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yah, a terrible way to go for a great musician and someone who did so much for Savannah. Jeffcrom has been there more often than I, I'm sure but I know the area pretty well and am awed at the richness of its African-American history in particular. (Not that we can extricate that slavery, Jim Crow etc.) Anyway, though I've not seen a report that said where exactly Ben got hit, you can see roughly where he was on Hutchinson Island-- http://maps.google.com/maps?client=safari&rls=en&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=hutchinson+island+golf+course&fb=1&gl=us&hq=golf+course&hnear=0x88fb9ef2202d3e69:0xd07536075b429b39,Hutchinson+Island&sa=X&ei=KX-vUZ21KPGn4APXkYH4DA&ved=0CI4BELYD There are places I go in Florida-- very small coastal towns on the Gulf-- where golf carts are transportation for people and though the streets are heavily marked to advise drivers of such, you can see how an accident could happen, likewise those developments with golf courses traversed and ringed by open roads. BEN TUCKER RIP

The Migrant Miles And Miles From Nowhere dunno why these ain't embedded! hail Fred Foster!

litte czech stop... tell 'em about the kolach, tex... terrible story however, and most likely an industrial accident gone exceptionally wrong... of course, we hear of grain explosions more often and common as they are, they seem largely overlooked outside of the communities they occur-- http://www.kansascity.com/2013/03/23/4139989/charges-considered-in-atchison.html how to prevent grain dust explosions-- http://pods.dasnr.okstate.edu/docushare/dsweb/Get/Document-2604/ re: worker and workplace safety, what do you mean, doesn't 'the free market' regulate itself? hope West doesn't turn out as bad it seems but to answer aloc, yes, the first thing I thought of was not Waco but West itself, and say the music of Adolf Hofner (though he was from San Antonio).

needmore has harmed many a man thank the hell out of ya'

if you wanna see what the great Joe Baiza, whom Nels mentions there and reveres, does with his Jazzmaster-- get 'past' the song if necessary; note the key Django influence too, among others.

sorry to report that Melvin Rhyne is on the way out-- imminently and eternally, alas-- according to Killer Ray Appleton, who's live on the WKCR Musician Show tonight. Hopefully someone is recording this so Ghost of Miles can pick up rare Indiana lore... Mel Rhyne will be missed!

the correct answer is NEITHER: you can't play in a week but you should not retire. What you need to do is to get serious about developing your core strength (back, abs, hips, ass) in general AND your hamstrings in particular. In the short term, if you can afford it (should be v. reasonable even out of pocket in Fla), go find a sports chiropactor who utilizes ART and Graston Technique; you may-- or may not-- be surprised how many major league players regularly get chiropractic and/or acupuncture treatment. If you have good health insurance, go to an orthopedist or decent GP and get a prescription for physical therapy. Except for the financial burden, you should NOT hesitate to find a good PT. If money is an issue, there are numerous things you can do on your own (you'll CONTINUE to do these things after chiro & PT btw); these will mostly involve exercise balls and latex bands in varying degrees of elasticity; light ankle weights-- for specific hamstring exercises, not for walking around-- will also be useful. TEST your hammy effed-up-ness like this: lay on your stomach with your bad leg bent at knee at an 90 or so angle. Have your partner put their hand on your achilles/ankle. Now try to bring your foot closer to your 'tuchis' and when you SCREAM in surprising pain... you know you have a problem. Also on the road to self-recovery you need to learn about 'trigger points' and-- in addition to bodywork with a chiro/PT-- how to self-massage them. Believe it or not, a LACROSSE BALL is great for this tho' beginners might start with a tennis ball instead. Oh, you also need to buy a foam roller NOW. I don't watch baseball but if you follow soccer at all (for example), you'll see extremely fit dudes using these all the time and you should too. http://www.amazon.co...E/dp/B003X4BMFW http://www.amazon.co.../dp/B003TKMSSK/ get started on this stuff ASAP and you'll not only fix the bum leg but likely greatly increase the likelihood of sparing yourself other muscle & tendon issues. (this isn't guaranteed but it's way way better than taking your chances with mere cardio exercise, which is GREAT but your heart is only one muscle of many.)

Ah, but I do love it in parts-- the seeming disconnects included. Just listen to Monk's aggressive fills alone on both those cuts, "Consecutive Seconds" and "Straight." If TSM didn't "need" to be there (and I get what you're saying), imagine the difference if we dropped let's say Ronnie Mathews or Barry Harris in those spots? The ersatz "Sidewinder" (bag if not the tune specifically) of "Consecutive Seconds" slays me-- and is among the FUNNIEST (and most FUN) Monk moments I can think of since at least the early '60s. Totally agree btw that Nelson is Nelson and by now sui generis, if not operating at highest level his genius was capable of. Come on Paul Secor, jump in, the water's warm. Not that either of ya'll would do such a thing but I can't believe there are those who could prefer Steve Lacy's Monk to Monk's Monk-- and I like Steve Lacy fine but come on... FUNKY MONK LIVES!

Monk/Nelson gets more of a bum rap than it deserves. If it's not all it could have been, it's still a lot of interesting things-- more interesting, for the most part, than the bulk of the not-over-inspired Monk 4-tet recordings-- studio and live-- which preceded it. (Under-documented as it is, Monk kicks it up a few notches on the best Paul Jeffrey material I've heard.) Wannabe "composer" yokels like Misha Mengelberg and Han Bennink et al would give up their bicycles, if not their beer, to have ever pulled these off, forget, I dunno... Frank de Vol? And I don't know but that he went to his grave feeling badly about it, knowing full and damn well that he fucked up. Or maybe not, maybe he was a total prick who didn't give a damn about music at all. Kinda doubt it, but you never know, especially with workaholics. And has the story ever been told about how the album came to be, what the actual mandate was, what the lead time was, what the budget was, what came in versus what was deemed by the producer to be practical enough to get down w/o too many takes, things like that? I don't know myself, I'm just saying that there's a lot of things that would have gone into the album, and maybe Oliver Nelson bringing in perfunctory framing charts wasn't all Oliver Nelson's doing. Or maybe it was. But after hearing about the weirdness that went into the Sinatra/Ellington project, I now kinda hesitate to assume anything about one-off projects involving logistics and "eccentrics" and business-people. The only thing I know for sure is that it was a bad idea to release the album & that I don't play it, ever, because it pisses me off so much.

in theory i'd have preferred Mosaic but since either they or most of us will be dead before they get to George Lewis again... the Upbeat label seems to have embarked on a Lewis series while some weren't lookin'-- http://www.upbeatrecordings.co.uk/product.asp?pn=2786 www.upbeatrecordings.co.uk/product.asp?pn=2866 www.upbeatrecordings.co.uk/product.asp?pn=2569 www.upbeatrecordings.co.uk/product.asp?pn=2484 TOOT TOOT!!

http://books.google.com/books?id=_7nzUPUNvg8C&lpg=PA87&dq=horace%20silver%20ida%20cox&pg=PA87#v=onepage&q=horace%20silver%20ida%20cox&f=false "The police allowed you to make one phone call only. Instead of calling my dad direct and taking a chance on not catching him at home, I called Ida Cox, who ran a boardinghouse in Philly, where I sometimes stayed when I was in town. I asked her to call my dad and tell him to come down to Philly and bail me out of jail." -- from "Let's Get To The Nitty Gritty"

"Tiger Rag," from AMCD-59 Thomas, Lewis, Robinson, Guesnon, Joseph & Frazier LLC

Ben Young hosting-- http://www.studentaf...umbia.edu/wkcr/ CORRECTION: 9 January... any mods wanna fix? gracias.

the only obit informed by knowledge of later Ray (it explains why, to the degree explanation is possible)-- http://www.dailybull...urce=rss_viewed pre-Mothers Frank & Ray goofin' as "Ned & Nelda"-- Don't forget Elliot Ingber!!

Jim, if you can afford it, ABSOLUTELY GET THAT BOX... it's ** thee ** single greatest and most staggering of all EMI budget sets; RVW was a genius (look up Nicolas Slominsky's RVW entry in Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians if you doubt this), did great work in a wide variety of forms, and you'll rarely get better than what's there (though you'll want to supplement it for favorite pieces), forget more for less. NOTE: that box gets you what's arguably (but it's a v. strong argument) of all symphony cycles, that of the late great Vernon Handley. Best book on RVW's music is still that by Michael Kennedy (look for a used copy of the second edition)-- http://www.amazon.co...s/dp/0198163304 Boult 2 (EMI) is standard/standby but Boult I (Decca) is kinda dull and certainly not interesting enough to make up for the less than great sonics. You know who's a suprisingly excellent conductor of RVW? Andre Previn, no shit. He's recorded 5 twice, I believe, once as part of cycle on RCA, later with Teldec. Leonard Slatkin also did an admirable, largely overlooked RVA cycle for RCA, as did Bernard Haitink for EMI; the last a bit of a ringer because Haitink was such continental Europe standby, it added patina of legitimacy to RVA for those who questions-- sometimes correctly-- Limey provincialism. Symphony 8 (conducted by the brilliant Charles Munch) Riders To The Sea (opera)

is anyone on to this recent Bear Family release yet? "When researching aspects of the history of the Caribbean, American ethnologist Dick Spottswood unexpectedly uncovered an unknown musical treasure. From the depth of a library he fished out several flat cardboard boxes containing matrixes. The accompanying note said the recordings were made by a 12-piece jazz orchestra from Trinidad in 1912: Lovey's Trinidad String Band..." http://www.bear-family.de/es/folk-world/world/lovey-s-original-trinidad-stri-calypso-dawn-1912-trinidad-string-band.html I ordered this immediately but in case ya'll need a sample--

>>>> inane and unlistenable Ken Vandermark's life in any possible context, past, present or future-- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoHB8RSQ8-0 Vandermark is so inane, such a dead ass emotional and intellectual hack, he's the enemy of sound-- even physics even!!-- let alone "jazz," or "creative improvised music (featuring 'telepathic interplay)" or whatever genre he's trying to glom onto the for benefit nothing but his own desperate worth-by-association shuck. he's not the only one who sucks; I accidentally heard parts of a radio show dedicated to drummer Dave King yesterday and the Bad Plus parts were-- surprise!!-- fucking horrific. wow, these chumps listen to crappy rock music and try to make "jass" from it... swift are the winds life for dummies, eh dipshits? >>>>>> Vandermark + all Bad Plus combined forever and always (to say the least)-- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZvieim9lyM I am, in certain contexts. He's made some interesting albums. Sometimes he leaves me a little cold in the same way that Jeff Beck leaves me cold. I thought that the V5 took a little bit of a dip after FLH joined. The Alchemia set is good in very small doses for me.

Lark's reply is preposterous... If JSngry DID have an interest and "wanted to let the music speak for itself" he could READ the score and cut out the middlemen or women altogether. INTERPRETATION IS EVERYTHING always, everywhere, though it'd take a FAR greater interpreter than Ralph "Bleh" Blechacz to make this program worthwhile. Verdict: RETURN without hesitation... the ONLY disc this schmoe has made that's worth even a fraction of a second thought is the Debussy/Szymanowski program, and that only for the chance you'd appreciate some Szymanowski in your life, though even there I'd hep you to other solo piano compositions, both pre- & contemporary with Duke, Cecil, Dolphy et al, first.

this can't be emphasized and understood enough: that Dolphy was a consummate musician in every possible way-- praise be Hampton Hawes Sr., Lloyd Reese, Eric's parents etc +++... There was nothing Mingus couldn't love about him. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOd4TlP7MP8

& the David Paich revival also continues http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdBShxnovLQ

featuring David (son of Marty) Paich

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJzHrttrzB0