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I haven't tuned my piano in years. I tell people that it's tuned in "just" intonation because I "just" don't feel like getting it tuned! Hello? Is this thing on?

I do - it's a better recording if you think of it as a Derek Bailey recording and not a Pat Metheny recording. "A Study in Scarlet" sounds (to me) like a wall of noise, not much variation in the sound. The second disc - whose title escapes me - is a studio recording of shorter tracks (some acoustic) and is a lot more interesting - again, given that you are approaching this as a Bailey recording and not a Metheny recording. The third disc is live, but has five shorter pieces with more sonic variety in them than the "Scarlet" work. Me, I like it. Never got in to Zero Tolerance for Silence though...

This is one of the weirder ones that I saw fit to submit: Various Frogs: Sounds Of North American Frogs

I did about 100 reviews and then I ran out of words. This is one I always liked: Pepper Adams: Conjuration

I'd like to thank everyone who made this award possible. Oh, and Jesus. And my mom, for always believing in me.

Very sad news. My condolences to his family and friends.

Burt Reynolds: Hey. Hey, ah.. check out the podium. Look at this. Alex Trebek: Mr. Reynolds has apparently changed his name to Turd Ferguson. Burt Reynolds: Yeah, that's right. Turd Ferguson. It's a funny name.

Oh man, I've totally been there.

"This is one of those must-own recordings for fans of Adams; but it is also for those who revere Mingus' work, because, as radical as some of these interpretations are, they were not only sanctioned by, but delighted in by the composer. " - Allmusic.com

Don Braden's version of Saving All My Love For You from Organic. Of course, I haven't heard Lester Bowie's and Hank Crawford's takes on the same song...

I saw the David Murray (touring) Octet in Atlanta supporting this album. No Spaulding or Jackson onboard, but with Hugh Ragin and that evening's master of ceremonies, Craig Harris. They'd just flown in from Japan and though jet-lagged, tore it up. I bought the CD the following day. One of my favorite Murray recordings and one of my favorite concerts.

It certainly do.

Me too. I use earplugs for lawnmowers, airplanes, chainsaws, etc... I always take earplugs to concerts but rarely have to use them. If I didn't have the fan/white noise at night, I'd never be able to sleep.

Oh wonderful. Look who I get lumped in with: Albert DeSalvo Ted Bundy Alan Freed Me

Mrs. Brown went to town with a bale of hay. Mr. Martin came a'fartin' and blew it all away.

So in this case, does the priest claim that he was molested by a congressman while a teenager?

For the Arrested Development fans - Tobias' business card for the combined specialties of Analyst and Therapist: Oh, and if 666 is the number of the beast then 668 must be the neighbor of the beast.

On the same page there's a clip of Last Exit on some television show, maybe Austin City Limits or American Bandstand: Last Exit on American Bandstand

I saw Tomasz Stanko a couple of nights ago in Ann Arbor - on a double bill with Tim Berne's Paraphrase. I had never heard Stanko's music before but everyone seemed to be pretty excited about his appearance, so what the hell, I got excited too. This was part of the Edgefest series and Stanko played a much edgier set that he usually does. A guy in the Ann Arbor audience traveled to Toledo the previous night to see Stanko, and he said that the two sets were different, in that the Toledo set was more mannered and the Edgefest set was more raw. The previous night I had seen Myra Melford with Mark Dresser and Matt Wilson and she was (literally) hammering the keyboard and I thought that was going to be the most aggressive piano playing of the festival but Marcin Wasilewski topped everyone that week (Melford, Taborn, Lars Hollmer, and some professor from the school up the street). I bought Lontano in a fit of impulse buying at the show (one of many fits), but haven't listened to it yet. It was a good show, but I remember more about Wasilewski than the leader. Still worth every penny (all 2000 of them).

Yeah, I saw Parker/Rothenberg at Edgefest in Ann Arbor two nights earlier and Parker was pretty mellow on both tenor and soprano. Well, as mellow as Evan Parker could ever be.

John Zorn, Naked City

Mr. Taste Picked this one up in Japan a looooooong time ago - still knocks me out like it did the first time I heard it.

This is not my beautiful house, this is not my beautiful wife...

Just a fraction.