Tom Storer

I would definitely agree with your guess of Ray Brown. No idea who the pianist is, though.

One nice bit of irony is that I have heard people sneer with condescension about neoboppers wearing suits, and then insist that how a musician dresses has no importance whatsoever.

Typos are the least of it. Here's a good one: I once talked to someone at a French subsidiary of an American company. They produced their own documentation, written in English by native English-speakers, but were required to have it all looked over by editors in the States, who were anxious to prove their worth by finding as many problems as possible, even imaginary ones. The person showed me an example: the US editor had circled "45°" and queried in angry red pen in the margin: "Fahrenheit or Centigrade??" It was an angle.

As an editor (of corporate technical documentation--not the same material being discussed here, but still), I can tell you that a thread where editors discuss howlers in the original copy would also fill many pages. My wife works in publishing and I often get to see manuscripts prior to editing. There are certainly expert authors out there who barely need any editing at all, but believe me, in many cases editors are to be faulted not for being clueless but for being excessively gentle...

Do you use http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4r4U-y5WJs? But seriously. I don't want to take the focus away from your specific problem, but this is what people in most Western countries see as outrageous. ANYONE SHOULD BE ABLE TO AFFORD TO SEE A DERMATOLOGIST--even a jazz musician! To me this trumps any specious arguments against the public option. Sorry for the political aside.

It doesn't affect my appreciation of the music, and I don't care if musicians aren't dressed to kill or all with a similar look, but I do appreciate it if it looks as if they are trying to look presentable. The other night I saw a quintet featuring Walter Smith III, tenor sax; Ambrose Akinmusire, trumpet; Gerald Clayton, piano; Harish Raghavan, bass; and Justin Brown, drums. They each had their own look, some funkier than others, some less casual, but none of them looked like they just didn't give a damn what they happened to be wearing. Then they called Steve Coleman out of the audience to come up and jam. Now Steve Coleman can't be accused of not caring what he wears, for he's had the same look forever: jeans, T-shirt or hooded sweatshirt, backwards baseball cap. But compared to the others he didn't look good. It's like, "This is my uniform: anonymous schlub. I will never, ever try to demonstrate any imagination or style in my dress." Who cares, really, but it's kind of a shame. I feel much the same way about Pat Metheny, who for decades wore jeans and T-shirts and had exactly the same haircut. I think he finally changed a little, though.

This is interesting, I'd never noticed the different possibilities in the properties right-click menu. I'm also on XP. I tested it for a folder containing MP3 files. I right-clicked the folder, then clicked Properties. In the Properties box that popped up, I went to the Customize tab. Under "what kind of folder do you want?" I have these choices: Documents (for any file type) Pictures (best for many files) Photo album (best for fewer files) Music (best for audio files and playlists) Music artist (best for works by one artist) Music album (best for tracks from one album) Videos From what I can see, however, making a choice here simply corresponds to making a choice in the View menu, as follows: Documents => Tiles (alt v; s) Pictures => Thumbnails (alt v; h) Photo album => Filmstrip (alt v; p) Music => Tiles (alt v; s) Music artist => Thumbnails (alt v; h) Music album => Tiles (alt v; s) Videos => Thumbnails (alt v; h) Personally, I always view everything in Details view. I want to see a list of filenames, with other details in columns I can read. And that doesn't correspond to any of the "kind of folder" choices.

The one who survives the longest without being robbed, raped, murdered, infected with a horrible disease or starving to death wins!

Kids--run away from home before it's too late!

Congratulations! And most especially to your son!

I would say your cynicism is right on the mark in the light of this:

My favorite version is on YouTube.

If only more people would take that to heart. When it's a reasonable expectation that an argument with another poster is not going to go anywhere interesting or positive, the responsible thing is to stop arguing. On a message board, unilateral withdrawal from argument is the only sure way to end the argument. Whether they are "trolls," which to me implies a conscious desire to screw up the board, or simply immature assholes who revel in confrontation, problematic posters will go away if their needs are not met. Feed them your anger, your scorn, your mockery, or your meticulously constructed reasoning, and they will settle in forever and ever and never change. It's an addiction for them.

Any idea who was in her trio for this? Paul Smith?

Could that be because the compilation used tracks in the public domain? It's true the compilation is public-domain material, but they were prolific enough in the 50's to fill up a 2-CD compilation with the Heath/Kay version of the band alone. I think this shows that the compilers wanted to favor the Clarke version since it is worth being better known.

This I would strongly disagree with. It might not be assertive or extroverted enough for your tastes, but I don't think it is effete or namby-pamby. Nor can one say that music with crossover appeal has got to be watered down, which is how I interpret what you were saying. There's plenty of softly swinging jazz I put on in the background at dinner parties that is topnotch music. That doesn't mean the music was corrupt.

Coincidentally, I recently bought a two-CD MJQ compilation, one put together by André Francis and Jean Schwarz (the Trésors du Jazz guys) and sold with the newspaper Le Monde as part of an ongoing weekend series focusing on individual artists (now nearing the end of 40 straight weeks). Interestingly, almost half of the compilation is the early 50's MJQ with Kenny Clarke, including some of the earliest, under Milt Jackson's name, with Ray Brown on bass. The "genteel" aspect of the MJQ has always been what turns off a large part of the jazz public, whether it's John Lewis or Connie Kay who gets accused of lacking fire. I like them a lot, and got to see them once, in 1984, I think. For me the unsung member is Percy Heath. Milt was always swinging, but it's in the bass that the swing of MJQ arrangements resides, IMHO.

A little dongle do it. Welcome back, el magnifico!

I'm a fan of Do the Math. Doug Ramsey's Rifftides has thoughtful reviews. Agustin Perez has an excellent blog on early jazz, Mule Walk & Jazz Talk.

Even early Allison?

But I do like Georgie Fame.

That's sacrilege!

I'm an anti-Tom Waits crank. Pay no attention to me.

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I'm with Alexander on this one. Except for the Tom Waits part. Dylan is to Tom Waits what Coltrane is to Kenny G.