clifford_thornton

Will have to get that - some of those I don't have.

Both excellent musicians; will have to keep an eye out for this one.

hope you have a great one Shawn!

oh yeah, foosball is no fun.

his music w/ the Black Eyed Peas is pretty uniformly terrible. I can't imagine anyone wanting to pay for it.

Some of it is pretty cool but like I said, haven't heard it in a while. Think I got a sealed copy that sounded fine.

Need to dig that one out again. It's been a while.

I bet Mosaic would help you out... not with a new CD player, but with a replacement CD.

Bobby Naughton - Solo Vibraphone - (Otic)

Indeedy. Now: Donald & Peggy Knaack - Inside the Plastic Lotus - (Hat Hut)

Aha! Yes, I have that disc somewhere. It's out there. Thought he sounded familiar - I'll have to dig out Robo-Robinson and give it a spin. RIP.

did he work with Mike Mahaffay?

I've been lucky to hang out with Allen frequently. Sure, there is bitterness sometimes but it's not unreasonable given the situation and he's really a kind and generous guy (not to mention great musician-composer). I still can't understand caring about Norah Jones one way or the other, but regardless, it's too bad that this thread was the straw that broke the camel's back.

this thread is a bummer

I still don't get the problem with Phil Woods. His fifties sessions are spot on and the European Rhythm Machine isn't slouchy either. No, he's not Bird or Schildkraut, but who other than Bird or Schildkraut is?

Stephen Colbert and Kareem Abdul Jabbar playing free jazz on the Colbert Report to jab at John Zorn: very funny Django Gold writing as Sonny Rollins to "bemoan poor life decisions" not at all funny http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/videos/o1qorx/who-s-not-honoring-me-now----the-macarthur-foundation

I'm sure you're right... from the man who christened a nefarious teenage weed dealer "Anthony Braxton."

I don't know if it's sexism as much as purposely going against the grain just to be contrarian. He used to post on Bagatellen and IHateMusic and ruffled the feathers of a lot of free musicians, who ultimately didn't take him too seriously and thus he found himself not being able to tap into that scene. The "NY Is Now" book didn't help his case from the get-go, either. He seems to have taken his ball and gone elsewhere, so to speak.

I can tell you where a lot of it started offline and yes, it is personal, not musical.

they have nice stuff at reasonable prices. Even adding $20 over a whole order shouldn't be a deal-breaker. But that's just me.

I just noticed that the first post was from 2004 and unresponded to until this year.

Krzysztof Komeda - Astigmatic - (Muza)

Right you are. I wrote a few things for Burning Ambulance on request. Felt like my stuff was fine. But it was often surrounded by things I couldn't get with.

I can kinda relate.