GA Russell

Well, I guess we're all getting older, as the names and faces of the '60s die of old age. RIP. http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2015/04/01/john-lennon-first-wife-cynthia-lennon-dead/?intcmp=features

Happy Birthday 2015 aurelio!

Happy Birthday 2015 Kyo!

"Theoretically" because you doubt the merits of lossless downloads, or because you doubt the merits of Taylot Swift's inclusion in the mix?

Looks like they bought Tidal. Unlike Spotify, they stream lossless. I have been using them for 4-5 months and prefer it to Spotify. For me, their interface is much less cluttered and cleaner than what Spotify has become. Unfortunately, they charge $19.95 per month which is 2X Spotify. I am hard-wired to buy physical product , so I use both Spotify and Tidal to preview music as much as anything. I think I will pass on the editorial content ... not b/c it is Jay Z, but hey, I just want to listen. Spotify streams 320kbps for their premium subscription. I haven't heard it because I don't do streaming services, but I'd bet money you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between it and lossless. And to be fair, I don't know that people "prefer" lower quality MP3, I just think the price is right for them. Speaking of prices, the Wall St. Journal article linked to in post #4 says that Tidal's new price will be $9.99; apparently the same price as its competitors' but for arguably better service.

David Torn on Tour May 8 New York, NY Subculture May 11 Marlboro, NY The Falcon May 12 Dunellen, NJ Roxy & Dukes May 13 Cambridge, MA Regattabar May 14 Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia Art Alliance May 16 Portland, OR Holocene May 17-18 Seattle, WA Storyville Pike Place May 19 Sacramento, CA Golden Lion Arts May 20 San Francisco, CA venue tba May 21 Los Angeles, CA Blue Whale May 22 Denver, CO Walnut Room May 26 Minneapolis, MN Cedar Cultural Center May 27 Milwaukee, WI The Jazz Estate May 29 Chicago, IL Constellation May 30 Cincinnati, OH The Monastery June 1 Washington, DC Bohemian Caverns June 3 Baltimore, MD The Windup Space June 4 Carrboro, NC Cat’s Cradle June 6 Asheville, NC Streamside Concerts June 7 Atlanta, GA Red Light Café

Jay Z and his friends started promoting Tidal over the weekend. I think they are now open for business. http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/03/30/jay-zs-music-streaming-service-tidal-readies-for-relaunch/ Remember when Taylor Swift made headlines for pulling all of her music from Spotify? It looks like Tidal will pay her what she wants. http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/25/taylor-swift-streaming-tidal/

Thanks, crisp. I'll take a look at those three.

Herbie Mann - OAS - 9.99 GBP http://www.amazon.co.uk/Original-Album-Series-Herbie-Mann/dp/B0050I2OHO?SubscriptionId=AKIAJ7T5BOVUVRD2EFYQ&tag=camelalerts-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B0050I2OHO The lowest price in over two years!

If I'm reading this right, it says that the most popular beer in England is Carling. Can that be right? http://vinepair.com/features/external/beer-world-map-3000-full-web.jpg

The Complete Carry On (30 movies) - 30.00 GBP http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00EXOZE64/ref=pe_141401_67049071_pe_epc__1p_2_ti For years I had heard about the Carry On movies. Finally, ca. 1984, I had the opportunity to see one - Carry On Nurse. I didn't laugh once. I've loved every one of the old black and white Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Wilfred Hyde-White, etc., movies I've seen. So what happened? Is it me, or were the Carry On movies for a different audience? Any thoughts?

Sounds great, Eric. I've just put in a request for it with my local library.

Happy Birthday 2015 jlhoots!

Hot Rod Hundley passed away yesterday at 80. RIP. I used to think of him along with Tom Gola. Both were much bigger stars in college than in the pros, but the announcers behaved as if they continued to be big stars. I remember Hot Rod fancy-dribbling the ball when it was his turn to be introduced before the game. A real character! http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/29/sports/basketball/rod-hundley-an-outsize-basketball-personality-dies-at-80.html?_r=0&gwh=4CA72D982F864A8023E6F65B9BD690D0&gwt=pay http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/2015/03/27/hot-rod-hundley-former-nba-player-and-jazz-announcer-dies/70577966/

I have regularly listened to and enjoyed Mimi Jones' album Balance for the past year, and now she has a tour set up. Bassist/Composer/Vocalist & Label Entrepreneur Mimi Jones Takes Her Show on the Road East Coast, Midwest, & European Tours Set for 2015 In Addition to Jones's Ongoing Weekly Residency At Bar Thalia/Symphony Space, NYC Plans to Record Follow-Up to Her 2014 Hot Tone Music CD "Balance" In the Fall March 25, 2015 For bassist/composer Mimi Jones, the release one year ago of her second CD Balance accomplished several goals. It tested her mettle as a businesswoman, as the CD was released on the Hot Tone Music label she'd founded in 2009. It highlighted her propensity for collaboration and support of other indie jazz musicians, particularly women, as Hot Tone Music simultaneously released Jones's album with new discs by saxophonist Camille Thurman and drummer Shirazette Tinnin. And it established Jones as a leader to watch, a protean instrumentalist, vocalist, and composer/arranger. "Satisfying on every level," Marc Myers wrote of Balance on JazzWax.com. "The bassist plays with enormous strength and enthusiasm but she also has a cohesive vision for how the music should sound. Each track is an important statement expressed with sensuality and chops. . . . She is Grammy-worthy." Since that time, native New Yorker Jones, who celebrates her 43rd birthday today, has been expanding her professional horizons -- all of them -- with her customary dynamism. She's been appearing in a series of sidewoman dates with the Tia Fuller Quartet, Toshi Reagon, and Luis Perdomo & Controlling Ear Unit (whose new CD, Twenty Two, will be released by Hot Tone Music 5/19). Jones's work as a composer is being featured as part of the D.O.M.E. Experience, co-led by Jones and ArcoIris Sandoval and performed by artists including Steve Wilson, Jamie Baum, Bob Stewart, Tia Fuller, and many others. She shared her DIY label experience with attendees at the JazzConnect conference earlier this year and will deliver a lecture on "The Business of Music" at the International Society of Bassists convention in Fort Collins, CO on 6/4. As a leader, she's been running a weekly residency and jam session, the Lab Session, at Bar Thalia/Symphony Space (Broadway and 95th Street) most Friday nights which includes Mimi's band as well as a rotating cast of first-rate vocalists, horn players, drummers, pianists, guitarists, tap dancers, rappers, and comics. Some regulars seen at the Jazz Party are Mark Shim, Miki Hayama, Marion Cowings, Rodney Green, Jonathan Barber, and Victor Gould, among others. And now she plans to take her Mimi Jones Band on the road to points east (New England, Europe) and west (Chicago, Michigan). L. to. r.: Mimi Jones, Jonathan Barber, Miki Hayama, Mark Shim. "It's been a terribly long winter," says Jones, "but spring is here and I'm looking forward to all the wonderful things manifesting. It will be my first time performing as a leader around the country, whether it be at the annual iRock Jazz Festival in Michigan or the London Jazz Festival later this year. I am thrilled to be physically bringing this music to the people." Jones is currently in the process of choosing music for her next Hot Tone Music CD, due for early 2016 release. Born in New York City and raised in the Bronx, Mimi Jones attended Fiorello LaGuardia High School and earned a B.A. in music at the Manhattan School of Music Conservatory. She missed her graduation, however, because she'd been hired to tour Japan with saxophonist Masa Wada and drummer Denis Charles. It was the first of numerous overseas tours that would take her to Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Americas, some under the auspices of the U.S. State Department. In addition to leading her own groups, Jones has worked with jazz artists including Kenny Barron, Joanne Brackeen, Terri Lyne Carrington (who chose Jones to play on her Grammy-winning The Mosaic Project), Ravi Coltrane, Lizz Wright, Lionel Hampton, Roy Hargrove, and many more. She has recorded two albums as leader: A New Day (2009) and Balance (2014). The Mimi Jones Band (trio/quartet): Fridays at Bar Thalia/Symphony Space (2537 Broadway), NYC, The Lab Session, 8-11pm 5/7 Smoke, NYC (Mark Shim, sax, wci; Miki Hayama, p; Clarence Penn, d) 5/29 Loews Hotel Jazz Series, Chicago (Ryan Cohen, p; Marcus Evans, d) 5/30 iRock Jazz Festival, New Buffalo, MI (Pharez Whitted, tpt; Ryan Cohen, p; Marcus Evans, d) 6/4 International Society of Bassists, Fort Collins, CO (solo lecture: The Business of Music) 6/11 Burlington (VT) Discover Jazz Festival 6/12 Riverwalk Cafe and Music Bar, Nashua, NH 6/13 The Side Door, Old Lyme, CT 6/16 Jazz Journalists Awards, Blue Note, NYC (Mark Shim, sax, wci; Miki Hayama, p; Jonathan Barber, d; + Marvin Sewell, g, 6/16 only) 8/10 Bushnell Park, Hartford (CT) Monday Night Jazz (Band TBD) 11/11-22 European Tour Photography: Jose Infante (Mimi), Phillis Kwentoh (group) Interviews with Mimi Jones: NPR/A Blog Supreme Burning Ambulance All About Jazz Web Sites: mimijonesmusic.com, hottonemusic.com Follow: Like:

Complete Bill Evans Verve - 25.99 GBP http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00IK5I0OA/ref=pe_198281_66844491_pe_epc__1p_1_lm

Moose, I read Double Indemnity shortly after reading The Postman Always Rings Twice. I thought that they were too similar, and that Postman was better. I've never seen either movie.

One of my favorites of the A-list noirs. It has a great score by Miklos Rozsa. TTK, your recommendation is good enough for me! I've informed the camels to let me know the next time the price drops.

Looking at Amazon UK. All prices GBP. I find that typically, when a CD box is on sale at Amazon UK, it is also on sale by a Marketplace Seller on Amazon.com. For those in the UK, many of these come with the free AutoRip downloads. Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah band - OAS - 9.79 http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00NIUEDHK/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pd_S_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=15OXMQC9Z0YS9&coliid=I2SIVLXUXR5W2Y ***** Ten Years After - OAS - 9.99 http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00NIUEDHK/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pd_S_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=15OXMQC9Z0YS9&coliid=I2SIVLXUXR5W2Y ***** Rickie Lee Jones - OAS - 8.37 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Original-Album-Rickie-Lee-Jones/dp/B003097B7I/ref=sr_1_2?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1427169213&sr=1-2&keywords=original+album+series+rhino ***** The Pretenders - OAS - 8.60 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Original-Album-Pretenders/dp/B0030HG3LK/ref=sr_1_3?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1427169267&sr=1-3&keywords=original+album+series+rhino ***** Fleetwood Mac - OAS - 9.00 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Original-Album-Fleetwood-Mac/dp/B008MMFBQ6/ref=sr_1_6?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1427169321&sr=1-6&keywords=original+album+series+rhino ***** Warren Zevon - OAS - 9.09 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Original-Album-Pack-Warren-Zevon/dp/B003097BA0/ref=sr_1_7?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1427169364&sr=1-7&keywords=original+album+series+rhino ***** Chaka Khan - OAS - 9.33 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Original-Album-Pack-Chaka-Khan/dp/B003097B6E/ref=sr_1_8?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1427169436&sr=1-8&keywords=original+album+series+rhino ***** Todd Rundgren - OAS - 9.33 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Original-Album-Pack-Todd-Rundgren/dp/B003097A9M/ref=sr_1_9?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1427169481&sr=1-9&keywords=original+album+series+rhino ***** Dwight Yoakum - OAS - 9.36 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Original-Album-Dwight-Yoakam/dp/B008M4HBFI/ref=sr_1_11?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1427169529&sr=1-11&keywords=original+album+series+rhino ***** Curtis Mayfield - OAS - 9.41 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Original-Album-Curtis-Mayfield/dp/B00DDVPXSW/ref=sr_1_12?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1427169588&sr=1-12&keywords=original+album+series+rhino ***** Duke Ellington - OAS - 10.00 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Original-Album-Ellingtons-Session-Ellington/dp/B003097AHY/ref=sr_1_30?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1427169639&sr=1-30&keywords=original+album+series+rhino ***** Django Reinhardt - OAS - 10.97 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Django-Reinhardt-Original-Album/dp/B00KNSLI6Y/ref=sr_1_48?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1427169737&sr=1-48&keywords=original+album+series+rhino ***** Wynton Marsalis - OAC (classical, not jazz) - 6.90 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wynton-Marsalis-Original-Album-Classics/dp/B00E00GVHM/ref=sr_1_11?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1427169894&sr=1-11&keywords=original+album+classics ***** Louis Armstrong - OAC - 7.11 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Original-Album-Classics-Louis-Armstrong/dp/B003JA5MKG/ref=sr_1_22?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1427170068&sr=1-22&keywords=original+album+classics ***** Monk - OAC - 9.99 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Original-Album-Classics-Underground-Criss-Cross/dp/B000UO7IM4/ref=sr_1_126?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1427170345&sr=1-126&keywords=original+album+classics ***** Mahavishnu Orchestra - OAC - 10.29 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Original-Album-Classics-Mahavishnu-Orchestra/dp/B000VWOV3O/ref=sr_1_137?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1427170395&sr=1-137&keywords=original+album+classics ***** Al Di Meola - OAC - 10.50 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Original-Album-Classics-Al-Meola/dp/B003ZBX83M/ref=sr_1_139?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1427170458&sr=1-139&keywords=original+album+classics

Blu-ray only... Hitchcock - The Masterpiece Collection - $98.99 15 movies with a ton of extras. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008DCAG9M/ref=amb_link_431388622_4?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=hero-quick-promo&pf_rd_r=1RAA1JX00KAVKYY2AKF3&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_p=2062106422&pf_rd_i=B0086IMP9M

Since moving to the Raleigh area 13 years ago, I have been consistently pleased with the service of the post office folks. In the late '80s in Atlanta, I had frequent bad experiences. I wonder if the difference is merely a boss or two in this area who run a tight ship.

Here's something that I find interesting, although what if anything it proves, I'm not sure. Mediametric is a website which keeps track of the websites which have the most reader comments. http://mediametric.com/ Today Alex Jones is bragging that his site gets more comments than ESPN's. Here is the relevant portion of the list: 13. TMZ 14. Infowars (Alex Jones) 15. CBS News 16. ESPN 17. The Hill The Hill is a quite high-brow political site. TMZ is a low-brow celebrity site. http://www.infowars.com/infowars-beats-espn-in-total-reader-comments/ Any thoughts?

Here's a perfect article for hot stove league discussion! The 9 worst members of the Hall of Fame, and who should replace each. http://www.sportingnews.com/list/4631534-worst-baseball-hall-of-famers-all-time-fame

Anybody here watch Jeopardy? https://twitter.com/Litz72/status/579486478201270272/photo/1