woody's band and most of us were still hauling around Pro Walkmans and cassettes (!). One of the guys got a CD player and some discs- it seemed initially to be a technical novelty but it was very cool. The thing that got me started was when a huge number of Blue Note cutout CDs appeared at a mall record store (I think it was Camelot) for $2.99 each. They all had a notch cut in them, but there were so many of the good BN titles available I caved and that was it.

I would do the same but unfortunately they have all been removed. Edit: Not quite all, but most

The prophesneeze of Nostrildamus.

It's Mad Libs®!

Happy Birthday!

Jon

Interesting! I didn't know about this. Only $1,000! Dennis Hopper photographs 1961-1967 Related YouTube link

Happy Bartonday!

A great actor and a very interesting person. Sad to hear this.

And you are a better person for having "ridden the dinosaur". Regarding the chops- one thing that starts to happen (to most, not all) with age is some "unpredictability" comes into play, usually in the mechanical areas of flexibility, range & endurance (the physical aspects of playing a brass instrument). Regardless, Curtis is still Curtis. The SOUND is still there & the message is still strong- the years of experience have resulted in a vast (bop & blues) vocabulary. Curtis is one of the major trombone cats, and he still has a lot to say. I haven't met him, but if I did I would thank him (I got to meet J.J. for about 5 minutes. I avoided the thousand questions I had for him- it was after the set and he was relaxing. But I did thank him (that was important to me). I hope I get to cross paths with Curtis. I hope *if and when* I make it to 75 I can still play. In general the larger trombone mouthpiece is more forgiving than the much smaller trumpet mouthpiece, so the effects of age (chops getting stiff) tend to hit the trumpet players harder than the low brass guys, I'll pick this recording up for sure.

Holy crap, is that for real? Not a photoshop thing?

FWIW, both of those are available as downloads at Amazon.

I was looking at the Broadway Rhythm dvd on amazon and came across this still. May have to pick it up!

And somehow they managed to get it all onto one disc.

That's just freaky. And shame on me for some of the thoughts I had.

I think the "genius" is in the promotion. Take a set of so-called limited edition box collections that have been taken out of circulation for a number of years and re-package/re-release them in a faux instrument case with assorted additional do-dads and then charge an arm and a leg for it. Brilliant!