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'That's barbecued chicken down there.' Shaq scored 45 points vs. the Raptors last night; Bosh questions 3 second rule.....

Holy Crap !!!! I almost forgot to wish Happy 40th Birthday to the Mother of all Dark Stars - 2.27.69!!! :party: :party:

Oh thanks for the reminder. It has been sitting on my "to read" pile for the past two weeks.

John Stubblefield - Confessin' (Soul Note)

Bobby Bradford and the Mo'tet - Lost in L.A. (Soul Note)

Ya think? They are terrible. Dumars killed the team by trading Billups. I understand why he did it, but it was a still a bonehead move, imo. Cheer up. Dave Bing is going to be your next mayor.

Sam Rivers - Streams (Impulse!)

Yes, that was crazy. Lucky for him the NBA doesn't call traveling any more.

I haven't heard this but I did see Reid and Hebden perform right before Christmas. I thought the show was pretty cool. They didn't perform any spoken word pieces though..... I had a similar reaction to your's at a live performance of Lotte Anker / Sylvie Courvoisier / Ikue Mori that I saw last month. I thought Ikue Mori's contributions were horrible that night. She just kept using the same analog synth samples over and over again through out the evening. On the first two pieces of the night her laptop contributions were okay but as the evening wore on they became really distracting making it hard to listen to the music the other two were playing. I've seen her perform before as part of John Zorn's Masada and I thought her laptop contributions then were excellent so this was rather disappointing for me. .... I don't know maybe she had a off night.

Parent company of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News files for bankruptcy..... http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_updat...bankruptcy.html

This was just released on vinyl. Awesome stuff.

PM sent.

Here's the link to the CD-R: http://www.amazon.com/Odyssey-Iska-Wayne-S.../dp/B000008C8J/ I don't think Blue Note will do "proper" reissues of titles they are licensing for CD-R release. They want $16.95 for a CD-R???????

Oh no. I listened to him for the past 25 years. What a character! He was a familiar site all over the city lugging around a big pile of LPs under each arm wherever he went. I just told my wife and she said,"You mean 'Mr.Yes Indeedy?' That's terrible." Truly a gentle soul who had a life long love affair with music. There was no bigger fan of Duke Ellington. None. He told me once that he saw Duke perform over a hundred 30 times*. I took a non-credit jazz course with him about 8 years ago. It was very interesting because he knew sooooooo much about Philly jazz history - stuff that has never been written down and now unfortunately never will. The highlight of the class was when Harrison arraigned for us to attend a rehearsal of the Philly Legends of Jazz Orchestra. Leon Mitchell, Sam Dockery, and Butch Ballard were some of the members that turned up for the rehearsal. Afterwards we got to hang w/ them and heard them trade some amazing stories. One of the best nights of my life. Rest In Peace, Harrison. You did good. http://www.citypaper.net/articles/041698/m...llectors3.shtml * = My memory is a little faulty this article says he *only* claimed to have seen Duke 30 times. HARRISON RIDLEY JR., DJ DEVOTED TO MAJESTY OF JAZZ< HE HAS IMMERSED HIMSELF IN JAZZ HISTORY.< A CONCERT AND DINNER ARE A RARE SALUTE. Philadelphia Inquirer, The (PA) - Sunday, February 25, 1996 Author: Karl Stark, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER Harrison Ridley Jr. arrived at the studio on crutches - ``me and my four legs,'' he joked - and held one staff member after another in a fatherly embrace. It had been a month since the veteran disc jockey slipped on ice and tore up his knee. And no smile was broader than his when he finally slipped behind a WRTI-FM (90.1) microphone just before 8 p.m. last Sunday. ``I'm back, y'all,'' he announced. Over the next hour, in a show dedicated to bandleader Mercer Ellington, who died Feb. 8, Ridley demonstrated why he's Philly's most sagacious jazz DJ. He pointed out that Mercer was a fine composer who wrote ``Things Ain't What They Used to Be,'' a big hit for his father, Duke Ellington. He cued up seven of Mercer's choicest recordings, all long out of print. And he revealed some little-known facts: that singer Carmen McRae and trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie and Clark Terry all worked in Mercer Ellington's band. So did Johnny Hodges, said Ridley, although on one album he was credited simply as ``the ever beautiful alto sax great.'' Hodges couldn't be named, the DJ explained, because he was on another label. ``Yes, indeedy,'' said Ridley after a Hodges solo - a trademark expression he reserves to convey his highest approval. For many, the phrase applies to Ridley himself, who last month marked his 20th anniversary with WRTI, which is owned by Temple University. The DJ, who will be honored by 'RTI tonight at a public concert and sold-out VIP dinner, has worked 30 years as a custodian. But he has so immersed himself in jazz history that he also has served as a consultant to the Library of Congress, and lectures at Temple's Center City Non-Credit Course Center and its Pan-African Studies Community Education Program. Ridley's program, The Historical Approach to the Positive Music, has won more than 40 community awards and is a mainstay of WRTI programming. His soft, gentle baritone - which never conveys a hint of learned arrogance - can be heard on the station every Sunday from 8 to midnight. Tonight's tribute - which will include a performance by pianist Kenny Barron and his trio at Temple's Mitten Hall - is rare acknowledgment for the 57-year-old disc jockey with a passion for collecting jazz recordings and documenting their history. (The concert will be broadcast live on WRTI at 9.) To Ridley, jazz is America's classical music. His goal is to document its majesty and to showcase voices long muffled by oppression and neglect. ``Many people collect [recordings] commercially,'' he said. ``I collect to patch up history.'' Ridley's obsessiveness as a collector is legendary. The Philadelphia School District custodian doesn't own a car. Yet his jazz library holds 8,400 records, 6,500 books, 2,000 78s and nearly 300 CDs. (A purist, Ridley buys CDs only when the music isn't available on vinyl.) His dad, who died in 1987, was Baptist; his mother, Catherine, 77, is Pentecostal. And while this oldest of 10 children professes not to follow any specific religion, his worldview recalls that of a gospel prayer-warrior. He neither smokes nor drinks. He hasn't eaten red meat or pork since 1963. He's patient and kindly with students, whether they lionize him or try to trick him with tough questions. And in the mornings, he plans his lectures and meditates. ``I always tell students, `Love yourself - you create a halo. People will be drawn to you,' '' said Ridley, who lives in West Philadelphia with his wife and whose daughter, Jade, attends Penn State. Ridley was a child when he got his first record - a 78-r.p.m. of Lionel Hampton's ``Flying Home.'' Later, he tried to play the xylophone and then the vibes, but stuck with neither. He confesses to knowing little about chord changes and music theory. But jazz history is another matter. After graduating from West Philadelphia High School, where pianist McCoy Tyner was a classmate, Ridley joined the Army and used his salary to buy records. When he got out in 1964, he caught every jazz concert he could. Ridley said he was at Pep's Musical Bar, the famous jazz club at Broad and South, when saxophonist and flautist Yusef Lateef recorded his Live at Pep's LP in 1964. Ridley has put most of his energy into Duke Ellington. He owns 595 Duke records and 69 CDs, his greatest trove by a single artist. He saw Ellington perform more than 30 times and has been writing a history of Duke, on and off, for 15 years. (The project is currently off; Ridley is working on a jazz history of Philadelphia.) Ridley owes his radio show to Ellington and former WRTI music director Buddy Cohen. Ridley and Cohen met while scouring bins at the same record store. In 1975, when Cohen needed someone to do commentary during a 12-hour Ellington marathon, he asked Ridley. Ridley carried 200 records to the studio and worked all 12 hours. The gig brought numerous requests for Ridley to deliver his jazz history rap on a show then called Blues Graveyard. He said he appeared so often that, in January 1976, WRTI managers finally said: ``This is your show.'' Above all, The Historical Approach has been a haven for musicians. Mercer Ellington always checked in when he was in town. So do Art Farmer, Jimmy Heath, Max Roach and others. ``Criticism isn't my thing,'' Ridley explained. ``I don't try to prove that I know the musicians better than they do.'' Nonetheless, Ridley can't disguise his erudition. ``He knows all the records I've been on better than I do, and I made them,'' observed Butch Ballard, drummer for Count Basie and Duke Ellington, among others. From his seat in the studio, Ridley gets a good view of the rising jazz talent in his listenership. He remembers how, as a teenager, super-bassist Christian McBride would call the studio to ask about bass players on various cuts. Ridley designs The Historical Approach to showcase musicians he feels never get their due. He said he loves to focus on arrangers and women artists in particular, and presents a show on pianist Mary Lou Williams the first Sunday of every year because ``she's still dramatically underrated.'' He logs every tune he plays into a spiral-bound notebook that takes at least two years to fill. If a listener can't recall a song he heard two Sundays ago at 10:15, Ridley digs up the title. He averages more than 50 calls a show. Ridley was the iron man of jazz radio, never missing a program or a day of work until the blizzard of 1996. That slip on the ice put him on his back for a month and required physical therapy. Ridley could no longer take the bus to the studio. The hiatus only made him more eager to get back. ``Music is my mental therapy,'' he said.

Morton Subotnick - Silver Apples of the Moon (Nonesuch); The Wild Bull (Nonesuch) FYI.... for those O board members in the NYC area.... Morton Subotnick will be performing Sunday night at Roulette. ROULETTE 20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St) TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242 - www.roulette.org MORTON SUBOTNICK - Sun Feb 22 - 8:30 PM Morton Subotnick is one of the foremost pioneers in electronic music and an innovator in works involving instruments and other media, including interactive computer music systems. Subotnick co-founded the legendary San Francisco Tape Center (now the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills) and his seminal work Silver Apples of the Moon [1966-7], marked the first time an original large-scale composition had been created specifically for the disc medium - a conscious acknowledgment that the home stereo system constituted a present-day form of chamber music. Tonight he presents works for laptop as well as debuting the latest version of his music software developed for children's classrooms and after school programs. www.mortonsubotnick.com

Junior Mance tomorrow night..... http://www.citypaper.net/articles/2009/02/19/junior-mance

Don Pullen / Sam Rivers - Capricorn Rising (Black Saint)

Don Pullen - Healing Force (Black Saint)

Thanks for posting that.

Muhal Richard Abrams - Colors in Thirty-Third (Black Saint)

I don’t really see how hiding one’s identity has anything to do with anything really, when I registered I noticed that a lot of people were using slightly amusing jazz related pseudonyms so I thought I’d join in the fun, it’s a jazz bulletin board I wasn’t expecting to be posting anything I would be held legally accountable for. So regardless of whether Allen does or does not hide his identity, and maybe he has accomplishments that should be admired rather than flippantly dismissed but perhaps Allan should consider this angle himself. I would say a large percentage of what he posts is flippantly dismissing other people’s accomplishments. This is odd considering how sensitive he is and how he reacts when someone does the same to him. Or even worse, not take him seriously. This thread is flippantly dismissing other people’s accomplishments, or hadn’t you noticed. Just because Francis Davis doesn’t post here that makes it ok I suppose. I’m glad you’ve met Allan and like him, it’s good that he has a friend, but nice? I don’t know. To me nice is someone like Alec, who discovered that his local Newbury was selling a Rollins box set cheap and then posted in the “Offering and Looking For... that he would buy as many of them as he could and sell them at cost to whoever sent him a PM. He didn’t have to do it, but he did, that is a really nice thing to do. Can’t really see Allen doing anything like that, however he will spend time starting pointless threads like this one, the gist of which is, “Francis Davis is a dick for doing the liner notes to the new reissue of Kind of Blue and is an even bigger dick for winning a Grammy for it and then became a total dick for accepting it”. Not only that but also post a pretty much similar comment in an existing thread regarding the new reissue of Kind of Blue. If it bothers you that much Allen, write the guy a letter. Personally I can’t imagine anyone with even a vague amount of intelligence giving the Grammys a second thought, let alone being upset by someone winning one. I don’t have any type of cyber conflict with Allen, or anyone for that matter, and I don’t think the anonymity factor had anything to do with it either. I merely made a half jokey, half serious comment in another thread where he was again flippantly dismissing other people’s accomplishments, that he has a tendency to go on and on about trivial details. He never seemed to get over it, sent me lots of really stupid pms and kind of stalked all my posts to add even more stupid comments, the paedophilia one was a new childish low(e). Whatever, if that’s how the guy gets his kicks good luck to him. I would have hoped anyone approaching 60 would be a bit more mature and would make better use of their 5 posts per day. What I object to most is people using this board as a personal blog, In this day and age it’s really not that difficult to start one, if that floats your boat, but what I enjoy about this board is the sharing of information, reviews of material, buying stuff I would be able to get elsewhere at a great price etc, etc. Not the same board members who are constantly bitching and whining about other people who may have had more success and a higher profile in a field they would like to work in, e.g. Allen and Clem. If that’s what you want to do, start a blog. Ummm, you do realize that Francis and Allen are very good friends, don't you?

But Pujols is just so freakishly HUGE. His forearms look to be the size of the thighs of a grown man. I wasn't as surprised that ARod juiced as I was that he got caught. I remember watching some game last summer when he was batting and thinking to myself,"Wow, I never realized how big that guy was before now." What surprises me is that he claims to not have used PED's in the past 4 years. Some interesting comments from Cole Hamels on his supplement usage.... (Look under strike 2) http://sports.espn.com.go/espn/blog/index?...me=stark_jayson

Bad new for the Sox - Nancy Drew's back is still hurting him. Meanwhile the WFC's Ryan Howard has reported a week early and 20 pounds lighter. Not to be outdone by Brett Myers who lost 30. I like it.

Oliver Lake & Julius Hemphill - Buster Bee (Sackville)