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Accompanied my daughter to field trip with her daycare. The good time was had by all.

This week at SF Jazz, we saw some jazzy classical and some classy classical jazz. On Wednesday we saw the Calder Quartet with Christian McBride, performing Bartok's quartet nos. 1 and 4. The quartet played #1 themselves and it sounded amazing in Miner Auditorium. Then Christian McBride came out and improvised for awhile on his own, which was good as always even if a little incongruous for the program. All five came out for the second half of the show, which featured quartet #4. There are five movements, which were played just by the Calders, but in between each movement the Calders and/or Christian would play an interlude. They were some short early pieces by Bartok called Microcosmos, something by another composer I am spacing, and some improvisations as well. Finally, they all played Bartok' Romanian Dance together. All in all, a really nice program. Last night, we saw The Cookers, and it is hard to imagine another group with this much jazz history on one stage today: Billy Hart (drums), Cecil McBee (bass), Eddie Henderson (trumpet), David Weiss (trumpet), Billy Harper (tenor sax), Donald Harrison (alto sax), and George Cables (piano). They were on fire from rehearsal (according to SF Jazz folks) through their two sets that totaled almost 2.5 hours. They are playing 11 cities in 14 days to promote their new album, which they pulled from for the second set. The first set had amazing renditions of Cecil McBee's Peace Maker, Billy Harper's Croquet Ballet (originally recorded with Lee Morgan), and a Freddie Hubbard tune. Powerful stuff that had some old timers in the audience fleeing due to high decibel levels and the blast of the trumpets and saxes. I was in the fourth row and leaned in most of the time. As an indication that this was a special night, Bobby Hutcherson was in attendance and stayed and clapped with his oxygen canula in place all the way through the incredible encore, Billy Harper's Priestess (with amazing bass intro by Cecil McBee and drum solo by Billy Hart). Seriously good stuff.

Burgers and rings at B-Spot, Michael Symon's burger chain in Cleveland.

iphone 6 plus owners have bonier, pointier legs than galaxy note owners

We all had unlimited and rarely beyond 1.5 and as much as 2 on occasion for me and my kids. With ATT Next, if I buy everyone phones it still cost less per month than what I was paying. Consumer Reports says iPhone 6 and Plus not as bendable as being reported: http://www.macrumors.com/2014/09/26/consumer-reports-iphone6-bend-test/

AT&T sucks though

yeah, fortunately the plan was quietly introduced in august, so you havent been getting screwed for too long http://www.cnet.com/news/verizon-now-offering-60-plan-with-2gb-data/ i'm going to do this as well. over 1 year, it costs $330 for an iPhone 6 64GB, with an upgrade available at the end of that 1 year. Compared to $300 for the same phone with an upgrade in 2 years on the usual contract

I Am Kloot - Sky at night .. ... (a really good artist to look in to for great studio production, sound qualities) (I am only the messenger). All of their records are recorded clean, quietly and so meticulously recorded ... Aside from being great song writers .. their production skills are remarkable. And it's really sort of fucking funny considering the whole "guardians of the galaxy" bit with, "I am groot!" .. .. but I assure you, there is no relation to that shit. ... ;-)

Nice ambient groove...

Thanks Dusty, I have listened to this 6 or 7 times already. Very keen to hear the rest.

Tried one last visit to Hot Doug's but the line was twice as long as the day we waited like five hours. So we called an audible and went for a nice breakfast.

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if there was a best of head-case this thread would make the cut