One thing we will try tonight, is to begin integrating at least one HUGE CLASSIC JAZZ THING into each hour of the show. We all like to hear those familiar tunes once and awhile, so we'll try to do it with a little angle: The Definitive Version. We'll try and find old and New writers and critics telling us what the definitive recording was for some of the classics in Jazz. Hopefully we'll get some sort of process down where we are looking at both the ones we've all heard and maybe some that we haven't...and learn why critics (and even you and me) think these versions are Definitive. We started out tentatively a couple weeks back during our Boz Scaggs interview, but we'll try to take it a bit further now.

Much Love and Enjoy The Show....VO
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According to Trevor MacLaren over at AllAboutJazz.com

"This second disc is not only important for its historical prominence, but an important piece of musical history. On this CD is an actual show outtake of Rat Pack favorite "Guys and Dolls" featuring Dino and Frank screaming sexist comments at various women in crowd while doing what could be considered the definitive version of this track."

Trevor goes on to point out something that I agree would be a highlight for me,

"But the real piece de resistance is a twenty minute track of "Witchcraft" with Sun Ra's Arkestra, originally slated to back Frank on this legendary date. Unfortunately Sun Ra and mates had a previous engagement and had to duck out. Sinatra called on friend Q to get long time pal and swing master Count Basie to fill in. Although nobody swings like The Count, but hearing Ol' Blue scatting with Sun Ra's extraterrestrial arrangement is a definite must for any and all collectors!!"

Can you imaging?! Now only if we have this new version at the station.
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I'm not that bothered by pop-ups...I just squash them when I get around to cleaning up open windows. I'm pretty easy on things like that and spam...it's just a way of life to delete all the shit and then move-on. But that's not the interesting part of this announcement of the new Google Toolbar (which I use on any machine I can).

The interesting part of this is the new BlogThis feature which gives you two-button posting of a link to the current page you are on (the one you want to blog about) and any text you've selected in the page (like a quote from the page that you want to post). As the article says, this is the first really visible integration of Google and Blogger, the blogging software from Pyra that G bought a bit ago.

I tested out the feature on my test Blogger blog, TNJT Audblog, which is where my Audblog postings currently show up automatically show up. Worked nice and smooth...as did another test with some browser text selected...the default BlogThis template should be able to be enhanced to do things that I want...like blockquote and italicize the text from the article.

One more thing while I'm talking about the Audblog, one reason I would consider moving the Audblog posting over to TNJT Mobile (betcha didn't know there was such a thing) is that Blogger sites don't generate RSS, which is nice to be able to syndicate site postings for others to browser in news readers (aggregators). But this test above linked me further into news of Blogger updates which includes talk of RSS...so where is it? There is some help in the new Blogger version (use the little question mark in the new Blogger interface) that talks about Syndication and RSS...

"If you select Publish RSS, each time you publish your blog, Blogger will generate a version of your blog in the RSS flavor of your choosing and place it on your web server."

But I can't find the place in the new interface to 'select Publish RSS'. I wonder if it's only for Blogger Pro or something else is going wrong.

Test over...
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