BFrank

"Blonde puts Starbucks in head-to-head competition with mass-market brands like McDonald's Corp and Dunkin' Donuts, which each have posted robust sales of with their own milder brews." That's a GOOD thing??? Sounds undrinkable to me.

Hope you're seeing some music (or playing) tonight!

I've only seen him once, and "bland" was my impression. But considering all the comments here and the fact that he IS a first call guitarist, I should revisit some of his albums.

I'll count anything above a nonet... The Grand Wazoo

Not sure how tightly you want to define "one-off," but here are a few. Tom Harrell - Times Mirror McCoy Tyner - Uptown/Downtown Johnny Griffin - Big Soul Band Charles Tolliver - until his recent re-emergence had only released 2 BB albums (AFAIK).

Getting video ads for Showtime's "Shameless"

Big John Select

All those albums (Live/Evil, Bitches Brew, Silent Way, etc) were produced by Teo with a specific result in mind. Whether or not they work is up to you, but as albums they're worth having because that's how the artists (Miles AND Teo) wanted you to hear the music. That's not to say that it isn't great having the "complete" extra material - I have those, too.

Just got turned on to this and watched the first episode from last season on Netflix. Very funny.

Different era, but 'big band' nonetheless. "Big Band" Joe Henderson

Interesting you mention Kuhn as I was just reading some notes today talking about how he was with Trane in the classic quartet before McCoy came on board (never recorded).

Grachan Moncur III Mosaic Select, disk #2

Congrats, but you should have asked your wife to hold off for another 22 minutes so you could make the news for first baby of 2012.

HELLyeah!

Have a good one, team! (for most of you, it already happened)

Joe Farrell "Outback" (CTI) w/Elvin Jones, Chick Corea, Buster Williams on eMusic for $2.24

Figuratively speaking:

This list works for ME! Good one, Rooster.

Bring it ON, Jim!

It would be nice if they added a little PUNCH to it. Different energy, but some nice fire by Bill Chase here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7JyOfvwIZE

IIRC, the violin was on some kind of educational or performance loan from a foundation. The loser (literally) is just a student. Really? They would let someone take something like that home with them?

Weird - a couple of us were listening to Sam Rivers just last week.

If you have to decide if you are excited u ain't. Yeah. Exactly. I couldn't tell you how it compares. He always seemed like an interesting character to me, but I don't know that much about his music. I liked this one.

I was wondering: if someone can afford a $170K musical instrument, why do they need to take a bus at all?