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Just hope it's real Cream and not:

I use the Holland Tunnel -> West Side Highway S -> FDR N -> Williamsburg Bridge. Depending on the time of day and year, I've also used 278 from SI, but it's expensive coming back that way. Getting back on *track*, make sure you don't get too near the Amtrak lines. Wouldn't want to cause another *train wreck* now, would you? B-)

I'm thinking about going, especially since I missed him last time. (I heard it was an excellent show.) Hope I can manage the two block walk to the show!

there's probably more, but here's what I remember: grocery store bagger burger chef employee (fired by alcoholic manager after three days) shoe salesman golf driving range manager and pro shop salesman (I knew nothing about golf, btw) night shift receptionist at high rise college dorm furniture mover for college housing department work study job as programming assistant at a nuclear particle accelerator lab assistant editor, Owlswick Press assistant editor, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine jazz dj, WXPN, philadelphia programmer systems programmer unix systems administrator authentication engineer

Ahhh, but have you seen the announcement of the William Shatner set?

Only caught the tail end; I'll have to go back and listen via the archive of the show: http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rund...Date=2-Feb-2005

Books, cat hair, dust and bills.

Congrats!!

They'll be in philly on 2/23.

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150 former registrants offered items for sale as their first post.

And here's a pic I took in Philadelphia back in Dec. 2001 when he was a young lad (only 72) --

His recent CAMJazz duet with pianist John Taylor, Where Do We Go From Here? is also very nice.

I liked it. Here's a short review.

My business card says I'm an "Information Technology Practitioner." I have no idea what that means. I certainly don't practice! In reality, I work on setting up the security software for the several hundred web sites my company hosts. My company recently signed an IT outsourcing deal with a large ITO company and I will be soon employed by them. Hopefully, they won't try to move my job somewhere else. (Not really interested in moving to Bangalur or even Wyoming.) At night, I run some little jazz web site. And in my spare time, I do the main parenting duties for my two daughters, as well as spending time trying to file my CDs, and do some drawing and printmaking. [below: Mat Maneri staring at new music for his upcoming ECM recording, 14 Jan 2005.]

Next year, preschool!

By coincidence, the remaster of "The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys" arrived in the mail yesterday. Played it last night.

The ophicleide! Ready for a revival? "The ophicleide is part of the family of keyed bugles invented by Hallary in the early 1800's. ... The name "ophicleide" means "keyed serpent", and in fact the ophicleide was developed as an improvement over the serpent. The serpent is difficult to play and has a soft timbre. Its tone holes are arranged essentially where one can reach them, rather than where they have the best effect acoustically. Hallary revised the entire concept, making the bore of metal (rather than the serpent's wood), positioning 9 tone holes in approximately correct locations, and covering the large holes with padded keys. Additional keys were added later to improve particular notes. However, the keys are not arranged to make sense to woodwind players: keys reach from the tone hole to the nearest finger (or thumb). ... " From: http://www.contrabass.com/pages/ophicleide.html

That's good news. I have a copy of his Monk book and concur with Mike on its high quality! Edit: But if the Dizzy one is on CD, I'd probably miss being able to thumb through a harcopy book!

Adrian Rollini

Who plays it? Who the hell can pick one up! Anthony Braxton playing the bass saxophone with a group at The Kitchen in New York City. April 29, 1972 [bob Parent / Archive Photos]

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I think 'fukyo' translates as madness. I wouldn't put it past Zorn to have the other idea in mind, however. Or both meanings simultaneously.