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Holy Crap! That's a classic, right there!

Yes, it should!

that and http://monsterpig.com/ From the website: "Get the color poster" Only $9.95

We're throwing a big party this Sunday night, and putting a few minutes of wedding vows in the middle of it. I'm looking forward to the celebration; friends and family, bar-b-que from a great place here in town, beer and wine flowing, an R&B band of some of my best friends. But that pales in comparison to how much I'm looking forward to going through life with such a good woman. This is the second go-'round for me, and her first/only time. We're both well into our forties (that's age, not malt liquor) and it really is a cool thing that we have more-fully developed personalities and lives that we can bring to each other. I'm all about the "growing old together" thing, but I think it's good that I've been able to do some growing up on my own. Anyway, family and other out-of-town guests start arriving this afternoon, so I'm not sure how much forum time I'll have in the next few days. So, if you think of it on Sunday evening, raise a glass in our honor!

I picked this up today, but I've only heard the first couple of tunes, on my car stereo while running some errands. But I liked what I heard. Looking forward to some more attentive listening.

I was there for my first live Roscoe. Great show!

Yeah, I was thinking late Prez and/or late Billie Holiday. That can be some gut wrenching shit.

Rocky VI?

Oh sure, one more singer staying too long at the fair; we listen to 'em croaking out a few more just before they croak, and we call it "depth."

Yeah, that's why I would classify that Christmas album (and plenty of her other output) as swinging Pop music, rather than as a disappointing Jazz record... if we have to classify. One of the things I like about that record is: No Scat Singing!!!

Absolutely! I often tell my students that they should learn tunes by listening to recordings (specifically vocal renditions), rather than just out of a book. Ella is a great place to start because she actually sings the melody of the tunes, and she recorded so many standards on those "Songbook" albums. Also, she was a helluva singer, AND I know that it's not officially the Christmas season until this get spun several times:

I tried a few different pieces of "easy" software, but just didn't have the patience or time. Then I saw that a few friends of mine had set up their websites through http://dynamod.com/ The page layouts are pretty much set, and you're really just typing in the text and uploading images and sound files, etc. I'm sure they have lots of sample pages on their site, but you can also check out my site at: http://glennkostur.com Mine is pretty basic, but still quite presentable (I think).

Jazzy Alphabet

Yeah, what's up with that? I'm DL-ing the four that are up right now. What am I to do if I want the previously available tracks (is it 8 or 4?)? Do I have to go to the Gray/Black market?

With the implication that you'll be forwarding that to me?

Wiki entry on "Yacht Rock" "Yacht Rock", the show.

Thanks for posting that, CJ! What's the street date for that record?

Kinda makes one yearn for the good ol' days when Strom Thurmond was checking out the Nessa AEC box, and filling out his Fantasy/Prestige collection via emusic.

Just starting a novel by Eric Garcia called "Anonymous Rex." Appears to be a noir-ish detective story set in L.A., except that several of the characters, including the two guys running the detective agency, are actually dinosaurs in human disguises. I'll let you know how that all works out...

Thanks! I hope Moose is doing OK. It's been weird the last few days. For some reason, Kudra always responded to whistling; not like a "come here" whistle, but even if I was just whistling a tune around the house. She would stir from a deep sleep, hiding in a bedroom closet, and come stumbling out, squinting and bitching up a storm. Now when I'm whistling (apparently I do that quite often), I get nothing.

Extremely unlikely to happen. On that syndicated "Best of Carson" series that was on several years ago, they edited out all band performances, including the original theme song, to avoid having to pay any residuals to guys in the band.

I wonder if we all start e-mailing David Letterman to have Sonny Rollins on if he'd do it.... I've read that Letterman is decidedly NOT a jazz fan, so unless Sonny is on backing up the Rolling Stones, it probably will not happen.

I say that to the audience all the time. But seriously, what a dick. It was said with a certain amount of shock-value-twisted-humor, but it certainly got his point across. And gosh, a trumpet player being a dick; imagine that...

Here's a shot of Kudra from several years ago, when she was hale and hearty. She was a fan of hanging out in/near the bathroom sink. Go figure...