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You think she wrote that speech all by her ownself?

The whole RFID thing is fraught with peril in terms of privacy rights and civil liberties. As this information technology (and any tech) develops, there becomes a need for the development of equal or greater security/privacy technology.

I can go with Freddie on "Free For All" as well. But we're really just trying to determine who runs a distant second place to the most important trumpeter ever to grace an Art Blakey recording: Mr. Woody Shaw!!!

Found out yesterday Frank was from San Francisco. What's IIRC? Some honorary thing that non-Texans can get, like naturalisation papers? MG ...If I Recall Correctly

Billy Harper! Kirk Whalum. I kid you not. Er... Kirk Whalum's from Memphis MG From the VH-1 wbsite (so you know it must be true...) "He received a scholarship to attend music school at Texas Southern University, where he formed a band in 1979 and began playing on the local club circuit. When he opened for Bob James in Houston in 1984, the pianist was impressed with Whalum's expressive style and invited him to play on his album 12" As the bumper stickers say: "Tennesseean By Birth, Texan By Choice!" and "Naturalized Texan"

OT: My ex-wife had a Jane Fonda tape with soundtrack music by Steps Ahead. Anyone whose seen me can guess that I didn't ever actually do the workouts, but it was kinda fun to watch the spandex-clad Fonda-bots do thier thing while Michael Brecker was going off over synthy funk grooves!

Tried ordering the book from Cadence yesterday, and just got an "out of print" message today in return. A quick Google search yielded a couple of copies from antique booksellers for $75!!! Anyone (Allen?) have any alternate outlets to try?

I believe the organization that votes is NARAS (Natl. Academy of Recording Arts and Science). Exactly how one becomes a member of that august body, I'm sure I don't know.

Now it has to be artistic? What about Negro Work Songs? That music had a function, to help get them through thier day, but was there any artistic intent? I don't think so. (Of course that invites a whole debate about the definition of 'art'). BTW: I'm not trying to bust your huevos Noj, I'm just making conversation and padding my post count.

No ugly emotions allowed?

...Delores?

Charles Ives composed many pieces of music, but with no avenue to have them performed he simply put them in a trunk in his home. Was that music unimportant?

John Mellencamp John Cougar Mellencamp John Mellen Cougarcamp

Welcome JN! I guess we need to think more broadly about the term "organize". I would look at Cage's 4'33" and say that the organizing factor is right there in the title. The fact that Cage puts a temporal boundary on the piece creates an element of organization.

Actually, Chuck, I like the openness of your "organized sound" definition, but I have a little trouble with the "organized" part. Does it matter what the intent of the organization is? For example, a platoon of marching soldiers synchronizes the sound of thier boots to stay in step together. Is that, in an of itself, music? Or how about poetry. When spoken aloud, is it music? Or, on the other end of the organization question, is it possible to create music out of completely dis-organized sound? I don't know the musique concrete movement well enough to cite examples, but wasn't it kind of about having unorganized sound?

OK, while I'm trying to form a serious answer, I'll say: Music is whatever Stanley Crouch tells Wynton to say it is.

Eve Plum Florence Henderson Robert Reed

This list wouldn't be complete without a mention of Bill Tillman. Just ask him!

Prince was good, but I thought it was great that Fred Armisen and Maya Rudolf would do "The Prince Show" bit on that show. In '04, when Prince was releasing the "Musicology" album, he kicked off the tour at the LA Staples Center, and had a live video feed to theaters across the country. For $15 a head, my friends and I got a copy of the CD at the door, and a 'live' show. That live band was KILLIN', even with Candy Dulfer playing some alto. Nobody ever said Prince didn't know about markenting...

OT: What happens to all of the championship memorabilia that gets printed pre-game for the team that ends up losing? When the Seahawks win, where does all of that "Steelers, World Champs" stuff go? Do any pieces ever end up on the market?

Stan Smith Stan Laurel Stan Kann "The Gadget Man"

So, not to jump the gun or anything, but will she be selling individual titles, or putting them into lots?

"The Feedom Principle" has been on my bookshelf for years. I guess it's time I crack it open for a look. We'll have to hear from FFA himself, but from talking to him and other Woody alumni, there was always a pretty good amount of love and respect for "The Chopper". Maybe not the heaviest jazz player ever, but you gotta give Woody props for holding that band together for 50+ years, with a helluva lot of swingin' going on for most of it.

Fred Flintstone Barney Rubble Mr. Slate

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