Dan Gould

I'd appreciate a report, James. I have friends in Tampa and I'm sure I'll be visiting sooner or later so I'd be interested to know if this is one I should keep in mind. You might also try Vinyl Fever. When I was there last the new jazz section was decently stocked, used CDs was OK, used vinyl was pretty skimpy. But the new CD section was worth a look for sure, and if you are in Tampa already ....

How 'bout reading and writing simultaneously? I ran into drove past a guy going 70 on I-95 with a crossword puzzle on the steering wheel. I drove past, staring at him, tooted, and he waved the paper and the pen at me, as if to say, yup, this is what I'm doing at 65 MPH - you got a problem? This was before I had a cell phone so I couldn't call the FL highway patrol and give them the plate number, etc.

I think everyone knows that I am a serious animal lover, particularly dogs and that I find Vick's actions truly sickening. Nevertheless I feel that after paying his debt to society, he should be allowed to ply his trade and in fact given the chance to prove that he is indeed a changed man. The Humane Society has agreed to work with him and to give him that chance, and I hope he truly takes advantage of it. That notwithstanding, I never thought that he'd be allowed to go straight from the federal penitentiary back to the NFL. I expect the NFL to extract its pound of flesh as well, and I don't expect it to be four weeks, either (where did they come up with that anyway? This isn't a positive drug test, this is as bad as it gets with NFL players, and Goodell has given worse penalties than four weeks to other felons). Furthermore, he didn't miss time in the NFL - he was in prison. He couldn't have played if a team would have him. I expect that Vick is going to serve a full year's suspension before he is allowed back in. If he is smart, he will spend that time repairing his public image as best he can by working with the Humane Society.

I sincerely find this aggravating if not offensive. Even if "critical thinking" and "confronting the non-familiar" is lacking in some way, why the attack? Amandla is chockful of "MUSIC"? Great, have at it. But it surely doesn't help your cause (of getting people to listen closely to this record) to take pot shots at people who haven't bought into the "everything Miles did is f-ing great" club. For one thing, they've probably heard enough to know that it ain't their cuppa, and telling them that they don't think critically or confront the non-familiar ain't gonna help change their minds.

I've noticed in my Worlds Records catalogs that some MusicMasters recordings have been licensed or purchased by a new label, Nimbus. The first MusicMasters release with Ralph Moore in the tenor chair has been reissued: http://www.worldsrecords.net/cgi-bin/store...d=07-26-09.5025 I believe Nimbus has also put out some of the fine Benny Carter releases from MusicMasters too, but that probably deserves a separate thread. Again checking Worlds, Elegy in Blue and Central City Sketches are the two that are available again.

See post #18. So I went for the cheap joke, and you've actually suffered through it. You have my sympathy.

"Can't Get It Out Of My Head" by E.L.O.

Way back when, Blue Note liner notes were very helpful in pointing me in the direction of countless other dates that I wanted to find, whether mentioned in the essay or pictured on the back.

To find them you'd have to know where he was arrested and when, and theoretically, if those records were transferred to microfilm, you might be able to get a look at the whole lot of them, to try to find the one you want. If the reports aren't on microfilm, and I am not sure why they would be, you'd really need a report number to get at it, most likely.

You keep thinking it has to end soon ... it can't keep going this bad much longer, can it? But the reality is that this has only one place to end, and there can be no doubt whatsoever: In the crapper. On the outside looking in. Praying that someone - anyone - will beat the Motherfucking Yankees, because you won't even have the fucking opportunity to do it. I'm done. Finito. Enjoy the rest of the season, because the resident crank is through. Permanently.

Papa Jazz was the one thing that kept me sane for my one semester at the University of South Carolina. Great selection and prices and I bought enough there that despite their stated policy, they'd give me full store credit on anything I brought back. In fact after I told them that I was leaving town and wouldn't be back, they gave me one of their t-shirts.

All he will be is another guy in the mix. He plays more than they were intending to play Kotsay, but how many starts does he get a week? Maybe three, if they give Lowell a lot of time off or start sitting Ortiz (or Youkilis for that matter, which would be nothing short of stupid)? So if he's going to pick it up in the second half like he usually does, he has to do it as a part-time player. I can see this being a complete failure: Full time starter becomes part-time player in a completely new league. That's a recipe for big production? And that's ignoring that he has had such a horrible July and most of the season.

CT has either a hands-free only law or completely outlaws cell phone use if you are driving but my father complains about the bitchy baby banker wives who ignore the law. On the other hand, I don't think its a secondary offense as last Christmas Dad told me that the police were instituting a major enforcement effort.

Big fucking deal. They are sinking fast, and Theo got a hold of an eye dropper.

I was disappointed in the Steve Nelson, personally. Very mellow, not much happening, despite multiple listens it never grabbed me. YMMV but its one I sold pretty quick. Both Bubba Brooks discs are very fine, Dr. Lonnie Smith plays on one and Kenny Drew Jr on the other, if that makes a difference. Iirc, the Buster Williams has Mulgrew Miller, and I remember enjoying it quite a bit more than the Steve Nelson, which I think had 'Grew on it, too. For Hayes, Quintessential Lou and the Cannonball Legacy CDs are the ones I have and enjoy.

The David "Bubba" Brooks and the various Louis Hayes discs get strong also.

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I know we've already gone through the 'should you applaud each solo?' debate, but its kinda amusing to think of those non-jazzers, if they weren't already confused by the music, they had to really be confused by the applause in the middle of a tune.

I'll admit I haven't gone to a lot of rock concerts but since when do rock musicians completely stop playing while someone else solos? Certainly not guitarists, and how often do you get any sort of lengthy solo from a guy on keyboards? Jazz is completely different where someone may take very long solos. When some shredding guitarist goes into his masturbatory act, the rest of the band doesn't stop. They just keep the other noisy elements down to a dull roar.

Bay and Drew, and to a lesser extent, Nick Green turning back into a pumpkin, are killing them. And if it doesn't end soon, they will be looking up at the teams that are heading toward the playoffs.

Studies show that hands free is just as dangerous as holding the phone to your ear, and not comparable to talking to someone in the car with you. When a person is in the car, they tend to be less talkative under bad weather conditions or heavy traffic. Also, apparently when you are speaking to someone who is not there, your mind may actually conjure up images of them, distracting you from the task at hand. The first article the Times ran had a picture of two hands texting while a third hand is holding the wheel, "driving 60 miles an hour on a Missouri highway" - if someone else is in the fucking car, why don't you hand over the damn phone and let him text your fucking message? The arrogance of people who believe they can text and drive simultaneously is staggering. If you haven't read the first Times article, its here. Related to this, has anyone seen Spike TV's "1000 ways to die"? Its almost a TV recreation of the Darwin Awards, or at least nominees for Darwin Awards. One segment I saw Sunday night illustrated the story of two lovebirds, text messaging fools as it were, who were trying to arrange for one to pick the other up at the mall. Boyfriend driving pickup truck and texting back and forth, and girlfriend walking with her head down, texting back. Girlfriend stepped in front of boyfriend's truck and was killed.

I'm firmly agnostic on the question at hand but this reminds me of what must have been my last public performance of any sort: In Junior High I was shanghaied by my music teacher into accompanying the eighth grade chorus on one song (I want to say it was "Proud Mary" but after 30 years its hard to say for sure) during the Spring Concert (should probably mention I had been playing guitar for about 5 years at this point). They sing a few songs and then its time for my tune, I'm nervous as hell, the teacher helps plug my acoustic guitar into the amp, the song starts, I get lost, the teacher is shouting out chords, I'm trying to get on track, I can't even hear my guitar anyway, finally my moment in hell is over ... and I just sit there. We'd never discussed my departure from the stage (don't ask why I didn't get the hell off out of natural instinct to leave the scene of the crime) so I just sat there for one more tune. I remember the teacher looking at me like "what the hell are you doing still here?" but by then it was too late to walk off, so he told me to sit tight and then get off the stage. So you can be a distraction if you are digging the music or if you are just sitting there with a dull expression on your face, thinking "God I really sucked on that one".

Getting fucking aggravated by their brutal pathetic embarrassing shit! And the MFY can't lose!!! Second place, here we come, and the Rays will be right at our fucking heels.

This seems like the best place to put some great news about Kevin Trudeau: If you're unaware, the last time the FTC went after him it was over a "coral calcium" supplement he falsely claimed cures cancer among other diseases. The settlement he agreed to was a permanent ban on producing or appearing in infomercials for any product, with the noteworthy exception of books (unfortunately the first amendment applies to scum bag con artists, too). Thus, you had Trudeau writing his brilliant, incisive "(___) they don't want you to know about" series. Well, the settlement explicitly stated that he could appear in infomercials for books if he does not misrepresent the content of the books. Too bad that after he took on the drug companies and the finance companies, he went after the really big market: Fat (and dumb) people desperate to be less fat (but still dumb). Well the FTC went after him for claiming that his weight loss regimen is "easy" and that after you finish the four phases you can "eat anything you want". Unfortunately for Trudeau, the reality is that you have to have daily colonics, get injected with HGH, go on a 500 calorie a day diet for up to 50 days and do a shitload of other things that can't possibly be described as "easy". Oh, and when you're "done" (you are never done, the book explicitly says you do stage 4 for the rest of your life) you can't eat "anything" and never gain weight, you continue to eat "organic" only and cannot eat at any "regional" or "national" chain restaurant or buy food from any publicly traded corporation. Bottom line: The FTC moved for the Judge to find him in civil contempt of the settlement agreement, and the judge agreed. He's now been banned from any infomercial whatsoever for three years, unless its a product for which he is simply acting as a paid spokesman and has no interest in, and entered a judgment against Trudeau in the amount of $37,616,161.00. What's scary is that if that's what Trudeau has made off of this book, is it unfair to suppose he made a similar amount off the other two books? 37 million is a lovely chunk of change but if this scumbag banked over a hundred million total, what's the real penalty? In the meantime, he's crying poverty and says he can't even pay his lawyers! Check out this link for not only a consideration of the issues and the law, but scroll to the bottom to see everything that is included in Trudeau's "weight loss cure". Its frightening reading. There is more from the judge here and here. Quite interesting (for me at least) to read the Judge's findings about the law and how ludicrous Trudeau's defense arguments were.

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