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I agree with all of this.

I never owned a Zerostat gun, but I heard if you aim it at a cat, it makes the cat's hair stand on end!

This is easily the most dangerous thread on this BB.

She's orally fixated, but it's limited to food, wood, rawhides, cheese wrappers and chew toys. My wife gave a new chew toy to her today, and she ripped its head off within 30 seconds.

I had on some Sun Ra from the Art Yard box recently, and my dog looked very worried and concerned throughout the performance - she kept looking from the speakers, to me, and back to the speakers.

I just finished listening to this, and really enjoyed it. Garbarek has a great sound, and the band really jells. It's nice to hear the tunes from Nude Ants in a different context - here, Oasis flows seamlessly into Chant Of The Soil.

Happy birthday, Lon! Although I don't know you, I've always enjoyed your postings here.

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How do you embed a video in a post?

How does someone embed a YouTube video here?

Inside One's Memory Bank - Roz Chast

6 discs. No other information listed on Amazon.

It's called Rendezvous With Rex. Song titles: Tillie's Twist, Pretty Ditty, Tell Me More, Danzon D'Amor, My Kind Of Gal, Blue Echo. Rex Stewart, cornet; George Stevenson, trombone; Haywood Henry, clarinet, baritone sax; George Kelly, tenor sax; Willie "The Lion" Smith, piano; Leonard Gaskin, bass; Arthur Trappier, drums. 1/28/58.

I have a funny story peripherally involving Larance Marable. Sometime in the mid-80's, I was working in the Accounts Payable department of an electronics retailer. I got a call from a Margaret Marable from Pioneer Electronics in California, asking about some late invoices. She was pretty hard-nosed, as these encounters can be. A thought occurred to me, and I asked her "are you related to the jazz musician Larance Marable?". There was a pause, and then she said "He's my father-in-law!". She was thrilled that someone knew of him. From then on, our conversations were very cordial. RIP, Mr. Marable.

I'm curious what these would sound like on a good system. Certainly, for an industry pilloried for not noticing and then fighting the download revolution, BN should be praised for trying something new.

Just ordered the Bley, Carter/Bradford and Tapscott.

I ordered the Paul Motian and Bill Dixon boxes. Great prices.

OK, I guess this is as good a point as any to post an off-topic but enjoyable little film: Hava Nagila (The Movie) - Sample Reel

I really like the Braxton Performance (Quartet) 1979. I own that with the older cover.

He made me laugh when he came on. I loved the swagger in his walk as he entered a room. Very funny guy, always in character. RIP.

The recent thread on the Criss Cross label got me to browsing through various websites... ok, I was killing time, OK? Anyway, I came across the Double-Time label, which seems very similar in tone to Criss Cross. I noticed a Joe Cohn with Doug Raney, John Abercrombie, Mike LeDonne, and some Hank Marr, among others. Can anyone recommend some titles on Double-Time?

I've always liked this one...good, straight-ahead jazz:

2 of the 3 albums just dropped on eMusic for $6.99 each: Transfiguration of Hiram Brown V-8 Ford Blues

What's the difference, as far as the product is concerned? If Allen doesn't identify himself as Jewish, and has no Jewish content in his work (here I'm referring to his movies over the last few decades), then should he be characterized as a Jewish artist? This was the point of the original Forward article: that Allen's being Jewish somehow translates into his being a crabbed, dour person producing misanthropic work. I'm saying: whatever Allen's work may or may not be, why attribute it to being Jewish? There doesn't seem to be a cause-and-effect. I'll try an analogy: Paul McCartney came from Liverpool. Can one look at his work of the last 30 years or so and say "this is a Liverpool artist"? One has seemingly nothing to do with the other. (And before anyone asks, yes, I know he produced a "Liverpool Oratorio", but c'mon - who's listened to it?)