maren

Happy Father's day to all the dads, old and new, and step-dads, and father figures to girlfriend's kids -- to you all !

I pretty much would echo Maren's recommendations. I would also include Jerry Jemmont on the short list. ← Jerry Jemmott used to advertise as a teacher in the Village Voice -- anyone know if he's still around?

Uh -- I think you should have it looked at. Emergency rooms usually prioritize eye injuries. Even if it's just "stinging" they can give you something for the pain (direct to the eye, no high!!!) that will prevent your OTHER eye from feeling sympathetic pain...

Stax stuff is great -- check out bassist Donald "Duck" Dunn of Booker T & the MGs http://staxrecords.free.fr/dunn.htm And Motown -- especially James Jamerson: http://www.bassland.net/jamersonhits.htm There's a bio of Jamerson, Standing in the Shadows of Motown, that includes transcriptions and 2 CDs, that's a lot of fun to work with (click on the book's title to see more). Plus: Verdine White of Earth, Wind & Fire Larry Graham of Sly and the Family Stone Marcus Miller, ofall kinds of recordings -- will give you a lot of technique ideas. And, as someone else mentioned in answer to your Flecktones question: Victor Wooten! In the non-soul vein, I know not everyone loves him, but check out how Steve Swallow uses the electric bass. And if you happen to come across the electric bassist John Henry Robinson III, who played with salsa bandleader Angel Canales -- well, that's a whole 'nother world of possibilities for electric bass. EDIT: PS -- from a pianist-turned-electric-bassist, and glad I did!

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Should I have said Vincent Chauncey, Tom Varner, Sharon Freeman...?

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Do you know that for a fact, or is that just your assessment of what you heard? Personally, I thought the recurrent left hand (bass) figure sounded just like him (bottle-a-bump-bump, as in: Right hand/treble**: BUM-bah-dah, bah-duh-duh-duh-duh-BUM-bah-dah followed by left hand: bottle-a-bump-bump) Plus the not-quite-idiomatic-but-dramatic-and-satisfying dynamic shifts are awfully Monkish... Rosco's "good-as-Gould" comment is really spot-on for me (whether you meant it as praise or dis! AFAIC it's a compliment to Monk!): I encountered Gould's Well-Tempered Clavier when I was about 15 and ate-breathed-slept with it for a year. Discovered Monk two years later, with a similar obsessive crush (come to think of it, my first pianist crush was at 13: Artur Rubinstein playing Chopin. Next was Horowitz playing Chopin, Scriabin. I myself had been studying the piano since I was 7.) Anyway, to my ears there was a kinship between Gould and Monk: percussive, contrapuntal (well, I guess that's between Bach and Monk!), idiosyncratic, unusually attentive to tone (using different tone production -- percussive, marcato, legato, etc. -- to delineate different contrapuntal voices)... Had a falling-out with a piano teacher over Gould's recording of a Beethoven sonata, which I loved -- whereas my young teacher, newly-minted MFA from Indiana@Bloomington, said "It's BEETHOVEN, Ann -- not rock-and-roll!" This recording definitely sounds like Monk to me -- I wouldn't agree with Michel Devos that it's "awful" -- I imagine Monk playing it for his own pleasure and education -- to answer Guy's question about how technically difficult it is, I would say it's kind of at the doorway leading into pieces that demand a "really big technique" (like Liszt/Transcendental Etudes or Beethoven/"Hammerklavier"). I was able to play the opening part well. For me, the "B section" -- minor key with all the arpeggios -- was more difficult -- interesting that Monk-or-whoever seemed more proficient with those arpeggios than with the big note-studded chords of the A part -- I was the other way around. But that's the thing about music and technique -- there are an awful lot of gradations ("Gradus ad Parnassum", anyone?) and many musicians, with a lot to offer, will have their individual areas of mastery and weakness. (Reminds me of a Vladimir Horowitz documentary I saw, where he's giving a master class, and then talks about it just to the interviewer afterwards, saying how humbling it is when some sniveling 10-year-old dashes off perfectly a passage that you, "the master" can never get through without a few clams! And THAT reminds me of piano teacher I mentioned above, asking me to critically listen to a concerto he was working on, and then pleading, in response to a specific criticism, "Even HOROWITZ misses those!") **I know it's not JUST the right hand on this part, I mean it's the most prominent.

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Nearly all of the above, plus... Cecil McBee -- his very own swing, that reminds me of a LITERAL swing hanging from a tree -- how it decelerates as it reaches its highest point, accelerates through the middle (bottom)? But hits those points at the exact time interval ("beat")? Plus his judicious use of overtones (false harmonics, they sound like: because you hear the fundamental as well) -- just doesn't sound like anyone else.

WKCR was playing Diamond all morning, and I loved it (but I'm gonna keep that little anecdote in my back pocket for a moment when I'm feeling someone's going overboard in indignation about the violence-loving youth of today...)

Cool !!!!!!

Congratulations! to Bernofsky's translation of Walser's The Robber ...and this book, too:

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Happy birthday !!!

Zora, Milo and Jackson are so-o-o-o beautiful !!!

Nat "King" Cole

Official New Jersey site: http://www.dmv-department-of-motor-vehicle...or_vehicles.htm (unfortunately doesn't seem to cover all aspects of sale as fully as New York's)

I don't know about New Jersey, but in New York you would need the title from the DMV -- not the original bill of sale. For your new bill of sale (to your new buyer), the downloadable ones work fine in New York. I found the New York State DMV website very clear and helpful (no sarcasm!!!!) and I'm looking for the official New Jersey one -- Probably a lot easier than a phone call! EDIT: the links I originally posted were NOT official NJ state links... oops.

Hey Conrad, I'm looking online for "post-acute care facility Atlanta" and "skilled nursing facility Atlanta" but so far not much has jumped out at me. Anybody else from the area have any suggestions? I do think that if you can find a good facility, that could really help all three of you. Maybe the visiting nurse has a recommendation? She sounds like a good person and a good nurse -- I'd say lean on her as much as you feel you can without burning HER out. Does the hospital you went to have a social work department, patient advocate or ombudsman? Sometimes, tucked away in a corner, hospitals do -- and these might turn out to be people who care. Hospital social workers (at least here, where I work) are not "welfare police" types or therapists -- their job is to help take care of all the things the patient and family need that no one else is taking care of. Here, they're also the people responsible for a discharge plan, arranging visiting nurse service or transfer to "post-acute facility."

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