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Sorry to hear that. If your appointment is on the Parnassus campus you are walking distance to the Botanical Gardens and Golden Gate Park(which is free) and the upper Haight which has maybe the best music store in the world in Amoeba records (it uses to be a bowling alley now filled to the brim with vinyl and cds!). Lots of good restaurants near by in the Avenues near the park and Cole Valley off the Haight. If you figure out were you will be staying I am happy to recommend some good places to visit that are close by.

Do something in the playoffs, like maybe win it all sometime, and you won't get the Washington Generals treatment. Instead, you'll be the star attraction. And don't tell me that the "system" propagated by Bud Selig keeps the small market teams from winning - before the Red Sox won in 2007, there had been seven straight different World Champions. The A's players have no problem being the "other team", why does it offend you so much? As for the schedule change, I believe there are requirements in the Player's Agreement about late games on "getaway days" - at least the A's start at home and don't have another trip like the Red Sox do to Toronto before having their home opener. In other words, it wasn't "The Evil Empire Lite" that forced this change in start times. MLB was forced to make the change by the Player's Agreement. And last but not least, its a 162 game season. The Bay teams may be hopeless this season but the Yankees, Red Sox, Tigers & Angels hardly have locks on the post-season. Well the A's do have four World Titles in my lifetime and a ton of division titles. I have a problem with the whole trip and its disruptive nature to the schedule. Why play two games that count and come back and play exhibitions? My problem with Selig has a lot more to do with revenue sharing. Yes its a long season but it would be a huge upset if the Sox, Yanks and Tigers don't make the playoffs. Hopefully some team will surprise us all like the 05 Wt Sox or Rockies last year in the NL.

Your making assumptions. I don't have a problem if you call me ignorant or a dipshit/douchebag (not that you did). I do have a problem with you calling me a consumer that doesn't think about what he puts in his ears, eyes or down throat. I saw the guy twice before I bought a record and he won me over by playing his ass off and respecting the history of Jazz. I may not support deserving artists that never got on my radar but don’t accuse me of not putting in an intelligent thought process for whom I do support. Thanks.

As much as I love Baseball its pretty depressing that the four playoff spots in the American League have already been bought by Boston, Detroit, New York and Anahiem (if their starting pitching has injuries Seattle may make a run at them) and that Bud Selig is not in jail for crimes against the sport. Add the fact that my A's are being treated like the Washington Generals in Japan right now and when they come back to the Bay Area (having to change their schedule for the benefit of the Red Sox from a weekday night game to a day game, ticket holders be damned) to accommodate the Evil Empire Lite its hard to be excited. Add the fact that the Giants will lose 115-125 games this year there is not much to get excited about in the Bay Area but yes baseball is still poetry and at least the A's will fun to watch though I don't expect them to make any kind of run this year.

I have one of those coming up this Friday. Wish I had more. Last night:

Just being careful and making myself clear and showing the proper amount of respect here in the post bluenote82 period. I am here to learn not pick fights.

I found his records Largo and Solo in Japan to be at times very self indulgent in fact I got rid of them, yes he can come off that way. I do love all of this trio records. Since I don't follow media hype I discovered him by seeing him live at a festival and was impressed. Im willing to support others who are also deserving, send me a pm when those releases come out and I happy to check them out.

I own four Phineas Newborn records and I think he is incredible. I don't expect anybody else to sound like him, he was unique and a force of nature. Yes Toumani Diabate is amazing and more people should own his records also. I only own three and I should own more. I still don't understand why I can't like Mehldau or how if people buy his records and then move on to Monk, Evans or Shorter how that is a bad thing. I am not insulting anybody (nor implying I know more than anybody else) on this board just defending that I should like who I like. It's not like he is Chris Botti, John Tesh or Kenny G or something.

Yeah, FUCK Mehldau. Mehldau --> The Bad Plus --> ??? Come on those trio's don't sound anything alike, not even in the same ball park. I never got the Mehldau bashing. He has chops, touch, writes good tunes, loves and knows his Monk inside and out as well as the american standard songbook. At the seven concerts I have seen him I have seen middld ages men saying damn into there whisky during a version of Monks Dream, 20 something tattooed hipsters with goosebumps during Everything In It Right Place and my wife cry during a Cole Porter ballad. If thats narcism and pseudo intellectualism I want more. I wish the world was full of people talented as smart as Brad Mehldau. God forbid someone have some cross over appeal to the rock crowd but actually do it the right way with out being a gimmick (not saying the BadPlus are but they are closer to it than Mehldau). I guess I should hate him becuase he sell some records and appears on jazz magazine covers. While you guys are hating I will be enjoying the new album that comes out this week and I will be talking about it with my friends who only dabble in Jazz because they are on board with him. A 20 minute version of All The You Are or Black Holed Sun by Soundgarden I don't care. BRING IT ON.

I love vinyl Sundays!

Joshua Redman has turned into the player that is deserving of all the accolades he got when he arrived on the scene. His playing on last years Back East and on Sam Yahel's Truth and Beauty was excellent. I also had the pleasure of seeing him re-create the Monk-Trane Carnigie Hall concert with Brad Mehldau last year at the SF Jazz fest and he was amazing. This was not the same Joshua Redman I saw in the mid 90's, he has turned into a great player. Its not his fault he was the chosen one to to by hyped when he came up, besides find me somebody who would turn it down. While they would have eventually gone on to have nice careers because they are all monsters, Redman deserves some credit for bringing Brad Mehldau, Brian Blade and Christian McBride to wider recognition when they were coming up (first time I saw that band I knew all of those guys would be great, Redman was the weak link at the time). Add being artistic director of the SF Jazz festival for a few years and you have a nice little legacy.

I know one night doesn't reflect an entire season but the Lakers and Celtics look good! I am sure Stern already has the checks written out to the refs to fix the playoffs because a Lakers-Celtics final would be marketing wet dream for him. Bank it, Lakers-Celtics finals. btw-If the Laker fans hate Odom so much the Warriors will gladly take him off your hands this off season.

I am on my third chunk of that right now, I get to a point where I start getting angry and have to put it down. During the break I started and finished The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami. Currently reading Jack Kerouac - On The Road before I finish the Fisk while also flipping through: I am a lot happier when I stick to fiction.

To her credit she was much better post 74 after the wall the sound when she could actually hear her self and other vocalists in the monitors. You try singing harmony with one monitor vs a bass player and two guitarists with 80 amps on the back wall.

Wanting to get into Mahler and not knowing where to start I picked this up because it was in a desert island picks list by Brad Mehldau. Mahler: Symphony No. 5 / Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker I don't have other 5ths to compare it to but its pretty epic to my ears. While recorded in 73 the remaster of it is excellent. The louder the better with this one!

Thanks for sharing this, I love this period of Bill Evans and while I have read several interviews with him I have never seen one. You did a great job, your question brought out some interesting insight, the show must have been a blast to work on. btw-I dig the clothes.

I wish I had an extra set. I wish I had gotten one of them. Their site was down when I tried to order the 69 fillmore set on a Friday, and the next Monday, they were sold out. Man, was I steamed. I still don't know why they insisted upon making it limited. Seems to go against what the band is about. I bet it would have sold out at 20,000, even. It was simply a bad guesstimate on their part. No Dick's Pick had sold 10,000, and they thought along the lines that this was a very expensive Dick's Pick, so they honestly believed 10,000 would be more than plenty. They just didn't see the demand at all. And now they're stuck to their word as far as it being limited, at least for awhile. I'm guessing at some point either through a download, or perhaps if something like Blu-ray becomes the more common physical format (if such a thing exists) that they'll reissue it. I own a Bob Marley Songs of Freedom boxset that is limited (#4038) in a long box that was remastered & reissued in a smaller package. I hear the last few Dicks Picks didn't sell at all, considering the quality of those picks 31, 32 I am not sure if the guesstimate was off or not. I am not sure at the time of the availability of lossless SBDs for those shows. Winterland is pretty well circulated so it will be interesting to see how it does. There seems to be a lot of heads who think every show should be free.

Fabulous! This may be the very pinnacle of the Dead (IMO). This is THE set. Considering how much I love fall 73 this will be hard to pass up. $100 for 10 CDs is not too bad.

I will give it a online listen on Monday. Thanks!

This was one of my first Miles recordings during the time when I got the Jazz bug and was taking jazz lessons. I didn’t have a lot of money at the time so a friend made me a cassette with this and Miles 58 on it. As the years progresses I replaced Miles 58 but not Ascenseur pour l'echafaud, I knew it inside and out but was expanding my collection into stuff I haven’t heard. Fast forward 15 years later last fall a different friend asks me what he should get with his Itunes gift card, he is looking for something that will sound good for his first trip to Paris. I point him to Ascenseur pour l'echafaud, he said it was his perfect for his trip and he played it every day walking around Paris. After that I rented the DVD and recalled how much I loved the movie and the soundtrack (it really helps to know the movie and how Miles makes the music work with it) and decided to have the music back in my life again. The 2007 Originals version of the this disc while it only has 10 tracks has superb sound compared to the older CD’s that have all the extra tracks. Even if you have the old copy with the extra tracks I highly recommend getting the re-mastered release of it, I played it again yesterday and it still sounds amazing. I think Miles working on this film went a long way to how Miles approached modal compositions and how that turned into Kind Of Blue.

wow, haven't given it a lot of spins yet but Jason and Eric sound great on this and the sound of the live recording is superb. The record is kind of a mix of Canto, Crescent and JuJu. I don't think I have heard Jason Moran sound better. Lloyd has done it again.

Speaking for myself at the time I heard it I had no other Grant Green to compare it to. While I wouldn't rank it over or close to the Sonny Clark sessions I do have a strong sentiment for it. Just for the work by Herbie and Grant on it I feel it deserves some positive merit.

I don't think I ever say Patrick Ewing NOT travel. Sweet shot and all but dude traveled every time.

^ I have several thoughts on this record (the originals edition and the one with the outtakes) which I will contribute later but first I want to recommend the new Criterion DVD release of the film which has a bonus DVD devoted to Miles and the sound track. Answers the questions above and has great commentary from Gary Giddens, Stanley Crouch and an interview with the Pianist on the sessions.

Hey now the Warriors are good, they matched up well with Dallas all of last year and beating them wasn't a fluke. Heck, if they would have made half of their free throws and if the entire team didn't have the flu they would have pulled out a victory at Utah in one of those first two games in the playoffs last year. In the West seeds don't matter as much as how you match up with team you will be playing as you have 10 deserving teams that should make the playoffs. They went 0-6 to start because their heart and soul of the team Steven Jackson was suspended (who by the way has been a model citizen and teammate) and have been playing great since his return. I said it at the time that even if Jackson and Harrington didn't work out trading Dunleavey Jr and Troy Murphy last year just to get them and their salaries off the team that it was the trade of the year. The great contribution Jackson has given us has been a bonus. Even if the Warriors miss the palyoffs this year they have shown more heart then any other in the 20 years I have been following them. The games coming up against the Suns, Nugs and Mavs will be huge! Don't miss them if they are on TNT or ESPN they will be barn burners. Go Warriors!