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I think Chuck's got a great approach here. When you hear someone good on a disc, investigate that player, etc. I started with Mahavishnu, then Miles, then people who played with Miles, people who played with people who played with Miles, etc.

Hello all, Sonny Rollins Prestige box $42 shipping included. This one is US only. Paypal only. SOLD AND SHIPPED.

Pseudonym for contractual reasons? Looks exactly like Jaco.

A few additions, buy buy buy....

A few sold, still some good ones left...

I met Hank Crawford once- he was a very friendly, warm, down to earth guy. RIP- thanks for the great music and for being such a cool guy.

Hello all, Following are some discs for sale. $6 each, 2cd sets for $10, postage paid in the USA, at cost elsewhere. If you buy three discs you get a bonus disc of my choosing that is not on the list below. Please send a PM, Paypal only, in case of multiple PMs first one gets it: Last Exit Cassette Recordings '87 Celluloid Miles Davis Aura Columbia Tal Farlow Swinging Guitar Verve Mark Egan As we speak(2discs) Wavetone Steve Khan The Suitcase(2discs) Tone Center Arto Lindsay Aggregates 1-26 Knitting Factory Jeff Sipe Live ?(with the Apartment projects) Jimmy Smith Live @ Village Gate Verve Herbie Mann Live @Village gate Atlantic Thanks much for looking and thanks even more for buying!

For what it's worth Shawn, I suffer from depression frequently and many times deeply. Please hang in there even though right now it sucks completely- hope is all we have...

My best wishes go out to both of you and I hope you both find something soon or things pick up for you. I just found out last week that I've been spared the ax. I work for a large bank and they decided that after outsourcing thousands of jobs to India that they wanted to move the jobs that legally couldn't go to India to Jacksonville Florida. I work in a department of about 30 people, and the bosses announced that every job except mine and four other people would be gone south by July. If anyone wanted to move down there they would have to take a 35% pay cut. I'm happy I survived, but the future doesn't look so bright. A year from now they may have people down there that will work cheap and could replace me and then I'm history.

The Cardinals have more than a puncher's chance to win. Their defense has been playing well and could do a good job of shutting down the Steelers, especially if Hines Ward is not healthy. On the other side of the ball I think the Steeler defense will have its hands full with the speed of Arizona. If Arizona gets behind, they can score very quickly and get back into the game. This could be a lot closer than predicted so far.

Great news that Reptet is coming east again this year! I'm already excited to see you guys again.

You should also consider plate appearances when judging- did Rice or Manny have a large difference from each other?

Rice had 137 assists ! Dwight Evans had 157! Assists are one of those stats where a lot of funny things can happen. If someone like Clemente, Vlad, Dwight Evans has a great arm runners are less likely to run, thus resulting in fewer opportunities for the outfielder to get an assist. There are certain years where guys who have average to less than average arms actually run up high assist totals, simply because the 3rd base coach sends more runners knowing that the OF has a subpar arm. Also Rice played in a short LF. The distance from LF to home is shorter than any other AL park. There was one year that Dave Winfield, playing right field for the Yankees, had a ton of assists. The next year? Hardly any, because nobody tried to take an extra base on him.

On Friday night I went to an employee sponsored late Christmas party. My company decided to cancel the Christmas party becuase it 'wouldn't look good', so some of us kicked in some bucks and threw our own party. After about 4 hours of Scotch and Chinese food I decided to leave the party but I didn't want to go home, so I got on the subway and headed uptown to Birdland to catch Dave Holland's Octet. I showed up at 11:10 for the 11:00 set, but as luck would have it they hadn't started playing yet. Luck #2, there was one seat left and I had a great view. The group is Nate Smith on drums, Steve Nelson on vibes, Alex Sipagian on trumpet, Robin Eubanks on 'bone, Gary Smulyan on Bari sax, Antonio Hart on alto and Chris Potter on tenor. I cannot possibly go overboard in recommending them- the entire band SMOKED!!! Not a weak solo in the bunch and some fine arrangements to boot. If they come around your way, SEE THEM.

They get some pop and experience at a price that's not hefty and it's only for two years. Looks like a smart move on their part.

Leonard had the greatest nickname in the history of baseball. He was known as "Penitentiary Face". In the early '80's, I made the mistake of going to Candlestick (or Windlestick as they used to call it) for an afternoon game dressed in shorts and a T-shirt. Vida Blue was pitching for the Giants and Steve Carlton for the Phillies. Sounds like a great match-up, but it got so cold around the third inning, my brain shut down. I have no recollection of much of anything after that. Up over and out. IIRC, Leonard was known as Prison Face when the sportswriters called him Jeff Leonard. He insisted at one point in being called Jeffrey, at which point the sportswriters took to calling him'Correctional Institute Face'!

IF, and I realize this is a VERY BIG IF, the Lions draft well they could be a very good team in a year or two. They have two first round picks(1 + another around 15 courtesy of the Cowboys), and two third round picks(Cowboys again), so the Lions have 5 picks out of the first roughly 80 picks.

If/when it comes out and I still have a job I'll get it!

Sad but not unexpected. I saw Freddie live once, with what I think may have been the first performace of the VSOP quintet- Freddie was blowin' the roof off the place that night! Thanks for tons of great music and for being an adventurous spirit- hard bop, Ascension, East broadway Rundown, etc.

My God! Did he run the auto companies as well? It's more like 30+ years of awful management.

Two more travesties: Shoeless Joe and Pete Rose. The Hall isn't about the writers, it isn't about the players, hell, it's not even about the game; it's about the fans. Find me one true baseball fan that doesn't get a stiffy when s/he sees that black-and-white of Pete diving for third base. OH! That's it, I've gotta go rub one out.

I made some chicken adobo yesterday from a recipe provided by a native of the Philippines

Happy happy happy birthday to a great guy who brings so much to this board and who has hipped me to much great music.

For the overwhelming majority of people a loan is necessary to buy a car and it's awfully tough to get a loan. Couple that with a recession where people are scared to spend and those cars will keep on piling up for awhile.

Ms. Jolie is certainly no slouch in the looks department, and she might be very weird but in a very cool kind of way- she got some substance going on there.