Hardbopjazz

dates May 24 thriough the 29. I'm on my way to see a living legend. This guys been around so long and played with just about everyone.

HAppy Birthday Jim, and many more.

I think this is everywhere in the world today. Britain suffers sense of humour failure due to worries of modern life LONDON (AFP) - Britain is suffering a sense of humour failure, with laughter levels three times lower now than 50 years ago and nearly half of all adults unable to enjoy at least one big guffaw a day, research showed. Money worries, relationship woes and even political concerns were among the reasons given for the collection of grim faces, according to the data, collected for the cruise company Ocean Village. "Laughter is an essential ingredient of a healthy, happy life and is one of the most effective and immediate antidotes to stress and tension -- it really is the best medicine," said Amanda Bate from Ocean Village. "The findings of this study show a worrying trend towards glumness. In the 1950s we laughed for an average of 18 minutes daily but this has dropped to just six minutes per day," she said. Morning misery is rife, with almost half of Britons -- some 45 percent -- admitting they frequently wallowed in gloom until lunchtime. Around 16 million adults, totalling 40 percent, said they failed to muster even one proper belly laugh in an average day. It is not all sulking and moodiness, however, as the research found that single women aged 18 to 24 in the northern city of Manchester were the happiest people in the country. In addition, Bristol, in western England, was named the most cheerful place for couples aged 25 to 34. Factors such as weather, time of day and age, were all cited as being able to spark the blues. July and August were the happiest months of the year according to three out of four people quizzed, with January the most miserable. The study was carried out by ICM Research on behalf of Ocean Village who interviewed a random selection of 1,000 adults aged 18 or over. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050524/lf_af...in_050524214117

How good is this? I am thinking of ording it. Is there a better discography of studio and live jazz recordings? I like the fact that the Lord's is on CD-ROM.

Walking in Manhattan yesterday I passed the building that use to be the Village Gate. Well today the Village Gate today is a Duane Reed drug store. How about all the other famous jazz clubs throughout the world, which are now defunct, any idea what they've become?

Sorry but I don't remember the set list. They were all Hutcherson's tunes though.

What can someone tell about this radio program? When was it on the air, or any other information?

Yes and no. Why not do one? You should see an increase in sales.

I did ask them. I received an email back, that they have no plans on running a sale at any point.

Has anyone gone to see them. I went on Wednesday. The band was smoking.

It's been at least 2 years since Mosaic has had their 20% off sale. Did they totally stop doing this? I always made sure to pick up at least 1 set during that time.

It looks the same to me.

I like it when animals fight back. HOUSTON - Like a scene from the horror movie "The Birds," large black grackles are swooping down on downtown Houston and attacking people's heads, hair and backs. Authorities closed off a sidewalk after the aggressive birds, which can have 2-foot wingspans, flew out of magnolia trees Monday in front of the County Administration Building. "They were just going crazy," said constable Wilbert Jue, who works at the building. "They were attacking everybody that walked by." The grackles zeroed in on a lawyer who shooed a bird away before he tripped and injured his face, Jue said. The lawyer was treated for several cuts. It appears that the birds are protecting their offspring. On Monday a young grackle had fallen out of its nest and adult birds attacked people who got too close, Jue said. Another bird attacked a deputy county clerk. "I hit him with a bottle," said Sylvia Velasquez. "The other birds came, and one attacked my blouse and on my back." Two women came to help her after she fell to the ground, and the birds attacked them as well. The group escaped by running into the building. "This is a very Hitchcock kind of story. Very Tippi Hedren," said downtown worker Laura Aranda Smith, referring to one of the stars of Alfred Hitchcock's move "The Birds

This is looking real nice. Very nice work Jim.

Frank Gorshin, Riddler on 'Batman,' Dies Wednesday, May 18, 2005 BURBANK, Calif. — Actor Frank Gorshin (search), the impressionist with 100 faces best known for his Emmy-nominated role as The Riddler (search) on the old "Batman" television series (search), has died. He was 72. Gorshin's wife of 48 years, Christina, was at his side when he died Tuesday at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center, his agent and longtime friend, Fred Wostbrock, said Wednesday. "He put up a valiant fight with lung cancer, emphysema and pneumonia," Mrs. Gorshin said in a statement. Despite dozens of television and movie credits, Gorshin will be forever remembered for his role as The Riddler, Adam West's villainous foil in the question mark-pocked green suit and bowler hat on "Batman" from 1966-69. "It really was a catalyst for me," Gorshin recalled in a 2002 Associated Press interview. "I was nobody. I had done some guest shots here and there. But after I did that, I became a headliner in Vegas, so I can't put it down." West said the death of his longtime friend was a big loss. "Frank will be missed," West said in a statement. "He was a friend and fascinating character." Gorshin earned another Emmy nominations one for a guest shot on "Star Trek." In 2002, Gorshin portrayed George Burns on Broadway in the one-man show "Say Goodnight Gracie." He used only a little makeup and no prosthetics. "I don't know how to explain it. It just comes," he said. "I wish I could say, 'This is step A, B and C.' But I can't do that. I do it, you know. The ironic thing is I've done impressions all my life -- I never did George Burns." Gorshin's final performance will be broadcast on Thursday's CBS-TV series "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation."

Yeah NY is expensive, but where else can you see Bobby Hutcherson at 9PM and take a train a few stops and See Andrew Hill with Charles Tolliver at 11 PM.

I'm going, but not sure which night I can make.

His lack of productivity recording-wise could be a factor. Guy

That's true. I saw Lovano twice at a Lou show. I've seen and sat next to Melvin Sparks at a Lou show.

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?

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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.