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Enough with the trope of jazz being a sick patient, or the other one of jazz being an inviolable, sacred art form. Both are, essentially, irrelevant to most musicians and listeners. If somebody wants to mix jazz & hip hop it's neither the salvation of jazz nor its death knell, it's just another episode in a long and multifaceted history of the music in relationship to other genres. This kind of stuff seems "important" to those of us who follow the scene, but I think it's meaningless to most listeners, as well as artists who will, for the most part, choose to follow what they think is right for their own careers, be it with a focus on artistic integrity, or commercial success, or both. I think it's like all those petty battles in academia that seemed important when I was in academia, and are essentially off my radar now.

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If you changed #1 to Billie Holiday I'd suspect you were Lester Young.

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The "hackers" who create malware are, in general, not the "hobbyists" of old but bad actors who couldn't care less about the "challenge," they just want the best chance for results. I can assure you that if Mac OS had the same saturation as Windows you'd see a much higher rate of compromise.

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But Jim does make a valid point: the bad actors concentrate on the systems with the highest concentration of users.

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I work in a Mac environment and use a PC at home. I will say, as far as viruses are concerned, that "never" is a myth for Macs. The tech people at work do real-time monitoring of the network, and one day our on-site tech guy comes over to my desk frantically telling me he got a call from the help desk that my computer had some kind of virus or malware and that they'd have to quarantine and reimage my machine to protect the network, so so much for never.

More and more is becoming available. For really early stuff, check out the Secret Museum of Mankind series on Shanachie. There were some really good traditional music field recordings in the original Nonesuch Explorer Series.

Try Houston Person's version.

I hope you've been making up for lost time.

Do you mean the coin (aka "Loonie") or the worth-more-than-the-US-currency itself? I liked the Canadian dollar better when it cost 62 cents. Then I went to Montreal 2-3 times a year.

I saw a guy on the subway who looked just like the appropriately named Donald Meek.

That was the year I started going to the Fillmore, but unfortunately didn't get to that one. If I remember correctly you're about the same age as me (I'm 56) and grew up in Brooklyn, maybe even in or close to Midwood?

I've put two and two together (and two threads together) and have come to the conclusion that Someone To Watch Over Me is best when played or sung by gay males.

Where did you find one? I remember when you could buy tone generators to play through your phone if you had a rotary line but needed to deal with menus that expect touch tone.

I do like juicy gossip as much as anyone, so how about a thread on Jazz Musicians with Acid Reflux?

Maybe Caravan's faux-exotica puts it in a similar category with Blues March & Hoe Down, i.e. where the "different" ends up being the "artificial."

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Specific names aside, Chris' response to bisexualism above is puzzling. I suppose a rule of thumb could be: 1. Only has sex with opposite sex - straight (or gay in denial) 2. Only has sex with same sex - gay 3. Has sex with both sexes, enjoys both - bi 4. Has sex with both sexes, only enjoys same sex - gay with an asterisk 5. Has sex with both sexes, only enjoys opposite sex - not sure who this would be--maybe some English public school boys? Also, don't forget "situational" sexuality, like guys who'll have sex with men in prison, but would never consider it on the outside.

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My favorite vocal version of Someone to Watch Over Me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvTvR4DpWTc

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