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I was once at a table next to Threadgill at an East Village Sicilian restaurant. Though we certainly know people in common we had never been introduced, so I didn't say anything to him. But he's probably one of the people I'd invite, probably Butch Morris too. I'd really look for people I can count on for being interesting conversationalists, not just musicians I like. Among the dead I'd probably think of a guy like Rex Stewart whose writing suggests he'd be a good talker. And Steve Lacy without a doubt. I probably wouldn't invite Monk or Bud... Maybe Ernest Dawkins because the couple of times I've chatted briefly with him he seemed like such a nice guy. Oh, and for another nice guy who's has stuff to say, Dave Burrell. You should consider inviting Juan Tizol. And if you really want to up the stakes, Tizol & Strayhorn. I used to work as a programmer for insurance companies, so at one point I imagined a dinner with three legendary insurance men: Charles Ives, Wallace Stevens & Franz Kafka.

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Hi, Phil! I just discovered I'm staying right near the Astoria Pastry Shop, which gets rave reviews. Looking forward to morning pastries...

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The lineup on the festival website has been updated and "cleaned up," though they still need to fix the line spacing on some groups. http://detroitjazzfest.com/12lineup.html

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Unless I missed it on the "master list" there isn't a thread for this. I had thought Lenny Kravitz's Greatest Hits cover was a direct knockoff of Al Green's Greatest Hits, but when I just looked I think it's only an oblique allusion.

I'm amazed to learn that he's alive and performing. This album is amazing, though this Birdland was in Seattle.

Great album, but in its own sphere I wouldn't say it's overlooked...

So would you stubbornly refuse to use the free version of Spotify to check out tracks before you spent your hard-earned cash on a tangible product? Then you could make better selections, no? There's a $5 a month option that kills the commercials but doesn't allow offline or portable device access. That's the price of 4 CDs per year. I believe Pandora is only $36 a year for the no-commercial, higher bitrate version. I love Pandora for discovering new music and for the sometimes surprising choices within my given parameters. The person who posts here as Face of the Bass made a similar claim, that he buys anything he might be interested in and then will sell what he doesn't like later, but that can be a very expensive proposition, and I can guarantee the resale market for CDs is definitely shrinking. These days only about 20% max of my listening is on a good system with good speakers, the rest is portable player on the run, or computer speakers at low volume at work. I'm now very selective about CDs I'll buy, definitely fewer than 10 a year for the last couple of years. Frees up my dollars to buy music DVDs--for me that's the best way to experience music at home without distraction: watch the concert and play the audio through my system. Perhaps your next life itself will be streamed.

Brilliant move to fight piracy: raise prices!

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Only 2 rooms left for Saturday 9/1.

'80 is fine. Trouble in Mind and I Know About the Life are from that period.

I never even heard of that Shepp/NHOP. What year is it from? I have a lot of trouble with Shepp's intonation on much from the last 20+ years. I was pleased to have had the opportunity to see NHOP in a duo with Mulgrew Miller at the North Sea Festival. They played a lot together, as a duo or a trio with Alvin Queen, but no albums released. When NHOP was still alive I asked Mulgrew at a gig whether they planned to record and he said they were looking into it, but I guess it never happened. Their tribute to Ellington and Blanton was fabulous; I wish somebody would relase those North Sea sets. But I do see that this promotional cd was released by Bang & Olufsen: http://www.jazz.com/music/2009/2/12/mulgrew-miller-caravan

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Then you really must check out this museum. http://www.museumspeelklok.nl/?Language=en Wouldn't that make streaming the more "spiritual" option?

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I see an alternate take on a set called America's #1 Band, and the original take on an album called Count Basie, The Early Years, but they sound the same to me. Putative original take: Putative alternate take:

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Actually, it's Abednego, but when I was a mainframe programmer a colleague used Abendego as his password. An "abend" is a program crash (from abnormal end). Brook Benton Our Miss Brooks B. Frank

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