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In his honor, we'll play "One Note Samba." Without the samba part.

Photo ID: From left, that's Roger Wilder, piano; Tim Cambron, drums; Jake Blanton, guitar; Craig Akin, bass.

Quote attributed to Bloomberg on NPR news: "The gas will pass." (I didn't make this up.)

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Zoot was the real star of the Mulligan Concert Jazz Band. He's amazing on the live recording that came out on TCOB a few years back.

Where's Learnnottoplaylicks.com?

The Sony Legacy Web site does an amazingly good job of keeping users in the dark about upcoming releases. Not a word about this one anywhere. Gee, maybe this is a remix project.

In pic #1: I thought the trumpeter was Ted Curson for a sec. Maybe that's because the drummer looks like Dannie Richmond. Is that a really big bass player, or is he playing a cello? #2: Drummer still looks kinda like Dannie. The bass looks like a bass.

That's grate!!

Snap and crackle don't worry me, but rumble does. I have a (different) Numark that rumbles like crazy. How's this one?

Yuck. What a gouge. In 2005, I bought a used copy through this board for about $10. Think I saw a fairly priced new copy at the B Side in Madison, Wis., about eight months ago.

I hate to admit it, but ... Chicago at Carnegie Hall. Hey, I was 13.

Don Redman and His Orchestra in an outrageous Betty Boop cartoon. The band plays throughout. Catch the free interlude at 6:00:

Last three quotes in Post #4 have undercurrents of divisiveness or condescension that you can do without. Tom, do you know the Tom Stites who wrote the essay in Post #5? He's lived in KC off and on through the years. I used to work for him. He's possibly a former or current member of your congregation. There's a quote from Schoenberg saying that all music begins its life as improvised music. Dave Brubeck tells a story about being surprised to find that a film of his quartet had been incorporated into a military training film. The military's point, Brubeck says, is that in real-life military situations, you have to do like the guys in the quartet -- improvise, but improvise together!

First season of Get Smart. (Big downhill after that.) First season of Green Acres. Soft spot for the Addams Family; never appreciated The Munsters. And, yes, Mary Hartman. (P.S.: The planted evidence linking Dewey the maintenance man to the fire at the plant was, if memory serves, "three cans of Afro-Sheen and a Marvin Gaye album.")

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Don't go messin' with the kid.

Remember that the last round of Legacy reissues was afflicted with that awful copy-protection scheme that was so bad the discs had to be recalled. The financial loss from that means the bean counters won't be smiling on their jazz reissue program anytime soon. Now that it's Sony/BMG, that screws up reissues from the RCA catalog too.

Y'all got me curious, so I dug through the anthologies 'til I found some Jackson and Creath sides. And I paid some more attention this time. Dewey was a firey MF! Such swagger in his delivery.

Oops, I'm late. The Chailly is not bad, the best I've heard among those made in the last 15 years or so. Faves here are Kletzki, Mengelberg and Walter.

Yep, Clem nailed it. Soft spot for Schubert's last one, Schoenberg 2 and 4, Webern and the higher-numbered Holmboe quartets here.

Was that study adjusted to account for the different fragrances of analog and digital?

You don't need Brilliant Pebbles if you already have Brilliant Corners.

And the even-lower-fi mortar between them? Not to mention the acoustic nightmare that is the lampshade.

What a disgrace. You rave and rave about this outlet-plate tweak. Meanwhile, every light-switch plate in the listening area goes untreated. The loss is incalculable. And you call yourselves audiophiles.