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Happy Birthday Santa! Hope you had an awesome day brother!

Fantastic photo! Congrats to you both!

Happy Anniversary Jon! Fantastic picture too!

Happy Belated Birthday Jim! About time to start enjoying a sunny winter!

RIP Arnold Palmer. He always defined Role Model!

Time for my annual Monterey Jazz report and this year was a good one. On the main (Arena) stage Friday night, a tribute to Quincy Jones. One of the great things about Monterey is the way artists join together for special sets. This was one of those. Quincy was introduced by Clint Eastwood (a regular here) and the band was led by Christian McBride. John Clayton conducted a jazz orchestra plus many featured players. Richard Bona (bass), Dave Crusin (keys), Lewis Nash (drums), Hubert Laws (flute), Alfredo Rodrigues (piano), Valerie Simpson (of Ashford and Simpson fame vocals) and the list could go on and on. Amazing set with tunes from Quincy's various albums. Saturday night Terri Lyne Carrington's Mosaic Project featured Lizz Wright and Valerie Simpson in a finesse vs elemental force duet that was awesome. Carrington's band has a horn player, Ingrid Jensen that was killing. Jensen made another appearance with Branford Marsalis Quartet with Kurt Elling. Another awesome set to finish the night. Sunday included a wonderful commissioned work by Wayne Shorter Quartet with a wind ensemble. There were other fantastic Arena acts like Pat Metheny, Celcle McLorin Savant and The Bad Plus Joshua Redmond but what really put this year ahead of many were the artists on the other stages. Bill Frizell, Christian McBrides Trio, Stanley Cowell, young Joey Alexander's Trio, John Patitucci's Electric Guitar Quartet, Dr Lonnie Smith, Still Dreaming with Joshua Redmond and Brian Blade plus the last band I saw, Joshua Redmond's original Quartet who played stuff from his early days and even a slow, lush version of Stella by Starlight. Really a memorable year!

Happy belated Andrew!

RIP Sushi! Sorry to hear but that is a good long life. My cat had the same issues and passed last year. I hope there's a great cat heaven with empty boxes and catnip mice everywhere.

I love his website! Congrats to Naaman and family! Amazing indeed!

Happy Birthday!

Hey, Colin can scramble my eggs anytime he likes! But, what the heck is that paper thing with the pictures on it?

As mentioned a couple of posts up,.. Ron Howard's movie "Eight Days a Week" is starting next week. I'm not sure about the schedule for general distribution but special showings with bonus footage of the Shea Stadium concert will be shown after the movie at these locations. http://thebeatleseightdaysaweek.com/us/book-tickets/ Picture of the sound crew at Shea (kind feel for that poor folding chair!)

If your still looking for a budget phono stage, Bottlehead has their basic Reduction kit on sale right now for $299. I can't say I've heard it before but I did like the Seduction although as with many tube driven phono stages, you need to be sure it has enough gain for medium to low output MC cartridges. http://bottlehead.com/?product=reduction-phono-preamplifier-kit

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell is my new fav show via Netflix. I'm only on the 4th episode and I'm worried about running out of season 1!

Gee, what's so funny about that? Gotta admit there's a lot of me in that character! Thanks for reminding me to laugh at myself.

The second season is different but I'm still loving it. I can totally understand that it's not for everyone. But I think that's one of the great things about the way the small screen has grown up. When shows try and please everyone, they naturally drift toward the lowest common denominator. If they stay true to the story/message, folks who aren't interested will eventually drift to shows that speak to them.

RIP John. Loved his portrayal of Albert Finny's rival boss in Miller's Crossing. One of my all time favorite mob movies!

Wow, your classes start early! And,.. Welcome back brother.

One of my all time favorite funny films! Every time I watch it, I get a new fav scene (and I just noticed the smiley face button in the poster). Cloris Leachman confessing ",.. he was my boyfriend!" or the fact that Gene Hackman didn't want to be billed as the blindman. First time I saw it was on a date. I don't even remember who the gal was!

Fuck! RIP Gene. Young Frankenstein was my favorite of his and will be watched tonight!

Happy Birthday!

RIP RVG! One of the giants. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/26/arts/music/rudy-van-gelder-audio-engineer-who-helped-define-sound-of-jazz-on-record-dies-at-91.html

Amazing video's guys! RIP Toots

Looks great Al. What are those little green peppers? (or squash)

Byrne Eno Multitrack files A while back there was a website where Byrne and Eno posted the multitracks for a couple of the tunes from the Bush of Ghosts album. The tracks are from the tapes that they used to assemble "Help Me Somebody" and "A Secret Life". The idea was to allow folks to download the tracks and create their own mixes and share them. So, for any of you guys with DAW's capable of multitracking, have at it! https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1SGv-vhN-fRMkdQanpRVk54a3M https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1SGv-vhN-fRTmtlQndDV2RqS2c BTW these are on my google drive and I'll leave them on there for at least 2 weeks.