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x4! Thanks for running the HC exchange, Steve. I started to note that Paul Motian was most famous for being in Bill Evans' trio and that he played with lots of greats, and then I got distracted on Wikipedia and cut and pasted a few things, including his work with Charlie Haden (not one of my faves but great in his own way). I have and like a fair number of the recent recordings he has done, and I highlighted those because I think they are a nice start. Also well recorded, so that is nice. I should check out more of his early stuff as a leader. Anyway, happy listening. As a leader * Trioism (1993) JMT * I Have the Room Above Her (2004) trio ECM * Time and Time Again (2006) trio ECM * Garden of Eden (2006) ECM With Bill Evans * Portrait in Jazz (1959) * Explorations (1961) * Sunday at the Village Vanguard (1961) * Waltz for Debby (1961) * How My Heart Sings! (1962) * Moon Beams (1962) * Trio '64 (1963) With Charlie Haden * Liberation Music Orchestra (1969) * Ballad of the Fallen (1980) * Dream Keeper (1989) * Etudes (1986) with Geri Allen & Charlie Haden * Segments (1987) with Geri Allen & Charlie Haden * Live at the Village Vanguard with Geri Allen & Charlie Haden * The Montreal Tapes with Geri Allen & Charlie Haden * The Montreal Tapes with Paul Bley & Charlie Haden * The Montreal Tapes with Gonzalo Rubalcaba & Charlie Haden * The Montreal Tapes with Liberation Music Orchestra With Paul Bley * with Gary Peacock ECM * Fragments ECM with Bill Frisell and John Surman * The Paul Bley Quartet with Bill Frisell and John Surman * Notes Soul Note * Memoirs Soul Note with Charlie Haden * Zen Palace Transheart with Steve Swallow * Not Two, Not One ECM with Gary Peacock Other * Bill Frisell, Ron Carter & Paul Motian

Happy birthday and happy new year Jacob! Cheers!

Dew eet! Me too

You'll have to wait awhile for a response.

Bill Frissell with Dave Holland and Elvin Jones

Marty Ehrlich -- New on the Rail

Fred Anderson -- Staying In The Game

I have a lot of music, and a fair portion of what I post is my own. I do listen to Rhapsody a lot at work, though, and that allows me access to lots of other stuff. So don't be too envious.

Very different from those but really good. I think you'll like it. Plus, mono records are fun!

Everything But The Girl -- Eden

Gil Melle "Patterns in Jazz" One of the surprises from the series. Never heard it or even of Gil Melle, and I seriously love that record.

And if he's put on the traditional "freshman 15" since I last saw him, then he must be up to 95 pounds by now!

You can do it, Michael, just take it slow and ease into the idea of better sound and greater comfort. The Etys will understand, eventually. Cheerio!

Happy Birthday Chris! Hope you enjoy your first as a homeowner in style, like fixing plumbing or something. Have a great one whatever you do. Cheers!

Are you taking red wine orally to ease your Wii injury?

What. The. Fuck. ?

I intended to go to the office today but I woke up at 5 coughing and couldn't sleep for awhile. Apparently, I turned off the alarm and slept to 10:30. Slept even more after that and haven't really gotten out of bed all day. I have been fighting a cold and now have lost. My daughter brought me some fresh baguette that she baked, and my son just brought me his Macbook with Bridge on the River Kwai cued up for me to watch. Nice kids.

Happy birthday Steve! Hope you're having fun! Cheers!

Oh well, they can't all be great. The Cracker set started out better and I had higher hopes, but it got boring and rote-feeling like the Camper set. We ended up leaving early because we too are old and it wasn't compelling enough. Favorite moment of the night was toward the end of the Camper song Club Med Sucks when David Lowery is punking it up singing "Club Med sucks, Authority sucks, I hate golf!" and then before the song even ends he leans down, puts on his reading glasses and checks the next song from his set list on the MacBook he has on a music stand next to him. With apologies to Pete Townshend, I thought to myself "The Punk Meets The Grandfather." My my my my my mmmm my my my. GGGGG-g-g-g-g generation. . . Sadly, he's only two years older than me and I use reading glass over my contacts, but at least I'm not supposed to be a rock star.

Not sure if he has those now, but his last listing of equipment I found (which is consistent with what he said at CanJam '09) is as follows: Headphone systems WooAudio 6 Single-Ended Class-A tube headphone amplifier Channel Islands Audio VHP-1 Mark II Solid State headphone amplifier Sennheiser HD-600 headphones with Stefan Audio Arts Equinox cable upgrade AKG K-701 headphones with Ken Ball ALO Audio upgrade Oritek Audio X interconnects

Currently at the Cracker van Beethoven show and we are in between Camper and Cracker. There is a a sitar player with his son on tablas playing something from his Sitar Power II record called Sitar Trek. Quite funky, as he said, with a disco funk music track playing. Wacky. Hoping Cracker is a little better than the Campers. Showing their age and seemingly not exactly "feeling it." Fun nonetheless.

Come up for the Feb 27 meet and you can cheer in person and even partake!

Picked up the bottle of 2009 Thomas Handy Sazerac Rye I bought a couple weeks ago, then went to another shop that was supposed to have the 2008. Turned out their website wasn't updated and it was also the 2009. While there, however, I discovered a hell of a whisk(e)y collection so I bought a bottle of Van Winkle Lot "B" and a Van Winkle Family Reserve Rye. They had the 10 - 20 - 23 Pappy Van Winkle collection as well, and I was damn tempted. When checking out, the owner said it will be gone fast so I will probably break down and go get them. Lots of other good stuff as well... :palm:

Cracker -- Garage D'Or Psyching up for the Cracker/Camper van Beethoven concert tonight! Playing at the Independent, which is damn small. This is going to feel like such a throw-back to the 90's. My wife can't wait because she was going to UC Santa Cruz while David Lowery was going there and formed Camper. She saw them lots back then and still has a couple playlists she snagged off stages.

Brian Eno -- Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy