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Mine was Mahavishnu Orchestra, "The Inner Mounting Flame". Prior to that I was a rock & blues fan, but someone in the Village Voice voted it as album of the year, so I got it. That led to Miles, then everybody else. 30+ years later I still love the music.

This was in today's Village Voice. It made me laugh out loud after the blistering criticism of Davis by our Clementine: Leaving Out the Saxophone, a Tone Scientist Resurrects Albert Ayler's Spirit Spiritual Unity by Francis Davis June 13th, 2005 3:21 PM write to us e-mail story printer friendly Spiritual Unity Pi The phone rang shortly after I put on Spiritual Unity's self-titled CD for the first time. And recognizing track two as Albert Ayler's "Spirits" from the next room, I thought for a moment there that I was hearing a tenor saxophone—it was Marc Ribot on guitar, heavy on the tremolo. There are really only two types of jazz guitarists anymore: the chord nerds who drool over "Have You Met Miss Jones" and the tone scientists like Ribot who recognize Ayler as kin to Charlie Patton and Dock Boggs. Leaving out the saxophone works in Spiritual Unity's favor: Ribot, trumpeter Roy Campbell, drummer Chad Taylor, and back-from-oblivion bassist Henry Grimes are going for Ayler's essence, not his sound, and invidious comparisons are avoided. Turning cowboy on "Bells," Ribot sounds like he's thinking about his darling Clementine rather than Ayler's holy ghost—a lovely, reflective moment before the crash-bang ending. More than just lending a touch of authenticity, Grimes's powerful bowing keeps everyone on an even keel as they switch from Slug's-era lurch to square dance to (I swear) polka. Taylor dances nimbly on his cymbals, and the criminally underrated Campbell is his usual puckish self. Spirits rejoice! Just what we needed to complete the long overdue Albert Ayler renaissance. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

"Jackson should have been required to testify." The burden of proof is on the prosecution to prove its case. A defendant can't be forced to testify. I think he's a child molester, but the prosecution offered up a very weak case and he had to be acquitted.

I recall hearing the story(I have no idea if this is true or not) that John McLaughlin fell off the stage beacuse he was so stoned/drunk/high in his pre-Mahavishnu days.

← Isn't that Crow Jim?

A sports story that doesn't have contract whining, an arrest,or inflated ego- how refreshing! Great story- this kid deserves a medal, as do his parents and brother

I like Volume 2 ("Benedictine Chant in a Jazz Club") a little better. Guy ← Volume two, but only if it has the alternate takes.

You have thoughtful kids- you're a lucky guy!

BTW, props have to be given to the pizza on Ave J & E. 16th St in Brooklyn, forgot the name - amazing pizza. ←

Phillip Glass Sirhan Sirhan Lulu ← Malcolm Little Stuart Little Chicken Little ← Rich Little Cleavon Little Little Richard

I hear the Chinese food there is pretty good!

FOR ME TO POOP ON!!!

I picked up "The Swinging Guitar of Tal Farlow'(I think that's tha name of it) for $6.99 today, and I get to go back on Saturday!

We have a board member who lives in Rio- Marcoliv- PM him, maybe he can help you out.

HB B3!!!!

Rosario Dawson I kept thinking of Vanessa DelRio when Rosario Dawson had on the fishnet stockings etc.

My wife and I went to see Sin City and we both loved it. It was like entering another world, where color was largely absent and where primal emotion ruled. When the movie ended, I realized I was so absorbed in it that I could have watched another hour. I'd see it again.

Check his hair-that's where the gun is hidden!

Outside of their early material, which is excellent but seems to get no airplay, I can't listen to the Who at all. If I live another 48 years and never hear another cut from Who's Next it might still irk me. My wife likes to watch CSI(Who Are You?), and the classic rock stations seem to only have that one disc by the Who. Memo to radio stations: Have you ever heard Live at Leeds, Happy Jack, Pictures of Lily, etc. Rant over.

Aunt Bee Queen Latifa William Evans of Chattanooga, Tennessee ← Bill Evans(piano) Bill Evans(sax) Gil Evans

Tony Williams Chester O'Reily Duke Pearson Drew Pearson Preston Pearson Danny White

So if she had sex and used birth control or had an abortion and never told anyone then she's off scott-free, nobody the wiser. She had sex, didn't use birth control AND told the truth, so she gets punished. Makes me glad to be an ex-Catholic.

Shawn Colvin Harold Melvin Mike Melvoin Wendy Melvoin Sheena Easton Patty Kotero(A/K/A Apollonia)

As I recall rather vaguely, she did some tasty stuff with Ten Wheel Drive.

Senator John Tunney Eddie Money Roy Loney Judge Roy Bean Orson Bean Orson Welles