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Chewy is telling me that I'm nuts. I'll join the Club. The Nuts' One. No, all of you old codgers need to either remove the cotton from your ears, or invest in some Capitol mono LPs, among the best sounding LPs I've ever heard. amen

is this it, chewable?

the columbia album of richard rodgers, notably, every sunday afternoon. andre kostelanetz

sam adams longshot old ale a winner of their 2006 homebrew contest very enjoyable beer 10.65 alcohol content warms the soul. hoping sam adams markets this one.

heard a nice set of music over the weekend by a rather large ensemble called the chicago afrobeat project. the music was untempo, 70's funkish with some very fine soloists. fun music. certainly not hardcore jazz, but looks like they would give great live shows. any one know of them?

there are no bishop sheens today, and the world sorely needs one. thank you so much for the heads up.

May 9, 2007 The Curious Cook The Five-Second Rule Explored, or How Dirty Is That Bologna? By HAROLD McGEE A COUPLE of weeks ago I saw a new scientific paper from Clemson University that struck me as both pioneering and hilarious. Accompanied by six graphs, two tables and equations whose terms include “bologna” and “carpet,” it’s a thorough microbiological study of the five-second rule: the idea that if you pick up a dropped piece of food before you can count to five, it’s O.K. to eat it. I first heard about the rule from my then-young children and thought it was just a way of having fun at snack time and lunch. My daughter now tells me that fun was part of it, but they knew they were playing with “germs.” We’re reminded about germs on food whenever there’s an outbreak of E. coli or salmonella, and whenever we read the labels on packages of uncooked meat. But we don’t have much occasion to think about the everyday practice of retrieving and eating dropped pieces of food. Microbes are everywhere around us, not just on floors. They thrive in wet kitchen sponges and end up on freshly wiped countertops. As I write this column, on an airplane, I realize that I have removed a chicken sandwich from its protective plastic sleeve and put it down repeatedly on the sleeve’s outer surface, which was meant to protect the sandwich by blocking microbes. What’s on the outer surface? Without the five-second rule on my mind I wouldn’t have thought to wonder. I learned from the Clemson study that the true pioneer of five-second research was Jillian Clarke, a high-school intern at the University of Illinois in 2003. Ms. Clarke conducted a survey and found that slightly more than half of the men and 70 percent of the women knew of the five-second rule, and many said they followed it. She did an experiment by contaminating ceramic tiles with E. coli, placing gummy bears and cookies on the tiles for the statutory five seconds, and then analyzing the foods. They had become contaminated with bacteria. For performing this first test of the five-second rule, Ms. Clarke was recognized by the Annals of Improbable Research with the 2004 Ig Nobel Prize in public health. It’s not surprising that food dropped onto bacteria would collect some bacteria. But how many? Does it collect more as the seconds tick by? Enough to make you sick? Prof. Paul L. Dawson and his colleagues at Clemson have now put some numbers on floor-to-food contamination. Their bacterium of choice was salmonella; the test surfaces were tile, wood flooring and nylon carpet; and the test foods were slices of bread and bologna. First the researchers measured how long bacteria could survive on the surfaces. They applied salmonella broth in doses of several million bacteria per square centimeter, a number typical of badly contaminated food. I had thought that most bacteria were sensitive to drying out, but after 24 hours of exposure to the air, thousands of bacteria per square centimeter had survived on the tile and wood, and tens of thousands on the carpet. Hundreds of salmonella were still alive after 28 days. Professor Dawson and colleagues then placed test food slices onto salmonella-painted surfaces for varying lengths of time, and counted how many live bacteria were transferred to the food. On surfaces that had been contaminated eight hours earlier, slices of bologna and bread left for five seconds took up from 150 to 8,000 bacteria. Left for a full minute, slices collected about 10 times more than that from the tile and carpet, though a lower number from the wood. What do these numbers tell us about the five-second rule? Quick retrieval does mean fewer bacteria, but it’s no guarantee of safety. True, Jillian Clarke found that the number of bacteria on the floor at the University of Illinois was so low it couldn’t be measured, and the Clemson researchers resorted to extremely high contamination levels for their tests. But even if a floor — or a countertop, or wrapper — carried only a thousandth the number of bacteria applied by the researchers, the piece of food would be likely to pick up several bacteria. The infectious dose, the smallest number of bacteria that can actually cause illness, is as few as 10 for some salmonellas, fewer than 100 for the deadly strain of E. coli. Of course we can never know for sure how many harmful microbes there are on any surface. But we know enough now to formulate the five-second rule, version 2.0: If you drop a piece of food, pick it up quickly, take five seconds to recall that just a few bacteria can make you sick, then take a few more to think about where you dropped it and whether or not it’s worth eating.

May 9, 2007 Detroit Jazz Festival adds performers Susan Whitall / The Detroit News Detroit International Jazz Festival organizers announced additional names and details for this summer's festival today at a jazz-fueled press conference at the fabled Top of the Pontch, high atop the Hotel Pontchartrain in downtown Detroit. In addition to jazz violinist Regina Carter, the Detroit native who is artist in residence for this year's festival, other acts will include jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, gospel/blues great Mavis Staples, R&B singer Patti Austin, saxophonist Kenny Garrett, R&B singer Bettye Lavette, Wendell Harrison's Chicago Connection, former pop singer Maria Muldaur doing a jazz thing with Jim Dapogny's Chicago Ensemble, the Gerald Wilson Big Band, Kurt Elling, saxophonist James Carter, venerable jazz pianist Dave Brubeck and his Quartet, Ron Carter, popular local gypsy jazzers Hot Club of Detroit and jazz guitarist Stanley Jordan and his Trio. Singer Austin won't be doing R&B, but will perform music from her "Avant Gershwin" CD with the Gerald Wilson Big Band, and Staples, the familiar lead vocalist for the Staple Singers, will no doubt perform selections from her stellar new CD, "We'll Never Turn Back," a collection of songs related to the civil rights movement. Staples, Kim Burrell and Sean Jones will all perform on Gospel Monday, Sept. 3. There is less focus on roots music, whether New Orleans music or Detroit R&B this year, and less of a Motown presence, so it remains to be seen if the large crowds that flocked to last year's festival, which echoed the musical diversity of the New Orleans Jazz Heritage Festival, will come downtown for a roster that reverts back to a purer jazz lineup. There are a few tips of the hat to local R&B. Motown's Miracles will perform, celebrating their 50th anniversary; Don Byron's Junior Walker Project is an homage to the Motown saxophonist; and the Michigan State University Big Band will perform a "What's Going On" suite, a tribute to Marvin Gaye. New this year will be a series of Budweiser-sponsored club dates featuring a mix of blues and jazz artists on Friday nights throughout August at Memphis Smoke in Royal Oak, as well as Cliff Bell's, Bert's in the Marketplace and Baker's Keyboard Lounge in Detroit, with national and local acts to be announced. Smooth jazz WVMV-FM (98.7) morning host and flutist Alexander Zonjic will perform with the Motor City Horns, the young horn section that gave Bob Seger a Stax Records flavor on his recent comeback tour. Zonjic first played with the Motor City Horns at the Detroit Music Awards. This performance will be different from his usual flute gig. "I've worked with horns before, but not with a real ensemble like that," Zonjic said today . "We'll be performing with Thornetta Davis. We play the blues, and it'll be nice for me to be back playing guitar." After the announcements, Carter played a set with bassist Rodney Whitaker, who will also perform at the jazz fest. Afterward Carter, a Cass Tech and Oakland University graduate, looked out at the Top of the Pontch's view of the river and reminisced. "I told my girlfriend Carla Cook that I was going to be here -- she turned me on to jazz in high school, and when she got her license, we came here to a P'Jazz concert," said Carter. "She said 'you are really taking me back!'" The Hotel Pontchartrain, currently under renovation to become part of the Sheraton chain, will be the official hotel of the Detroit Jazz Fest, and will host after-hours jam sessions and a salsa party on Sunday night, Sept. 2. In addition to opening the festival on Aug. 31, followed by Hancock's set, Carter will teach at a jazz camp for middle school students. At the festival she will be performing with her quintet, in a duo with Kenny Barron, and as a special guest with the Clayton Hamilton Jazz Orchestrea. Carter spoke about the MacArthur fellowship she was awarded last fall; given the chance to study anything, she will be immersed in music therapy. "I'm interested in how music affects the brain," said Carter. "It's so powerful, whether people are dying, or sick. It helped my mom, when she was in the hospital." Carter didn't play her violin for her mother, but she would play recorded music, and could see how it affected her mother positively. "We are the only culture to separate music and art. And music is the first thing to get cut in the schools," she lamented. Detroit jazz historians Lars Bjorn and Jim Gallert will return with their series of interviews with festival artists and symposiums on musical topics in the Jazz Talk Tent. Detroit International Jazz Festival Lineup Here are the acts announced; more to come. For more information go to detroitjazzfest.com. Friday, Aug. 31: Regina Carter Quintet Herbie Hancock Quartet Michigan State University Big Band: "What's Goin' On: A Jazz Tribute to Motown's Marvin Gaye." Saturday, Sept. 1 Dave Brubeck Quartet Marcus Belgrave Kenny Garrett Quartet Dominick Farinacci Medeski, Martin and Wood with John Scofield Ron Blake Stanley Jordan Trio Scott Gwinnell Big Band Faruq Z. Bey and the North Woods Improvisers Sachal Vasandani Bill Charlap Trio Chiara Civello Doug Deming and the Jewel Tones Johnny O'Neal Sunday Sept. 2 Regina Carter and Kenny Barron Duo Wendell Harrison and the Chicago Connection Don Byron's Junior Walker Project Erald Wilson Big Band with Patti Austin Wayne State University Big Band with Kurt Elling Maria Muldaur and the Jim Dapogny Chicago Group The Miracles Russell Malone Quartet Spanish Harlem Orchestra Marion Hayden Conrad Herwig's Latin Side of Miles, Trane & Wayne Charles Tolliver Big Band Curtis Fuller Super Band with Randy Brecker and Louis Hayes Jennifer Sannon Kenn Cox Jesse Palter Steve Richko tribute to Oscar Peterson Monday Sept. 3 The Clayton Hamilton Jazz Orchestra featuring Regina Carter Mavis Staples Bettye LaVette The Classical Jazz Quartet: Ron Carter, Stefon Harris, Kenny Barron, Lewis Nash Alexander Zonjic with the Motor City Horns and Thornetta Davis The Sean Jones Quartet featuring Kim Burrell Carl Allen and Rodney Whitaker, a tribute to Johnny Griffin's 1957 album "A Blowin' Session." You can reach Susan Whitall at (313) 222-2156 or swhitall@detnews.com.

would have been much better if orchestra members were involved. anyone ever seen an onstage fight with musicians?

May 11, 2007 Guitar Innovator Les Paul Returns Home By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 2:53 a.m. ET WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) -- Guitar legend Les Paul enthralled a hometown crowd Thursday night at a concert that raised more than $100,000 for an exhibit on his life. The 91-year-old Grammy winner hadn't played in Waukesha in decades. Even though he claimed earlier he's never nervous before going on stage, he admitted ''I was lying. I'm nervous tonight.'' Wearing a blue turtleneck and black slacks, Paul dazzled the crowd with his playing and with stories from his long career. During his hour and a half concert, he joined his jazz trio in playing such tunes as ''Tennessee Waltz,'' ''Lady Is a Tramp'' and ''Embraceable You'' as the crowd paid rapt attention. After ''Somewhere Over the Rainbow,'' Paul got emotional, telling the crowd it was his mother's favorite song. ''You have no idea what it means to be back here,'' he said. At one point, he jokingly accused his piano player of missing a note but added that he's missed his share, too. ''All the time I've been playing the guitar, the notes I missed, I say I'm saving them for the next album,'' he cracked. Paul said at an earlier news conference that his trip was stirring up memories, including the motivation to invent the solid-body electric guitar in the 1940s. He recalled coming home from a gig after an audience member told him his guitar needed to be louder. ''I went home and I said to my mother, 'I've got a critic and the critic has something to say. It's up to me to do something about it. So I'll make an electric guitar,''' he said. The invention caught on and helped Paul and his wife at the time, Mary Ford, record a series of hit records in the 1950s. Guitar-maker Gibson began mass-producing the Les Paul model in 1952. Many rock musicians became famous playing on the model. ''Thank God the younger generation latched onto it and said 'Look what we got here,''' he said. Tickets for Paul's performance Thursday ranged from $300 to $375. All 350 tickets were sold, with all the money going to the Waukesha County Historical Society & Museum, which is raising money for the Les Paul exhibit. In March, Paul donated $25,000 to the museum. Paul is also known for developing recording techniques such as close miking, multitracking and use of echo and delay. He's credited with introducing the first eight-track tape player in 1950s and building an early model synthesizer. He's often called the ''Wizard of Waukesha,'' though he said he's not sure where it came from. ''I didn't create it. I don't care ... but if the shoe fits,'' he said with a laugh. Paul, who lives in Mahwah, N.J., has donated many artifacts and memorabilia for the planned exhibit, a $3 million project expected to open in 2010. Paul didn't need much warm-up time Thursday. He has played twice every Monday night with his trio at the Iridium Jazz Club in New York since 1996. He said he had one regret about the hometown concert -- he wished some of his friends, who have since died, could have been around for it. Still, he was happy to come home. ''I think of the wonderful days I had and the people who taught me and who I grew up with,'' he said. ^------ On the Net: Waukesha County museum: http://www.wchsm.org/

2 hours, 45 minutes ago A fistfight in the balcony stopped the music on opening night at the Boston Pops, drawing gasps from hundreds of well-heeled guests at one of the country's oldest and best-known city orchestras. Famous for light classical music and family pop tunes from decades past, the orchestra briefly halted its performance on Wednesday evening as two men wrestled in the side balcony of the 107-year-old Symphony Hall. Concert-goers looked up after a woman's scream interrupted a rendition of the Hollywood musical "Gigi" about 20 minutes into the performance. Shortly afterward, conductor Keith Lockhart stopped the orchestra with a motion of his hand as the murmuring crowd turned to watch the scuffle, apparently caused after one man told another guest to be quiet. One of the men could be seen with his button-down shirt ripped open as a security guard pulled the two apart, according to a Reuters reporter at the scene. A man had his arm wrapped around another's neck, pulling him backward. "House security and Boston police stopped the fight, and the audience members were escorted out of the hall," the Boston Symphony Orchestra said in a statement on Thursday. "The concert resumed and ended with cheers and a standing ovation." No charges were filed against the men. The Pops, comprised of the Boston Symphony minus its principal players, is perhaps best known for July 4th concerts along Boston's Charles River that began in 1974 and include fireworks accompanying Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture." Its concert hall is considered among the best in the world. Copyright © 2007 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable for any errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon.

if he goes to childress, they own the number 3.

http://sports.tbo.com/sports/MGBQET4LI1F.html

kurt puts much thought and planning into his work, with generally positive, occasionally moving results. his craftsmanship i could not question. as for spontaneity, that's another matter.

http://www.walrusmagazine.com/articles/200...-death-of-jazz/

thrilljockey has the mp3 available @$10

http://www.chicagoist.com/archives/2007/05...kurt_elling.php

The Warner Bros. albums were kinda la-la. Is that what you're referring to? yes, but i have so much respect for her i really regret writing that.

with all respect to alice, a lot of her later stuff was junk, in my opinion.

mclaughlin and santana did a very spiritual album early 70's. spirit, surrender, unity or something like that. too inebriate to recall. they were dressed in white on cover. gorgeous mclaughlin guitar effort. memorable ..........house of the lord. the rather unstructured 'summun' also contains a hair-raising 'house.'

the art on jon and don's 'human music' is all the liner notes i need.

didnt i recently hear from a musician that the loft scene was no better financially for the artist than the club and recording scene? i believe andrew hill said that in an interview about 10 years ago.

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=13708

went to visit atavistic and this one wont be available till mid-june. damn!

I assumed it was going to go downhill after that -- I'm glad they are leaving them alone. Good stuff on tap, as well, although somewhat hard to find around here. But. big thumbs down to their new "Summer Shandy: Weiss Beer with Lemonade". i dont dig their wheat beer either, but most kugel is hard to beat for the money.