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Good for you catching every set. I couldn't stay for the second set on Thursday- I was exhausted after one set, it was just sooo intense.

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Hello all, I have the Sonny Rollins Prestige box for sale, 7 discs in very good shape, tiny mark(less than 1 inch) on the box, discs and inserts in beautiful shape: $50(Includes shipping in the lower 48- elsewhere at cost) I also have: ARTIST TITLE PRICE Toshiko Akiyoshi/Lew Tabackin Novus Series 70(compilation of Novus recordings of their big band) $6 Gil Evans big band Farewell(on Projazz, recorded live at Sweet Basil 1986) $6 Respect Sextet The Full Respect $6 Vandermark Territory Band Company Switch(Sealed, 2 cds) $10 Prices include shipping to the lower 48- elsewhere at cost. If you take all 4 it's $25 Please PM, in case of multiple PMs first one takes it.

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I caught the first set last night and I was completely blown away. CT played some things at what seemed like supersonic speed(I sat right up against the stage and had an excellent view- CT was about 3 feet away fom me) and then would slow it down to a ballad tempo. He played three pieces and each piece was thoroughly explored, with CT and Oxley going down numerous back alleys in each piece yet winding up on the main road in the end. As Michael Weiss pointed out earlier there were a few times that Oxley was better served laying out, but those were very few. I could have stayed for the second set but after the intensity of the first set I couldn't handle another set- my neurons would've overloaded. If you can see him DO SO!!!!

I've been meaning to get the Farlow set, I have a Paypal balance to cover it, discount... it seemed inevitable as I placed my order.

It just seems sad to me to watch great players get tepid cheers. Phil Neikro even pitched for the Yankees, and won game 300 with them...and barely got applause. That's because true baseball fans, in all cities, are a dying breed. Even NYC has its pink hat brigade. You also have to keep in mind that the All-Star game doesn't draw the usual crowd- it draws the corporate crowd much more and they are usually not very knowledgeable about baseball. As for Youkilis, etc getting booed- it's NYC, every BOSOX player will get booed- it's required, even from the empty suits. Francona was very classy in the way he handled bringing in and replacing the Yankee players- much appreciated from this Yank fan.

He's like most sports announcers these days- HORRIBLE! I frequently turn off the sound when I watch sports because I'm concerned that the tidal wave of bullshit may come out of my screen and land in my living room.

As a free marketeer he should be against the import duties on imported beer that make it much more expensive. If he actually likes beer, he probably doesn't drink Bud- it's carbonated pee.

Agreed. Bad CGI wrecked Smith's last movie, I Am Legend. Too bad, because he was really good in it. 'I am Legend' seemed to have the same arc as 'Hancock' story-wise- interesting for about 45 minutes, then... 'I am Legend' was a very good movie for about 45 minutes, then it became just another zombie movie.

It's tough to quit- I smoked for about 25 years and finally quit after doing acupuncture to help me quit. Three sessions of human pincushion and I haven't smoked now for 16 years. I also drank Smokers tea, which has something called Lobelia root which is chemically similar to nicotine. Of course it also helped that my wife was pregnant at the time.

Thanks everyone for your good wishes- its greatly appreciated. I actually had a non-frantic day at work on my B-day(rare these days) and I went out to dinner with my wife and my son to a nice Korean restaurant after work. I came home and watched my Yanks salvage a split, ate some ice cream cake(not mine- leftovers from my son's B-day on 6/16), watched the movie 'Waitress'(pretty good flick), so I had a very mice B-day. To anyone I've missed on a birthday thread my best wishes go out to you also.

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Paul, Thanks very much for the list- it's food for thought and another dent in my wallet. There's some titles that I need to check out.

please shoot me if i ever start wearin' my pants below my ass, thank you! If I shot every kid who had their pants below their rear I'd be the biggest mass killer in history! There's thousands upon thousands of them in Broooklyn.My wife and I call them 'anti-gravity' pants.

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...and the first reply is from Brownian Motion!(Sorry, I couldn't resist that one)

Hello all, Went to an interesting concert last night in beautiful Brooklyn. At Prospect Park there was a triple bill(for free) of Taylor Mcferrin, Marc Ribot and Ceramic Dog, and Medeski,Martin & Wood. Great weather and a very large crowd. Taylor McFerrin(son of Bobby) opened, playing mostly electric piano with a bassist(acoustic & electric) and drummer. He played mostly groove stuff that was good for awhile but tended to get repetitive. A couple of times he did a little human beatbox stuff and he brought out a rapper for one tune(She was very good and I’m not a hiphop fan). Overall, he’s a young guy who shows promise and I’d like to hear where he is in another year or two- could be very very cool, a mixture of funk/jazz/hiphop that’s not locked into a static groove. Next up was Marc Ribot and Ceramic Dog, Ribot’s(skewed) take on rock music. What Ribot’s group played was akin to taking rock music and twisting it like a pretzel- his own bent take on rock. For the most part it was very good, with Ribot playing some excellent guitar solos, but it seemed as if the band was a bit stiff, like they needed some more rehearsal, but overall enjoyable. Finally MMW hit the stage, and they wasted no time in locking into grooves and playing the hell out of them. They seemed to be pretty fired up, probably from the large and enthusiastic crowd at Prospect Park. Whatever the reason,they were tight while grooving really did something with the grooves rather than just sinking into them and plodding along. About halfway through their set MMW brought out Marc Ribot, and he stayed onstage for the rest of the set. In this context Ribot was a sideman, and it seemed to liberate him. His playing was mind-bending & jaw-dropping, playing a longggg solo on every tune and ratcheting the intensity up quite a few notches. Steve Bernstein also played a few tunes on slide trumpet and he fit like a glove into the music and played some beautiful(and subtle) accompaniment to some of the soloists. So in the space of 4 months I’ve seen Marc Ribot in three different situations- with John Zorn as part of a “Downtown Allstars band”(Joey Baron, Trevor Dunn, Jamie Saft, Cyro Baptista, et al, with ceramic Dog and with MMW. I’m liking his playing more and more.

Try this one by Terje Rypdal: http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=7016873 Vossabrygg is the title, very much in the vein of BB, really an homage to that recording.

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