Dan Gould

Would I contradict my former (and continued) status as the Gene Harris Fanatic to say that a Three Sounds Mosaic could have been, but its just as well that it didn't happen? I just have a feeling that they might have taken a bath on it, if Michael had decided to put it out. I mean, I would have only bought so many copies myself.

Interesting but this doesn't jibe with the fact that on the BNBB we learned how a "sizable" check was hand-delivered to Jutta Hipp, iirc. Did they really convince EMI to pay royalties for which there was no contractual obligation?

Oh c'mon Mark if either one of us lived in NY, we'd be shelling out ducats left and right.

And at least two of them made livings as writers. But to each his own.

Not sure if I sold this a couple of years ago. If no one offers I'll check when I get home and let you know.

Oh my god, this brings back memories. In grad school at Washington University in St. Louis there was a huge text book tent sale and I stumbled across that ludicrous title (pretty sure its " ... Yo' Momma"). Had too many other legit poli-sci books to buy but I regretted putting it down and when I tried to find it again it was gone. Of course this was long before the internet when you could google a title and find more copies than you could shake an anti-semitic hack at. Carry on.

For the record, I was Mogie Man originally, then GHF, then my birth name. Also for the record, it is indeed amazing to realize how long I've "known" so many who are still here. Y'all have made me laugh too many times to count and helped drained my wallet, and to quote a bad pop song, "that's what friends are for".

Not an ounce of vitriol to be found in my post, but you come back with a complete non sequitur about Saddam. Well played, Chris, well played indeed. Promise to stay classy until the end.

You may believe Ken Burns is a POS film maker, but its hardly a widely-held opinion. "Ken Burns" is a name that generates interest in a subject, way over and above what some piddly-shit documentary from someone else might have generated. PBS built their fund-raising drive around that film and continued to do so after the premiere. Or do you think some piddly-shit documentary from someone else could have just as easily been used to peddle Channel 13 canvas bags? And let me just add another Albertson trope that you somehow managed not to include in this particular anti-Burns screech: NEWSFLASH: A documentary about jazz got made because KEN BURNS wanted to make it. It was never getting made otherwise.

I went with 20-30% without really flipping through any three ring binders, but as I think more about it I bet my true number is 40% or more. I mean, I look at all of the Scott Hamilton or Eric Alexander discs I compiled over the years. Unless I explicitly decided to listen to each of them, there's a handful of each I'd pick if/when I wanted to listen to them. The rest ... no way. Then, in the mad collecting phase I was in, I did a lot of huge CDR trades of never-reissued LPs. And there are a lot of discs there that, as happy as I was to hear them once, I'll probably never voluntarily play them again.

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My purchases have gone way, way down in the last 5 years or so, and now that I commute 250 miles a week I've been digging in to the archives to fill my CD case. And it dawned on me - unless I re-start my "Listen to every CD alphabetically" effort, there is a pretty sizable portion of my collection I am highly unlikely to ever listen to again. I'm not sure the percentage just yet but I thought this might be an interesting alternative to the old "I have so many new CDs I haven't even listened to" meme. What about the ones you're never going to listen to again?

Quincy or one of the other knowledgeable participants will back me up. When Fay Vincent was replaced, the "best interests of the game" clause was removed from the powers of the office of Commissioner.

But Selig does have the influence to manipulate the outcome. Wow, so Bud manipulated the arbitrator into a decision that embarrasses MLB and Bud Selig. by george I think you've solved the case!

In the World According to Dave James, Bud Selig is the epitome of evil. In the real world, there is a CBA, and a drug testing regime negotiated and agreed to by the parties. It includes a process for ajudicating disputes. There is nothing Bud Selig can do. Its not up to him to 'stand for' anything. And news flash for Dave: There is no "good of the game" clause giving a commissioner power to dictate results.

BruceW, Africa Brass, and MG back at the Big O: Its a good week. :party:

The problem Joel is that the title only exists in electronic form. So its Kindle, or a Kindle Ap for your PC or wireless device if you want to read this apprently definitive Powell biography.

Its unbelievably asinine to believe that he can somehow change the language into something he's coined. Its unbelievably asinine raised to the 100th power to walk away from a U-press contract over it. IMHO of course.

Yeah we've run this topic into the ground more than once but I for one am not going to implicitly slam a new member who wants to post about the things she's interested in.

Such as? I'm curious because 1. I think the very basis of hard bop is the funky/rootsy/gospelly/blues element in the music. It doesn't overgeneralize, it defines the style. 2. I think of post-bop as music that made a decided break from bop, not music that still had clear roots in the style.

Is there any specific source for the supposed dangers of Aspertame? I actually stopped drinking diet soda nearly a year ago - the women in my office tried to convince me it would have a nearly-instant weight loss effect. I wasn't nearly as bad as AB, probably drank 2-3 2-liter bottles per week. I switched to water mostly and saw no weight loss at all. But I did see some recent studies showing diet soda consumption having a relationship to weight gain and I've had no deep desire to go back to it.

I'm a confirmed Dex-aholic from way back. Well, not as way back s some, but way back for me. One of my first loves when I discovered this music in the late 1980s. Happy Birthday, Dex!

Personally I think it bears repeating. I'm with Jim, you're a sap if you happily pay good money for shitty product and he's absolutely right that it shows the exact wrong "market signal". I'll save my money for the Ace and Uptown labels of the world, and if there's a record I really want to hear but its never been reissued, or is long OOP, I'll find a friend who has it or a friendly blog. And if that doesn't work, there's way too much other music to fill my listening hours than sending my hard-earned cash to shitty companies.

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John, check out this resource.