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So did any buy/hear these yet? What's the verdict?? Slightly off topic - any thoughts about Matching Mole?

Yo! A big "Happy Birthday" from Philly!!

Let's hear it for the University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team. Last night Penn became the first team in the nation to gain a berth in the NCAA tournament. Go Quakers!

Just got this announcement in an email. I'm not familiar w/ their music. Any opinions?? Ars Nova Workshop presents: Sunday, March 4 | 8pm BORBETOMAGUS with Don Dietrich, saxophone; Jim Sauter, saxophone; Donald Miller, guitar + RAVI BINNING, harmonium & electronics + ALUMBRADOS (featuring members of BARDO POND) International House Philadelphia, 3701 Chestnut Street $8 General Admission Read the excellent CityPaper feature: http://www.citypaper.net/articles/2007/03/01/over-the-line The words loud and aggressive only begin to scratch the surface of this proto-punk free jazz band; Borbetomagus sets forth a sonic squall that obliterates and has been described as "a huge, overpowering, take-no-prisoners mass of sound." While participants on the downtown New York free improv scene have long thrived on chaos and extremes in volume and timbre, none of them got there before this upstate New York ensemble. Borbetomagus has been pursuing their noisy muse since the late 1970s. They have collaborated with Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, Tristan Honsinger, Peter Kowald and others, and have been influential on many American free jazz and noise musicians. Please join us for this very rare visit. Complimentary earplugs will be provided. eFlyer: http://www.arsnovaworkshop.com/BORB.gif

Jazz pioneer Smith gets musical tribute By Daniel Rubin Philadelphia Inquirer Staff Writer Posted on Fri, Feb. 18, 2005 On the day they buried Jimmy Smith, no one rushed to sit at the Hammond B3 organ that he'd made famous. The Philadelphia Clef Club was filling with old friends and fans about 4 p.m. yesterday for a jam session to honor the jazz great. Kids in hoods with horns, old men and their sticks - everyone stood waiting. Then Tony Monaco stepped up. He'd been crying on the sidewalk as he waited for the door to open. After canceling his regular gig at a club in Columbus, Ohio, Monaco flew here to honor the man whose records had changed his life at age 12. Monaco, 45, handed off his coat, fiddled with the floor pedals, then filled the hall with "I'll Close My Eyes," a song Smith owned. As the applause faded, he said softly, "I just wanted to make sure the organ worked before everyone started," and disappeared into the crowd. Three times yesterday the legendary player from Norristown was honored - at a funeral service at Deliverance Evangelistic Church at 20th and Lehigh, at the Clef Club, and at Yoshi's, in Oakland, Calif., where two massive Hammond B3s face each other on the stage. One was to have been played last night by his protege, Joey DeFrancesco, who grew up in Delaware County. The other was to remain silent, its lid closed, its light left on. That was to have been Smith's, who died Feb. 8 at age 76. The two had been scheduled to start a string of shows together this week in support of their album Legacy, released Tuesday. At the noon service, DeFrancesco's father, John, read a note from his son, saying how he felt obliged to continue with the show. "That's what Jimmy would have wanted him to do," the elder DeFrancesco said. "Keep the cats working." As evening approached, the cats kept coming to the Clef Club. Following Monaco was Keith Hanratty, a 51-year-old lawyer from Minneapolis, who had flown in for the event as well. He was 16 when his keyboard teacher invited Smith to hear the teenager play. "He came by one more time then invited me out to study with him in L.A.," Hanratty said. "He had this club where his mother cooked in the back. "I'd play and he'd growl, 'Here's how you do it,' and he'd show me. I was always asking questions. He'd say, 'Shut up. You'll learn something.' I learned to listen." Said Rich Budesa of Camden, the third to sit at the organ: "He was a giant man. He was the biggest genius that ever touched the Hammond. Jazz organ is Philadelphia's music - that whole style is our music - and he was the best at it, the originator." Smith did not discover the jazz organ. In 1951, he heard Wild Bill Davis playing it in Atlantic City, and Smith, who'd been winning audiences at the piano since age 8, asked how long it took learn the instrument. "Four years," Davis told the young man (in some versions of the story, it was 15 years). Smith hung a chart of the organ's foot pedals on the wall of the warehouse where he worked. Within three months, he played a fluid, walking bass line with his feet. By 1956, he was recording for Blue Note. Smith made a name for himself mastering an instrument so foreign to jazz that it was several years before Downbeat Magazine created an award category for organ. But it was the private Jimmy Smith who was remembered yesterday at the church service: the uncle so beloved that when he visited, his Norristown family shucked corn and picked string beans for him. The man they knew as Sonny, Smitty, Big Jimmy and Boo. At the funeral, four musical friends were each given two minutes to send a final message. Bill "Mr. C" Carney called Smith the "Charlie Parker of his instrument." Carney's wife, Trudy Pitts, apologized to the pastor, saying words could never express what was inside her. And so after a few remarks, she walked up to the church organ and silenced the room with a 10-minute performance of "Amazing Grace" and "I'll Be Seeing You" that raised shouts of "Amen" as arms extended toward the church's ceiling. "Hey," she said afterward, as family and friends clapped. "Two minutes for Jimmy Smith? Don't mean a thing to me. I had to let my spirit fly."

I saw him perform last February w/ Myra Melford. He was wonderful. Sad news.

Someone placed a bid!!

Thanks for the heads up RE:needle-drop. I don't mind them. But I do wish the record companies would be more upfront about it . Like a little blurb on the package - something most needle-drop cds never have.

This is probably old news but I just found out that "Freedom and Unity" is available on cd from Atavistic/Unheard Music Series.... http://www.atavistic.com/artist.cfm?action...&itemid=204

chewy (or anyone else) -- Is IWBSN in print? Guy IWBSN is on the "Shine On" box set. The last disc contains all of their early singles. The first time I heard IWBSN I immediately thought that The Flaming Lips must have heard it when they were recording "The Soft Bulletin". It sounds like an outtake or unrealized demo.

Listen, you hear that?? That's the sound of the vintage vinyl market bubble deflating.....

Got my discs today. Perfect. Thanks again.

I don't know anything about his father but his brother, Miles Copeland, was the founder of IRS Records, "IRS" being the acronym for "International Record Syndicate". Miles also named his booking agency FBI - "Frontier Booking International".

Holy crap! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...=ADME:B:SS:US:1

I just got back from seeing a show that Daniel Higgs opened. Freaky.

Billie Holiday.

The song "Paintbox" which was the B side of "Apples and Oranges" was written(and sung) by Wright. It's a great song. Not a fan of his keyboard playing in the pre-Gilmour days. But I love his sound on DSOTM. I'm guessing that's a Fender Rhodes?

PM on frank wright-unity and marcus belgrave-gemini

Just when you thought this mess couldn't get any weirder...... Zsa Zsa's husband: I might be baby's dad NOAKI SCHWARTZ Associated Press LOS ANGELES - The husband of actress Zsa Zsa Gabor said Friday that he had a decade-long affair with Anna Nicole Smith and may be her infant daughter's father. The claim by Prince Frederick von Anhalt comes amid a paternity suit over Smith's 5-month-old daughter, Dannielynn. The birth certificate lists Dannielynn's father as attorney Howard K. Stern, but former Smith boyfriend Larry Birkhead is waging a legal challenge, saying he is the father. "If you go back from September, she wasn't with one of those guys, she was with me," von Anhalt told The Associated Press in an interview Friday. He said he would file a lawsuit if Dannielynn is turned over to Stern or Birkhead. Von Anhalt, 59, and Gabor, 90, have been married for more than 20 years. Gabor, a onetime sex symbol and star of such 1950s films as "Moulin Rouge" and "Queen of Outer Space," has been in declining health in recent years and suffered a stroke in 2005. She was partially paralyzed in a car crash in 2002. Von Anhalt, who is Gabor's eighth husband, said he and Smith first met in the 1990s when Smith was still married to elderly oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II. He said Smith approached him and Gabor at the Plaza Hotel in New York. "She was a very big fan of Zsa Zsa and wanted to be like Zsa Zsa," he said. "She wanted to be a princess." He said the two started an affair soon after, meeting over the years in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. For much of that time, he said, Smith urged him to make her a princess like his wife. But short of divorcing the actress, he said the only solution would have been adopting Smith. Von Anhalt said he did consider that and even filled out adoption papers, but Gabor refused to sign them.

Something about Howard K. Stern gives me the creeps.

I'm with you on that! I have listened a lot to "Strange Celestial Road" lately. Seems like it's from 1979. http://www.the-temple.net/sunradisco/scroad.html Sun Ra in this period was in a very productive phase releasing a lot of wonderful records. He used a lot of various keyboards with different-sized groups creating new sounds in jazz, as well as touching other genres. An example is the title track on "On Jupiter", and "U.F.O.". "Lanquidity" is a fine cool one originally released on Philly Jazz, now available on Evidence. "Of Mythic Worlds" released on the same label in 1979 is on my reissue wish list, as well as the 3 Horo vinyls from the 70's. - Jostein Oh hell yeah. This is my favorite period of Ra too.

How does one change their user name?

PM sent on the Arthur Doyle.

I just logged on and I'm still getting $5.99. I'm pretty much a one cd per monther. When did you guys join?? I joined about 2 years ago when it was still $4.99.

Congrats to the Colts and their fans. Condolences to the Bears and their fans. I do have to say, as an impartial observer w/ no rooting interest in the game, that one thing really stood out for me about SB XLI..... Rex Grossman really sucked. Chin up Chicago fans - you've got a great young defense, a solid running game, and Jeff Garcia is an FA.