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I hope you'll let us know what your experience is after a while, Rooster. I've been thinking that when the time comes to buy a new computer, if I have to get a new operating system I might as well get an Apple Mac. edit for typo

Happy Birthday Noj!

Today's lot: Wolfgang Dauner - Rischkas Soul (Brain) early 70s Rolf & Joachim Kuhn and the Mad Rockers (Goody) 1968 Miles Davis (The Lost Quintet) - Double Image (Moon) 1969 Henry Cow - Unrest (Virgin) 1974 Blossom Dearie - 1975 (Daffodil) 1975 Jackie & Roy, disc 1 (MCA twofer of 50s Coral recordings) released 1982 The Progressives, disc 1 (Columbia sampler twofer) 1973 Charles Lloyd - Warm Waters (Kapp) 1971 Lennie Tristano - New York Improvisations (Elektra Musician) 1955 Chet Baker - Smokin' (Prestige) 1965?

Trevis Smith got 5 1/2 years. The prosecution asked for ten. Is anyone else struck by the fact that the press refers to him as a former player, as if he played years ago and now has gotten into trouble? The guy was bedding women knowing that he was HIV positive while he was playing! Furthermore, he continued to play after knowing that he had HIV. And the team let him do so! The team said that it is against the law (privacy rights) to do anything like cut him just because he had HIV and it was not yet made public, but I have to believe that the players to a man didn't like that idea. Think about all the cuts and wounds inflicted on the football field. No one wants to rub up against someone who is bleeding who has a communicable disease. http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/Sas...3474553-cp.html

Yeah! I like that one! I like just about everything I have of Mike Nock. I think it shows Maupin in a good way, dispelling the notion people might have had if they had only heard him on Bitches Brew.

Mike, I had you pegged for Easter!!! I have the Demond Mosaic box and the Wilson CD you picked up, and in my book they are all five stars. I've never heard Tubby Hayes. In fact, I had never heard of him until the Brits at AAJ raved about him. One day I'll pick something of his up. edit for typo

Sounds great! Congrats everyone!

Today I opened up a box of LPs I haven't heard since 2001: Ian Carr's Nucleus - In Flagrante Delicto (Contemp) 1977 Ransom Wilson - Reich, Glass & Becker (Angel) 1982 Richie Cole - Some Things Speak For Themselves (Muse) 1981 Charles Lloyd - Moon Man (Kapp) 1970 Transit Express - Opus Progressif (Peters Int'l) 1976 Thelonious Monk - Solo Monk (Columbia) Robert Wyatt - The End of an Ear (Br. CBS) 1971 The Best of Charles Mingus (Atlantic) 1956-61, released in 1970 Soft Machine Six, disc 1 (Columbia) 1972 The Manhattan Transfer - Vocalese (Atlantic) 1985 Herbie Mann with the Bill Evans Trio - Nirvana (Atlantic) 1961

TTK, how is that one? I have one of his Brazilian LPs called Samba So! which is good, but I don't think as good as the two Verve LPs I have of him.

No CDs, all LPs today: Corea/Vitous/Haynes - Trio Music, disc 1 (ECM) 1981 Jim Hall and Ron Carter - Alone Together (Milestone OJC) 1972 Charlie Byrd - Guitar Artistry (ABC Riverside) 1964? Mark Murphy Sings (Muse) 1975 Mose Allison - Middle Class White Boy (Elektra Musician) 1982 Phil Woods and his European Rhythm Machine - At the Frankfurt Jazz Festival (Atlantic) 1970 Miles Davis and Milt Jackson - Quintet/Sextet (Prestige OJC) 1955

When I got my first cassette player in 1969 I also got a couple of pre-recorded cassettes - the first album by Manfred Mann Chapter Three and the second album by The Fourth Way called The Sun and the Moon something something Together. I don't think I ever again paid full price for a cassette, but I sometimes picked up a cutout. There were two times in the early 80s when I found a slew of ECMs for 99 cents each. I think I picked up two dozen of those.

Warren Bernhardt - Floating (Arista) 1978 The Best of Charles Lloyd (Atlantic) 1966, released 1969 Jean-Luc Ponty - Live (Atlantic) 1979 John Coltrane - My Favorite Things (Atlantic) 1960? The Leon Thomas Album (Flying Dutchman) 1970? Back Door (Warner Bros.) 1972 Gerry Mulligan - Something Borrowed Something Blue (Limelight) 1966?

The Eskimos dropped the other shoe today and cut Troy Davis, even though he rushed for 1,000 yards last year. I guess they think they are set with Josh Ranek. They also cut Kelly Wiltshire, who got hurt in September. He is 34, so he might be done. The Als traded Thyron Anderson to the Roughriders for a conditional draft pick. Something must be wrong with him to go for only a conditional pick. http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home

This is from today's LA Times: Al Viola, 87; longtime L.A. studio guitarist known for work with Frank Sinatra By Dennis McLellan, Times Staff Writer February 23, 2007 Al Viola, a versatile guitarist best known for his long association with Frank Sinatra and his memorable mandolin playing on "The Godfather" soundtrack, has died. He was 87. Viola died of cancer Wednesday at his home in Studio City, said his wife, Glenna. Viola, who arrived in Los Angeles as a member of the Page Cavanaugh Trio after World War II, became a prominent member of the local recording-studio scene. "He was a chameleon and could play in any style — that was his great talent," said jazz singer Judy Chamberlain, a friend who performed with Viola in many settings, including a jazz salute to Sinatra at the Hollywood & Highland Center in 2005. "He was a flawless player," she said. "You could barely see his hands move, he was so smooth and quick with his fingers. He was a marvel of dexterity on the guitar, even until the end." Said jazz musician Buddy Collette: "Once you played with him, you knew how great he was. He had his own way of playing, his own style; you could tell within a couple of bars who it was. And you could ask him to play anything. He had a background that was unbelievable." Sinatra, with whom Viola worked for about 25 years on recordings, TV specials, Las Vegas appearances and concerts, offered his own distinctive praise of Viola during a concert at the Lido in Paris in 1962, which can be heard on the 1994 CD "Sinatra and Sextet: Live in Paris." After finishing a free-form vocal-guitar duet of Cole Porter's "Night and Day" with Viola, Sinatra called him "one of the world's great guitarists…. I think he plays beautifully. As a matter of fact, if you weren't looking at him, you'd swear he was an octopus." For Viola, the positive feelings were mutual. "I had to turn down a lot of work to go on a world tour with him for 10 weeks," Viola told Guitar Player magazine in 1994, "but I liked what he was puttin' down." Viola, whose work with Sinatra took him from the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas to the Parthenon in Athens and beyond, can be heard on such Sinatra hits as "Witchcraft," "All the Way," "My Way" and "New York, New York." He first met Sinatra after the war when the singer dropped in to hear the Page Cavanaugh Trio in a club on Sunset Boulevard. Sinatra liked them so much, Viola later recalled, that he took the trio to New York with him when he performed at the Waldorf-Astoria, followed by an appearance at the Steel Pier in Atlantic City, N.J. The trio also did a recording session at Columbia Records with Sinatra, turning out two sides: "That's How Much I Love You" and "You Can Take My Word for It, Baby." After quitting the trio in 1949, Viola remained in Los Angeles and began doing studio work. He worked in the recording studio — and occasionally did local gigs — with the big bands of Harry James, Ray Anthony, Les Brown and Nelson Riddle. He also worked with jazz groups, including playing with Collette, Red Callender, Bobby Troup, Terry Gibbs and Shelly Manne. "When I was working with Bobby Troup [in the mid-'50s], one of Sinatra's buddies heard me and told me that Frank needed a guitar player," Viola recalled in an interview on his website. "What I enjoyed most about working with Frank is that he was unpredictable," Viola said. "When I accompanied him, I couldn't quite predict where he was going, which made it challenging and exciting. He always surprised me on stage. Although he wasn't known as a jazz singer, he ad-libbed like one and wouldn't sing a song the same way twice." As a studio musician, Viola appeared on more than 500 albums with artists such as Julie London, Steve Lawrence, Marvin Gaye, Neil Diamond, Linda Ronstadt and Natalie Cole. In addition to being the solo mandolinist who performed the classic "Godfather" theme, he played on numerous TV and film soundtracks, including "West Side Story," "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and "Blazing Saddles." Born in Brooklyn on June 16, 1919, Viola grew up in a large — and musical — Italian family whose home was filled with guitars, mandolins and an upright player piano.

Yeah! I like it too, Sidewinder. At the time, the British jazz I was listening to seemed to swing more than the US jazz, a lot of which was hard bop which had become tired.

Corea/Vitous/Haynes - Trio Music Live in Europe (ECM) 1984 Mike Mainieri - Wanderlust (Warner Bros.) 1981 Herbie Mann - Windows Opened (Atlantic) 1968 Art Pepper - Today (Galaxy/OJC) 1978 Mike Westbrook's Love Songs (Deram) 1970 Annette Peacock - The Perfect Release (Tomato) 1979

I don't have Boogaloo Sisters yet. Is there an alternative to going to CDBaby which will result in the band getting more of the purchase price?

El Skid - s/t (Vinyl) 1977 Stan Getz - Sweet Rain (Verve) 1967 Thelonious Monk - Thelonious In Action (Riverside OJC) 1958 Hugh Hopper - 1984 (Br. CBS) 1972

Lon and Shawn and Rachel, I pray for my friends every night, so I will make it a point to include you in them. The Lord will provide, although not in ways that we expect!

Mike Nock - Succubus (Sutra) from 1980 Klaus Doldinger - Blues Happening (World Pacific Jazz) from 1968 Don Ellis - Live at Montreux (Atlantic) from 1978 Now it's off to bed!

When Your Music's price was $4.99, my budget was five dolars a week. When they raised the price to $5.99, my budget became $6.00 a week. That ended when I spent $165.00 at the Concord Blowout Sale in August. I didn't buy anything after that (except my monthly Your Music queue selection) until a couple of weeks ago when I spent $23.00 to join the Jazz Heritage Society. I don't expect to be buying anything again until I buy myself an Easter present in six weeks.

You bet! PS - Perhaps I didn't make myself clear. It was the original hit by Love that was played!

Hi Danielle! I spent this evening watching a movie from 1979 I had never seen called Breaking Away. It won the Oscar that year for Best Screenplay. It wasn't that great a movie, but it was enjoyable. It's been a long time since I've seen a French movie, but I used to think that those were the best!

Hugh Hopper - Hopper Tunity Box One of the Brits over at AAJ, I think it was Bev, posted that a new superbly remastered CD of this is now out, so I thought I would pull this out and remind myself of it.

Happy Birthday Mike!