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The credit card bill fire sale continues.... http://cgi.ebay.com/Dexter-Gordon-Complete...1QQcmdZViewItem Thanks for looking.

It's killing me to do this but I need the cash.... I'm selling my Fillmore box set. I will ship to Europe. http://cgi.ebay.com/Grateful-Dead-Complete...1QQcmdZViewItem Also some Dick's Picks too: http://cgi.ebay.com/Grateful-Dead-Dicks-Pi...1QQcmdZViewItem http://cgi.ebay.com/Grateful-Dead-Dicks-Pi...1QQcmdZViewItem http://cgi.ebay.com/Grateful-Dead-Dicks-Pi...1QQcmdZViewItem Thanks for looking.

Ars Nova Workshop(The people behind the amazing AACM series this past year) have updated their homepage. Some pretty cool stuff.... Friday, May 5 | 8pm Sonny Fortune/Rashied Ali Duo with Sonny Fortune, clarinet, flute, tenor and soprano sax Rashied Ali, drums Rose Recital Hall [Room 419] Fischer-Bennett Hall University of Pennsylvania 34th and Walnut streets $15 General Admission Friday, May 12 | 8pm Malachi Thompson's Freebop Band with Malachi Thompson, trumpet Billy Harper, saxophone Kirk Brown, piano James King , bass Nasar Abadey, drums Rose Recital Hall [Room 419] Fischer-Bennett Hall University of Pennsylvania 34th and Walnut streets $10 General Admission $8 Students with ID Thursday, May 25 | 8pm Mathew Shipp, solo piano Ortlieb's Jazzhaus 847 North 3rd Street $12 Admission Sunday, June 11 | 8pm Lytton/Vandermark/Waschmann with Paul Lytton, drums/electronics Ken Vandermark, reeds Philipp Waschmann, violin/viola/electronics Venue TBD $12 Admission Sunday, July 2 | 8pm Oluyemi Thomas, bass clarinet and c-melody saxophone Henry Grimes, double-bass Venue TBD $12 General Admission Monday, September 25 | 8pm Khan Jamal/Grachan Moncur III with Grachan Moncur III, trombone Khan Jamal, vibraphone Others TBA University of Pennsylvania Houston Hall 3417 Spruce Street Free Admission --------- Also this Fall/Winter's concert series is going to be concentrating on the music of John Coltrane. Should be pretty interesting to see who they get for that.

I only got to see Jackie Mac play once which turned out to be his last show in Philly. It was at the Painted Bride back in '96 or '97. It was his first gig in Philly in YEARS. And he sold out both sets(that's would be around 400-500 people total). What was really amazing about that turnout was that it snowed over a foot that evening and getting around Philly was virtually impossible except by walking. The crowd loved him and he seemed to really have a good time on stage. I never understood why he never came back to town. I can't remember what songs he played that night but I do remember something very funny that happened. During one of his solos Jackie hit a really nasty turd of a note. A serious bad clam. It just sounded so out of place with what came before it that the whole audience let out a collective gasp. At which point he waved his hands until the band stopped. He walked up to the mic and said something like,"What? You think Bird never hit a bad note? Sheee-it." Everyone laughed.

Thanks for the heads up.

The cabaret card was no longer a requirement for employment in NYC after 1960. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Cabaret_Card From Prohibition until 1960, the New York City Cabaret Card was a required permit to be held by all workers in New York City nightclubs. Their administration was fraught with politics, and some performers' cards were revoked on specious grounds. Those of Thelonious Monk and Billie Holiday were suspended due to drug charges. In 1960 the death of Lord Buckley soon after his card was seized in mysterious circumstances evoked a scandal which led to the abolition of the cabaret card system.

But without, I'd assume, those annoying clicks. (The main reason I eventually got all of the RVG's of this material.) Huh?? What clicks?

Well my Cellar Door Box arrived today. I was going to give it a spin tonight but, I've got some Jackie Mac discs that I need to listen to first.

Oh man..... When I first saw the title of this thread my immediate reaction was,"God, I hope this a bad April Fool's joke." Alas.

She was a student at the Curtis Institute of Music here in Philly. I got to see her perform many times for free. One performance that sticks out was her rendition of Brahms' Violin concerto(piano reduction). She was probably about 12 years old at the time. What I remember, besides her great playing, was watching her when she wasn't playing. She would close her eyes and sway gently back and forth listening to the piano. You could tell she really loved this piece of music.

Last Fall I saw his quartet w/ Muhal Richard Abrams on piano. Roscoe was amazing and played w/ a fire and intensity that few players on the scene can match today.

I just got an email confirmation from YM that the Cellar Door box shipped yesterday. Wahoo!!

That's interesting that you mentioned Pauline Oliveros. She is playing in town - twice - this weekend.... http://arsnovaworkshop.com/frame_perform.html

Posted on Mon, Mar. 27, 2006 Phillies Notes | Howard nearly pushed into fight CLEARWATER, Fla. - The tale of the tape looks like this: Phillies first baseman Ryan Howard is 6-foot-4, 252 pounds. Boston Red Sox pitcher Josh Beckett is 6-5, 222. For a moment yesterday at Bright House Networks Field it looked as if they might come to blows. Howard flied out to deep center field in the sixth inning off Beckett. Howard paused when he hit the ball, which made it look as if he was posing for a home run. Beckett didn't like that, and told Howard as much as he returned to the dugout. "I'm running back to the dugout, and he starts popping off," Howard said. "Starts telling me, 'Pimp it.' " - a slang term for showing someone up. "Then he threw in a couple words. So I said some stuff back. For me it was over." "It's not like I wanted to fight," Beckett said. "I just wanted to make the point that you look like a jackass when you do that and you're out. I think I used the word idiot, I don't know. ... He didn't do that last year when he was rookie of the year and hit a bunch of home runs. I guess you get one year in the big leagues, and you change." Howard took his spot at first base in the top of the seventh, and Beckett started talking again from the Red Sox dugout. Beckett made his way up the dugout steps, so Howard walked toward him and dropped his glove. "He started walking toward the stairs, so I wasn't going to be a punk about it," Howard said. "If he was going to come up there and if he was to going do it, he was going to do it." Said Beckett: "That was my fault. It was the heat of the battle. I should have let it die." The Phillies cleared their bench, and the bullpens emptied. The Sox remained in their dugout, and no punches were thrown. "If I had got it, if I was going to pimp it or whatever, he would have known," Howard said of the fly out. "But I was looking up to try to see where the ball was and I started running. ... The dude is a good pitcher. He had good stuff. His stuff was working nice. But that's just uncalled for. Let it go." Phillies righthander Cory Lidle was irritated that Beckett made such a big deal about it. "Everyone I've ever talked to who has played with Josh Beckett says no one likes him," Lidle said. "And that's why. There's no reason for him to say anything. He chooses to, and people don't like him for it."

I think the Prestige 'Round Midnight is a different recording and was originally released with most of the December '24 '55 session with Monk. I presume that it will be included in this box set. (It would be cetainly be incomplete otherwise.) Sorry, I mis-spoke - the Columbia 'Round ABOUT Midnight was recorded at different sessions (Oct. 1955 and June 1956) than Cookin', Relaxin', etc. (May 1956 and October 1956). I suppose the intent of the box is to tell the story of the May and October 1956 sessions, but it's a shame that the 'Round About Midnight sessions can't be included. One of them took place between the May and October 1956 sessions, after all... Well you could always buy the new box and the new Columbia remaster then download the sessionography from Mike Fitzgerald and burn your own copy. Voila! The complete sessions remastered.

That's what I thought too about the Zappa material but according to wikipedia his widow sold his music to Ryko in 1995.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barking_Pumpkin_Records Here's some more info on the artists that are on Ryko... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rykodisc

2 suggestions. One, leave your radio on when you leave your apartment. The sound will drown out noise from outside your apartment and might trick your dog into thinking it's not alone. Our dogs will bark at anyone walking down the street if they hear them so we leave the radio on all day. Two, get a second dog. Your dog won't be lonely w/ another one around. We used to have a beagle that freaked out when ever we left not only did it howl but it scratched at the door ripping two BIG holes in the wall. So we got a second beagle and now the she's fine. We haven't had any "hole in the wall" issues in over 4 years..

Have you tried extracting w/ EAC and then converting the .wav files???

I don't see how any Dallas fan can stomach TO after this... and this.... But as they say, winning changes everything. So I guess it will be okay if they win the Super Bowl.... But I don't see them doing that next year.

Steve Reid has a new one out..... http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:fnev97egkrjt Too bad no one has released Odyessy of an Oblong Square on cd - my personal fave of his.

Night of The Hunter and The Sweet Smell of Success didn't get ANY nominations????? Sheesh.

Try the Philly Inquirer archives(if you have trouble accessing them PM me and I'll try it from work.) They did a number of interviews/stories on her. The last 10 years or so of her performing career(save for the time away as the leader of the band for Bill Cosby's short lived game show) were spent playing piano 3 or 4 night a week in a bar in North Philly. She was fine, fine pianist as well. Her backup band included Mickey Roker, and for a while, Johnny Coles! Mickey now has the gig and filled Shirley's spot w/ Sam Dockery.

Barry Bonds did steroids??? Who knew? I'm shocked, SHOCKED, I tell you. I had no idea...... http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/base...ex.html?cnn=yes

What shows were added for May? Kevin When I doubled checked they(Ars Nova Workshop) have only added one show for the AACM series - Malachi Thompson's Freebop Band. The other show I was thinking of is a Sonny Fortune/Rasheid Ali gig sometime in May as well. http://arsnovaworkshop.com/frame_perform.html (scroll down to bottom)l