Tom Storer wrote:

Great stuff!

I want this. Someday...

I'm going through a "no music" spell - hopefully long but hopefully short too...a long story. Just reading the names here - Barry Harris, Ellery Eskelin, Dex, Basie, Pres - makes me grateful for the ability to conjure up the sounds in my head. On repeat now in the mental nightclub: Bud Pow...

As a follow-up to an earlier New Year thread http://jazztalk.net/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=288&p=4528&hilit=new+year#p4528 , another New Year to celebrate. I've always been fascinated by the Islamic calendar, which "creeps" eleven or twelve days each year vis-a-vis the Gregorian yea...

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If it was 1965, I'd say either (e.g., Chick with Blue Mitchell). Today, I'm not enthusiastic about either.

I did chat with Chick briefly at a public performance once. Seemed more down to earth than I'd have thought. But this was based on five minutes.

I didn't know what time it was, then I met you. Oh, what a lovely time it was. How sublime it was too.

Hey and welcome, cookie! (I'm not, like, officially on the welcoming committee, but I haven't yet been exiled either.)

What's news with youse?

Cookie?

I knew Donald Bailey from many concerts where he played (100+, for sure), and from a few jam sessions we were at together, as well as a guy from my neighborhood. If you don't know him or much about him, look here: http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/an-old-blueprint-made-new/Content?oid=1371982

Actually, there have been many inconclusive tests. I read an article on Edmunds once about the myths of the manual vs. the automatic. Four of five different cars were tested and in some cases the manual still outperformed the auto in mpg. The CVT was definitely king in all the cases I've seen. As f...

Manuals still outperform automatics in MPG's in most models. And I really don't know that the government has anything to do with it. I think there's just so little demand for standard transmissions these days that the manufacturers just don't build many, or any at all. I remember going to test driv...

I've never owned a car that wasn't manual. And I mean REAL manual, with a clutch, not the new BS "manuals". The question for me should be "can you drive an automatic?" I wish they hadn't put the brake where the clutch pedal is supposed to me. And my passengers REALLY WISH they h...

I've never owned a car that wasn't manual. And I mean REAL manual, with a clutch, not the new BS "manuals". The question for me should be "can you drive an automatic?" I wish they hadn't put the brake where the clutch pedal is supposed to me. And my passengers REALLY WISH they ha...

Led Zeppelin, Oakland, 1977 (best and worst)

The concerts I've worked on backstage - all in Las Vegas - were memorable, but not good or bad per se. U2, Rolling Stones, Elton John.], Madonna (and one I'm forgetting )

I like the Alaska stuff.

(Just thought I'd throw in a straight answer. And it seems like the right thing to do, since I don't know the guy.)

If you continue to favor the Martin Logans you might mention to Ms. Claus that they are frequently on sale or closeout through AudioAdvisor. http://www.audioadvisor.com/products.asp?dept=243&sort_on=title&sort_by=&view_all=true ...or at least free shipping, no tax... This is assuming tha...

I've had Sound Labs, Acoustat, Magnepan, Quad and I've sold a few others, Apogee in particular. Good luck to you.

That vibrations produce sound and therefor music is also a formula. Not all formulas are bad or all that limiting. I'm drinking Vodka and baby formula right now (known in alcoholic circles as a White Malyshka). Exactly. I don't want to hear some cat blowing endless scales (even "blues scales&q...

The last thing I'd want to be formulaic would be anything related to self-expression! Over and out. The 32 bar standard song form AABA or AB and 12 bar blues are formulas. There is lot's of self expression within these frames. Sure, lots of formulas: a major scale, all of harmony, rhythm.

A little previous discussion here: http://jazztalk.net/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=237&hilit=allaboutjazz

If there is a political forum, I can't picture myself wandering in. I'm a terrible combination of highly opinionated and thin-skinned. So long as people don't carry their personal allegiance/animosity into the music discussion, I'm cool with ignoring a political forum.

Thanks for posting. Not long I ago, I'd read someone's thesis that, without going through quite so much in terms of quantitative gymastics - set out to prove that the first bebop tenor sax solo was recorded in (something like) 1952 by...Stan Getz. Nothing before that qualified, because it was missin...

My eyes were going to STAY crossed.

Bing Crosby was a cowhand? The lyrics are about the guy NOT being a real cowboy. So der Bingle was not out of his element at all. Actually, it's one of the few songs where I actually know the lyrics -mainly because they're "clever". Really hadn't been thinking of them when I made the Bing...