jazzbo

I believe they are simply facing an economic issue and deciding that without name recognition they will sell even fewer than a contemporary American jazz artist sells, and that it is not cost-effective to release these here.

mgraham: I do the same thing. I usually wake up before the alarm and just click the alarm off so it won't wake my wife. But if it does go off, it's a really obnoxious dj'd commercial country station and I fly out of bed to turn it off! I've become a morning person since I rarely ever stay up late and rarely ever indulge in things that would give me a headache/hangover the next day. So I really don't need an alarm clock. Once or twice a year I get my exercise doing the one second dash to turn off the country!

That sound sure sounds to me as if it is one of the musicians keeping time with foot or fingers. . . maybe Jo utilizing his one foot not used in the drumkit.

She was as beautiful as her music!

The music is great! I haven't heard the DVD-A version.

I dig Africaine, and possibly play it more often because it hasn't been saturated into my brain.

Big thumbs up for the Hamp and the Combelle discs!

Haden, what a master. I'm not always crazy about his work, but he has been an important part of many sessions and MADE them, and that includes pop sessions as well as jazz (or odd permutations thereof, thinking in particular of contributions to Rickie Lee Jones' recordings.) He has amazing command of the instrument, open open open ears, and is so amazingly cooperative with other musicians. (He does not domineer as some others may do.) And that tone! I have many favorite bassists, and I would also probably forget to list him in a list of my favorites, but he is well-represented in my collection, and there are so many instances where I go "Wow Charlie!" in playback. . . .

My favorite was on the old Jazz Central Board where the rather bizarre protagonist there that eventually brought the place down started a thread titled "Lon Armstrong smells like poo poo." How did he know?

Alfred, compare the two for sonic reasons when you get your set. I did. . . and decided to keep the TOCJ because it sounded better.

Fully understood Jim!

Yeah, it may be better to have had and lost, than not to have had, so I guess you can still be envious of him, but they're not together any longer, not even speaking according to her last televised interview. She sure is gorgeous, and I believe she can act. When I first saw her in Hackers I knew she was headed for success on the screen.

Yeah, it may be better to have had and lost, than not to have had, so I guess you can still be envious of him, but they're not together any longer, not even speaking according to her last televised interview. She sure is gorgeous, and I believe she can act. When I first saw her in Hackers I knew she was headed for success on the screen.

Fully understood Jim! Although right now he's maybe just pining for her. . . .

I have never played video games really, certainly not Tomb Raider; I just know this charachter from the movies. I could watch all of Jolie all day long. . . . She has quite a different, distinctive face, very expressive.

True to my favorite archaeologist, I went to see "Cradle of Life" this afternoon with my wife. It was a blast, though I didn't feel the same way about it as I did the first one, there were less antiquities involved here, less ancient sites, this was more a conventional action-hero movie. Jolie did a great job in that role. (And I sure enjoy seeing her on the screen). My wife actually liked it better than I did, which surprised me. But I'm fonder of the first one.