And I'm listening to Leo Cates, Leapin' and Lopin', at Jazz 88. Who is sooo hard bopin', with some worldly Hilton Ruiz around 10:09 pm PT and it continuing on. Before the current Thursday, 6 to 9 pm home for TNJT, we did the same timeslot on Monday nights, like tonight, and for 5 or so years, I got to hang during post-show clean-up time and go hard bopin' with Leo. Now I encroach post-show on Miff Mole

And I'm thinking about Joi Ito's Web and specifically, his moblog. Beautiful moblog. That's pretty much what I'm looking for (and blogging about) to Moblog the Playboy Jazz Festival. Now, how can I help him help me make it happen?

I at least need to know how he does it? Looks to be using Movable Type. And what is he using for the camera? And the integration with Audblog, for adding longer commentary and thoughts...so cool! Maybe he can point me in the direction of someone who can help.
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I wrote a bit about the potential for a Boz interview in a larger piece about coverage angles for this year's Playboy Jazz Festival,

"AND, my main girl Nina is working on Boz Scaggs for a chat on TNJT Live. It would be totally cool to talk Jazz with Boz and play tunes from the new Jazz standards disc, "But Beautiful". I took it as a measure of Boz's committment to the music and the tunes that his Home Page is THE page for the New disc. I also liked this quote from the new site,

"I thought it might be interesting to rework some of my songs with a more progressive treatment. Things opened up so nicely in rehearsal, I suggested we do a standard. We did the show, we liked it, the audience liked it, and thatís where it all began."

So an interesting angle on things would be if Boz had something audio-wise of those 'so nicely' opened up Things (we are TNJT, BTW) to share with us. Does he mean 'my songs' like 'Lido' or 'Lowdown'? Wouldn't it be too cool to hear those old Boz favorites done up in a New, Jazzy style?! And hear them in the context of the new stuff on "But Beautiful"? We play them, talk about how those things led to the New Things, and play those New Things.

I'd also like to how this feels to him? Does it feel different to be doing these standards in front of folks instead of his glory-day-tunes? Ya know, it's gotta be strange doing songs like "What's New" at exposing tempos and volume as opposed to his well-known groovers. I'm interested to know how he sees the new disc fit in with the rest of career. Is he just trying this on, or has these kind of tunes and treatments been in his closet for awhile, just waiting to be brought out.

And so we'll dedicate a few audio thingees to Boz to show our own committment. The New Home Page is cool, except you have to click on each of the samples to hear them. Not now: the Boz Scaggs But Beautiful Audio Sample Playlist (.m3u playing .wma, works in WinAmp, WinMediaPlayer). Listen in uninterupted sampleness (question: where's an alternate take or something else complete, Boz?). And to go back to 2001 for some current context, here's the Boz Scaggs Dig Audio Sample Playlist (.m3u playing .asx, only WinMediaPlayer can play .asx, I guess)...all of the samples from his last one, Dig (beware of auto-starting-looping-page-sample, ugh). And we'll go to VO's Boz roots with the very era-appropropriate Slow Dancer/Silk Degrees/Down Two Then Left box set, with it's own 'play sample clips' link (to more WinMedia stuff). Kind of nice to have some links to click on and hear a little more than just a taste of tuneage...like 5 or 10 tastes...at least). Hope you enjoy! I am right at this very moment and the New stuff sounds great."

We'll also have to involve some new friends over at the Boz Scaggs Discussion Board at Yahoo Groups. More to come on that...
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