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Billy May June Christy Errol Garner

Wait a second.... WHAT?! Why don't I know anything about this???!!

Just happened upon a DVD of Charles Lloyd Live in Montreal. Great band; Geri Allen, John Abercrombie, Marc Johnson and Billy Hart. Two hours plus a 35 minute interview. Enjoying it a lot. There's some... uh... *interesting* stage banter from Lloyd during the gig. Good to see the spirit of the 60s lives on! Any thoughts on Lloyd's 2002 album Lift Every Voice? I saw a second hand copy for sale the other day and passed on it. I may go back for it. The DVD has whetted my appetite.

Steve Austin Lee Majors Major Holley

There are some bassists who have a recognisable style; I can usually spot Ron Carter just for his use of pedal points, slides and slurs and manipulation of the beat; Charles Mingus (who else plays that *hard*?); Charlie Haden for his sound (and you can always hear his fingers clicking ); Scott LaFaro just for his basic approach to the instrument. Electric bassists are often easier. Jaco, Steve Swallow, Marcus Miller all have very distinctive sounds. In a sense it's the curse of the job. Very often the better a bass player is, the less you 'hear' him. *Feeling* it is another matter of course...

Same here. 3Sat was a great station for that, if I remember right. Now I have to make do with Performance Channel showing the same half dozen shows month after month

Forgot this one yesterday, but the sessions went through to the 17th, so it still counts... 1995: Stephane Grappelli & Michel Petrucciani: Flamingo (Dreyfus) June 16: 1964: Dave Brubeck- Jazz Impressions of Japan (Columbia) 1973: Jimmy McPartland: Swingin' (reissued as Marion McPartland: Sentimental Journey)

Oh, and see if this ain't the icing on the cake! http://mjjsource.com/ You won't be able to watch it and keep your lunch down!

Don't get me wrong, I agree with you. These are principles which ensure our countries have fair and just hearings for all and I for one would not want to see that change (although these basic principles seem to be slowly eroding in both our countries). But did that happen here? For those principles to work they have to work both ways. The entire trial was flawed, yes, but those flaws reflect the flaws of the system. Sneddon botched the case. Hasty, ill-concieved and half assed. Jackson should have been required to testify. Is it unreasonable to expect that a 46 year old man who sleeps with young boys should be asked to explain such behaviour? And if the judge feels that previous allegations establish a pattern of behaviour, why couldn't Jordy Chandler be supoenaed to testify? Would his views on Jackson be any less valid than Chris Rock's? Yes, we'd all want fair and just trials for ourselves, our families & friends. But I'd also like to think that if I had a genuine grievance that the system could mount a prosecution a little more effectively that the Three Stooges effort we saw. Allowing a serious allegation such as the sexual molestation of a minor to become the side business in a battle of snide innuendo designed to discredit your opponent serves neither side nor the public interest. Sure, Janet Arvizo is mad as a bag of snakes. Is that really more of an issue than paedophilia? When the *jurors* come away saying (to quote Ray Hultman) "Michael Jackson probably molested boys... But on this one he has dodged the bullet" you have to wonder if the system, good though it may be, failed. A system where people 'dodge bullets' fails not just the accuser but all of us. Whether you think the right verdict was reached or not, no one comes out of this untarnished. Especially the justice system. We'll see if they do any better next time. Give it a couple of years. And hopefully Saddam will be tried outside of California.

That's the show... was broadcast again in the UK in February this year as part of BBC4s superb Jazz Britannia season... http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/music/feature...it-season.shtml Man, looking at the line up now makes me wish I'd taped the whole thing- it was excellent!

Got the two Django boxes on JSP and can't report any problems with mine, they're marvellous. Agree about the packaging though... how hard can it be to make these things look decent? They also bill them as 'chronological' which they plainly are anything but!

Misjudged something? I'll say! The stage was about 12 feet!

Is this the moment that was captured in the documentary about him? If I remember rightly, Sonny was walking around the stage with a radio mic on his horn, eyes closed... well, the rest writes itself... He walks off the edge of the stage and lands in a heap... the audience, obviously thinking he'd jumped, *applauds*. It turns out that Sonny had broken his leg! And there he was, lying on his back at the foot of the stage, sax still in mouth, still playing!! Now THAT'S a pro!

Is your system of justice designed to allow the accused to escape prosecution if he has the funds to buy the silence of the accuser? If the system works, why does it feel like we've been played for a bunch of chumps? Again!?

I believe that documentary was called 'Father Time'... I taped that when it was first shown, not sure what happened to the tape though. It was shown again about three months ago on BBC4 over here**. Nice film, lots of (now) well known Brit jazzers full of youthful enthusiasm and in awe of Blakey, who gives 'em a lesson in Afro-Cuban rhythms. I didn't tape it this time round. Sorry! ** Oops... just noticed you're *this* side of the pond! Keep an eye on BBC4... everything gets repeated on there eventually!

June 15, 1976: Dexter Gordon- Lullaby for a Monster (Steeplechase)

Zaphod Beeblebrox... uh... ah, crap!

That clears something up that had always bothered me... it always sounded as though it was two performances crossfaded together. So now I know!

Only because he bought himself out of any. He wasn't exactly exonerated last time out... as the judge acknowledged by allowing previous behavior to be used to establish a pattern of behaviour. I've had it wrong all this time. Jackson isn't made of plastic... it's TEFLON. NOTHING sticks to this MF!

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John Lennon Jack Lemmon Walter Orange

At the risk of turning this into a 'drummer jokes' thread... What's the difference between a drum machine and a drummer? You only have to punch information into a drum machine once. -_-

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It's a fair point, actually... the set list did evolve (slowly but surely) over 1966- 68. I guess what made Miles' repertoire seem more static was the fact that some of the pieces were getting quite long in the tooth. The main staples were pieces like Autumn Leaves, So What (1959), Milestones (1958), Round Midnight, All of You (1956), Walkin', Oleo (1954). In the era of the New Thing, trotting out a 12 year old blues line no longer seemed cutting edge (albeit played at three times its original tempo!) Hard as it is to appreciate from this distance by the mid-60s Miles was seen as something of a spent force, his best work belonging to the 1950s. Remember that Miles hadn't had a big hit (small group) studio album since 1959. Someday My Prince and Seven Steps hadn't been the major successes that Kind of Blue had been and Miles may have been careful about adding too many pieces from them (Teo/Neo, Seven Steps, Joshua, No Blues excepted). The lack of pieces from the fine ESP album is something of a mystery, though.

This is exactly right. ← No, he was being tried for- let's just remind ourselves- *child molestation*! Not based solely on the testimony of the family but of several independant witnesses and supported by past history. Reasonable doubt my eye. If Jackson had been some schmoe living down the street from you or I he would be waking up this morning in a prison cell.