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Ok, I'll try to PM in the morning with a description of what I am wearing. I think two friends of mine can also make it, so that would be a lot of fun.

I saw Maynard Ferguson playing in Chicago's Soldier Field back in 1985 or 86. The Basie Ghost Band at CSO on New Years. Mingus Big Band a few times. That's all I can recall.

I wonder if it is something they composed and played together in New York. There was a concert maybe two years ago featuring Hill and Moran that I missed by one day (flying in from Chicago). Oh well.

Are you going to make it to the Sunday matinee? It looks like I can go, since the wife will be busy watching the Superbowl. By the way, the Aoki project at Hothouse has now moved to the 9th and now there is a cover charge. I'm still leaning towards going, but it isn't quite as great a deal.

I kind of like the gamble, especially since this looks a little dodgy. If I lose out, then I won't be as tempted to stray from the straight and narrow again. There are actually a number of shops on Gemm.com that I won't deal with again because their fill rate is so low. But I wasn't that impressed with the rest of their inventory, so I probably won't be coming back again and again to the site.

Ah well, human nature strikes again. I did order the Brookmeyer and will let you know if it shows up. Mosaic has got a lot of my other money, and I wouldn't have paid $36+ for the Select, since I already have some of the albums on it.

They do have the track listing correct, though, and they should be suspicious that you can fit 30+ tracks on 1 CD.

Hard to see how they could make any money, unless these fell off a truck. OTOH, I don't have the Brookmeyer, and I'd be willing to gamble. Sometimes these places just get the prices wrong. Amazon was selling a 10 CD set of Billie Holiday (from Definitive) that replicated the Columbia set, and it only cost $20. I know some people got the entire set at that price. (Now it is $90, though plenty of used copies for $50 floating about.)

I have many books - around 2500 with 2/3 being academic and/or work related A small but growing DVD collection, split mostly between film noir, British comedy and SF movies Pretty much anything Futurama related (the DVDs, the comics, the coasts and holiday ornaments and even a wind-up walking Bender! )

Well, I certainly like the Farlow, though I like the recent Farmer/Golson Jazztet even more (not on your list). They should both be around for a while. With $50 I might be inclined to go for one of the earlier Selects like Curtis Amy or Randy Weston. Or Randy Weston and Andrew Hill.

It's very sedate. There is a guitar player that I can barely hear, to say nothing of the bass -- of course, I am listening in an office environment and don't have it turned up loud. It doesn't grab me, that's for sure.

Someone dumped a review copy at HiFi, so I got it at a verrry reasonable price. I am sure I will appreciate it more than the reviewer. I'll post some thoughts this evening after I spin it a few times. Sal, Moran is going to be playing at the CSO I believe in March. It's not the ideal setting. I preferred seeing him at Hothouse, but I'll still be going.

Growing up I did a lot of social science research, assisting on surveys and coding the data. I also worked as a librarian until the end of college. One night spent tearing down a traveling carnival (was offered a job for the summer but they didn't go anywhere I wanted to visit) Math teacher (2 long years) Temp all around Manhattan Graduate teaching assistant Transportation planner Transportation planning consultant (same job, better pay)

Yes, congratulations. Very exciting times are ahead. No sleep for you, sir. My son is 8 months old and only now do I sometimes get to sleep through the night. I'm wondering if Milo is from Bloom County, one of my favorite comics growing up.

I haven't but my firm probably did. I am supposed to be involved in doing some work for the Chapel Hill region and two other nearby metro areas once they complete a new survey of bus riders. Actually, I see that Jim Dye is in Murfreesboro, TN, which I had never heard of until two weeks ago. Now I am investigating the possibility of commuter rail between Murfreesboro and Nashville.

I do a special brand of transportation planning called travel demand forecasting. We predict regional traffic flows 20-30 years into the future. If your state decides to build an entirely new highway or wants to put in a commuter rail line, then they come see me or my colleagues, though sometimes they go with the competition and get bad advice.

I agree with Chaney. I like MOMA the best of the three. I also preordered this. I also combined it with the Mulligan Concert Band, so now I have two things to wait for (instead of Mulligan showing up next week). Hopefully there will not be any significant delays.

I have more BN than Prestige, though if you added all the labels under Fantasy, it would be pretty close. If you were going to give me the entire run of some label, I probably would go with Prestige, since I have most of the BN I am looking for (other than Head On, and Inner Glow, and Jutta Hipp, and some Bill Evans ... and Trainwreck).

Mine's a squeezed down poster of Eric Dolphy. We share the same first name. I have only had the one avatar since I added it a few weeks after I joined the board.

I've read that novel and enjoyed it. It is written from multiple perspectives and often information is contradictory, much like someone trying to track down the "truth" about an elusive musician for a biography. In fact, if I recall, the main character is a white biographer who is writing about Jackson Payne. The only thing I would alter from Larry's description is that Payne is much more like the character Dexter Gordon played in Round Midnight (running out on his children and never conquering his addictions) than Coltrane.

I tell you in all seriousness that no one in Chicago expected this, but it is very nice to see the Bulls return to respectability. They have an incredible bench. I don't think they will get too far in the playoffs this year, but if most of the team returns and they continue playing defense and good, unselfish team ball (yeah some big ifs), we should have some very solid seasons. This is a very, very young team, so they should continue to improve, especially as they no longer have any bitter veterans to drag them down (and no I wasn't talking about Pippen who was on the roster last year).

Maybe he changed his name to Henry Darger.

I still think it is very questionable judgment to consider badly drawn cartoons by 10-year-olds as something that meets the threshold of a felony. Part of childhood involves doing all kinds of stupid things, and I think putting these into an adult legal framework is inappropriate. I remember drawing cartoons (usually about classmates or the teacher) that would be libelous or grounds for a slander suit. Probably most of us did. Now this is going to be legislated out of existence, along with the drawings of tanks and machine guns and everything else. If you look at existence in the US on the ground as influenced by lawyers and pressure groups of all stripes, we live in a much more enlarged and oppressive nanny state than the EU members do, despite our so-called love of freedom and celebratation of the lone wolf hero.

Sal: I have Nine to Get Ready. It's ok. I don't listen to it a lot. It's not as "important" as Sound (I'm being a bit facetious) and it's not as fun as Snurdy McGurdy on Nessa Records. It's probably better than ok, but I just haven't listened to it in a while. If you PM and remind me, I'll try to bring it to the Jazz Showcase on Sunday for Alexander/Mabern. Eric

What this country has is a severe shortage of common sense. Principals and school boards enact "zero tolerance" policies that are absurd (mostly to pat themselves on the back and say they are doing something about crime in school) and only back down when confronted by the media. At the same time, there are situations like the one in Berwyn in the Chicago region where a teacher had several reprimands for touching students inappropriately and they don't report this to the police. Now it turns out that 10 or more students have been molested by this teacher. My impression of principals, formed in high school, is that they are inflexible authoritians who are nonetheless cowards when it comes to possible lawsuits. I see no reason to think any different now. If anything, the situation is much worse than when I was in high school.