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Forgive me if it has already been mentioned but Anders Koppel's Concerto for Saxophone 1 & 2 do a great job of combining modern classical with jazz.

Thanks! Just applied the credit to Dave Edmunds' Repeat When Necessary.

I remember when WRAS (radio station of Georgia State University) played their first single "Radio Free Europe" backed with (I think) "Sitting Still" on the Hib-Tone label. Then they re-recorded it for IRS records and it was so much weaker and polite. Followed their career, but the only recording I ever bought was the underated "New Adventures in Hi-Fi".

I don't know if it has anything to do with this thing but the honey badger came in at number one on this list.

About ten years ago, in the Midtown area of Atlanta I had some blueberry buttermilk ice cream and it was awesome. Have no idea where I got it. Haven't had it since. At least I *think* I had it...

I finally got to use this line a week ago when a Vietnamese girl asked me what my name meant. Just rolled off the tongue before I even had a chance to think about it. The following year I married her. Now her name don't mean shit either.

Peter Mennin's Piano Concerto (1958). Had forgotten how much I enjoyed it until it randomly popped up on the iPod the other day.

Happy birthday, fellow metro-Atlantan! So what's it been - about a year? What's up with that? And why is it 'happy' birthday? Couldn't we just shorten it to 'birthday' the same as we say 'morning' to people at the office? I mean, we don't wish anyone a 'bad' birthday, or even a 'mediocre' birthday. What about a birthday that's just 'par' - not great, not bad - just breaking even? /seinfeld off Catch you next year Conrad.

Whoa - another year? Really? Thanks to everyone. I hadn't even thought about my birthday this year. Got a 9 month old girl at home and a month-late project at work - no time for anything that doesn't involve either. And I don't get over to this board enough, that's for sure. Still, this place is my online watering hole, a place to drop in now and then and listen to the conversations - and occasionally participate. Thanks again, Doug

I am very sorry for your loss. Your wife's courage throughout all of this is remarkable and should serve as an inspiration to all.

Lawrenceville, GA? Where I work? Well, at least they didn't shoot anyone this time: Link.

Slappy Burpday, dude!

But they do wear boots.

Happy belateds, 7/4 - or is it 8/4 now?

Dragging in a little late to say happy birthday, Jim. May your post count forever soar!

I wonder if Ornette's The Shape of Jazz to Come would get a 409-0 vote...

Thanks, everybody. Damn - the year just flies by. A year ago I was a music-centered 44-year old bachelor with nothing more pressing than playing music, buying music, reading about music and listening to music. Now I'm a 45-year old married man with a pregnant wife, a dog that bites me everytime I feed it and a music room that is being converted into a nursery. And I wouldn't change anything. Except the dog. Thanks again. Doug

Speaking of Kanye West: Atlanta Flooding

I also recommend Glass' Saxophone Quartet Concerto (orchestral version). If you like the modern stuff (lots of dissonance) these two by the Rascher Quartet are good: Europe & America Something a little jazzier is Michael Colgrass' Urban Requium for 4 Saxophones and Wind Orchestra.

It's well worth it, even at the original boxset's price (which is what I paid a while back ).

Hawaii Five-O.

Kinda dumb, but in 1981 at Six Flags Over Georgia some garage band was playing a set, surrounded on all sides by drunken teenagers on "Senior Night". After finishing an AC/DC song the lead singer engaged the audience thusly: Singer: Anybody got a request? Drunk Teenager #1: Saaaabaaaath! Singer: We're going to do that one a little later - anybody got any other requests? Drunk Teenager #2: Get off the stage! Singer: Yeah, we're going to do that one later too. Then they played "Bridge of Sighs" which no one requested, but it was still nice to hear.

I'll hold out for the RVG edition.

No Anarchy in the UK?

Noooooooooooo! He was the best part of the last part of the Cannonball Run movies...