Son-of-a-Weizen

No need to worry about me, babe. I was just spending some extended quality time out in the boat trying to do a Hemingway 'Old Man and the Lake Superior' routine..... but couldn't land much more than a barrelful of these dinky bass. Good to see you back. You still collecting the mini-lps?

I saw Cobb here in DC w/Curtis Fuller Sextet 7-8 months ago. He's probably still floating around the map w/them.

I've really flipped over this Italian Umbriaco (bottom of page).....soaked in wine, has a distinct flavor of apples. My local cheese shop has been getting small quantities here & there for the past six months and they now tell me that their distributor can no longer secure it. I bought the last lb. yesterday and will now have to find a new source. Perhaps this place? Anyone know of them...or have another online source/suggestion? http://www.cheeseshopcarmel.com/cheese/alp...ally/alpha4.htm

....any suggestions for a new paint scheme?

Nope, not the Minnesota State Fair. Chuck called it! Got the FEMA job and brought my boat down to La to have a look around. A pretty serene place....not much going on.......don't know what all the fuss is about. Just the media blowing things out-of-proportion again.

Alfred, I thought you'd collected all of the 16/20-bit TOCJs? I think you'll want to hang onto those.

Are you talking about all the TOCJ24's?

Cool! I wonder if the Japanese have given that same K2 treatment to other sessions like that? The Hawes gatefold is sweet. It would be nice to see them go the gatefold route and produce a couple of slick little sets as suggested earlier by Al. Manne & Niehaus cardboard sleeve sets would be my top picks.

Hill's 'Black Fire'..........then something from Blue Oyster Cult.

Alankin posted the pre-order announcement last night. I have a question about the CDU shipping. I want to order these four and don't care about waiting 'till the last one arrives so that they can send them all together...but they don't give you the 'ship together' option because of the pre-orders and say that they'll charge for each shipment. So they'll be sending me 3 parcels...but will the shipping be capped at the $5.99 cited, or are they going to gouge me again and again? Qty Config Item Price Availability CD Monk, Thelonious : Thelonius Monk Quartet With $13.29 Pre-Order Now! Available: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 CD Ellis, Don : Essence $11.19 Usually ships in 1-2 days CD Manne, Shelly : Play More Music From Peter Gunn: Son Of Gunn! $8.39 Pre-Order Now! Available: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 CD Alexander, Eric : Battle $11.89 Usually ships in 1-2 days Subtotal $44.76 Shipping and Handling $5.99 Standard TOTAL $50.75

The Hazeltine is mentioned in this article. All of his Venus cds are wonderful. Put in an order for 'Cleopatra's Dream' this morning. Arranger puts his spin on others' songs Trio, led by pianist, to salute pioneers Friday, August 05, 2005 BY ZAN STEWART Star-Ledger Staff David Hazeltine is a formidable composer and protean pianist with a luxuriant sound. He's also a consummate arranger who champions other musicians' songs. His two most recent CDs -- 2004's "Close to You" (Criss Cross) and the just-out "Modern Standards" (Sharp Nine) -- variously showcase works by Burt Bacharach (a Hazeltine favorite), Lennon-McCartney and Henry Mancini. Distinctive Hazeltine arrangements give the songs unique spins. "I'm a firm believer in presenting music to an audience," said Hazeltine, 47, who lives in Long Island City, Queens. "There should be a nice little package. The melodies should be recognizable, but there should be surprising moments, not the same old thing you've heard a thousand times." Hazeltine, bass dynamo George Mraz and West Orange-based drum master Billy Drummond appear Friday and Saturday at Smoke Jazz Club and Lounge in New York. The pianist also has been commissioned by the Japanese Venus label to ply his arranging talents to the works of Horace Silver, Plainfield native Bill Evans, and bop pioneer Bud Powell. 2001's "Señor Blues" and 2002's "Waltz for Debby" salute Silver and Evans, respectively. "Cleopatra's Dream," out this fall, honors Powell. Selections by Powell and Evans, as seen though Hazeltine's eyes, will be explored at Smoke by the threesome that made "Waltz for Debby" and the Powell album. Of Powell's music, Hazeltine said, "It's challenging to play. He makes it sound so easy, but when you get down to the nitty-gritty, it's difficult, but it's timeless." Powell was the premier pianist of the bebop language in the music's nascent 1940s. Hazeltine, a Milwaukee native, has been listening to him since he was a 15-year-old novice jazz player. "I got into Bud through Charlie Parker," said the pianist who has gone to work with such notables as James Moody and Jon Faddis, and as an esteemed leader. "The way Bud played Bird, while it wasn't Parker verbatim, changed the language of bebop to fit the piano better. And through Bud, I was introduced to (Weehawken resident) Barry Harris, who is one of my favorites." A Powell tune that the trio will perform at Smoke is "Cleopatra's Dream," a two-chord vamp tune that Hazeltine has outfitted with a bossa nova groove. "That made it interesting, and the way George and Billy treat it gives it a little modern edge," said Hazeltine. Another Powell item will be "Dance of the Infidels," "a classic remake of the blues." Evans is also a core Hazeltine influence. "He was one of the fathers of modern jazz harmony on the piano," he said. "The way he orchestrates chords on the piano is beautiful. He's very impressionistic, drawing from the Ravel and Debussy schools." Hazeltine said that one Evans jazz standard the trio will surely offer is "Waltz for Debby." "Bill did some very interesting things harmonically with it that I duplicated, like playing the intro in one key, and the song in another, and playing the Chopinesque ending," he said. Additionally, the trio plans to play Hazeltine's "For Bill," loosely based on the standard "Who Cares?," and his "This One's for Bud," based on "Just You, Just Me." Working with Mraz and Drummond will be a joy for Hazeltine, for these are partners he clearly reveres. "They're a great combination, so tasty," he said. "George's intonation is perfect, his sense of swing profound. Billy's got a fine swing feel, a little more modern, but I dig it." Hazeltine was originally an organist but switched to piano because of its "limitless possibilities. "It gives me so much freedom," he said. "I feel like I'm in the driver's seat, especially in a trio." © 2005 The Star Ledger © 2005 NJ.com All Rights Reserved.

I forget how (or why?) the Kenny Cox idea was taken off the table? Too long? So-so sound?

I'm surprised that CD Universe isn't yet advertising the forthcoming Monk/Coltrane 'Carnegie Hall' disc? Is there a firm release date?

Getz 'Steamer" and 'Soft Swing" Japanese Verves.

...and 2 minutes later. Oh, oh.... 128 guests, 23 members 3 anonymous members Robert J, brownie, Eric, WD45, Upright Bill, sal, sthomas, Joe G, Jaffa, Dr. Rat, jazzbo, Dave James, Don Brown, MartyJazz, Pete B, Uncle Skid, Epithet, Chuck Nessa, Peter A, alankin, Christiern, nmorin, Big Wheel

They're rapidly multiplying!! 102???? 102 guests, 21 members 2 anonymous members Jaffa, Don Brown, MartyJazz, sal, Jim Alfredson, Dave James, Pete B, Dr. Rat, Uncle Skid, Epithet, Chuck Nessa, jazzbo, Peter A, WD45, alankin, brownie, Christiern, nmorin, Big Wheel, Alec, Claude

That's a joke, right?

Shrinking Detroit has 12,000 abandoned homes Yahoo News Sun Aug 14, 5:03 PM ET DETROIT, United States (AFP) - Rats or lead poisoning. When it comes to the threats from the broken down house next door, Dorothy Bates isn't sure which is worse. "When it's lightening and thundering you can hear the bricks just falling," the 40-year-old nurse said as she looked at the smashed windows and garbage-strewn porch. "If you call and ask (the city) about it they say they don't have the funds to tear it down." There are more than 12,000 abandoned homes in the Detroit area, a byproduct of decades of layoffs at the city's auto plants and white flight to the suburbs. And despite scores of attempts by government and civic leaders to set the city straight, the automobile capitol of the world seems trapped in a vicious cycle of urban decay. Detroit has lost more than half its population since its heyday in the 1950's. The people who remain are mostly black -- 83 percent -- and mostly working class, with 30 percent of the population living below the poverty line according to the US Census Bureau. The schools are bad. The roads are full of potholes. Crime is high and so are taxes. The city is in a budget crisis so deep it could end up being run by the state. And it just got knocked off the list of the nation's ten largest cities. "Detroit has become an icon of what's considered urban decline," said June Thomas, a professor of urban and regional planning at Michigan State University. "The issue is not just getting people in the city. It's getting people in the city who can become property owners and stay property owners and pay taxes." Perhaps the biggest challenge to luring the middle class from the area's swank suburbs is overcoming racial tensions, said Stephen Vogel, dean of the school of architecture at University of Detroit Mercy. "Suburbanites are taking the bodies of their relatives out of cemeteries because they're afraid to come to the city," Vogel said. "There are about 400 to 500 hundred (being moved) a year which shows you the depth of racism and fear." Most American cities have experienced a shift towards the suburbs. What made Detroit's experience so stark was the lack of regional planning and the ease with which developments were able to incorporate into new cities in order to avoid sharing their tax revenue with the city, said Margaret Dewar, a professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Michigan. The fleeing businesses and homeowners left behind about 36 square miles (58 square kilometers) of vacant land. That's roughly the size of San Francisco and about a quarter of Detroit's total land mass. While a decision by General Motors to build its new headquarters smack in the middle of downtown has helped lure young professionals and spark redevelopment in some of the more desirable neighborhoods, there is little hope the vacant land will be filled any time soon. In his state of the city address, embattled mayor Kwame Kilpatrick said even if 10,000 new homes were built every year for the next 15 years "we wouldn't fill up our city." And Detroit is still losing about 10,000 people every year. One solution Vogel has proposed is to turn swaths of the city into farmland. In the four years since his students initiated a pilot project dozens of community gardens and small farms have popped up. But first the city has to get rid of the crumbling buildings that haunt the streets, luring criminals, arsonists and wild animals and creating a general sense of hopelessness. "It's partly a resource issue and it's partly a bureaucracy issue," said Eric Dueweke, the community partnership manager at the University of Michigan's College of Architecture and Urban Planning. "It takes them forever to find the proper owners of the properties and serve them with the proper paperwork," he said. "They're tearing them down at the rate of 1,500 or 2,000 a year, so they're really not cutting into the backlog in any significant way because that's how many are coming on stream." Dorothy Bates has been waiting three years for the crumbling house next door to be torn down. There are nine more on her short block along with several vacant lots that are overgrown with weeds. Bates does her best to keep her five children away from the rat nests, but the lead creeping out of crumbling bricks and peeling paint drifts in through her windows. The most frustrating part of it, says her neighbor Larry, is that so many of the abandoned houses could be repaired. The foundations are solid. The buildings are beautiful. Or at least, they were once. Jesus!!! Dingell, Conyers, Levin....they've been around for ages and have amassed some power....what have they been doing for the past 20 years? Michigan Congressional Delegation U.S. Senate Levin, Carl (D) Detroit Stabenow, Debbie (D) Lansing U.S. House 1 Stupak, Bart (D) Bay City 2 Hoekstra, Peter ® Holland 3 Conyers, John, Jr. (D) Detroit 4 Dingell, John (D) Dearborn 5 Ehlers, Vern ® Grand Rapids 6 Camp David ® Midland 7 Kildee, Dale (D) Flint 8 Upton, Fred ® Grand Rapids 9 Smith, Nick ® Addison 10 Rogers, Mike ® Brighton 11 Knollenberg, Joe ® Bloomfield Hills 12 Miller, Candice ® Harrison Twp. 13 McCotter, Thaddeus ® Livonia 14 Levin, Sander (D) Royal Oak 15 Kilpatrick, Carolyn (D) Detroit

To actually buy a collection of songs because he happens to like them is hero worship gone totally nutso...

One night at the restaurant in the Hyatt Regency Cambridge, several of the gay waiters chased each other around the kitchen with cooked lobster carapaces jutting from their open zippers. It was a funny scene. I'll never forget the look on the the faces of the old Chinese chefs. After all the shit I saw going on in that place, the thought of eating out of a faux toilet doesn't sound so bad.

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Looks like Love's putter went limp......and Mickelson did a terrific job of digging himself a grave. We'll see if he's able to battle his way back after the rain delay.....and with two par 5's coming up, someone will suddenly leap ahead and take it by nailing an 'eagle' on 18. Bjorn?