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Brendan Taman has quit the Bombers. He's a pretty high profile guy, so I expect that he'll land on his feet. If not, he can park himself as a tv analyst for a year or two until the next job opening comes up. http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/Win...008576-sun.html ***** He didn't get the head coaching job he wanted, so Greg Marshall has signed with the Ticats as their new assistant head coach and defensive coordinator. http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home

Congratulations impossible and SS! I haven't noticed this thread before. For the past couple of years the vibes has been my favorite jazz instrument. I admit to knowing nothing about the subject, so correct me if I am wrong. But I read somewhere that the correct name of the instrument is vibraharp, and that vibraphone is the trademarked brand name of the Musser vibraharp. Anybody know about this?

My favorite album was on Timeless: Mike Nock - In, Out and Around.

Dave, The Chantays were a surf guitar group, and the Pipeline is the name of a Hawaiian surf break.

As I recall, Shindig did not debut until Sept. of '64. So other than Ed Sullivan, there was no opportunity for a rock group to appear on prime time tv. I can't imagine that they would have considered turning down the opportunity to be on Welk. Besides, they were an instrumental one hit wonder, so for them it was a paying gig if nothing else!

I haven't found a list of free agents, but here is the best article about it that I have found: http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/New...7950666-cp.html ***** The Argos have cut Kenny Wheaton, who has been an Eastern all-star the past four years. http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/Tor...7975431-cp.html ***** Cam Wake is entertaining offers from 12 NFL teams. They're talking about signing bonuses of up to $500,000. http://www.theprovince.com/sports/bonus+aw...7902/story.html ***** Nick Setta has decided to sign with the Ticats rather than see what he could do in the NFL. http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/Ham...7945216-cp.html

Happy Birthday 2009 Andy!

The caption says 5/18/63, but they are wearing Beatles collarless jackets, which would have been 1964. Am I right?

Happy Birthday 2009 patricia! 103? You're even older than I am!

Happy Birthday 2009 7/4!

Be careful Dave! Those Prestige Plays For Lovers albums can get you in trouble around here!

It was for this reason that I quit Your Music. I have about 1,000 cd's, which I know is a small collection compared to many of you, but that's more than I can listen to twice over the course of a year. It's enjoyable to hear something new to the collection, but when you listen to an album only once or twice a year it seems almost new too.

Happy Birthday CT!

Happy Birthday 2009 Nate!

Happy Birthday 2009 mgraham333!

I know that people like me are not in the consideration of the majors. However, I too bought fewer cds in 2008. In fact, in 2008 I bought the fewest albums I have in 30 years or so. I quit Your Music. I bought from BMG only with Aggie's codes. But in my case it was because I didn't see much that appealled to me. I seem to recall the record companies crying the blues before (Was it in the late 70s?), and the problem then and now I think is that people didn't want what they were selling. I've said this before, but I'll say it again. The majors' business model calls for selling most of their albums to teenage boys, and many teenage boys nowadays would rather buy and spend their time with video games than with music. One point about jazz. I predict that more people will follow Sonny Rollins' and Dave Holland's route, which is to follow The Rolling Stones' route, and create their own record companies, using the majors as distributors. This model may be irrelevant to what the high schoolers buy, but I think we will see more of it for adult music. By taking the risk out of it for the majors, the cd's of adult artists should still be available for their market.

Happy Birthday 2009 Marty!

MG, I started my database in '87 on my new Atari 1040ST, and I still use that computer for that purpose! My records are inconsistent. All of my cds are listed, sometimes more than once in the case of box sets, and always more than once if I have more than one copy. When I receive a box set in the mail, I list each cd separately with a Roman numeral for each. I record the date that I listen to a cd for the first time ("open" it). Sometimes I will listen to an entire cd from a box set, and but often I will listen to only the first portion as it corresponds to the lp. In that case, I will make a second entry for that portion of the cd that I haven't listened to yet.

Here's my Top Ten list for 2008, ten new ones plus four oldies, listed in the order I got them. Carla Bley and the Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu Maynard Ferguson - A Message from Birdland (reissue) Nik Bartsch's Ronin - Holon James Carter - Present Tense Marcin Wasilewski - January Art Pepper - The Croyden Concert (vault) Norma Winstone - Distances Nicolas Bearde - Live at Yoshi's/A Salute to Lou Mathias Eick - The Door Carla Bley Big Band - Appearing Nightly Dave Holland - Pass It On Sonny Rollins - Road Shows, Vol. 1 Enrico Rava - The Pilgrim and the Stars (reissue) Stan Getz - Sweet Rain (reissue)

Amen! I just ordered Groovadelphia, three hours before the deadline! Happy New Year!

Here's Dan Ralph's 2008 CFL Year in Review. http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/New...7883796-cp.html

Happy New Year, and thanks to all! I suppose that this is the one day of the year when the smilie is really appropriate!

Detour is widely regarded as the best film noir ever, so I really looked forward to seeing it when I picked up the DVD about a year ago. I didn't think it was as good as I had hoped, but it stuck with me, which I guess is the mark of a good picture. Ann Savage died Christmas Day. Here's some of her lengthy LA Times obit: http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-...0,7639041.story ...But Savage was best-known for director Edgar G. Ulmer's 1945 B-movie "Detour," in which she played a woman ruthlessly blackmailing a stranger, played by Tom Neal. "It's actually a showcase role," Adamson said. "Neal and Savage really reversed the traditional male-female roles of the time. She's vicious and predatory . . . and he's very, very passive. It's very unusual for a '40s film to have a woman come on that strong."... She was eventually under contract at Columbia Pictures and started a career in a series of B movies, but she had little respect for much of the work. "They were mindless," she told the Los Angeles Times in 1985. "The actresses were just scenery. The stories all revolved around the male actors; they really had the choice roles. All the actresses had to do was to look lovely, since the dialogue was ridiculous." But "Detour," which she made for Producers Releasing Corp., was something different. The role, at first, gave her pause. "I had just come off a lot that kept me looking absolutely perfect," she said. "But Vera was not a pretty woman: She was maniacal. Edgar objected to my hair looking so neat and had the hairdresser run cold cream through it to make it streaky and stringy. He even made sure my face stayed dirty . . . and shiny." After the critical acclaim for "Detour," Savage had dreams of a real career as an actress. But it never happened...

She'll always be one of my favorites. Nostalgia? Maybe. And I think I have enough of her albums that I don't want any more. but I don't think I'll ever get tired of her first solo LP, called The Astrud Gilberto Album. PS - And her voice was unique, although there came along some copycats like Wanda de Sah. Some singers are great interpreters with questionable voices. I rate Astrud as a great voice with little or no interpretation skill.

Happy Birthday 2008 Tony!