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[progmom]

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:hi:

[billyskank]

1. Hi progmom!!!

:hug: :hug: :hug:

How about I Got My Mojo Working? You know who by... ;)

:loveya: :loveya:

[progmom]

2. billyskank!

how's your day going?

:hug:

[billyskank]

5. My day is going wierd

Yesterday was a real tough day and I woke up feeling really tired. After a big lunch I went for a nap and woke up three hours later. Now I feel really wierd, like I have a hangover or something. I got a headache, so don't play anything too loud... ;)

How are you? :hug:

[progmom]

29. i hope you feel better soon

i'm good....just a little sneezy

[billyskank]

32. Feeling better now

Dehydrated, I think. Please allow me:

:hug:

[sakabatou]

3. Too Good Too Bad by the Seatbelts/Yoko Kanno

[progmom]

24. zat jazz?

[sakabatou]

34. Big band jazz

If you don't have it I'll send the song over.

[progmom]

53. cool - i will have to check them out

thanks for the recommendation!

[immoderate]

4. Hi progmom. Happy Saturday.

I was thinking about Leroy Anderson, a favorite of mine (no kidding:). ) Wondering if you know of jazz versions of his compositions. I've heard one -- Serenata by Cannonball. Can you come up with that, or any others?

No pressure now.

On edit: Of course there are lots of jazz versions of "Sleigh Ride" but that's out of season.

--IMM

[progmom]

18. i'm here without a producer today

and feeling mighty mighty stressed. not sure how many research projects i can take on today, but i will see what i can find. :hug:

[immoderate]

36. No pressure. Put it on the list. How about "Con Alma"...

the Dizzy one where Sonny Stitt plays the best tenor solo of his life? should be easier to find.

But as always, whatever you play is always good with me. These are requests, not commands.:hi:

BTW, That Cat thing sounds like "Maiden Voyage."

--IMM

[bettyellen]

6. hey doll baby! whatcha got for me today?

i wish i could get you in my car, it's a fine day for a drive.
:*

[progmom]

13. hey - just threw some betty carter out there for you

:hug:

[Call Me Wesley]

7. No specific request, but something for Rufus Harley!

:hug: :loveya:RufusH!

And later, when you have time, if you dont mind, we could use your help with a little project. Heidi wants to make a CD for our niece (who's a young drummer), trying to show her the connections between black spirituals, jazz and blues to rock-and-roll, hip-hop and rap. (I think Heidi hopes to give Luisa an appreciation for spirituals, jazz and hip-hop, while presenting hip-hop and rap in a certain context.) Any recommendations about about 10 songs in chronological order, demonstrating a sort of evolution? (Heidi thinks any CD like this has to include "True Religon.") :hi: :pals:

[immoderate]

11. Rufus on bagpipes?

--IMM

[Call Me Wesley]

15. I let her decide. ;)

But besides that, I just saw that we both share Groucho Marx' quotes in our signatures. :thumbsup:

[immoderate]

21. I wasn't serious about the bagpipes.

Just about jazz trivia.

As for Groucho, I could dance with you till the cows come home, or I could dance with the cows till you come home.

--IMM

[progmom]

16. i will see if i have that

:)

[Heidi]

17. Oooooooooooooo! Tell me about the painting in your avatar!

Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease? :hi:

[immoderate]

30. Sure.

Thats a painting of me done by a girl I went out with about (gulp) thirty years ago. We were sitting around at her place and she whipped out her paints and slapped that down in less than ten minutes. Quite brilliant I think. I really looks like me (at the time) except I'm not so abstract.

It's probably not good form too use oneself as an avatar, but I like that it gets seen and it feels like my posts are coming from me.

Thanks for asking. I love that painting.

--IMM

[Heidi]

37. I love it, too.

What was the medium? Acrylic? Oil? I paint a little. ;)

And hey, it's perfectly fine to use oneself as an avatar. That's _me_ in my avatar. :thumbsup:

[immoderate]

39. Cool avatar!

I think it in acrylics. I remember it dried pretty fast. She played the violin too.

She revealed an art secret that day. Warm colors are foreground, cool colors are background.

--IMM

[Heidi]

44. That's a pretty good secret,

and it can work in reverse, too, depending on the light situation if one is painting from life. :thumbsup:

Here's an example of my work, in oil, of warm foreground, cooler background, like your friend said.

[immoderate]

46. Hmm, interesting.

I never did get the hang of painting, but I did a lot of photography, and I can see what you mean. Played with a lot of north light.

The painting is marvelous. That could be north light. Terrific!

--IMM

[Heidi]

49. The beautiful thing about north light

is that it's indirect, and it remains constant. Of course, the color of the ambient light, regardless of the direction, depends on location. (All of our light is blue, because we live in the "blue south" of Switzerland, about 200 meters above Lago Maggiore, so all of my natural light is cool.) We're building my new studio this month, and it will have exquisite north light, which means I can use full-spectrum (albeit artificial) light to light subjects. I can correct the cool, natural north light here by painting my studio walls a slightly warmer color than flat white.

(If you want to paint, just do it. It's rare for _anyone_ to really have the hang of it until they've done it a bot. It's a learnable craft, like any other, despite what the elitists may say. ;) )

[immoderate]

54. Correctomundo!

I work on the notion that you can always get a bit better at what you do. And if you do it long enough, you can get into the "good."

In my photography, I liked that soft light, was particularly inspired by Irving Penn, then learned on the job, working for Mitchel Grey. Found lots of ways to fake it in the studio, as well as soften found light. It became part of my style.
I like white walls and a black ceiling.

--IMM

[progmom]

26. this song playing now is called Catwalk

i'll send it out to Rufus Harley :)

[Misunderestimator]

40. That was soooo sweet!

And he heard it too... unless he was asleep at the time, which he probably was. :) :loveya:

[Anarcho-Socialist]

47. ...

:hide: </stalking mode>

[Misunderestimator]

50. I love a man who's true to his word!

:hi: :D

[Anarcho-Socialist]

56. Hi!

:hi: I guess you could 'see' me hiding afterall.

:)

[Misunderestimator]

58. So, where've you been for the past brazillian months?

:D

[Anarcho-Socialist]

61. Oh no!

How many is in a brazillian? :)

[Misunderestimator]

67. Not sure... let me consult my spreadsheet...

[Anarcho-Socialist]

74. lol, that's clever!

[progmom]

71. oh - and that sounds like an EXCELLENT challenge

i must give that a lot of thought. it's starting to come together in my head.... i should take some notes and work on it.

[Droopy]

8. Play something that's fast

I don't know anything about jazz, but I listen to it occasionally. I like the fast stuff.

[Heidi]

19. I'm luv-jackin' this thread to say

:loveya: Droopy! Have I missed any Stories from the Road since the one about your "mentor" who wrecked ya'll when you were still in training? :hi:

[Droopy]

27. Nope, you haven't missed anything

I had kind of a rough week last week and there were none of those experiences where you know that something is going to make a good little story. It's something that just comes to you and if it's something that you force it doesn't sound very compelling. It's probably like that with painting, too, I would imagine.

[Heidi]

35. You're _exactly_ right about that, my friend.

That _does_ happen with painting (for me, anyway). Sometimes, I make little notes in my painting journal and save up those tiny things. Delayed gratification, I guess. I so love painting, and I like to start rich in ideas when I begin a painting. :pals:

[progmom]

23. droopy!!

:hug:

nice to see you. :loveya:

[BlueCollar]

9. kicking back in Fort Worth

enjoying the music!!!

:hi:

[progmom]

25. yay!!

:hi:

[MrScorpio]

10. How About Some Gil Scott Heron?

Your choice!

Just make it funky

[progmom]

28. great idea!

:hi: :hug:

[MrScorpio]

33. Have you been checking out the show lately?

I think I'm in the groove now

[1gobluedem]

12. Hi there!

I am working down the hall from you -- trying to get organized before the week starts....bleah. It looks like a bomb hit my office.

[progmom]

14. oh hey!

do we have a volunteer sign-up sheet somewhere yet? :)

[Anarcho-Socialist]

20. Tuning in...

...in Britain :-)

[UrbScotty]

22. Come Sunday

Play me some Ellington and I'll forgive you for doing your show from Ypsilanti rather than from Mount Pleasant.

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[progmom]

60. ha!

and i totally blanked on this one. now i have two things to ask for forgiveness for.

how 'bout i play it next week? i love that song.

[marzipanni]

31. Aguas de Marco ( Waters of March)

I have Antonio Carlos Jobim and Elis Regina's version , but there are other versions i like, too.
Are you familiar with it?

[immoderate]

42. Ooh ooh! I like that song too.

--IMM

[progmom]

48. will do

i really like the version by susannah mccorkle, with the translated lyrics.

[billyskank]

38. Thanks progmom!

:bounce:

[mac56]

41. Something from the Benny Goodman small groups?

I'd love it.

[immoderate]

43. With Charley Christian I hope.

Just buttin' in. Sorry.

--IMM

[progmom]

51. coming up next

:)

[mac56]

52. You're the best, progmom

nm

[immoderate]

55. Ditto!

--IMM

[immoderate]

45. Bird version of "Tico Tico" -- awesome!

I haven't heard that one. Love that tune.

--IMM

[immoderate]

57. Wow, thank you!

Sonny capping off another great show! You are the best progmom!

--IMM

[progmom]

59. it was a great request!

unfortunately i did my math wrong and i am going to have to fade it out about 20 seconds early to go to the news. :(

[immoderate]

62. It's OK. I'm a super Dizzy fan but Sonny runs away with this track.

I know you're a sax person, so you gotta love this one.

Thanks again.

--IMM

[progmom]

Dizzy's my hero...

...but you're right about Sonny on that track!

[Anarcho-Socialist]

63. Thank you for the show, progmom

:bounce: :hi: :pals:

[progmom]

64. thanks for tuning in!

...and I'm way behind in responding to PMs...so here's this: :hug: for now, and I will write back soon, I promise.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

65. Awwww, thanks

:loveya:

[billyskank]

66. Thanks for playing my request!

:hug:

[progmom]

68. always!

thanks for being a friend. :hug:

[Call Me Wesley]

69. Great show, thank you.

If I ever could remember who was the artist of the song you played around 1.30, soft and clean female voice. Heard it often and love it, but no clue who did it. :(

Thank you again! :hug:

[progmom]

70. That was Susannah McCorkle

I miss her. She took her own life in May of 2001. I happened to be in New York that morning, and almost called her up to invite her out to breakfast, but decided to laze around the hotel and order room service instead. I still kick myself...what if I had called? What if that had made a difference? Instead, I didn't...and later that day she wrote a suicide note and jumped from her apartment window. :cry:

[Call Me Wesley]

72. Thank you!

I didn't know that, I just always loved that song and her voice.

She chose her way, and I don't think that anyone could have make a difference that specific day. There are the ones that ponder suicide as a cry for help (there you can make a difference), then there are the ones, like her, I guess, who would have had breakfast with you, laughed with you, smiled with you - and jumped the next hour. There was nothing to change; and the last thing I think she would like you have to do is to kick yourself.

No worries. She made her choice, and I do respect that. :hug:

[Alleycat]

73. Herbie Hancock

Watermelon Man