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Anthony Ortega Trio -- "Scattered Clouds" (hatology) Anthony Ortega -- "Afternoon In Paris" (hatology)

Me too. However, there's not much you can do about CDs bought online. If so, then they work! Those four CDs I bought took half an hour to open and the gummy strips wrecked the jewel cases. DVDs from the US have those strips on, too. On one DVD I bought, the paper cover liner had slipped inside the Amaray case before the sticker was applied, so the sticker couldn't be removed without tearing the cover. Essentially those strips force you to wreck the thing you have just bought. Not good. I use the old finger roll technique, and that usually works pretty well to remove those things quickly. I just peel back a corner then start rolling my fingers underneath it to slowly peel it away from the case. Still some glue residue left, but the strips usually roll back and away from the jewel case pretty quickly.

Chicago Black Small Bands (acrobat) Ari Brown -- "Ultimate Frontier" (delmark) edit for transposed words ... doh!

happy birthday! eat some cake.

After listening to "Vonski Speaks," I ordered "Have No Fear" from Chuck and it hit the mailbox today. I am on my second spin now. Amazing recording (Japanese issue. I believe Chuck has some copies available). Freeman's on fire here. The thing that really strikes me about his playing is that nothing -- not a single note -- is predictable or cliché. Very much in the moment, this man. The OP wondered if there was a Coltrane influence. This Jazz Times piece from 2001 does mention that during the mid-50s, Freeman and Coltrane were developing their sounds contemporaneously, and Coltrane's influence at the time was unlikely to extend beyond Philly. Any similarities were likely coincidental, the author, Harvey Pekar, says. The article's worth a read. It talks about Freeman's approach to phrasing, tone and improvisation in some detail. And "Have No Fear" is a gem.

He's kind of all over the map here. But it is a "talk," and those things tend to go that way I guess. Unless I missed it, what was his point on the whole mouthpiece thing? He seemed to imply that a change in Coltrane's mouthpiece was somehow an important factor in the change of direction of his music. Although he offered excruciating detail on the intricacies of mouthpiece modification, he didn't really bring that full circle.

Gradkowski played for the Bucs a few years ago. Played college ball at Toledo. Hard-nosed guy. Not flashy. Kind of a game-management type. I didn't know he was still in the league. Nice to see him get an opportunity.

Great news Tom! Glad everything is OK.

Yeesh. Who was the programing genius who thought that would be a good idea on a Monday night? Good teams: Indy, Pats, Vikes, Saints, Bengals, Steelers (I guess) The rest of the league pretty much sucks. Arizona's OK, I guess. Lightning Bolts too, maybe. But c'mon. Dallas is 6-3 and leads the NFC East ... and they suck! Their "No. 1" receiver can't catch the ball. (pretty basic skill for a receiver). Denver's 6-3 and leads the AFC West ... and they suck! They just lost to Washington, who really suck! About 15-16 teams (half the league!) are truly, truly BAD. Just flat out awful week after week after week. -- Tampa, Cleveland, Oakland, St. Louis, Seattle, Chicago, Carolina, Washington, Tennessee, Jacksonville, Buffalo, the Jets, Kansas City, Green Bay (yeah, they suck), the Giants (yeah, they suck too). Bad, bad football going on in this league. But I love the Titans' owner repeatedly shooting the bird to Bills fans yesterday (caught on tape), as if he's got something to crow about. Good for a $250,000 fine. Nice. ... Wonder what's wrong with this league?

can i change the thread title to "incredible animation" and we can forget this ever happened?

I'm on drugs. can't be held responsible.

No. I assumed it was legit. ah well. Are you sure? All that mumbo jumbo about the smithsonian and the school was bs? bummer.

Tight one at the half.

Lots o mistakes by the lake so far. Sensing a slight dropoff from last night's proceedings.

Recently ordered: Von Freeman -- "Have No Fear" (nessa) (best I could find is an old LP cover shot) The Convergence Quartet -- "Live in Oxford" (fmr) The first is a Japanese issue, I believe. The incredible "Vonski Speaks" pretty much lit a fire under me for this one, particularly in light of Chuck's involvement. The second is a quartet that includes board member Alexander Hawkins along with Taylor Ho Bynum. Have been so impressed with Hawkins' "No Now Is So" I felt compelled to explore more of his music. Looking forward to both very much.

Go Browns

Where was this article published, other than on that website? Must have been before 1995, the year Rosenthal died. I'm not sure, I'm afraid. I suppose I should have tried to track that down before linking it, but the article seemed interesting enough on its own.

Incredible musical machine This incredible machine was built as a collaborative effort between the Robert M. Trammell Music Conservatory and the Sharon Wick School of Engineering at the University of Iowa .. Amazingly, 97% of the machines components came from John Deere Industries and Irrigation Equipment of Bancroft , Iowa . Yes, farm equipment! It took the team a combined 13,029 hours of set-up, alignment, calibration, and tuning before filming this video but as you can see, it was WELL worth the effort. It is now on display in the Matthew Gerhard Alumni Hall at the University and is already slated to be donated to the Smithsonian. Don't forget to turn on your volume........ Edit for reality check

I would agree. Rosenthal's basic position seems to be that critics at the time largely missed the mark on the hard bop period of the mid-50s to mid-60s, preferring instead to save their stars for music that was generally safer and more inline with "the tradition." There's a cultural aspect to the criticism as well, he says, where the largely black musicians felt their music was not being properly understood by the largely white critics. But there are insightful critics and bad critics alike, certainly. It's of little use to paint the whole enterprise with a broad brush of dismissal.

Fixed. Thanks.

Culled from elsewhere, a reappraisal of sorts of hard bop by David H. Rosenthal. PDF LINK Not sure how much it might add here, but Rosenthal talks at some length about the general disdain critics had for hard bop during the time of its emergence.

How did he do that? I missed that.

Peyton is $$ at home in a loud stadium. At Foxborough, this game would have been a blow out. Thing is, it came close to being a blow out in Indy, but the Colts wouldn't roll over and the Pats couldn't deliver the knockout punch. As for the QBs, in my mind, Brady throws a nicer ball while Manning has more field sense, more killer instinct, more control of the game. Once the Pats left the door wide open, Manning did what Manning does and turned out the lights. Great game. Really enjoyed watching it and just hated to see either team lose. Hope they meet again in the playoffs.

I chuckled at those, too. He had a few funny lines in there. Sounds like a wonderful guy. I'm going to have to pay a little bit closer attention to Iverson's blog. He gets some good stuff.