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Yes, it is beautiful. I just always made the Xmas connection because that's where it began showing up a lot - Xmas compilations, seasonal musics, etc - and so I just assumed that this was the story behind the tune: Thad's try at writing a beautiful Xmas tune. Maybe it was just hijacked for Xmas purposes (like many other things)?

I remember Eddie Harris doing this in the late 60's, but I can't recall which LP. have to check... A few years back I sent a Xmas tape to a local jazz DJ (the local jazz DJ) Roger Boykin. He was a bit puzzled that I had included A Child Is Born because he had always thought that it was written for Thad's child and had no religious connotation at all. This, of course, confused me because I had always thought the later to be the case. EDIT: OK. I was wrong...it was from '72 on ...Sings the Blues

Memorable commercial

It's durn silly...aren't it!

Funkdead is more like it...

Heard of it, but never read it. Being archivist for the Jerry Hunt estate, I certainly have my fill of Gematria lit and the like here at home!

OH! Then it must be highly inaccurate! Hmmmmm. Works with text too...

Lots of lovely diversions: Gematriculator "The Gematriculator is a service that uses the infallible methods of Gematria developed by Mr. Ivan Panin to determine how good or evil a web site or a text passage is. Basically, Gematria is searching for different patterns through the text, such as the amount of words beginning with a vowel. If the amount of these matches is divisible by a certain number, such as 7 (which is said to be God's number), there is an incontestable argument that the Spirit of God is ever present in the text. Another important aspect in gematria are the numerical values of letters: A=1, B=2 ... I=9, J=10, K=20 and so on. The Gematriculator uses Finnish alphabet, in which Y is a vowel. Experts consider the mathematical patterns in the text of the Holy Bible as God's watermark of authenticity. Thus, the Gematriculator provides only results that are absolutely correct."

Yes, he was...I didn't know that there was this "Allen/Paar/Carson" continuum with Skitch. Milton DeLugg is in there somewhere too I think, but only with the Tonight show. I think Delugg is still alive(!)

http://tinyurl.com/7jsm5 Rock star pastor is electrocuted as he conducts baptism service From Chris Ayres in Los Angeles A PASTOR in Texas has been killed by an electric shock after grabbing a microphone while performing a baptism in water. The Rev Kyle Lake, 33, was partly submerged at University Baptist Church in Waco — only 14 miles from President Bush’s Crawford ranch — while baptising a woman in front of 800 people. He reached out to adjust a microphone when he was killed. The church, co-founded by David Crowder, one of the biggest “rock stars” of Christian music, is popular with students from nearby Baylor University, the oldest higher-education institution in Texas and the largest Baptist university in the world. “He was grabbing the microphone so everyone could hear,” Jamie Dudley, a church business administrator, said. “It’s the only way you can be loud enough.” Doctors in the congregation rushed to help Mr Lake, who collapsed after being struck by the fatal jolt of electricity. An emergency medical crew tried to revive him. He was taken by ambulance to Hillcrest Baptist Medical Centre, where he was pronounced dead. Church colleagues described him as a charismatic religious leader. Blair Browning, a former church leadership team member, said: “I think we all gravitated to him because he looked cooler than all of us, but he was really smart. People that would never have darkened the doorstep of a church felt comfortable talking to Kyle.” Mr Lake is survived by his wife, Jennifer, a five-year-old daughter and three-year-old twin sons. “At first there was definitely confusion just because everyone was trying to figure out what was going on,” the Rev Ben Dudley, the community pastor of the church, said after he saw his colleague die. “Everyone just immediately started praying.” Mr Lake had been at the church for nine years, the past seven as pastor. At a remembrance service attended by about a thousand people on Sunday night at First Baptist Church, also in Waco, Mr Dudley told the congregation that they would move forward as a church. He said: “I don’t know how, when, why, where or what’s going to happen, but we will continue as a church in the community because that is what Kyle would have wanted.” Student officials also attended the gathering on Sunday. Samuel W. “Dub” Oliver, interim vice-president for student life at Baylor, said: “Kyle and the other staff have been very gifted in reaching students and making the Gospel come alive for students. It is a huge loss for the university community.” The University Baptist Church was co-founded in 1995 by Mr Crowder as a mission of Beverly Hills Baptist Church. Yesterday the church’s website displayed a simple message: “We are confident that Kyle is in Heaven today because of his trust in Jesus Christ as his saviour,” it read, before quoting a passage from the Book of John. The town of Waco, with a population of 114,000, has made more headlines than would be expected for a town of its size. In the late 1880s it became infamous for its red-light district, now abolished, and the soft drink Dr Pepper, which was invented at Waco’s Old Corner Drug Store. During the same period, William Cowper Brann published a newspaper called Iconoclast, which accused officials at Baylor University of importing South American children recruited by missionaries and making them act as house servants. Mr Brann was shot by a Baylor supporter, but managed to shoot dead his assailant before dying from his wounds. The most notorious incident happened in 1993, when a stand-off between federal agents and a religious sect, the Branch Davidians, resulted in their compound being destroyed by fire, with the loss of 76 lives.

Remember it? I practically lived there! Major sympathy from me here - both about the stagnation that was in the air at "our" college during the time of the fusion medusa, and about the DIYH LP. I didn't have the major experience that you had (I'll leave that for that day in the summer of 1970 when I bought Bitches Brew along with Cannonball Adderley Quintet and Orchestra from a store one afternoon here in North Texas), but I knew that I wanted more... and with it's addition to the great musical triumvirate of Body Meta and Of Human Feelings, I knew one could sooth the savage with Soapsuds, Soapsuds. Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman anybody?

Interesting program. Wonder if there's a similar Mac version somewhere...

aMAZing!

Never liked Lieberman's tenor either..nor his disposition

sent an email a few minutes ago... (Sun Ra and Tolliver discs)

OK. That's cool. I guess that info's on the can, but I never got around to actually reading it! I noticed (in the ad spot) that there's another pic of him that's in swim gear that's not so "hunk-of-the-month." Larry Tate would've fired me if I had come up with that sales picture idea.

I was expecting a mockingbird (which, by the way, can be very hard to transcribe).

They became the Dirty Dozen.

OK, so I'm at the grocery store and I have to pick up some shaving cream. I reach for a can of Barbasol and there's the phrase "REAL MAN" in large letters across the front of it. So, I'm thinkin' what's up with this? I turn the can around and it has some guy - Gary Hill or Hall or something like that - on the back of it in this kind of shirtless "pinup" style. OK, I know that the ladies have to shave their legs and stuff too, but whassup with this!. Is this really a new sales tactic now? Since I wasn't too interested in having Gary join me in the shower, I chose the Colgate can right next to it...

Hans! Really? I was thinking that would be the lesser of the possibilities. So time actually stood still for an hour! ..... ....... Last night I awoke in the middle of a dream (Frank Zappa and I were talking about technology - hee, hee ) and I was 25 minutes too late - my analog wall clock was already at 1:25 while the unchanged ones still had 2:25. Thanks Hans!

OK, I have a very pressing question... If you have an analog clock that's one of those "radio controlled" ones that's supposed to keep perfect time, does the clock go backward one hour at 2AM or does it go forward 11 hours? Certainly it doesn't just STOP for one hour does it? I'm trying to figure out if I'm gonna get up at 2AM to watch it and get an answer...

Noticed too that the Lloyd recording is paired with a Warne Marsh: Lloyd/Marsh

I heard that. Most people lose sight of the fact that it's actually an orchestral composition, not just a tune for blowing. It's a good blowing vehicle, but not a tireless one... ← Quartet Out does a damn fine version!