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Have you heard the cd "Rumba Para Monk" by Jerry Gonzales & the Fort Apache Band??? Gonzales arranged a bunch of Monk tunes w/ a Latin rhythm/percussion sound. It works more often than not. "Bye-Ya" is a stand out for me.

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Hard to believe that today marks 10 years.... Jerry, my friend, you've done it again, even in your silence the familiar pressure comes to bear, demanding I pull words from the air with only this morning and part of the afternoon to compose an ode worthy of one so particular about every turn of phrase, demanding it hit home in a thousand ways before making it his own, and this I can't do alone. Now that the singer is gone, where shall I go for the song? Without your melody and taste to lend an attitude of grace a lyric is an orphan thing, a hive with neither honey's taste nor power to truly sting. What choice have I but to dare and call your muse who thought to rest out of the thin blue air that out of the field of shared time, a line or two might chance to shine -- As ever when we called, in hope if not in words, the muse descends. How should she desert us now? Scars of battle on her brow, bedraggled feathers on her wings, and yet she sings, she sings! May she bear thee to thy rest, the ancient bower of flowers beyond the solitude of days, the tyranny of hours-- the wreath of shining laurel lie upon your shaggy head bestowing power to play the lyre to legions of the dead If some part of that music is heard in deepest dream, or on some breeze of Summer a snatch of golden theme, we'll know you live inside us with love that never parts our good old Jack O'Diamonds become the King of Hearts. I feel your silent laughter at sentiments so bold that dare to step across the line to tell what must be told, so I'll just say I love you, which I never said before and let it go at that old friend the rest you may ignore. ~Robert Hunter

Actually, Shaq and Eddie played together for 2 1/2 seasons in LA. Jones departure had more to do w/ the emergence of Kobe and the need for an outside shooter(Glen Rice) to run Phil Jackson's triangle offense. I think the Heat got rid of Eddie because his body is starting to show mileage of 11 NBA seasons.

http://www.dead.net/RobertHunterArchive/fi...l#anchor6780779 Ten years since old Jer kicked the bucket? Seems more like fifty. Nothing about his passing seems like "only yesterday," rather as long ago and faraway as my childhood. From the sublime to the vicious, everything that could be said has been said and said again. Yet, the essential mystery of who Jerry Garcia was remains. What can be said with fair assurance is that he was a source, an original way of seeing the world that agreed with others in a few broad and important outlines, but which in just as many other dimensions confounded all expectations. I wouldn't say he delighted, in any Whitmanian sense, in what appear to be his contradictions, nor that he had control of them; predictability was not his strong suit. Not even self predictability. He could be alarmingly kind in situations where kindness was the last response to be expected - and altogether gruff where sympathy seemed the more natural response. You could almost say he had weather rather than climate. Few would disagree that a key part of him remained isolated, unknown and unknowable. His art is the closest thing to an available roadmap of his singularities, amorphous clues, and clues only, to the nature of his true affections. Where he entered, he dominated, generally to his dismay. He knew he was not a leader, more a scout striking out in the wilderness of his intuitions, unwittingly summoning others to tag along through virtue of his magnetic personality and apparently deep sense of inner direction, but basically antipathetic to following or to being followed. Driving back and forth across the bay from Larkspur to San Franscisco on Workingman's Dead recording sessions, our conversations would range wide, or, sometimes, nothing would be said at all. I remember once we got to talking about directions. He professed to having none and inquired as to mine. "For the time being," I said, "I'm just following you following yourself." "Then we're both lost," he muttered. A persistent image I have of Jerry which seems strangely resonant with his coming and going: a brilliant sunny day on a boat bobbing above the abyss of Molokini where the floor of the ocean suddenly drops off a cliff and plunges to unknown depths, I watch him check his gear then sit on the edge of the boat and tumble over backwards into the water, which is clear to a depth of several hundred feet. I watch him dwindle in size as he descends further and further, spread eagle and motionless, until he is only a speck to the eye, then disappears altogether from view and there is no more Jerry, only ocean.

Why doesn't someone start a thread about how the Jazz world is a better place due to writings of Francis Davis? That will get him back

In honor of Jerry's birthday today I broke out the 2nd set of 2/27/69. The Mountains of the Moon > Dark Star gets me every time.

Sorry, Joe Dumars made the deal to bring in the final piece of the team half way through a bad season, Rasheed Wallace, not Larry Brown. Without Sheed, Detroit was not going anywhere. I don't have the figures but I am sure someone has the team record just before Sheed was brought in. Detroit was still a so so team at that time. ← Before the Rasheed trade they were 34-22. After the trade they went 20-6! And WHIPPED the Lakers in the NBA finals.

Forgot to add if you do the pre-order you get a bonus disc. I have no idea what's on it.

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I saw McCoy play back in February. I arrived late to the show and ran up two flights of stairs to get to the auditorium. After I walked in I was met by an older gentleman who asked me if I knew where he could find the mens's room. It being my first time at this particular venue I shook my head and said,"I'm sorry I don't know where it is." Just then one of the ushers came over and showed the old man where to go. As he shuffled off I noticed that he was having a little trouble walking as if he had a hip or knee problem. It wasn't until I sat down at my seat that I realized that that old man I had been talking to was McCoy Tyner. He did seem a little frail now that I think about it. However once he got on stage he seemed to be fine. Very energetic and he played his ass off. When he came out to do his encore a little old lady came up to the stage. McCoy recognized her immediately and gave her a big hug. It turned out that the old woman was his first music teacher from elementary school. He told the audience that he had been had inspired by her playing to take up piano. She then told him that she wanted to play a song for him. She then sat down and played some out of this world stride piano. When she finished she stood up, grabbed the mic, and said,"Not bad for a 98 year old woman"!! The place went wild. I'll cherish the memory of that night forever. Be well McCoy.

Yes I did see his "sheet music". We were sitting about 10 feet away from the stage. It looked like a bunch of scribble. Like something that a 6 year old might bring home from school.

I saw Cecil this past Tuesday at the Blue Note. Did anyone else see him this week?? Here's a review of the Wednesday night late set. http://jstheater.blogspot.com/2005/07/ceci...-blue-note.html

Louvin Brothers - Close Harmony. 8 cds of pure heaven. Ira Louvin was blessed w/ one of the purest tenor voices in country music(His brother Charlie had a fantastic voice too). Unfortunately, Ira was seriously self destructive(and a racist) and the duo broke up in the early 60's. I got to see Charlie a few years ago. He still sounded great. They were a huge influence on Gram Parsons(He covered Ira's "Cash on the Barrelhead"). The booklet is marvelous - beautiful color photos, full discography/sessionography, and a great essay by Louvin scholar Charles Wolfe.

Maybe they should call themselves "Jefferson Wheelchair"???

Mieczyslaw Horszowski did a great performance of Book 1 that came out on Vanguard back in the early 80's I think he was close to 90 when he recorded it. Apparently he played it all from memory - pretty amazing feat. <edit> Here's a little info on him http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&u...sql=41:30335~T1

Oh crap. I just found out that Muhal Richard Abrams is going to be playing w/ the Roscoe Mitchell Quartet the same night Wayne Shorter is playing here in Philly. I've seen Wayne w/ this band and I've never seen Muhal Richard Abrams before. Guess I have to sell my Shorter tix.

Bob Dylan's press release regarding Jerry Garcia's death "There's no way to measure his greatness or magnitude as a person or as a player. I don't think any eulogizing will do him justice. He was that great, much more than a superb musician, with an uncanny ear and dexterity. He's the very spirit personified of whatever is Muddy River country at its core and screams up into the spheres. He really had no equal. To me he wasn't only a musician and friend, he was more like a big brother who taught and showed me more than he'll ever know. There's a lot of spaces and advances between The Carter Family, Buddy Holly and, say, Ornette Coleman, a lot of universes, but he filled them all without being a member of any school. His playing was moody, awesome, sophisticated, hypnotic and subtle. There's no way to convey the loss. It just digs down really deep."

Not the best neighborhood but, there are certainly worse parts of Philly to live in. Parts of Germantown are really nice. I think Coltrane's house is in a rougher neighborhood. The MOVE house was located in West Philly - very far from Sun Ra's place. Thanks for posting the article.

July 1, 2005 War of Words By BROOKE SHIELDS London I WAS hoping it wouldn't come to this, but after Tom Cruise's interview with Matt Lauer on the NBC show "Today" last week, I feel compelled to speak not just for myself but also for the hundreds of thousands of women who have suffered from postpartum depression. While Mr. Cruise says that Mr. Lauer and I do not "understand the history of psychiatry," I'm going to take a wild guess and say that Mr. Cruise has never suffered from postpartum depression. Postpartum depression is caused by the hormonal shifts that occur after childbirth. During pregnancy, a woman's level of estrogen and progesterone greatly increases; then, in the first 24 hours after childbirth, the amount of these hormones rapidly drops to normal, nonpregnant levels. This change in hormone levels can lead to reactions that range from restlessness and irritability to feelings of sadness and hopelessness. I never thought I would have postpartum depression. After two years of trying to conceive and several attempts at in vitro fertilization, I thought I would be overjoyed when my daughter, Rowan Francis, was born in the spring of 2003. But instead I felt completely overwhelmed. This baby was a stranger to me. I didn't know what to do with her. I didn't feel at all joyful. I attributed feelings of doom to simple fatigue and figured that they would eventually go away. But they didn't; in fact, they got worse. I couldn't bear the sound of Rowan crying, and I dreaded the moments my husband would bring her to me. I wanted her to disappear. I wanted to disappear. At my lowest points, I thought of swallowing a bottle of pills or jumping out the window of my apartment. I couldn't believe it when my doctor told me that I was suffering from postpartum depression and gave me a prescription for the antidepressant Paxil. I wasn't thrilled to be taking drugs. In fact, I prematurely stopped taking them and had a relapse that almost led me to drive my car into a wall with Rowan in the backseat. But the drugs, along with weekly therapy sessions, are what saved me - and my family. Since writing about my experiences with the disease, I have been approached by many women who have told me their stories and thanked me for opening up about a topic that is often not discussed because of fear, shame or lack of support and information. Experts estimate that one in 10 women suffer, usually in silence, with this treatable disease. We are living in an era of so-called family values, yet because almost all of the postnatal focus is on the baby, mothers are overlooked and left behind to endure what can be very dark times. And comments like those made by Tom Cruise are a disservice to mothers everywhere. To suggest that I was wrong to take drugs to deal with my depression, and that instead I should have taken vitamins and exercised shows an utter lack of understanding about postpartum depression and childbirth in general. If any good can come of Mr. Cruise's ridiculous rant, let's hope that it gives much-needed attention to a serious disease. Perhaps now is the time to call on doctors, particularly obstetricians and pediatricians, to screen for postpartum depression. After all, during the first three months after childbirth, you see a pediatrician at least three times. While pediatricians are trained to take care of children, it would make sense for them to talk with new mothers, ask questions and inform them of the symptoms and treatment should they show signs of postpartum depression. In a strange way, it was comforting to me when my obstetrician told me that my feelings of extreme despair and my suicidal thoughts were directly tied to a biochemical shift in my body. Once we admit that postpartum is a serious medical condition, then the treatment becomes more available and socially acceptable. With a doctor's care, I have since tapered off the medication, but without it, I wouldn't have become the loving parent I am today. So, there you have it. It's not the history of psychiatry, but it is my history, personal and real. Brooke Shields, the author of "Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression," isstarring in the musical "Chicago" in London.

Check out the poster for Cruise's "War of the Worlds" and the cover of this L. Ron Hubbard book. Weird.

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