Hardbopjazz

Thanks, I'll have to keep checking for the schedules.

Dude, she seems like a catch. Tell her you want to meet mom and dad.

Is there a Jazzmobile where you live? For those that don't know, the Jazzmobile bring free jazz to neighborhoods all over the US and some countries in Europe.

Clark Terry will be performing at Grant's Tomb next Wednesday. It is free. jazzmobile

I am going to be there on busniess and thought about checking out some jazz at night. Any good jazz clubs?

No, I couldn't make it Saturday. I did see the Heath Brothers at Lincoln center over the weekend.

He will debut a new piece of music which he was commissioned to write called, “The Bird is the Word”. I believe Frank Morgan will be at the Sunday show.

I've gone and seen him a number of times since 1996, about 8 times. The set doesn't stray much from each other, still great to go and see them. Just one time there was a third set at the VV in Oct 1997. They took requests and tore the house down. They played almost all Soul-Jazz. I remeber two of the tunes that night, One Cylinder, and Everything I play is Funky. That was the best F*$#en show I ever seen. He also had Idris Muhammand on drums that night. Lou just played the jazzmobile 2 weeks ago here in NYC. I couldn't get out of work to go. This time he played with an acoustic lineup, no organ. That would have been nice to see that.

New Flightless Bird Species Found Off Philippines Mon Aug 16, 8:02 PM ET Add Science - Reuters to My Yahoo! By Ed Stoddard JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Scientists have discovered a new species of flightless bird on a remote island in the Philippines, the conservation group BirdLife International said on Tuesday. The rare find is dramatic as flightless birds on small islands are especially vulnerable to extinction from human activities. Many of the island species that have been categorized by science were long gone when biologists unearthed their bones. BirdLife International said the proposed name for the bird is the Calayan rail with the scientific name Gallirallus calayanensis. The bird, about the size of a crow, was found on the island of Calayan in the northern Philippines about 40 miles off the coast. "The Calayan rail is a relative of the internationally familiar moorhen, with bright red beak and legs contrasting sharply with its dark plumage," BirdLife said in a statement. "But unlike its familiar relative, the Calayan rail is flightless, or nearly so, and found only on the small island after which it is named." One or two new bird species are uncovered each year but this rail's flightless nature and unexplored location make it especially intriguing. "This is exceptional because it is flightless and no ornithologist had explored the island since 1903," Dr. Richard Thomas of BirdLife told Reuters by telephone from the group's British headquarters. Genevieve Broad, a biologist and one of the co-leaders of the Filipino-British expedition, said isolation had protected the species from human encroachment. "The island is 186 sq km and has only 8,500 people who are concentrated in one town in the south. There are few people in the middle of the island (where the birds are found) because there aren't any roads," she told Reuters. Isolation has also proved disastrous for flightless birds in the past. Many that evolved on remote islands with no predators have become what biologists term "ecologically naive" -- meaning they do not recognize danger from other animals. So when humans first arrived on small islands in the past, they found the flightless birds to be easy sources of protein and often wiped them out -- with the dodo of the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius being the most famous. Most of the 22 species of rail which have become extinct since 1600 were flightless. Eighteen of the 20 living species of flightless rail are considered to be threatened.

Lineup James Moody, tenor sax Slide Hampton, trombone Benny Green, piano John Lee, bass Dennis Mackrel, drums Special Guests: Roy Hargrove, trumpet Jackie McLean, alto sax Roberta Gambarini, vocals

So true. I saw the Heath brothers last night, and Percy wasn't there. Someone aked Jimmy Heath where's Percy, Jimmy said he was under the weather.Hopefully that just means something minor. I am planning to see the Heath Brothers again the Wednesday, hopefull he'll be there. They will be at Grant's tomb. A free concert, located at 116 street in NYC.

I have a database where I keep track of all my music. One field is birth date of musicians. I decided to add a new field caledl Date_of_death. When I run the query, it first returned a number of 83%. I decieded to remove all the classical music from the query and just leave in jazz recordings, the number dropped to 72%. Wow, I can't ever see that number ever going down, just up. I have to begin listening to more new musicians.

I found an old VHS tape of one show with Tal Farlow, Herb Ellis and Charlie Byrd. I put in my VCR, and the video fallout was real bad. A minute into the show it snapped. I remember watching the show when it aired around 1979 or 1980.

First of all welcome to the board. At the show I saw, the band just finished their set and were coming back out to play an encore, a man around Jamal's age was right up at the stage and started yelling at Jamal, "why don't you play like you use to in the 50s? Everyone was yelling site down. " Jamal replied, "I'm playing better today. You have to keep exploring"

I was entering a reply. I type it up and when I hit enter, I got the MYSQL error.

Any idea what it will probably sell for?

Back in its day I tape a bounce of themto video. I tried to watch them tonight. The years have not been kind to the videos. Wondering if somewhere out there I could find them again.

Would anyone know if any of the shows are on DVD? They use to have some jazz artists on that show. It was in the 70's and early 80's on PBS.

Wow, those are stong winds.

What's your thoughts? After seeing him and his band last week, I realized how great a composer he is. My library had 3 CD's of his. I took them out. Wow, he impresses me. I will start collecting all I can from him. This is someone still in his prime.

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Yet another. RIP Tony. I remember him on the Tonight Show.

Sonny on a bad day is still better then most tenor players.

He was and still is my favorite singer. I will try and watch this. Thanks for the spam.