maren

good point! I always "knew" Kurosawa was supposed to be great -- rented "Yojimbo" to educate myself on my rather-small TV -- didn't do much for me. Then last summer here in NYC, Film Forum showed ALL the Kurosawa/Mifune films -- beautiful prints, great new subtitles, witty, idiomatic, with great timing. Plus, visually, there were things I couldn't even SEE on my TV that told the story so wryly and subtly --something down in the grass on the lower right corner of the screen -- anyway, kind of the opposite of your "Godfather" experience Berigan -- they NEEDED to be on a movie screen. Also fun to watch with a big audience. So right now, these are among my favorite films, especially the ones I hadn't heard about before, set in post-WWII Japan: Stray Dog, Drunken Angel, I Live in Fear, High and Low... Besides all the great movies already named, I really liked the following (chix flix?) -- all TV-screen size-appropriate: What's Eating Gilbert Grape? (Johnny Depp was SO BEAUTIFUL -- before he was self-consciously a beautiful movie star -- and ditto Di Caprio) The Ice Storm Crooklyn Girl 6

Maybe it's in your "enlightened self-interest" (that's a Marxist concept, not?) to reduce your snoring -- both for the marriage dividends and your own HEALTH. Some people say "snoring causes sleep apnea" while others say "sleep apnea causes snoring" -- a chicken-and-egg debate -- but apparently "even without the added danger of sleep apnea, snoring alone can cause an increase in blood pressure."

At the risk of being all phil schaap or something, this session was released as "Soul Sister" in 1966: SOUL SISTER Shirley Scott Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: June 23, 1960 Shirley Scott (org); Lem Winchester (vib); George Duvivier (g); Arthur Edgehill (d). a. (2326) Like Young (Andre Previn) - 6:35 b. (2327) Sonnymoon For Two (Sonny Rollins) - 3:58 c. (2328) On Green Dolphin Street (Washington/Kaper) - 4:08 d. (2329) Blues For Tyrone (Shirley Scott) - 9:44 e. (2330) The More I See You (Warren/Gordon) - 6:17 f. (2331) Get Me To The Church On Time (Lerner/Loewe) - 4:37 BUT was released as the SECOND HALF of the 1996 CD also called "Soul Sister" which also included a cut from: NOW'S THE TIME (original release 1968) e. (2332) Now's the Time (Charlie Parker) - 4:35 Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: June 23, 1960 Shirley Scott (org); Lem Winchester (vib); George Duvivier (g); Arthur Edgehill (d). and all of TRAVELIN' LIGHT (1964) Shirley Scott & Kenny Burrell Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: February 17, 1964 Shirley Scott (org); Kenny Burrell (guitar); Eddie Khan (B); Otis Finch (d). a. Travelin' Light (Young/Mercer/Mundy) - 4:41 b. Solar (Miles Davis) - 6:02 c. Nice And Easy (Keith/Bergman/Spence) - 4:33 d. They Call It Stormy Monday (Aaron Walker) - 11:06 e. Baby It's Cold Outside (Frank Loesser) - 3:48 f. The Kerry Dance (traditional) - 3:02 Weiztown Hall of Municipal Records

In 1967 the little radio station in my little hometown in central Wisconsin played his 'Little Old Man (Uptight-Everything's Alright)' WAY more than Stevie Wonder/Supremes versions -- come to think of it, music-on-hinterlands-radio-stations may be yet another arena where Bill Cosby spearheaded integration...

The minute I opened this thread I thought of 'Shipbuilding' -- yes, the Robert Wyatt version. Another Attica piece: Frederic Rzewski's 'The Greater Coming Together' ("Attica is in front of me..."). Some other things of his (e.g., The People United) leave me cold, but this one I find really moving...

As I recall, a Colorado tourism boycott was led by gay activists a few years ago... I notice the school system and DA had no problem with the kid calling the principal a FAGGOT!!!!

"I don't just inflict pain -- I inflict joy, too." George Steinbrenner (during one of Billy Martin's tenures as Yankees manager)

Hey, Beri/Conrad, I just PM'd you on another thread... I've been totally swamped with work... I pretty much have to go off the internet cold turkey in order to get anything done... and it's a difficult "cold turkey" too as I have to do a lot of job-related literature searching on MedLine/NIH stuff... So, I hadn't even looked in here for 7 WHOLE WEEKS -- now I just read the whole Mnytime thread, shaking my head... Anyway, HELLO EVERYBODY...

Berigan, I second (well maybe it's SEVENTH) the University Hospital idea -- sent you a PM -- wishing you and yours the best.

I always suspected that! The old Verfremdungs-Effekt... Is it true, Weizen? And how was your trip??

Sorry, don't have the info you're looking for Aric... But just a thought -- I guess the porn of the 50's-60's was like TV cartoons of the 80's-90's -- I have friends who don't really want it listed on their discography that they played on "Strawberry Shortcake" and "The Smurfs" -- but it paid the rent...

Duke Ellington's spoken introduction at Carnegie Hall, Jan. 1943: "Ko-Ko is a little descriptive scene of the phase that inspired jazz. I think it was in New Orleans, and the place called Congo Square, where the slaves used to gather and do native and sensuous dances, religious dances, and Ko-Ko is a little descriptive scene." Haven't yet found any African language citations. But: Kokomo, Indiana was named after a chief of the Miami ("of Ohio") people, himself called Ko Ko Mo, which means "black walnut." Then there was KoKo the Clown, a Max Fleischer-drawn "sibling" of Betty Boop, in the 20s. But then, I started thinking of all the Ellington word-play titles (Snibor, Smada, etc.) -- is Ko-Ko also a retrograde of "OK, OK!" ??? So I googled in "Snibor" and landed HERE, where Hans-Joachim Schmidt has an interesting discussion of titles spelled backwards and musical themes played in retrograde: "Tonk can be read as Knot... Ellington has: Madame Zajj (Jazz), Klop (Polka), Knuf, Ortseam, Oclupaca. Gillespie: Emanon. Navarro: Eb Pob. Monk: Eronel. Benny Carter: Eelibuj Blues. Thad Jones: Evol Deklaw Ni... Basie used it very appropriately to settle a quarrel: 'I Ain't Mad At You - You Ain't Mad At Me' (Up: F Bb D F Bb; down: Bb F D Bb F). "

Hi -- for me, Internet Explorer keeps the pictures from covering the text, and also keeps all the text on the screen (don't have to keep scrolling right to read everything -- a tip from Jim aka B3-er) -- unlike Netscape. But now I'll try playing around with the resolution and preferred fonts in Netscape -- thanks Claude and Use3D for the suggestions.

I'll second the recommendations for ROMANCE WITH THE UNSEEN, both MUSIC FOR 6 MUSICIANS albums, TUSKEGEE EXPERIMENTS -- I myself really dig NU BLAXPLOITATION and the Mickey Katz but they may be a bit tangential to you Aggie -- Just heard Don play in NYC last Wednesday, part of the JVC Jazz Festival, in a line-up called "Legends of the Clarinet" with Buddy De Franco and Tony Scott -- WOW -- don't know if you can find him blowing like THAT on anything recorded to date -- but catch him live these days if you get the chance!

Thanks for the SHRDLU story, Alan. The Mad Magazine reference reminds me of travelling in Eastern Europe in my twenties and seeing signs for "Potrzebie" -- which reminds me that you called "r" a vowel, which I guess it kind of is in Poland and S(e)rbia -- remember the journalist Art Srb?

You know, oddly enough I think that FOR THE MOMENT, having all the forums (fora) might feel a little empty -- big empty house with lots of rooms -- like everybody's a little shell-shocked and feels like warming themselves and drying out around the fireplace in the little cabin called "BlueNote in the House" over at AAJ! Hopefully, we'll achieve some critical mass here soon. Maybe AAJ won't really get their forums organized fast enough and the frustration of scrolling down one long list will propel exBNBBers here. On the other hand, for me, the brand-new "musicians" forum was very inviting because it was so private -- and thanks again for the great tip, B3-er. OH - I just saw Jazzmoose saying "we landed there first" which was also kind of my point -- VERY COOL feature of this board software! -- you can monitor a new message posted after you started writing but before posting yours! P.S. -- Mark, what was your deleted post about? Also, can anyone tell me if there's a way to re-size these text lines so they don't run off the end of my screen? Thanks.

thanks Jimmy -- that BT series sounds like exactly what I need. Listening to Jimmy Smith is what has gotten me on this kick in the first place, of course! And then I recently heard cuts by Richard "Groove" Holmes on the radio (WBGO, Newark) -- really grabbed me.

B3-er: Any instructional books, tapes you would recommend to one (me) who has played the piano for years but is entirely new to Hammond B3? (I play a real pipe organ for church many years ago in high school, and Farfisa a bit in a rock band back then). Thanks -- any advice will be much appreciated -- don't worry, I don't think I'll pose much competition!

B3-er, congratulations! Great job -- I'm impressed and inspired by how quickly you got this going! Best wishes, maren