Hardbopjazz

Shit, he gets all the respect from me. I've seen him 18 times now. He looks at me sitting right there up front as if I'm a stalker. HE still kicks ass at 78.

Once upon a time George Benson played jazz guitar with the best of them, Green, Montgomery, and Burrell. Then one day he went over to the dark side of pop. What album would you say completed that transformation?

Many more.

I read this the other day and I decided to try it. I recorded 3 hours of white noise from a TV not attached to cable or any other device that might pick up something. I sat today and listened to it with headphones so that I could drown out any other sound. On about 4 different points in the tape, I can hear what appears to be a human voice. Once it sounded like a man saying, "I'm here, I didn't leave". Another point the same voice said, "Please help me find the door". The other 2 times I couldn't understand but it was a voice of a woman. The article is below. Try this. It spooked me out real bad. It might just be something being picked up by the TV, even though not attached to anything. It may be my mind or both. STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Can voices of the dead be heard on ordinary audio tapes recorded in a quiet room? Swedish archeologist, documentary maker and artist Friedrich Juergenson pioneered research into Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP). Eighteen years after his death, interest in EVP is surging thanks to the horror movie "White Noise" in which Michael Keaton receives messages from his dead wife. "We picked up maybe 60 new members after the movie," said Lisa Butler, who runs the American Association of Electronic Voice Phenomena (www.aaevp.com) together with her husband Tom from their home in Reno, Nevada. Their Web site recorded 88,000 hits the day after the movie opened and the Butlers appear on the "White Noise" DVD's extra material, demonstrating how to record EVP. The Butlers see the voices as evidence of life after death and say they have recorded the voices of Tom's father, Lisa's mother and her paternal grandmother. "We have been recording the voices for 15 years and have proved to ourselves that it's possible to reach loved ones," said Lisa Butler. "We have done that." Believers say getting in touch with a dead relative through EVP can help the grieving process and the association's roughly 400 members include parents whose dead children have contacted them through EVP, said Lisa. The voices cannot be heard live, only when a recording is played back. Messages are often short, such as "I miss you" or "I love you," and are usually just louder than a whisper. Anyone can record and hear them but not everyone manages to establish contact with lost family members, say the Butlers. "There are always entities on the other side who are willing to talk to you. But getting a loved one, a specific person, is a little more of a challenge," said Tom. FACT OR FICTION? "White Noise" dwells on the dangers of communing with the dead and the moviemakers say one in 12 EVP messages are "overtly threatening." "That's pure science fiction," said Tom Butler. Skeptics dismiss EVP as the by-product of stray radio waves or over-active human imagination. Even in the esoteric world of parapsychologists, the concept is frowned upon. "I find the idea of EVP simply ludicrous. The human brain is designed to find meaningful patterns, even where there's only randomness. So it's not surprising some people believe they have heard something in the noise," said Joakim Westerlund, who does research into parapsychology at Stockholm University. Undaunted by such comments and the occasional accusation from religious groups that they are dallying with demons, the Butlers recommend non-believers try out EVP for themselves. "This is something that each and every person can do, and when you get a voice it's life-changing," said Lisa Butler. Juergenson first heard strange voices while recording bird song in 1959. Recording silence and white noise from the radio, he identified one of the voices as his dead mother and concluded that all such voices must come from beyond the grave. In a colorful career, the Swede who died in 1987 at the age of 84 conducted archeological excavations at Pompeii and under St Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, spoke 10 languages and as an artist was commissioned to paint portraits of two popes. In 1999, Swedish composer and sound artist Carl Michael von Hausswolff stumbled across Juergenson's archive of 1,000 tapes. He now chairs the Friedrich Juergenson Foundation which put out a CD "Best of" the EVP recordings and an English translation of Juergenson's 1967 book "Voice Transmissions With the Deceased." "He is a lot more famous now than he was five years ago," said von Hausswolff, who called Juergenson's research "a kind of pioneering work into the absurd." From time to time, Juergenson's recordings are featured along with sound art in galleries, and von Hausswolff has organized exhibitions about his life and work. "A guy who devotes himself to something this odd is something very much out of the ordinary. People like that deserve a medal," said von Hausswolff.

So you did know he plays flute.. No I didn't know he played flute. I've seen him about 11 times over the years and I never saw him play flute.

Thanks for that reply. He is very good on flute.

Does anyone know if he plays flute? I have a recording of the Heath Brothers from an old radio broadcast. On one tune, Lover Man, there's no sax, but flute. There no mention of any other musician on that date when their names are announced.

Down again.

That's what it looks like.

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German media conglomerate Bertelsmann is set to buy U.S. direct CD seller, Columbia House, for $400 million to bolster its ailing club business in a deal it had walked away from four years ago. Bertelsmann agreed to buy Columbia, which had $800 million in sales last year, from private equity firm Blackstone and will add it to U.S. CD seller BMG Direct, Bertelsmann's DirectGroup division said in a statement on Tuesday. The club business, the root of Bertelsmann's rise to be the world's fourth-largest media group, has struggled with an aging and declining membership as people flock to the Internet to buy books or CDs. Its sales fell five percent last year. Bertelsmann, with up to 3 billion euros ($3.9 billion) under its belt for purchases, last month already bought French bookstore chain Privat in another deal to beef up DirectGroup, its least profitable unit. "This once again clearly demonstrates that all signs at Direct Group are pointing to growth following its successful turnaround," said Bertelsmann Chief Executive Gunter Thielen in a letter to employees, a copy of which was obtained by Reuters. Bertelsmann had been in talks to buy Columbia from Time Warner and Sony in 2001, but could not reach a deal. Blackstone bought its stake for $410 million a year later. Since 2001, Columbia has lost about a third of its sales. A person familiar with the discussions said Bertelsmann was buying Blackstone's 85 percent stake as well as the rest of the company, which is owned by Time Warner and Sony, and was paying $400 million for all of it. The purchase is the latest in a string of smaller deals Thielen has done over the past year to boost growth. He said in the letter they will add about 10 percent in sales in 2006. Bertelsmann on Tuesday closed the merger of its gravure printing operatings with that of German newspaper publisher Axel Springer, christening the new company Prinovis. Magazine arm Gruner + Jahr bought special interest magazine publisher Motor-Presse Stuttgart; services unit arvato merged its receivables management business with Infoscore; and music unit BMG merged with Sony Music in a landmark deal last year. "All these acquisitions enhance our core businesses," Thielen said in the letter. "They reinforce the growth that our divisions self-generate, as well as potentially strengthen them for future competition." Bertelsmann last week said first-quarter sales were almost flat as it fell behind in U.S. music sales and German TV advertising failed to pick up strongly. ($1=.7791 Euro)

I'm not a fan of downloading MP3's. I like the whole package with linner notes. I'll just go out any get them. Thanks for the infor on emusic.

That about says it all. My first exposure to Newborn was hearing him with Teddy Edwards and Howard McGhee on 'Together Again'. Good shit top to bottom. BW, I was just going to say.........get THIS! ... but you beat me to it. B-) Together again. That's 2 to put on my list.

Next will be "We Three".

Not sure if he was blind.

Never hear much talk about him here or anywhere. What's your thoughts on Newborn? I was watching a Ahmad Jamal DVD. During the iterview, Ahmad praised him, So I went out and bought "While my Lady Sleeps." His sound kind of reminds me of an earlier Ahmad Jamal. Any other session worth checking out?

11, that's when I started to play guitar. The best thing is to have him find other kids his age and let them play together. You seem to learn real fast that way. It worked for me.

I am enjoying the 1st and 3rd tracks. That is a Waltz for Debby on track 2. Still going though the rest.

Correct. He hardly talks about Percy Heath. I doubt he gives a rat's ass about Percy Heath.

Perfect pitch is very rare. Welcome to the board John.

I agree.

My wife complain. Beethoven's 9th.

Good easy number to remember.

Can you think of any well known jazz artists that history let slip under the radar and don't seem to get much or any coverage in books?

one more for the road.

This beats going to mars