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Welcome to the magazine biz....

Fork. Those are the bills.

Masterpiece Theater! I remember that show from the '70's. Catesta is right. 95. Yikes.

He's very interesting, but he seems to be playing more upright bass these days. (which I haven't heard)

Lying. Talking shit. "I want to record a standards demo" for years on end. Musican wanna bees.

Doing PCP and traveling over state lines?

It's the sheetz!

Interstellar Space - John Coltrane 'n' Rashid Ali!

A glance at the schedule reveals "Latin" Jazz every evening. Maybe I'll check out Indian Melodies on Saturday night or the daytime schedule....

http://www.wdna.org/ Making a link encourages click-a-bility. There some kind of jazzy latin thing on now. I'll try to hang and check it out. Thanks!

Right now it's a shot of Pharoah Sanders, because I dig it when he flips out on the horn. Why? He's da man. {this month} The last one was Coltrane's Interstellar Space. Because. And for most of last year, I used the cover of Coltrane's Live in Japan. Must say something....

I missunderstood your usage of it. I'll check the links in a few days when I have more time. Thanks for the thoughtful response. I didn't know that, but I do know I didn't look very closely at your web site. We're local, sorry if you thought I was attacking you.

Well, it feels pretty huge when you're driving a large U-Haul from one end to the other. In any event, it's only a little smaller than Brooklyn (60.9 square miles vs. 78.5 square miles). See for yourself: http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2002/JordanLevine1.shtml Look at the table on the bottom of the page. SI is the third largest burrough, and sencond largest in terms of land use. Actually, I just checked wikipedia, and it says that SI is the largest burrough at 102 square miles, compared to 96 for Bkln. This is actually what I thought all along. Not sure why different sources say different things, but wiki quotes the US census bureau.

Wow, it's been a long time since I've been there. A very nice place, the building is based on a Tibetan temple. The Newark museum has a bigger collection that's real nice too. Real close to the Newark train station.

Maybe a piano would be good for all the reasons listed above. A synth could work for a couple of years. I thought of suggesting a huge Ludwig drum set with double bass drums because you live in NY and I live in NJ. Sort of like a John Bonham set, but with double bass. And lots and lots of cymbals.

I started with piano when I was 7. Briefly on Clarinet for a "while" a year or two later. My parents decided to stop Clarinet, because two instruments were too much for me. I'll have to ask them about that. All children are born with absolute pitch? So from birth, they can sing 12 tone equal temperament, a man made tuning system that, historically, is a recent development? With all due respect, I know you're a Jazz historian, but I've been working with tuning systems, the harmonic series (aka Just Intonation) and microtones for 11 years and I'm not too sure this is true! I've even heard radio programs where Johnny Reinhart of the American Festival of Microtonal Music in NYC demonstrating how children singing nursery rhymes are singing simple harmonic series intervals. Joe G? Some thoughts?

Staten Island huge? I drove to Brooklyn this afternoon. 12 miles from the Bayone Bridge, down the SI Expressway to the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. It's small island! Maybe you're getting it confused with Long Island? New Jersey?

Trinity Church?

And NJ Transit is very safe!

Take the Air Train monorail to NJ Transit to NYC Penn Station. I don't remember how much it costs, but it's cheap. I live about 10 miles south of the airport, I've used it the last four times I flew.

I'm glad it's not just me. Ah never could stand him.

Hm..Wish You were Here. After that it was all down hill.

in no particular order: jazz, booze, organissimo forum and my biggest regret: not much sex, not much.