Joe Carter

Great find, Jim. There's also this clip of Baden Powell: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np1uu-pdGUU...ch=bossa%20nova Joe C.

An update: I bought the external card device from ADS, available through Dell, and it's working wonderfully, very painless and the sound is great. It comes with Nero Wave Editor which allows me to normalize, create peak files and all sorts of things that will take me months to figure out. One minor glitch was that the option to automatically insert the tracks and the spaces between the tracks didn't work very well but once I learned how to manually insert that stuff, everything is cool. So far I've burned a bunch of Dat tapes to disc and some cassettes. This week I'll deal with Lps. Joe C.

I met Ray when he first moved to Connecticut and hired him for some straight-ahead gigs. As I moved more and more towards Brazilian Jazz playing, I was elated to find that Ray was also into that. We did some trio, quartet and even duo gigs. It was always a pleasure working with Ray as he always found the "music" in every setting. Allen: I also remember sitting in on one of your gigs with Ray and Jeff Fuller, someone else who could use a thread here. Joe C.

My favorite Tommy Flanagan recordings are the various trio dates with Elvin Jones on drums (mainly using brushes): Overseas Lonely Town Eclypso Confirmation Supersession (with Elvin and Red Mitchell) and there's a great duo album with Red Mitchell on the Phontastic label from Sweden, You're Me. And there are the two japanese recordings of The Master Trio --- Tommy, Ron Carter and Tony Williams. Joe C.

The couple of times I had the opportunity to play with Bill he placed his trumpet on the side of his mouth not the front. I never thought to ask him the reason for that. I assume he might have had some dental problems and I don't know if he always played this way. Does anybody know or remember seeing this? Joe C.

I'ld say early '60s (maybe shot for Django's 10th anniversay of his death?)

Here are some amazing videos of Django. He makes it look so easy, and with two unusable fingers. http://www.about-django.com/news/videos/videos.php http://homepage.mac.com/davidahmed/QHCF_web.mov I must admit, in the past I wasn't too crazy about his playing but, as I've heard more and more, I've come to appreciate his wonderful artistry. What a gift he had for creating great melodies with his solos. Any Django fans out there? Enjoy! Joe C.

Two fantastic Jobim sites are here: the official: http://www2.uol.com.br/tomjobim/index_flash.htm and the unofficial: http://www.nortemag.com/tom/e.index.html Joe C.

He was a very prolific composer who left a great body of work, not just, as most people think, The Gir... and not just Bossa Nova. Some of my favorites, in no particular order 1.Chovendo Na Roseira aka Double Rainbow aka Children's Games aka It's Raining in the Rose Garden in 3/4 time with two measures of 2/4 2. Mojave, another 3/4 that I would put up against any Jazz waltz 3. Brigas Nunca Mais (Fighting Never More), sublime harmony matched with a beautiful melody 4. Caminhos Cruzados 5. Ligia I could go on... In some of his songs, Jobim possessed a special quality of finding a certain sequence of notes that, once you heard them as a riff or motif, they stuck in your head for days at a time: the beginning sections to Agua de Beber, Ela E Carioca and Samba do Aviao are perfect examples of this. Joe C.