J Larsen

This rated among the best shows I've seen this year - up there with the Cecil, Braxton, and Shipp gigs.

Henry Threadgill more than made up for the Workman gig last night. Great show!

Getting the couch in the living room has made a huge improvement in the acoustics - this set is sounding pretty damn good to me right now. I think I'll start marketing audiophile furniture.

Bummer of a gig. Most disappointing/depressing show I've seen in a long, long time.

Reggie Workman w/ Andrew Cyrille.

Depends on whether you'd spend a little more time walking or a little more time on the subway. If you'd rather spend more time walking, just take the 6 train down to Spring street and walk west until you get to Hudson (15 to 20 minutes). I live very close to the 6 train Spring stop, so if you want to walk over together you can give a call. If you'd rather spend more time on the subway, the way that gets you closest is to take the 6 train NORTH to 51st street, then hop on the E and get off at Spring (different Spring stop). Walk a couple blocks west and you are there. Yet another way would be to take the 7 east to Times square, take the 1 or 9 down to Canal, walk up Varick to Spring, take a left, walk one blick and you are there. This is the compromise between extra subway and extra walking time. Edited because I have a knack for saying east when I mean west.

Are you going to open up a branch here? We've been out there for years. I've worked out of the SF office before (located on a high floor in the BofA building on Market Street) - really beautiful views.

Except in Woody Allen movies from the past 15 years I live in an appartment as well, with a large living room and good acoustic isolation, but when I listen to classical orchestral music, I prefer headphones, to avoid having to turn down the volume on climaxes. The LR in my new place is about as big as my old apartment! But now the stereo sounds a little echoey and somewhat lacking in presence... I'm going to have to figure something out.

Is that the J&R that is close to the site of the WTC? The one and only.

Wow! Where do you work? I have never heard of anything remotely like that. I work for a mid-size consulting firm; the NYC office mostly specializes in financial economics. You wouldn't expect it to be a hip environment. Life is surprising sometimes.

There are a bunch of jazz fans in my office, including the head honcho who saw Miles' electric band many times and has Blue Trane as his ringtone. I've run into coworkers or gone with them to shows many times - offhand I'd say there are about 10 jazz people here that I know of.

How about Shelly Manne?

Dogfishhead 90 minute IPA - pretty good, but far from classic material.

I was just going to start a thread lamenting the fact that over the past two weeks the floorspace dedicated to jazz at J&R has been notably scaled back - jazz and blues are now in the same room. This was not unforeseen, but a bummer nonetheless. I found going to J&R to be a lot more fun and often a much better deal than shopping online. Plus, the weekly walk from Soho down to Park Row was a substantial portion of my exercise regimen. Oh well.

Miles Davis Complete in a Silent Way Sessions record 2 - this set still has a strange sound quality to me. It is a little flat and lacking oomph - maybe getting a couch in the living room this weekend will help, but the effect is far more pronounced on this set than on my other records.

That's pretty much where I am, though I've never felt inspired to work out a theory of why I feel that way as Clem has.

Both Miles sets are now on Last Chance.

Morgan/Shorter Vee Jay Sessions

There are over 6 billion people on the planet. I suppose that it is not inconceivable that somewhere, sometime, a guy crazy enough to shit all over his apartment* would wind up rooming with another guy willing to clean it up. I guess I'm agnostic as to the authenticity of the story. Either way, a fun read. *Many years ago, I had a downstairs neighbor nearly this bad.

I have tix.

I gave $20 to see this gig.

Hair of the Dog Adam Ale - One of the best beers I've ever encountered, and really tough to find in NYC.

Actually all my music is sounding a little odd - I think it is just a matter of the speakers being in a big empty room.

The sound on the first LP of the In A Silent Way set is a little odd to me - I'll have to A/B it with the cd later today. Could just be that I don't have the furniture set up in the living room yet.

http://www.usps.com/communications/newsroo...07/sr07_011.htm Interesting... not what I heard before. Thanks for the correction.