Robert J

1015 - the Great Council at Oxford

The Sportscast version

Damn - I thought this was a fusion thread.

Wasn't this a Spinal Tap tune?

From Jazztimes http://jazztimes.com/columnS_and_features/...m?article=10525 Photographer Paul Hoeffler Dies at 67 Another jazz figure has died, this time photographer Paul Hoeffler on July 30 of cancer at age 67. The Toronto-based photographer began his career with the jazz musicians of the 1950s and ‘60s, taking photographs that would later define the era and be featured prominently in Ken Burns’ Jazz documentary. Hoeffler was born in 1937 and grew up in Rochester, N.Y. He later attended the Rochester Institute of Technology and studied under photographer Minor White. He graduated in 1959 with a BFA in photography and scores of images of musicians such as Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington in his portfolio. Hoeffler was known for earning the trust and friendship of his subjects, and gruff conductor Leopold Stokowski even invited Hoeffler to sit with and photograph the American Symphony Orchestra during a performance. His influence was expansive, not in the least because he taught at Parson’s School of Design in New York, Humber College and Ryerson University in Toronto. His work had been exhibited in galleries in London, Montreal and Toronto and his photos regularly appeared on albums for Blue Note and Verve, in addition to the 200-plus images in the Ken Burns documentary. Only last month, British magazine Black and White Photography ran a cover story featuring Hoeffler’s photograph of Jimmy Smith at his organ. Hoeffler is survived by his wife, Claire, and their son, Bret.

It's available in a grocery here. ← Last year on my short working visit to Chicago I had the Honker's Ale, Oatmeal Stout and the Summertime pale ale. I took a 12 of the latter back to Canada. Maybe will try the wheat beer. I see Binny's is downtown. 213 W Grand. (Note to self, and wife and kids: Got to remember that this trip is not all about me )

GregK - thanks for that. Looked at St. Joseph / Benton Harbour stuff on the web. The St. Joseph Clarion Hotel even has a nuclear info link on its site Too bad Organissimo isn't playing as I cross Michigan that week jazzypaul - wow lots of info. I'll PM you later on some details. Pump room - yeah I know about the entertainment, except that we'll be arriving Sunday leaving Thursday. Maybe a piano I can practice on during off hours.

Thanks for that. It's my wife who is looking a play to see. Apart from classic Greek plays and Shakespeare, I don't really care much for theatre. Probably because I had to deal with theatre types when I was in University - plus I've seen more bad plays in my life than good. I will check it out for sure. Looking forward to everything in general. Going to be a sweet vacation. As for Jazz Showcase tix - I know you buy them at the door. Do these get snapped up fast? Say I want to take in the 10pm weekday show? Bonus question - I know the Ambassador East has a history of famous and infamous guests. I saw one site refer to this hotel as the one Led Zeppelin stayed at in 1977 and trashed - sofa out the 11th floor window. That sort of thing. I thought that occured somewhere else - not Chicago (though they trashed a few hotels in their career).

Stout and wheat beer - Rock Bottom sounds good to me. Skid - Sunday when I arrive - James Moody. My kids are 7 and 11. But with 4 nights - I have to be careful. I still want to see Harris - one of my top 5 piano players. Then there's the Mill and Kigston Mines etc. I'll be killed if I don't take my wife to a play. As for sheet music - any comments on Different Strummer Store or Chicago Music Mart? Again I'd be looking for early blues, ragtime, barrelhouse.

I'm going to be in Chicago with my wife and 2 kids from Sunday Aug 21- Thurs 25. I know that last month dsgtrane posted a similar thread so I don't need club advice so much. I am thrilled to find out that the Barry Harris Trio is performing at the Jazz Showcase that week! Been years since I last saw him in Detroit. I've got a few specific questions that I need help with. Thanks! 1. Parking. We got a great Priceline deal for the Omni Ambassador East at 1301 North State Parkway and Goethe. (where some of Hitchcock's "North by Northwest" was shot). Location is great, just north of the Mile and near Lincoln Park. But I'm not paying $29 a day to keep my vehicle in the hotel lot!! What are the better options for storing it for a few days? I have a friend who has a business not far from O'Hare. I could drive there and transit back downtown, and get it on Thursday. Some effort but would save over $100 that I'd rather feed back into the clubs. 2. Theatre - any recommendations. Has anyone checked out the Steppenwolf Theatre Company lateley? 3. Sheet Music - I think I know where the Jazz Mart and other CD places are. What about sheet music stores? I'd like to find older material - barrelhouse, boogie, piano blues etc. 4. Beer recommendations! last summer on business I tried the Goose Island beer. Nice stuff. Took home their Oatmeal Stout. What other stuff should I look for on the microbrew beat? Also - I was taken to Binnie's with my friend somewhere in a suburb. Amazing place! I went nuts with the beer there. Is there something similar in the downtown core. Unfortunately Canada Customs only allows 1 case over the border before duty. We'll see. 5. A good book store recommendation - not just Borders. 6. Jam sessions. I'd like to see if I could join in on a blues session. Could be a pipe dream, but what the heck. I see Buddy Guy's has Mondays with Jimmy Burns. Anyone know what the jam session situation is like? (ie. does it suck like most?) Plus $10 jam cover 7. This is directed at the Michigan Board members. We're driving across I94 and I remember seeing some cottage/lake areas that might look like a decent stay. We leave Chicago on Thursday and I'm going to be in Windsor on Saturday for a wedding, so potentially a couple of days in Michigan. My son is into fishing. Thanks for help on any of these questions!

Except that this picture shows Keith with his butt actually on the bench.

He really had it together at 19. Very Bud-like at some points and then some long lines that we'd expect from Keith. Love the pic

He's an "advanced" listener. Also 3 years on guitar now. You can't avoid rap now, and as a parent and I know the deal on Luda. Man, I was listening to Detroit radio playing Clapton's "Cocaine" at that age and the sexual lyrics and grooves of disco and funk c.1977.

I'd be all thumbs and frustration. Still - I have about a 1/2 dozen floppie drives kicking around. Maybe a project for my 11 year old when he puts down the Ludacris

That turntable is so cool

Mine are always like that - the piano has a strange number of keys, black/white configuation is wrong, or it turns into a toy piano. My blues piano dream debut in Chicago the other night went like that - but I was on the organ instead.

I enjoyed the Axiom recording

He just can't get no respect - first "Booby", now this. Also I believe my vinyl copy liner notes of "Dialogue" mentions the use of "black chords" by Andrew Hill. Unless of course he was playing those block chords without using the white notes. (Wasn't the "Booby" thread a classic on the BNBB?)

I wanted to make sure I knew what ghosting was - I was right.

Jim - as a piano player would I get any value from it - ie, the gospel stuff, etc. Looks interesting. Though my Roland FP3 has some B3 sounds, there's just the one keyboard. Would I still get greasy? e-bay feedback looks good.

My list 1. We're Only In It For The Money (just listened the other day "Flower Punk" - the riff on Hey Joe - still smokes both musically and lyrically: Hey punk, where you goin? with that Button on your shirt? I'm goin? to the love-in to sit & play My bongos in the dirt.) 2. Apostrophe (as Jim said - this was grade 11 for me) 3. Joe's Garage II and III (wacked out as a concept album, but some serious guitar soloing and textures. Plus one of the best rhythm sections Frank had - Vinne Colaiuta and Arthur Barrow "Keep It Greasy" and "Watermleon in Easter Hay" are my highlights.) 4. Sheik Yerbouti (deadly satire, but has Terry Bozzio and Adrian Belew) 5. Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch (I know it has Valley Girl, but it also has Steve Vai and Chad Wackerman - saw this version of the band live at Pine Knob, Michigan about a year later) others, no order Roxy & Elsewhere Just Another Band from LA - the only tolerable Flo & Eddie album, though not for everyone Man From Utopia

"My general formula for my students is "Follow your bliss." Find where it is, and don't be afraid to follow it. " Joseph Campbell

Good thing I avoided it. I'd be upset if I paid full pop for it (over $40) 30 June 2005 Copyright © 2005 The Toronto Star Few bass players in the world could muster the nerve to fill the breach for Stanley Clarke with two minutes notice, as Toronto's Atilla Darvas did last night on the main stage of the Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival. Clarke, the American jazz legend, failed to put in an appearance with his bandmates - New York jazz banjo wizard Bela Fleck and French master jazz violinist Jean-Luc Ponty - in Trio!, one of the Festival's big-draw headliners. Darvas and drummer Frank Botos had just performed for an hour with pianist Robi Botos, Frank's brother, in a singularly athletic and well-organized set that drew a standing ovation. When Clarke was a no-show - his 3 p.m. flight to Toronto was cancelled, as were subsequent flights from New York yesterday evening, because of a severe thunderstorm, TDJF artistic director Pat Taylor told the Star - Ponty and Fleck pressed The Robi Botos Trio's rhythm section into last-minute service. To put a little more pressure on Darvas than the virtually unknown musician needed, the jazz stars then decided to open their set with the absent Clarke's own complex tribute to John Coltrane, "Song to John." While Fleck and Ponty established the melodic theme, Darvas and Botos settled into a quiet, restrained, un-Clarke-like groove and seemed quite content with this achievement until the violin solo suddenly peaked, and all eyes fell on Darvas. To his great credit, the stand-in made not the slightest attempt to imitate the missing master, and while his solo was admirable under the circumstances, it seemed to have a lot to do with ad hoc scatting and little to do with the weighty structure of the composition. And it barely hit the lip of the stage. Even so, the 1,000 people inside the big tent roared their approval. A for effort, Attila. One for the scrapbook. Despite the applause, Fleck and Ponty seemed unable throughout the 90-minute performance to overcome the shock of their colleague's absence. The second piece, the standard, "All The Things You Are," was clearly thrown in to provide some cohesion between the two sets of players, strangers to each other. While the simple shuffle was solid enough, and Darvas held the groove steady, the star solos were little more than exhibitions of astounding technique - Ponty's rich, fluid, elegant and quite classical in construction, Fleck's furious and fast as the beats of a hummingbird's wings, a million notes per bar defined in brilliant, breathtaking detail. Ponty and Fleck then politely dismissed the bass player and drummer to perform Fleck's composition "South" as a two hander. It was probably the gem of the evening, a brilliantly constructed, modal abstraction of the musical imagery of the traditional American South, from Appalachia to Louisiana - all flailing banjo and fiery fiddle licks.

Here's the problem. On KNTU's site it says: The managerial staff of KTCU is currently on "Summer Break" and will be returning fall 2005.

Astrologer to sue NASA over comet plans A Russian court has ruled that an astrologer can proceed with a lawsuit against the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for its plans to bombard a comet. The astrologer claims the destruction of the comet would "disrupt the natural balance of the universe." Marina Bai's case was thrown out of a lower court because Russia has no jurisdiction over NASA, but the ruling was overturned when her lawyer, Alexandra Molokhova, was able to show that the agency's office in the US Embassy in Moscow does fall under Russian jurisdiction. Ms Bai seeks a ruling that will restrict NASA in its plans to annihilate a section of the Tempel 1 comet, in a project that has been dubbed Deep Impact, as well as punitive damages of $US300 million. "My client believes that the NASA project infringes upon her spiritual and life values as well as the natural life of the cosmos and would disrupt the natural balance of forces in the universe," her lawyer said. The lawyer says Tempel 1 has sentimental value to Ms Bai because her grandparents met when her grandfather pointed the comet out to his future wife. In a $US279 million project, NASA in January launched the Deep Impact spacecraft. It will travel to the comet and release an impactor - a 370-kilogram self-guided mass - on July 4, which is expected to create a crater that could be as large as a football stadium. Scientists believe that the exposed material from the resulting crater will yield clues to the formation of the solar system and provide important information on altering the course of comets or asteroids on a collision course with earth. Effects of the collision will be visible from earth with an amateur telescope.