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Jimmy Woods!

One of my favorites - I've always prefered the actor-actors as opposed to the star-actors. Not many out there that could hold a candle to Jerry Orbach.

Steve Lehman. Karolina Strassmayer.

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Happy Birthday, oh antlered mammal.

Just my luck - I'll be 65, ready to retire, and a damn asteroid has to come along and hit the Earth. On the other hand, I won't have to worry about outliving my money...

I voted for Christmastime is Here. Back when I could remember the first couple of chords, I would sit down at a piano (somewhere in public) and play the familiar song. That would get everyone's attention and everyone would smile and come over to the piano. Then I would drift off and say, "Sorry, I only know the first few chords." I did the same thing with a guitar and Stairway to Heaven in Japan and got a very polite round of applause after trailing off about eight chords in. My favorite Christmas recording is of a December 25th, 1971 Modern Jazz Quartet concert, with guest Paul Desmond. They open with a nice Greensleeves waltz, play a couple of standards, then do a funky, psuedo-sleighbell-driven Jesus Christ Superstar. The recording is on the Red Baron label and is truely one of Paul Desmond's finest moments (so much so, that John Lewis fought for years to have it released).

Those two concertos should be in the standard repetoire. They're great.

Tommy Tedesco Bob Brookmeyer Slam Stewart Connie Kay - not the same letters, but some catchy alliteration going on there.

Holiday Card: $2.00 Postage Stamp: $0.37 Covering all the bases: Priceless

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Way to go! A job, and a free CD!

Already been done...

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My favorite Fred Anderson recording is On the Run.

NBC presents A Planned Parenthood Christmas

Who's Fred Anderson?

They left out A Jackie Mason Christmas.

Too old to rock and roll, too young to evolve...

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Didn't Yusef Lateef play Ice-Age mammoth ivory flute on Eastern Sounds?

Insurance doesn't cover them...

Worst Santa ever...

These two individuals wanted for questioning...

When they reported this on NPR yesterday, Pantera music was playing in the background. Pantera on NPR - what an age we live in.