awesome on Tokyo. i hope it happens! who knows how much time i’d have to tool around, but i’d at least wanna get you to the show. it ain’t gonna be jazz though…!

1pm here but actually at the office for a bit..hoping to head out soon though! you make it to Tokyo and leave the rest to me..been doing a lot of “tour guiding” the last eyar or so for visiting jazz-heads so can hook you and your band up with all the right spots.

she’s actually a tremendous musician and had a handful of records that were really GREAT and swingin’. plus, at the time, most of my gigs were brushes hits w/ a piano player singing standards, so it all lined up! the album she did that had “frim fram sauce” on it, was a drummer-less trio record tribute to Nat King Cole and it’s an excellent record!

np = an out Bobby Hutch BN cd called Head On…

i guess it’s saturday afternoon by you, huh? the Asia tour might actually happen! let’s cross all our digits and hope it comes to fruition this year…

thelarmis..you’re not a Diana Krall fan, are you?

my dad has a ton of books – mostly physics and history.
my mom is always trying to get him to get rid of some of them and one of her reasons is so that i won’t have to go through them – but my dad will is holding on to all of them.

i used to not want to buy books (or dvds) thinking i could just get them from the library. but i have started ammassing mroe books -some for my studies, some for casual reading and there is something defining about having a little library.

Well, we ended up playing both sides 3 times, and were in hysterics the entire evening. For many weeks after, we met at Les’s most Friday nights for another dose. This album, AM/FM, was a revelation to me, as I had never heard such political incorrectness in my life. It was just wonderful and I have worshipped Carlin even since. While George got quite an edge later in his career, I consider him the greatest stand-up comic ever, and to be both brilliant and somewhat prophetic.

Whenever I hear anything on the news about the death penalty, I can’t help but think of Carlin’s brilliant routine on public executions at football game’s half time. The more I listen to it, the better an idea I think it is.

In todays hyper politically correct environment, we simply do not have enough George. I really miss the guy.

i’m not a big book reader, in the slightest. that said, i have a decent-sized library myself. i like having these books, even if i just thumb through ‘em or they just sit on a shelf. i feel like they DO represent me in some auto-biographical sense. you can totally tell which books are mine and which ones were gifts that i simply don’t have the heart to toss away.

the one book i plan on reading this year is the Blue Note Records biography. it’s been sitting on my coffee table for months, but i’ve only used the (partial) discography in the back as a reference point. i hear it’s not a great read, but i’ll get into it one of these months. i read a TON online, in papers and ‘zines…just not books…

Ms. Kaye, sounds like she served as a good life lesson for the Belth Boys at a seminal time. i’m glad you had that experience, got to re-live and shared it with us!