Tom 1960

Kicking myself for not jumping on the Julius Watkins when I saw it first posted.

Lala: Jim Rotondi - Blues For Brother Ray

Looks like I should get my butt up to Albany soon.

We have about 2 to 3 inches on the ground right now. There's been a bit of a lull the past few hours although that could change rather quickly as weather reports indicate. The winds have picked up with occasional gusts. Home for lunch right now. Gotten a large chunck of my mail route done already. If I can just get through the next 2 hours.

I just wanted to plug this site once more since I was fortunate to attend the Fred Hersch show there last night. Very good show I will add. What a great venue for jazz music among other music. It was a packed house for Fred. I have to figure there must have been between 100 - 120 people in attendance. I don't think I saw an empty seat, at least during the first set. The owner who seems to be a very decent guy seemed to be overwhelmed and humbled by the large turnout. Not the norm for most shows there. I remember him saying they ran out of food. Realising this is a global forum, if any folks in the neighboring vicinity are withing reasonable driving distance, I would wholehearedly recommend they check out some of the upcoming shows. I had a 45 minute drive and it was well worth the trip.

While attending the Fred Hersch show last night, I ran into my neighbors from down the street who I never had any idea were jazz fans. In our conversations they recommended I attend the Marcus Strickland show in April. They seemed to be pretty positive on him. I have to admit I really know nothing of the guy, although I'm definitely curious. What do you guys think? He's performing in a trio which should be interesting.

Fred Hersch Trio with Larry Grenadier/bass, Richie Barshay/drums.

Happy birthday, Big Wheel.

Agreed! Now on lala: Fred Hersch - Live At The Village Vanguard If the weather doesn't effect things here, I will see him perform tonight.

Lala: Jim Rotondi - Destination Up

Glad to see your endorsement on this one, MG. I might be able to get ahold of this one in the coming days. Add my endorsement as well. As transcendent as the trio albums are, I've always preferred Red with a horn (or horns). Finally gotten around to listening to Red's Good Groove. I just want to thank you guys for plugging this release. It definitely lives up to the billing.

Lala: Mulgrew Miller - Live At The Kennedy Center, Volume 1

My wife has mentioned upgrading more than a few times since the Yorkie and the Brittany/Golden share the bed with us. My usual response is if we do get the larger mattress, the third dog(Soft Coated Wheaton Terrier) would eventually wind up in the bed with us also.

Sounds like my Yorkshire Terrier. Good thing I have a spare bed.

Recorded in 1982 it features the duo of Russ Freeman and Shelly Manne. Any thoughts on this release since I'm a big fan of both?

Lala: Ryan Kisor - Power Source

Lala: One For All - Return Of The Lineup

Hadn't heard of him before, Tom, but am playing his Youtube clips now. "School of Eric Alexander", I'd say. loads of grant stewart can also be heard in the smallsjazzclub archive... Thanks Niko. Right now listening to on lala.com: Jeremy Pelt - November

Lala: Grant Stewart - In The Still Of The Night

Yeah wonderful. Who wants to listen to music anyways?

Just started snowing a short time ago. Glad I'm off from work tomorrow. Damn, it's coming down hard!

Hans, you have struck gold. I accidentally hit that button recently and didn't give it a second thought till now. Problem solved. Thanks again.

I'm running off Windows VISTA and Internet Explorer 8 if that makes any difference? I only seem to run across these problems here.

I seem to have problems editing my posts. When I click on the edit button, it completely erases what I originally posted. For example, I wanted to edit a recent listening post. When I hit edit, everthing disppears, so fine. I'll do it over. I click on the image icon, paste in the image, hit insert image box and nothing appears on the screen. Afterwards, I noticed that my cursor, the line that blinks on and off appears at the top of the box in the blue shaded area.Not sure what's going on there? Also, in this box I'm replying in right now only allows me to post 6 lines and then it drops into the blue shaded area. What gives here? Any help you guys can provide would be appreciated. I'm running off Windows if that helps?

A couple addional purchases this past week from Newbury Comics: Sonny Rollins - Freedom Suite Purchased this for only $1.99 plus shipping Thelonious Monk - Plays Duke Ellington Purchased that for only $2.99 plus shipping