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A tape a (former) friend made to teach his parrot to talk. Forty-five minutes of an adult male saying things like "I'm a pretty bird" over and over.

Is that the City of Glass score or the score sheet from Bob's bowling night?

I don't know if it's a "genuine jazz standard" yet, but McCartney's "Blackbird" is already one of those overplayed songs that creep me out.

i agree, if the cd isn't damaged, that is. Is there a problem with IAI, the label? It's only $15 there.

One of these days I intend to order some things from the IAI Web site. Anybody have experience, good or bad, with the site? IAI

Then Maynard came to town and hired the whole section away.

From the AP: —Marc Edwards, 43, Charles P. Lunsford professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va. Edwards' research focuses on ensuring safe drinking water and in exposing the deteriorating water-delivery infrastructure in the country's largest urban areas.

We can still grouse about the blues musician who got one.

Keebo!

Peabo is one of my favorites too! I named my dog Peabo! I named my cat Peabo! I named my gerbil Peabo! I named all my fish Peabo! I called my dad Peabo until he stopped making trust fund payments! I used to travel around to Peabo's shows! I would try to hang out backstage until security came for me! I called the security guards Peabo too! Can I call you Peabo?

The Missouri Department of Revenue once allowed somebody in Kansas City to get a plate that said GANJA.

Its so calming Id like it even if I wasnt paid to like it I cant get it out of my head cant get it out of my head no matter how hard I try cant get it out of my head must make bossa nova stop cant get out of my head NO GOD MAKE IT STOP NOW MAKE IT STOP NOW

Remain calm. Remain calm. There is nothing to see here. Remain calm. Remain calm. For cryin' out loud, remain calm already. If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times. Remain calm, remain calm. I am trying to get it into your thick skull. You got some serious f---ing calming to do. Remain calm, dammit.

There's another reason the "If Winter Comes" LP is a keeper. It's a rare recorded example of the Kansas City pianist George Salisbury at work.

What, no UMG shills to tell us what the titles are?

He DID record, but the tapes were lost after his brother Dennis took them over to Charlie Manson's house.

Max and Klook. Higgins and Blackwell.

Brotzmann and Bennink. Mengelberg and Van Hove.

I've already used Dexter and Cecil as cat names, so you can't have them. Wardell, however, is still available.

Mel's in Kansas City next Saturday. Can't wait.

When I heard live him in 2004, there was no snooze factor. Rory Kirk was in the audience. Valentin said that Hilton Ruiz had made him buy "I Talk With The Spirits" a couple of years earlier -- then looking at his instrument, he said, "I haven't been able to play this thing the same way since."

Sound quality on the Armstrong is nice, greatly superior to the Monk set. But the performance is VERY subpar.

You won't get the same sound quality from the Monk set. It sounds grainy and kinda nasty, like someone NoNoised it to excess.

About 1973, when I was getting heavy into pop music, one of the radio stations here in KC distributed free copies every month of Phonograph Record Magazine. (Lester Bangs was among the writers.) The magazine was BIG on The Move. But of course, you couldn't hear their music on the radio here. Luckily I found a promo single of "Tonight" in a charity sale before too long. Loved it to death. It was followed by a thrift-shop single of "Fire Brigade." And the "Message from the Country" LP. I remain a fan.

So we stream the audio and capture it with Audacity or some other software. No more controversy.