Uncle Skid

Yeah, our date format might not make sense, but you guys use commas where decimal points should be, so that makes us even!

Here's another one -- this is particularly evil -- the message seems reasonable and the URL looks legit, but clicking on it would be real bad thing...

I actually have a Chase visa, and I do use their online access frequently. I also got this email last week, and it is one of the best phishing scams I've ever seen. The only thing that gave it away was the URL -- definitely NOT from chase.com. The URL was somewhere in the ".kr" domain -- Korea, I believe.

Jackie and Tina Brooks!

"Jazz is a happy thing and there are a lot of musicians around waiting to give a little happiness to a world filled with so much unrest." There's one less tonight... Thank you, Mr. McLean. I know you gave so many of us more than just a little happiness over the years...

Yes, the decision was not very difficult in this case. I ended up getting the non-hybrid version, and I average >30 mpg on the highway. City has been around 25-26. I average well less than 10,000 miles per year, as I work at home most of the time, so high gas prices don't hurt me as bad as some. The Prius and the Civic Hybrid are on the short list for next car. Now that we have our "big family" car (the Accord), we can get something smaller next time. The Honda was my first non GM car. That was a difficult decision.

Answer: enough people to make it worthwhile to continue manufacturing these things. The cars and trucks that GM is making today is the result of decisions made many years ago. Let's hope things are considerably different 10 years from now. And the core of the problem is not the car manufacturers, but us. All of us. The hybrids may be a good start, but I'm still astounded (disillusioned?) that we haven't seen any serious talk about better public transportation. Heck, how about just carpool lanes -- if California can do it, why not SE Michigan? High speed rail? Incidentally, I seriously looked at buying an Accord Hybrid. The numbers just don't add up, unless you are driving an obscene number of miles per year. Erik, I also read many articles on the subject, and the bottom line (from a purely financial perspective) is that Hybrids, in many cases, aren't the most economical choice.

Carmell Jones - Mosaic Select, disc 2 Business Meetin' and Brass Bag sessions - w/ Harold Land, Frank Strazzeri. Gerald Wilson arrangements. I haven't listened to this one in awhile -- I had forgotten how *really good* it is.

Not even a single disc by: Earl Hines (will remedy that soon!) Randy Weston (need to remedy that for sure) Horace Parlan (thinking about getting the Mosaic eventually) Stan Kenton Chet Baker Benny Goodman Nat King Cole Keith Jarrett Gerry Mulligan Errol Garner Jimmy Guiffre Ahmad Jamal Lonnie Smith Also, no Stan Getz other than a few old LPs that I borrowed from my father. Until recently, I was also very light on pre-bebop "early" jazz. Now I have a good start on Armstrong, Bechet, Basie, Ellington, Beiderbecke, Eldridge, Hawkins, James P. Johnson, Jelly Roll Morton, etc. Gunther Schuller's Early Jazz, plus some very helpful suggestions from fellow board members helped make it easier to appreciate and understand. I have also found that having at least a basic familiarity with the earlier stuff helps me get even more enjoyment out of the "later" music in my collection.

New Age cage match? John Tesh, referee.

Maybe we could ask Yanni to beat the crap out of the G-Man?

Thanks, Lazaro!

Album-a-week Plan!

Cool! I'm listening to Red Allen on Vol 1 right now. My in-laws gave me a stack of old records a few years ago, and this was one of them.

Richard Cheese, The Sunny Side of the Moon ss1, you need to download this , right now!! (check out Mr. Cheese's smokin' rhythm section, too)

I'm listening... the low-tech way... 90.3 FM!

It doesn't suck. Now there's an understatement! You're in for quite a treat! (and what the heck took you so long to order that one? )

There's at least two ways to do this: 1) Get a cable that goes from the "line out" jack on your laptop (3.5mm) to dual RCA plugs. The RCA plugs connect to one of the line inputs (tape/vcr/cd/etc) on your receiver. 2) For a little more money, here's a device that plugs into USB on your laptop. This bypasses the internal sound card on your laptop, theoretically resulting in better sound. It also comes with a very nice 30' cable. I originally had mine hooked up the first way, and about a month ago picked up the HiFi-Link. The sound does seem noticeably better, and I'm not an audiophile. Hope this helps!

Bounce 2 This!

hey, ss1! one possibililty is something like this: USB Hard Drive Enclosure Kit. I have one of these, and it works quite well for backups. It's nice because it will work with any standard (IDE) hard drive.

One of my most cherished items is a signed photo of Von Freeman, made by a very nice gentleman who sometimes posts here under the name "sheldonm". Anybody heard of him? (thanks, mark!)

I have to confess complete surprise upon reading ""Earl Hines is definitely the most unpredictable - I might even use the term free" -- and comparisons to Monk and Cecil. I'm (almost) completely clueless when it comes to Mr. Hines, and I've been meaning to remedy that. Thanks for all the recommendations!

Rock-based (but open to many styles) and improvisationally driven pretty much sums it up. Or endless noodling... depending on one's perspective, of course.

And the musical tastes of a 14-year-old from 1985.... like me! (and Marcus... Big Al's as nice and kind in person as he is on the internet! )