DTMX

Iggy Pop's Lust for Life, a catchy heroin anthem, used to promote family vacations or cruise ships or something. For more information on your family's next vacation, see our tour director, Mr. Pop:

Almost forgot - James Brown's I Feel Good used for Senokot laxative.

Back when Michelob was buying up every song with the word "night" in the chorus, Phil Collins let them use his In the Air Tonight, a song about his painful divorce, to shill beer. To make matters worse, the next Genesis album contained the song Tonight, Tonight, Tonight, which was used in Michelob's ads almost as soon as the album was released. Lenny Kravitz is a he-whore too - some of his songs get licensed before the recording is released so that the songs will get maximum radio & television exposure when the CD comes out. And I can remember yuppies asking for that song from the Infinity commercial (Take Five) in the brick'n'mortar shops awhile back.

Michael Jackson owns the rights to most/all of the Beatles recordings so he (and Capitol Records) allowed Nike to license Revolution for their ads. Of course, how McCartney and Lennon lost the publishing rights is a nice little story in itself.

Pharoah Sanders already recorded The Greatest Love of All on the A Prayer Before Dawn in 1987. He must really like it. I wish he liked something else. Got tickets for the McCoy Tyner Trio with Pharoah Sanders and Ravi Coltrane in November - I wonder if they'll play any John Coltrane songs?

Rotten Mexican - which, coincidently, is what I had for dinner last night.

Not the first time Prince has stirred up some Controversy...

Okay, I re-read the whole thing. So OJ killed Othello? Or was it this Shakespeare guy?

After shooting the sheriff, he had to make a quick getaway. Didn't shoot the deputy, though.

I should have guessed that was written by Anthony Braxton. 1. It made my head hurt to try to take it all in at one sitting. 2. After a few minutes I just fast-forwarded to the end. 3. It was about as long as one of his 76-minute Ghost Trance Music compositions. Have to go back and read it for real.

"They use it for waking up in the morning sometimes or to stay awake late," says Dr. Galanter. Way to throw a theory out there Doc. You're a real pioneer - I predict great things in your future.

Math majors need not apply... You'd think someone who could quote baseball statistics all the way back to Abner Doubleday could could add percentages. Picture of Abner giving it 110%:

Moby Dick? Call my ass Ishmael.

Of course! And I'm always the first to say "Yeah" after song ends but before the applause begins.

So that's why I wear a black turtleneck sweater, shades, and a beret to all my jazz concerts (and talk loudly throughout the performances).

Thanks couw, I'll keep an out for it!

I have the Dolphy and Shaw versions, but my favorite is Zoot Sims' version recorded with a pick-up band in Atlanta in 1981, recorded on the Storyville release Zoot Sims at E.J.'s Atlanta Georgia. An excerpt from the review on Allmusic.com: "After opening his set with a gorgeous version of "That Old Devil Called Love," Zoot turns Yancey Korosi loose on the public with a very advanced rendering of Fats Waller's "Jitterbug Waltz." The recognizably familiar melody only appears during the last chorus. First the pianist tears up, playing all sorts of harmonic variations on the changes. Then Zoot enters quoting "When Yuba Plays the Rhumba on the Tuba." They gyrate together and by the time the piece ends the audience has obviously been goosed into a state of heightened receptivity. Anyone who has ever experienced a live club performance of real jazz will recognize this turning point in the program. It is very much what this kind of music is all about. And that doesn't even get into the 11-minute double-timed bossa-nova version of "Over the Rainbow" which is one of my favorite performances of any song, ever. Hadn't heard any Zoot before I bought this recording - only bought it because it was recorded locally (for me). Since then I've gotten a lot more of his stuff and have been very impressed. Seems to be one of those guys that's always on his game.

A very informative and interesting article. I'd also like to point out that David Manson released one of the best recordings of 2002, Fluid Motion with trumpeter Jonathan Powell and the Sam Rivers Trio.

40 next month.

Cool... B-)

Man's best friend...

If the guy doesn't have a dick anymore, who's going to do his thinking for him? Very surprised the word alcohol never appeared in the article.

Natural selection at work - good for the gene pool.

They're kidding me, right? The cleaning is a veterinary procedure. Building a show around it is more of a FOX thing. Brings new meaning to the phrase "whack-a-mole".