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I saw a copy of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers "Moain'" today with a totally different cover. Is this a rip off the Blue Note album or what?

I want to remind those in the NY area that this show is coming up February 19, 2007. I am hoping to make it. Does anyone plan on going to see this show that night? From what I've read Freddie really needs the money.

Thanks for the music Mike. RIP

Thanks, I didn't think of trying that since it is out of print. Can't hurt.

Somehow I cracked it when I Rolled my desk chair over it. Are these sides available on other releases?

I stand corrected. There are many JRVG, but none done here in the states.

I was listening to Black Orchid just now and this question came to mine. The only reason I can think is they wouldn't sell as well some of the other artists. Sad but true.

Not that I would run out any re-buy these, but just wondering why this important group for Blue Note in the 50's and 60's would be overlooked.

I have my check book out. By Paul Majendie Tue Jan 9, 8:14 AM ET LONDON, Jan 8 (Reuters Life!) - For sale: the world's smallest country with its own flag, stamps, currency and passports. Apply to Prince Michael of Sealand if you want to run your own nation, even if it is just a wartime fort perched on two concrete towers in the North Sea. Built in World War Two as an anti-aircraft base to repel German bombers, the derelict platform was taken over 40 years ago by retired army major Paddy Roy Bates who went to live there with his family. He declared the platform, perched seven miles off the east coast of England and just outside Britain's territorial waters, to be the principality of Sealand. The self-styled Prince Roy adopted a flag, chose a national anthem and minted silver and gold coins. The family saw off an attempt by Britain's Royal Navy to evict them and also an attempt in 1978 by a group of German and Dutch businessmen to seize Sealand by force. Roy, 85, now lives in Spain and his son Michael told BBC Radio on Monday his family had been approached by estate agents with clients "who wanted a bit more than a bit of real estate, they wanted autonomy." He suggested Sealand, which has eight rooms in each tower, could be a base for online gambling or offshore banking. Asked to describe the delights of living on what he described as a cross between a house and a ship, the 54-year-old said: "The neighbors are very quiet. There is a good sea view."

Horce Silver's "Doin' the Thing" has extra tracks.

Sad story in jazz. Chicago jazz mecca closes doors, perhaps forever CHICAGO (Reuters) - In a city that lost several beloved institutions in 2006, the sound coming out of Chicago's jazz scene is providing a year-end coda no one wants to hear. The Jazz Showcase, this jazz-drenched city's oldest club dedicated to the musical form and the second-oldest U.S. jazz venue after New York's Village Vanguard, is closing its doors this weekend after 59 years. A New Year's Eve "last blast" featuring saxophonist David "Fathead" Newman and Henry Johnson's Organ Express will be the final show at the club, which for six decades presented artists like Charlie Parker and others working out of the tradition associated with legendary players like John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins. This fall, the club lost its lease and despite help from the city of Chicago, its owner and founder, 80-year-old Joe Segal, still has found no new digs. The uncertainty surrounding the venerable club's future serves as a depressingly apt final note in a year that saw a number of Chicago landmarks -- including the Marshall Field's department store on State Street, the Berghoff restaurant, and the scruffy City News Service -- pass from the scene. "It's impossible to overstate the importance of the Jazz Showcase to Chicago," said John Corbett, a Chicago jazz journalist and musician. "We don't have the network or infrastructure of mainstream jazz clubs that a city like New York has. Which is bizarre because we have a great vibrant jazz scene. But in terms of the places where you can go see, every night, great mainstream jazz, there aren't that many." After Sunday night, there will be one fewer. Despite three months of looking with the help of the city of Chicago, Segal, who founded the club when he was a college student after World War Two, says he's "getting tired of looking." "No one's coming up with anything that says, 'We want you to be viable,"' Segal said. "They're introducing us to brokers. But they haven't found us anything that we can afford." BASEMENT STORAGE So after Sunday's 11 p.m. show, all the tables and chairs and memorabilia documenting the generations of jazz luminaries, including Parker, Diana Krall and McCoy Tyner who played there, will be moved into his son's basement. The Showcase has called half a dozen places home over the years so few jazz fans were worried when news of the club's troubles first became public. But as the club prepares to go dark for the first time in a decade, there's growing concern it may be for keeps. Ken Vandermark, a Chicago-based avant-garde jazz musician and winner of a 1999 MacArthur Fellowship "genius" award, fears what the scene would be like without it. "If you look at the lineups Joe has year after year, he's bringing in some of the best players, the most creative musicians, working in that part of the field," he said. "It would be such a huge blow if he's not able to find some place and not get some support for that. I would be really, really saddened by that." A benefit to raise money to help Segal find a new home is planned for March. But even if he finds a new site, Segal said the reopened Showcase will be a scaled-back affair, confining its presentation of internationally known acts to the weekends, rather than the current six nights a week, and featuring more jam sessions and open mike nights. If the Showcase doesn't reopen, there still would be jazz clubs in Chicago, which has been closely associated with jazz since Louis Armstrong recorded here with his Hot Five band in 1925. The Green Mill and Andy's, two mainstream clubs, aren't going anywhere and the Velvet Lounge, a more experimental club, has a new home after facing a situation similar to the Showcase's. Lauren Deutsch, the executive director of the Jazz Institute of Chicago, a non-profit group Segal helped found in 1969 to preserve the music in the face of rock 'n' roll's onslaught, is optimistic the Showcase can be saved. "People here have a kind of cultural ownership," she said. "Does that mean they won't fall and bite the dust? No. For jazz lovers, the Showcase is an exceptionally important place and is near and dear to our hearts."

I find Apples'stunes jazz selections to be somewhat thin. Here an example. I wanted to but Dexter Gordon's "The other side of round midnight". Apple' itunes only has 2 tracks from that album. I know some music lovers just want a song here and there from an album, but to me that is more in the pop and rock genera.

What was the first album that you can think of that offered bonus tracks?

5.7 GB for the OS. Are you sure your's is not short a few gigs. The OS when I looked on line is a few hundred MBs.

I thought it would take hours. Last year I bought a different MP3 player. It is 20 gigs and it takes a good 4 hours to upload 20 gigs. It is a piece of crap. I was working for the company, Olympus, and got a good discount, so I went with it. Not worth it. Olympus got out of the digital music busniess.

So I come out with about 8500 tunes if I don't compress it too much.

We fight over it all the time. She doesn't like jazz and wishes I would sell all my CDs.

Just how many albums could I fit on one of these? Apples claims up to 22,000 tunes. It will depend upon the size of each file, but with over jazz 7000 CD's, how many of them could I expect to get on an 80 gig iPod. Does anyone else have the 80 gig one?

I've seen Jimmy live at least 14 times. I will mae sure I pick this one up.

RIP Steve. What else is there to say to such terrible news.

Yeah, and it took humans 100 years to wipe them out.

Sad story. China's white dolphin called extinct after 20 million years POSTED: 9:59 a.m. EST, December 13, 2006 Story Highlights• Baiji, or white dolphin, survived 20 million years as species • 30 scientists searched 1,000 miles of Yangtze River for six weeks • Last full search in 1997 had 13 sightings • Yangtze finless porpoise also threatened; fewer than 400 left Adjust font size: BEIJING, China (AP) -- An expedition searching for a rare Yangtze River dolphin ended Wednesday without a single sighting and with the team's leader saying one of the world's oldest species was effectively extinct. The white dolphin known as baiji, shy and nearly blind, dates back some 20 million years. Its disappearance is believed to be the first time in a half-century, since hunting killed off the Caribbean monk seal, that a large aquatic mammal has been driven to extinction. A few baiji may still exist in their native Yangtze habitat in eastern China but not in sufficient numbers to breed and ward off extinction, said August Pfluger, the Swiss co-leader of the joint Chinese-foreign expedition. "We have to accept the fact, that the Baiji is functionally extinct. We lost the race," Pfluger said in a statement released by the expedition. "It is a tragedy, a loss not only for China, but for the entire world. We are all incredibly sad." Overfishing and shipping traffic, whose engines interfere with the sonar the baiji uses to navigate and feed, are likely the main reasons for the mammal's decline, Pfluger said. Though the Yangtze is polluted, water samples taken by the expedition every 30 miles did not show high concentrations of toxic substances, the statement said. For nearly six weeks, Pfluger's team of 30 scientists scoured a 1,000-mile heavily trafficked stretch of the Yangtze, where the baiji once thrived. The expedition's two boats, equipped with high-tech binoculars and underwater microphones, trailed each other an hour apart without radio contact so that a sighting by one vessel would not prejudice the other. Around 400 baiji were believed to be living in the Yangtze in the 1980s. The last full-fledged search, in 1997, yielded 13 confirmed sightings, and a fisherman claimed to have seen a baiji in 2004, Pfluger said in an earlier interview. At least 20 to 25 baiji would now be needed to give the species a chance to survive, the group's statement said, citing Wang Ding, a hydrobiologist and China's foremost campaigner for the baiji. Pfluger, an economist by training who later went to work for an environmental group, was a member of the 1997 expedition and recalls the excitement of seeing a baiji cavorting in the waters near Dongting Lake. "It marked me," he said in an interview Monday. He went on to set up the baiji.org Foundation to save the dolphin. That goal having evaporated, Pfluger said his foundation would turn to teaching sustainable fishing practices and trying to save other freshwater dolphins. The expedition also surveyed one of those dwindling species, the Yangtze finless porpoise, finding less than 400 of them. "The situation of the finless porpoise is just like that of the baiji 20 years ago," Wang, the Chinese scientist, said in the statement. "Their numbers are declining at an alarming rate. If we do not act soon they will become a second baiji." Pfluger and an occasional online diary kept by expedition members traced a dispiriting situation, as day after day team members engaged in a fruitless search for the baiji. "At first the atmosphere was 'Let's go. Let's go save this damn species,"' Pfluger said. "As the weeks went on we got more desperate and had to motivate each other." Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

Act Peter Boyld just past away.

With the year coming to a close, there has been a slue of artists leaving this Earth for the big jam session in the sky. So who has left us this year? Some names that come to mine. Jay McShann Duke Jordan Walter Booker We just have to remeber the music and they will live on forever.

Thanks Jay for all the music you left us. I will be spinning some of your records tonight.