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Happy Birthday!!

My wife read one of his books and loved it - can't remember the title and she's out right now so I can't ask her. She's been after me to read it, but I'm wary because we usually have very different tastes in our reading.

MG - You may be interested in looking for the Jay Miller Series LPs that Bruce Bastin released on his Flyright label. They're out of print but might be available used in the UK. Fascinating series with lots of previously unreleased material that never made it to CD later on.

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Happy Birthday, John! All the best!

Too long between games - almost like waiting for the Superbowl. Even worse than that, since i usually don't care much about the Superbowl.

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Any way to combine the two threads?

There were other saxophonists who played with Monk and may have been more inventive, but Charlie Rouse captured Monk's sound better than anyone else. edit - For me, Johnny Griffin's playing with Monk never captured the essence of Monk's music. Very fine player elsewhere, but when I listen it seems as if Monk is in one place and Griff is in another.

Amazing! Where did you find this? Does anyone know if this appears in the book, Steve Lacy: My Experience with the Soprano Sax? Has anyone here read that book? Did a search and found an answer to one of my questions. According to Marcello, it's to be found in Steve Lacy: Conversations (Duke U. Press) - edited by Jason Weiss. http://www.dukeupress.edu/books.php3?isbn=978-0-8223-3815-4 Those pages do not appear in Conversations, unless there has been a new edition with additional material. Being the Lacy freak I am, I bought the book about five minutes after it came out. There are several similar documents in Lacy's handwriting included, which may account for the confusion, but I had never seen the Monk advice in Lacy's hand before. Findings: My Experience With the Soprano Saxophone is not really a book you sit down and read - it's more of a workbook for saxophonists, although anyone interested in Lacy's music would get something out of it. It's got exercises, Lacy scores, solo transcriptions, and advice. It includes of of Book H of "Practitioners," his fiendishly difficult set of etudes for saxophone. I pull those out when I want a real technical challenge. The book is in French and English, and every saxophonist who is interested in going beyond "Cherokee" should have it, in my opinion. By the way, the Monk list is not in that book, either. Apologies for posting wrong info. Saw post #324 on this thread http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...mp;#entry864377 and assumed it was correct. Perhaps I misread it. My bad.

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Amazing! Where did you find this? Does anyone know if this appears in the book, Steve Lacy: My Experience with the Soprano Sax? Has anyone here read that book? Did a search and found an answer to one of my questions. According to Marcello, it's to be found in Steve Lacy: Conversations (Duke U. Press) - edited by Jason Weiss. http://www.dukeupress.edu/books.php3?isbn=978-0-8223-3815-4

In the mail today: 4 Nessas: Leo Smith: Spirit Catcher Lester Bowie: All the Numbers Air: Air Time Roscoe Mitchell and the Sound Ensemble: Surdy McGurdy and her Dancin' Shoes and Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 5, 6, & 10 - Mark Wigglesworth/BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Amazing! Where did you find this? Does anyone know if this appears in the book, Steve Lacy: My Experience with the Soprano Sax? Has anyone here read that book?

Have some of the material, but this looks like one to check out and probably go for. Thanks for the heads up.

I had no real exposure to classical music for more than 63 years. Began listening seriously about four months ago with much appreciated help from a friend. I'm just beginning to find my way - only about 30-40 recordings in my collection. I know that my previous listening - jazz, blues, country, ethnic, pop, whatever - has affected the way I listen to classical music and what I hear in classical music. For example, I tend to pick up on individuality in performers and conductors at least as much, perhaps more, than I pick up on compositions. At the same time, I'm finding that my classical listening - even as limited as it's been -has affected my other listening. I find that I listen more attentively to all music since I began listening to classical music. Come back to me in five or ten years - if I'm still around - and I may have something substantial to offer.

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I'm not a Red Sox fan, but I hope that Papelbon is able to take yesterday's game as just a loss and not turn it into a career changer. He's a very good closer - potential to be a great one - and I hope he's able to keep his head on straight. Also hope the Red Sox fans will be behind him. It's to their advantage to do so.

Cold suddenly - 30 when I woke up at 7 this morning. But at least no rain or snow (yet).

Got that one from the library and just started reading it. Hope it amounts to more than Prague did.