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Party on, Garth!

Happy Birthday!

So what's the new release called - Song X + VI? 6 new songs - I can't wait!

Always liked this one...

Not to mention keeping an extra-careful eye on the scout who only has badges in knot-tying and taxidermy.

Happy Birthday!

I remember her howling from Porky's.

Happy Birthday! :party:

I saw a Plince CD for sale in Honjo but I didn't buy it because it didn't have Lasbelly Belet on it. Half the songs on the CD were recorded by Plince, the other half by Elvis. Something about it made me think it wasn't an official release.

Good call. The hero of Shadowland is named Tommy Flanagan, and there's a mention of the character having met his namesake at one point. Straub also wrote Ghost Story where some of the supporting characters have some familar last names like "Mobley" and "Venuti".

Some of this has to do with the way English characters are pronounced in Japanese. For example: the letter 'a' is pronounced 'ah' and the letter 'i' is pronounced like a long e, 'ee'. Also, the only consonant that can end a word is 'n', so any other word ending in a consonant gets an almost silent 'u' (pronounced 'ooo') put on the end of it, unless it's better to leave it off and go with the last vowel in the word. And sometimes syllables get broken up and have the 'ooo' inserted between them. So that's why a friend of mine pronounces two of his favorite saxophonists as "Sam-ooo Reev-ahs-ooo" and "Ah-roo too Peh-pah". Of course, when he says the words quickly it doesn't sound so drawn out as spelled previously. Wish I had a picture of the "No Smorking" sign I saw on a train outside Tokyo. What made it funny was the guy smoking a cigarette in front of it - at least he wasn't smorking.

I just got mine yesterday. #0056. Might get to listen to it this weekend.

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday!

Stargazer and In Our Lifetime are by the same band (mostly) that did Soul on Soul. Very good recordings. Might be a little harder to find though.

Happy respective birthdays, guys!

Well, on that one episode with Steve Martin as the garbage commisioner (and musical guests U2), when newly re-hired Garbage Commissioner Ray Patterson came onstage to address the townspeople a pit band played the theme from "Sanford and Son". And then there was that one episdoe where Lisa dreamed she was accepting a Kennedy Center honor along with Arthur Miller and Ornette Coleman.

Or how about the episode when Lisa adopted a cat named "Coltrane", and when she played some Trane on her sax for the cat, the cat jumped out of the window and fell to its death? What song was she playing - something from Intersteller Space?

Me four!

I think Larry the Cable Guy said something like, "I like the Dixie Chicks, but that little fat one needs to keep her mouth shut."

I'm on the Jazz Loft website last week and I do a search for "Sam Rivers" and it turns up a CD called Purple Violets. So I order it. Turns out that it's not a Sam Rivers release, but one by a Danish drummer named Kresten Osgood, recorded in October 2004. I don't know anything about this Osgood feller, but obviously he's doing something right to have Sam Rivers sitting in with him; here's his website. My review: Purple Violets, Catalog number: STUCD04162 Sam Rivers: Tenor & Soprano Sax, Flute Ben Street: Bass Kresten Osgood: Drums, Leader Bryan Carrott: Vibes (only on tracks 1, 4, 7, and 9) [1] Solace [2] The Mooche [3] Captain America [4] Abalone [5] In Search of Black Benny [6] Turbulence [7] Where To Go [8] Moderation [9] Space (Total Time: 50 minutes) The recording opens with Rivers' Solace, one of his more hummable tunes. The whole quartet plays on this, and takes the piece at a swinging tempo. Rivers turns in a great tenor sax solo, followed by Carrott soloing over an increasingly rambunctious rhythm section. Ellington's The Mooche follows, and is one of the five tunes performed only by the Rivers/Street/Osgood trio. Rivers plays soprano sax on this one, and with the lack of a chordal instrument, this track reminded me very much of the Steve Lacy Trio. A tart tenor opens the track Captain America, another trio performance, co-composed by the three participants, and a lot freer-sounding than the two proceding tracks. Carrott rejoins on Abalone, an Osgood composition that wouldn't sound out of place on a Joe Chambers album. Rivers plays tenor on this one, as well as Osgood's In Search of Black Benny, a hard-charging, trio number. Bassist Street drops out on Turbulence, a Rivers/Osgood improv (I can hear a hint of one of Rivers' Trio tunes in there but I can't name the original). Osgood's Where To Go reunites the quartet for some relaxed playing, and some beautiful tenor work from Rivers. The trio-penned Moderation puts Rivers on flute; this (probably) improvised piece sounds like a return to Rivers' Impulse recording days. Rivers duets with Carrott on their collectively-penned Space; Carrott's vibes sound light and ethereal while Rivers' tenor keeps things a little more earthy. A really good recording for the Sam Rivers completist. And the most exciting thing about it is the last sentence in the booklet: Purple Violets is the first part of a two-CD release.

"Pedro offers you his protection."

You know, Batman was always tangling with the Penguin. Maybe his exposure to the penquin lifestyle can explain the last thought balloon of this panel:

It's the hat, isn't it?