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I can only go the way I can go.... Horace Silver would be much easier, so I'll go Max Roach. Max Roach + 4 Sonny Rollins, Kenny Dorham, George Morrow and Ray Bryant

Some favorites... Every time I hear a "best of" Howard Stern show it reminds me of how great Kinison was. + the original

Happy Birthday

Sounds like you had a good time.

Gotta defend Bird, come what may. For me, the most sublime artist in any art form whom I've encountered in my long lifetime. Just to be clear, I was kidding. I should have added an emoticon, but I usually pick the wrong one. Just as I was kidding when I posted this but no one felt a need to come to Gene's defense or question the sincerity of my assertion. Hey, sometimes this place is like the bizarro world so I just figured it was another one of those days.

It's nice you were able to see him so recently but I know that doesn't make the loss any easier. R.I.P, Mr Anderson

Pepper Adams = Encounter! Love this one. Zoot Sims,Tommy Flanagan,Ron Carter and Elvin Jones.

I'm going to go with first KD recording. A hard call, its either this one or the Showboat recording on Time but I am almost certain it was Quiet Kenny. One listen to Blue Spring Shuffle and I was hooked. With Tommy Flanagan, PC and Art Taylor. My first, and only, album under Art Taylor's name is Taylor's Tenors, and it's a great 'un! I used to have Taylor's Tenors' - haven't now and haven't thought of it for years....who was on it, Bill? I'm not Bill, but to keep the thread rolling: AT, Frank Foster, Charlie Rouse, Walter Davis Jr. and Sam Jones. I'll go with Davis Cup, which was also with Jones and Taylor, plus Jackie McLean and Donald Byrd. I didn't know Davis Jr., but bought it for Jackie. Definitely a good call, as this is arguably one of the more underrated sessions from the classic Blue Note era. I'll take Donald Byrd,...first for me was Slow Drag with Sonny Red,Cedar Walton,Walter Booker and Billy Higgins.

The "Sonny" character is a waste of skin. Wendell Pierce has done a solid job faking the bone. Rob Brown with the trumpet? Not so good...

Woody Shaw - Little Red's Fantasy with Ronnie Mathews, Stafford James, Frank Strozier, Eddie Moore

Bobby Hutcherson - Stick Up!

Billy Mitchell - This is Billy Mitchell

Thad Jones - The Magnificent Thad Jones Oh shit, I didn't see Dan's post until after i put Thad Jones up. So are we going back to Dizzy???? If so....... Jazz at Massey Hall

I thought some might be interested in this. liveGlocal was started by the son (and his two friends) of one of my business partners in Washington. They are donating one book for children in Laos for every one bag of coffee they sell. Last time I saw the kid was right before he started college and his only thoughts were of hot chicks and baseball. It's kind of cool how things turned out. liveGlocal

Interesting season ender, mainly with what happened to John Goodman's character.

I wonder if it will end up over at the History Channel? If it does it will be like The Sopranos on A&E and be way too edited up, losing a lot of the punch.

I finished the final episode. After that I watched the short interviews with and about some of the main characters. The old guys remember like it was yesterday and still get so emotional. It's all very touching. I think the producers and directors really did an excellent job telling their stories.

Sorry to hear about your mom, Ray.

Damn... Re: Ring-A-Ding-Ding...there was a bootleg out of the session tapes for that album, and if anybody has any doubts about the seriousness of Sinatra's musicianship, this session should eradicate them. The guy really gets inside the arrangements, listens to them, figures out where to be in (or out) how to shade relative to the ensemble, everything. And then once he's got it figured out - BAM it all comes together. The electricity of Sinatra looking for his zone and then finding it is tangible on these session tapes. In a better world than thisone, whoever controls the "product" and who ever consumes it will get to stuff like this, study it, and learn. I'm like Chuck - I have a lot of BIG problems with Sinatra as an "icon" of anything, but all that hype aside, there is some truly remarkable singing to be heard if/when one can get past all the hype. I know what you're saying but for me personally I think he lived up to he hype. By comparison to a lot of shit we hear and see today Frank may have very well be under-hyped imo.

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I know George Costanza did that while looking for an assistant. Of course he ended up boinking the plain Jane he hired and promised her a raise.

Hey everyone knows that an attractive woman is bad for business. What does this say about all the women left behind at Citibank? They were not in her league? Give me break I see women much more attractive and not so full of themselves everyday. I still manage to tie my shoes, drive my car, exit the train without falling into the gap, buy my groceries, get some work done and live my life without pissing myself as a result of their beauty. Nah, this smells like she and her scum bag lawyer Tuckner are looking for a payday. And the whole releasing a photo spread of her in "work clothes" at his office is a real cheese dick move. Fuck Citibank, this isn't about defending them. Maybe she did dress too provocative. Maybe her work performance was not good. Of course there is a chance she is telling the truth but I'm guessing that with all the sudden press coverage of a lawsuit filed in November 2009, along with the racy photos and references of a "hot sexy latina" (including from her own lawyer) she is preparing to capitalize on all if it. It's a no lose for her and the scumbag since the case will never enter the courtroom.

I completely agree. Now she'll be on a few talk shows, maybe do a magazine spread, and end up on some lame "celebrity" fake reality show. Probably what she had in mind all along.

It almost looks as if the one photo has been doctored. The pics taken at an angle make it look much more shallow. I read this a little while ago so I guess it be real... sinkhole facts