Hardbopjazz

So I take it you don't have either of the organissimo CDs?!? FOR SHAME!!! Even worse, he thought you guys were dead He misunderstood when someone said you guys were dead on funky! What do you guys use to catalog your collection? Does anyone have a reccomendation that can make typing in 1000 cds relatively easy? I've been using Collectorz. http://www.collectorz.com/music/newsletter.php

Just stay healthy and don't smoke too much and you'll help keep the percentage down. Pluse since you drive to a lot of your gigs, don't pull a Brownie. It seems a lot of jazz musicians met their demise this way.

Yes, that is precisely what happened with me.

So I take it you don't have either of the organissimo CDs?!? FOR SHAME!!! Bingo. I have the two CD's and that's what is keeping it under 75%.

I tried to do it like the old way but it doens't work.

I tried to create a poll but couldn't get it to work. Can someon explain how it works in this version of the software?

Gald to say the number hasn't done up much at all in a year and a half since I first started this thread a year and a half ago. 73.9% as of Sunday January 29, 2005.

How about these two? Doc Cheatham- dies back stage. Stanley Turrentine- dies on the way to hospital. He was warming up before going on stage.

This belongs in this thread. Scientists Find Frozen Methane Gas Deposit By ALICIA CHANG, AP Science Writer 22 minutes ago LOS ANGELES - Scientists have discovered an undersea deposit of frozen methane just off the Southern California coast, but whether it can be harnessed as a potential energy source is unknown. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in tapping methane hydrates, ice-like crystals that form at low temperatures and high pressure in seabeds and in Arctic permafrost. Scientists estimate that the methane trapped in previously known frozen reservoirs around the globe could power the world for centuries. But finding the technology to mine such deposits has proved elusive. The newly discovered deposit, believed to be substantial in size, was found about 15 miles off the coast at a depth of about 2,600 feet, at the summit of an undersea mud volcano. Scientists were conducting an unrelated study when they came across the volcano, which sits on top of an active fault zone in the Santa Monica Basin. The discovery is detailed in the February issue of the journal Geology. The ecosystem surrounding the methane hydrate site was unlike any of the other vast hydrate deposits around the world. Scientists found seashells and clams with unique chemical characteristics, suggesting the area experiences an extreme flux of methane gas mixing with water, said Jim Hein, a marine geologist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park. In additional to technical problems standing in the way of mining methane hydrates, Hein said mining this deposit probably would be difficult because of its proximity to shipping lanes from Los Angeles and Long Beach. Some scientists also worry about the environmental effects of such large-scale gas deposits. Hydrates are estimated to contain about three times as much methane as is currently in the atmosphere, and some scientists say releasing it could lead to global warming and change the world's climate.

At my last job I worked with a guy that was a clone of the guy the movie "a Beautiful Mind", John Nash. He had stories that he swore by. One day he was writing with a pen that said NASA on it. One of my other coworkers asked where he got it. He started to tell a story how he was walking in a park in Rochester, NY January 1986. He looked up and saw something falling out of the sky. When it hit the ground it started to melt the snow. He walked over to it and saw it was a pen with the word NASA on it. He picked it up and wondered where it fell from. When he went home, his wife was all upset. When he asked why she was so upset, she told him the shuttle just blew up. He swears the pen was from the shuttle. We told him, why he didn't turn it in. His reply was, it is evidence from an accident and he would get in trouble for having it.

Now that's tasteless.

This is just wrong in everyway.

If it wasn't for Wes, there would be no Melvin Rhyne. Most likely. If it wasn't for Bird, there would be no Miles. Possible.

Alen, there has to be a reason why Horace asked for the 2 bucks for the cassette. Maybe he was made the guy backout at the last minute. This was a way of getting back at him.

I really enjoy Charles Kynard playing. I would have to choose him from the list.

That was great.

... Challenger blew up after takeoff. Where were you and what were you doing? I was in a store buying food for my pet Oscars at the time. Ran home and glued myself to the TV all day and night. Remembering Challenger 20 Years Later By MIKE SCHNEIDER, Associated Press Writer Thu Jan 26, 12:40 PM ET CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Twenty years ago, space shuttle Challenger blew apart into jets of fire and plumes of smoke, a terrifying sight witnessed by the families of the seven astronauts and by those who came to watch the historic launch of the first teacher in space. The disaster shattered NASA's spit-shined image and the belief that spaceflight could become as routine as airplane travel. The investigation into the accident's cause revealed a space agency more concerned with schedules and public relations than safety and sound decision-making. Seventeen years later, seven more astronauts were lost on the shuttle Columbia, leading many to conclude NASA had not learned the lessons of Challenger. But after last summer's successful return to flight under the highest level of engineering scrutiny ever, many space watchers are more hopeful. "Don't we all learn as we go?" said Grace Corrigan, who lost her daughter, teacher Christa McAuliffe, in the Challenger accident. "Everybody learns from their mistakes." Joining McAuliffe on the doomed Jan. 28, 1986 Challenger flight were commander Dick Scobee, pilot Mike Smith and astronauts Ellison Onizuka, Judy Resnik, Ron McNair and Greg Jarvis. "It was one of those defining moments in your life that you will always remember," said U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson (news, bio, voting record), D-Fla., who had flown on the shuttle mission preceding Challenger. "Because in 1986, the space shuttle was the symbol of technological prowess of the United States and all the sudden it's destroyed in front of everybody's eyes." The two shuttle disasters, as well as the deaths of the Apollo 1 crew during a 1967 launch pad test, taught the space agency how to improve the herculean task of launching humans into space, NASA administrator Michael Griffin said recently. On Thursday, NASA workers paused for their annual Day of Remembrance in honor of those lost in all three accidents. On Saturday, a ceremony remembering the Challenger accident is planned at Kennedy Space Center. Challenger was brought down just after liftoff by a poorly designed seal in the shuttle's solid rocket booster, which has since been redesigned and has performed without problems. It will be used on the next-generation vehicle with plans to return astronauts to the moon and later to Mars. "We learned how to design solid rocket boosters ... with no further failures," Griffin said. "We got that from the Challenger crew, so that is part of the learning process, I'm afraid." The Challenger disaster came in an era of tighter budgets, smaller work forces and a constant need for the space agency to justify the shuttle program that followed the heyday of the Apollo moon shots. NASA had hoped sending a teacher into space to give a lesson would win back some public interest and show the routine nature of shuttle flights. The success of the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs had led NASA to believe that spaceflight eventually could become as commonplace as an airplane ride, said Stanley Reinartz, the former manager of the shuttle project office at the Marshall Spaceflight Center in Huntsville, Ala. He made the decision not to take engineers' concerns about the Challenger's O-ring seals to the highest reaches of NASA management. "Things can go wrong," Reinartz said of the decision to launch. "You don't get away from it. It's always there." Nelson said he is confident that the current NASA leaders have learned the lessons of management hubris from their predecessors. Griffin grounded the shuttle fleet last summer after foam fell off the tank of Discovery during the first shuttle flight after Columbia. It was a chunk of foam debris that doomed Columbia by knocking a hole in its wing. "The problem that NASA has had that caused the destruction of both space shuttles is the same reason ... arrogance in the management of NASA so that they were not listening to the engineers on the line," Nelson said. But some critics wonder how long the 2-year-old reforms and attitude changes implemented after Columbia will last until, once again, dissenting opinion is discouraged and NASA managers override the concerns of their engineers. In a series of telephone conference calls the night before Challenger's liftoff, engineers from NASA contractor Morton Thiokol recommended against a launch because data showed that cold temperatures compromised the O-rings' resiliency. The temperature at launch time was 36 degrees. Under perceived pressure from NASA managers, Thiokol managers reversed themselves and went against the recommendation of their engineers not to launch, according to the investigation by a commission appointed by President Reagan. "The presidential commission made very powerful and strong recommendations on how the system needed to be fixed," said Roger Boisjoly, a former Thiokol engineer who had opposed the Challenger launch during the conference calls. "Initially NASA installed every one of those (recommendations), but in the ensuing years proceeded to dismantle them." Griffin said he is reminded of the early days of the nation's air transport system when scores of test pilots died in plane accidents during the early part of last century. "The knowledge we gained was gained only through many, many losses," Griffin said. "That is the perspective through which we must look at our losses in spaceflight." ___ On the Net: NASA's Web site on the history of the Challenger accident: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/sts51l.html

Wow. 3.5k. I once wrote here that I went to a company picnic. There was a DJ that had his booth all plastered with 45's and LP's, both the album covers and records. He had some old Blue Note with 47 W 63rd pressed on the covers. Damn, if only he knew what they would have sold for. I don't the condition the LP's were in before he stapled them to some 2 by 4's.

Wow I am lovin' that web site. Thanks for posting it.

It was just a matter of time before this thread was started. When I saw the thread on fasting, I said to myself, in 4 hours we will have a thread on farting. Well I was close. Has anyone ever seen the guy Howard Stern who could fart on que. He was even able to make music with those cheeks.

Anyone planning on reading Horace Silver's autobiography when it comes out in March? Maybe he'll have the story of the cassette tape in it.

He's just sick. Done over and out!

Maybe there'll be previously unpublished lyrics to all of his compositions. LOL

Wanted to bring this up from the dead and see what newer members think.

In March 2004 Downbeat, "out of the material I've written, I own just about all of it... There are only three songs I've written that I can never get back from the publishers I originally put it with, and they are not that popular: 'Opus De Funk,' 'Silverware' and 'Buhaina.'