DTMX

Happy Birfday!

I think that once I have a copy of every CD I will be sated. My handle is DTMX, and I'm a jazzaholic.

Ditto.

... I've heard Seymore Swine & the Squealers sing the Porky Pig version of "Blue Christmas".

Great King Crimson reference. I need to check out this recording again.

This is going to cause the whole weinerdog wheelcart industry to collapse.

Maybe I'll make that trip to Orlando to see Sam Rivers' big band after all - and shake his hand.

Isn't this the one which begins with a scene in which Julia Louis- Dreyfus (Elaine from Seinfeld) is giving her boyfriend a hummer? B-) Waddayaknow - Deconstructing Harry just jumped to the top of my Netflix queue!

Stanley Crouch Gets His Comeuppance Via Sam Rivers (27 years ago) From some writings on the New York Loft Jazz scene by Eugene Chadbourne: What some considered the death knell of the loft jazz scene came in the Summer of 1977, which found Sam Rivers and Stanley Crouch organizing festivals scheduled for the same time, on the same street. Rivers noticed that many of the same musicians he was presenting were advertised for Crouch's surprise event, and delivered an ultimatum that anyone participating in Crouch's festival would be cancelled from Rivbea. Since Crouch's was strictly a door-money deal (no guarantees), many musicians bowed out of Crouch's festival. At least one musician opted for Rivbea, not because of the ultimatum, but upon learning of plans to tape his show & possibly make a record (without working out pay for the musicians who'd be recorded). Tensions heightened, and finally climaxed on the streets of Soho when a fight broke out, and Sam Rivers purportedly delivered a "smooth uppercut" to the competition; an event that some believe to be the source of Crouch's dislike of avant-garde jazz.

'Tis the season, for a sock monkey Nativity...

Deconstructing Harry - a dark comedy. I think I was the only one in the theater when I saw it. Harry Block is a well-regarded novelist whose tendency to thinly-veil his own experiences in his work, as well as his un-apologetic attitude and his proclivity for pills and whores, has left him with three ex-wives that hate him. As he is about to be honored for his writing by the college that expelled him, he faces writer's block and the impending marriage of his latest flame to a writer friend. As scenes from his stories and novels pass and interact with him, Harry faces the people whose lives he has affected - wives, lovers, his son, his sister. (from IMDB.com)

I saw this one. John Malkovich, Madonna, Mia Farrow as circus performers. Jodie Foster, Lily Tomlin and Kathy Bates as prostitutes at a brothel (). But on the plus side, Fred Gwynne and Kurtwood Smith were also in it. Doing what, I can't remember. The only shadows and fog that I remember was the shadow in my wallet where the $5 I spent to rent this movie was, and the fog in my head from trying to follow the plot. On the other hand, if someone want to reference some movies in their own film, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Fritz Lang's M are two great choices.

Especially when they single you out of a crowd...

Resuscitating said thread: Happy Birthday!

Now if a beer company had done the survey, I think the urinal would have been the natural choice. Speaking of which, I think I need to take a little break to patronize the arts, if you know what I mean.

I like how he listed Black Sabbath's Paranoid right after Louis Armstrong's What A Wonderful World. Those are two songs I love hearing back-to-back.

I got the same 80's feeling when I heard Song X. This is a review I posted on Amazon.com a while back: Take the Time Tunnel back to the 80's., February 12, 2001 The other reviews on this page do a great job of describing the music on this recording so please read them as well. My own take on this recording is that "Song X" was a great idea with two weak spots. First off, there's one Coleman too many on this recording. With Jack DeJohnette on drums there's no need for a second drummer; Denardo Coleman's synthesized drums sound dated (remember the hexagon-shaped Simmons drums of the 80's?). Both drummers play well but the conflicting rhythms that result don't work as well on these shorter songs as they would on a more extended work like "Free Jazz". Second, Pat Metheny is a wonderful guitarist with many interesting harmonic ideas; unfortunately he filters those ideas through the Synclavier guitar synthesizer and its 'fake sax' setting. Granted, Metheny was Syclavier's highest profile endorser during the 80's but Ornette Coleman has already worked with a real saxophonist, Dewey Redman. Instead of a full-bodied guitar sound like on Metheny's "Question and Answer" there is a thin, brittle guitar accompanied by slightly-delayed fake sax samples. Still, there are a lot of great songs here: "Mob Job" with its tuneful melody and playful accompaniment is one of Coleman's best tunes and performances; Coleman's ballad " Kathelin Gray" is beautiful in its sadness and delicacy. A great recording that could have been more so. And for those who don't remember the Time Tunnel:

You haven't been to the Politics forum yet, have you? Seriously, you haven't been to the Politics forum yet? Welcome aboard!

Sounds like a Christian Marclay installation...

Should have used Art Pepper's Straight Life. Art's done more prison time than most - he and Martha would have a lot more in common.

As the first grandchild, my grandparents gave me a lot of my aunts' teenybopper records from the early sixties. Most of them in very good condition. But I was eight years old. I distinctly remember rolling the Beatles' second album down my parents new concrete driveway to see how far it would go before falling over.

Just ask this guy...

I read Straight Life years ago -- always said it should be subtitled "From Stan Kenton to San Quentin..."

That was her melodica (they all look like Fischer Price toys). She plays that, percussion, and organ in addition to piano. One night I saw her come into a club with a bag of percussion odds & ends. I don't think she played the melodica that night, but at one point the whole band was rattling percussion of some sort. She did play a mean Straight, No Chaser (on piano), though.

NO! He's not? His agent might be after Cecil reads this thread.