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I just got a job teaching music in a town near Nagasaki, Japan where Elvin met Keiko and where they had (or have) a home. I will try to visit Elvin's Nagasaki home while I am there. RIP Elvin.

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These are two of my favorites.

Sounds like my album of the week.

I am standing on the deck of a Canadian tall ship called the Caledonia. She visited my town in west Michigan last August and I bought the captain a beer at the local pub. It turned out that he was once a Jazz Trumpet major and played in the same college big band I played in (ten years after me). We had many mutual friends and acquaintances. The ship left town the next day with me aboard for the next six weeks. Our ports of call included every major city in Eastern Canada. Never underestimate the power of beer. The Voyage of the Caledonia

Yeah Son-of-a-Weisen, that was an excellent thing you did for him. I love Thad......and Mel. The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra This is one of my favorite Big Band Albums of all time.

Yep. $14.95 at Amazon Amazon's Sampler of exerpts from this Album This really gives you a feel for the Album. It's beautiful. I will definitely buy this album. $8.99 at the Music Resource if you are willing to wait.

Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides

And right now is when we don't want to get away from Michigan. The weather is warming and green is bustin out all over . The only problem is the damn deer have been eating my newly sprouted Hostas, like forty of them. Michigan is a beautiful place right now and will be for many months. We have a new high speed catamaran cross lake ferry called the Lake Express from Muskegon to Milwaukee beginning in May or June and two great music festivals. Muskegon Summer Celebration and Milwaukee Summerfest

This was an absolute spanking of the Nets by the Pistons who just sent the whole team at NJ in waves. I believe the Piston bench is the best in the NBA and Larry sure let them play tonight right from the git go. They just refused to let them run and the Nets are a pretty one dimensional team. They have to run to win. Good luck with that. There can't be a better 4 guard rotation in the NBA and the DP have so many big men, Corliss Williamson is playing small forward at times. And Tayshawn is back to his playoff monster ways. At times it almost seems unfair that such little guys have to play such big guys.

New Flash!!! Nets score 25 points in first half. All time playoff low and low for Nets this season. Detroit D - Believe!!!

Here are my two favorites. Great selection and prices. They are really the same company. Doubletime Jazz The Music Resource Doubletime has a list of what they consider to be the 100 most historically significant Jazz recordings. I am interested to know how board members feel about this list.

Maybe he liked it so much, he decided to stay. I know every time I go there I wish I could stay longer. I NYC

I agree...if not the Pistons Kev and the Wolves. He is an amazing basketball player at both ends of the floor. A no-brainer to choose him MVP.

I'm really looking forward to this series. Have been since the Nets playoff sweep last year. My feeling is that the Pistons have improved dramatically since then and the Nets have not. The Pistons also have home court advantage. Even though they are an outstanding road team because they depend on defense, this will make it tougher for the Nets. It should be a good series but I agree with you Jim, the bad boys will turn up the D and the Nets will become the Nots. The most recent Pistons Nets Game

There's a few Metheniacs around here. Glad to hear it. I am one.

This is available now, looks very interesting.

Weather Report Annotated Discography I know I am another SUPER late-comer (a whole year!) on this thread but I have to put my two cents in. I too, have been a WR lover since the very beginnning. I can remember it like it was yesterday...Rottenbaur, Germany 1971 (a small farm town just outside Wuerzburg)....I was sitting in the living room of the farm house I was renting with 4 other members of the the U.S. Army 3rd Infantry Division Band......we were drinking some great local beer and the eating some brownies....really good brownies......when suddenly one of the other guys in the band comes in with a new album in his hand. "You're not going to believe this", he said. He was right. It was WR'S first album hot off the presses and that was the beginning of my love affair with this band. Over the next several months, we wore that record out. I also have I Sing the Body Electric (a bit of a come down after the first album, Sweetnighter (definately one of my least favorite), Mysterious Traveller (another amazing album that I completely wore out), NOTE TO NEW DADDY JIM: Mysterious Traveller has an wonderfully entrancing and calming effect on young babies. When Zora is crying or won't go to sleep when you want her to, try lying on the floor, putting her on your stomach and playing MT. It worked every time with my two boys. But I digress...I also have (or had at one time...my boys have been known to raid the old man's vinyl collection quite regularly over the years) Tale Spinnin', Black Market, Heavy Weather, Mr. Gone and 8:30. My favorites are Mysterious Traveller (wonder if they meant to misspell Traveler?), Weather Report, Heavy Weather and Black Market in that order. I will not attempt to analyze this music because several board members (most notably JSangry) have done so far more eloquently than I ever could. I will say however, that this music moves me on a wide variety of levels and I have turned hundreds of students on to WR over the years, always with a positive result. Thank-you Joe for picking this. One more thing....this is my first time checking out the AOW and I have to say, WOW! What an amazing thread. Makes me wonder why I have been spending so much time on Political threads and getting pissed off talking about GWB when I could be here talking about something I love. Reading this thread actually caused me to finally do something I've been meaning to do for months...I took my turntable out of my living room stereo system (dumped about a hundred CDs on the floor doing it) and brought it down to my inner sanctum where my computer is and hooked it up to my Bose wave radio. Not a bad sound at all. I am playing Mysterious Traveller as I write this. Heaven. Again, this is a great thread on a great forum. Thanks to all who participate.

You are absolutely correct about all of these guys. I love them all. The guitar is a wonderful instrument (spoken from the mouth of a brass player). I have many albums by McLaughlin, Di Meola, Metheny, Pass, De Lucia, Coryell, Burrell, Montgomery and others. I love funk guitar as well, especially early George Benson. And don't forget John Scofield....or Mr. Zappa (I have been told that Frank invented the wah, wah pedal. Does anyone know for sure if that is true?).......and I really like some of Jeff Beck's work. Back to Jazz, there are two highly underrated guys that, coincidentally, both play in organ trios. Paul Bollenback who plays with Joey DeFrancesco and our own Joe Gloss. Here is the beautiful album I am listening to at the moment. John McLaughlin Trio - Que Alegria

Randy, I am very sorry to hear of your loss. Please give my condolences to your family. I hope you can find some comfort in knowing that you will carry on her legacy every time you put stick to drum. Passing on a love of music of any kind is the most beautiful gift a parent can give to his or her child. Take care. Jack

they didn't sell, so he ate them all. Stuffed 'em in even after he was more than fed up. Kaboom! Here's a photo of Rick just prior to his explosion... roflmfao

It would have been nice to know that it was playing locally! Any chance it will be shown at UICA? I am interested as well.

The greatest duo in NBA history. Magic was the greatest.