No scheduled interviews tonight, so the New music will reign. We'll also be chatting about The Jazz In Steely Dan and our goals for the next 3 weeks in that area.

If you've got something to say, use the Comment[] link below or drop a line to VO@TheNewJazzThing.com! Much Love...VO

[Later...] Here's the tunes we played on the show...

6:00 pm PT
The Search	Vol.2[sigma]Don'T Knock The Swing	Jones, Willie Iii
Lover Man	Movin' Out	Reid, Irene
6:20 pm PT
Wave	Pass The Drum	Sprague, Peter
Tudo Muda (Everything Changes)	Stryker/Slage Band	Stryker, Dave/Slagle, Steve
Everything Must Go	Everything Must Go	Steely Dan
Walt Weiskopf with that killer Coltrane-esque (whatever that means!) sax solo opening.
6:40 pm PT
Trocando em Miudos	[sigma]Till Then	Perez, Danilo
Milestones	New York, New Sounds	Wilson, Gerald
7:00 pm PT
Satisfaction	Stone Jazz	Stone Jazz
Man In The Air	Man In The Air	Elling, Kurt
When I Fall In Love	Live In London	Hamilton, Scott
7:20 pm PT
Song For My Father	Perscript.For The Blues	Silver, Horace
Footprints	Bounce	Blanchard, Terence
Moment's Notice	Very Live At Ronnie Scott'S	Smith, Steve & Buddy'S Buddies
7:40 pm PT
In My Life	Simple Pleasures	Lewis, Ramsey/Wilson, Nancy
Nanna's Lied	Secular Breathing	Knapp, Jim Jazz Orchestra
8:00 pm PT
Look For The Sun	Songbook, Vol.1	Faulk, Dan
Body and Soul	Love Locked Out	Wicks, Patti
Three Little Words	Legends	Henderson, Skitch/Pizzarelli, Bucky
The Moon of Manakoora	Queen Of The Organ: Memorial Album	Scott, Shriley
8:20 pm PT
Delta Skelta	Emphasizer	Garage A Trois
Dig some audio onWynton Marsalis, Jeff Fitzgerald, and The New Jazz Thing A Trois.
Nefertiti	The Classic Blue Note Recordings	Shorter, Wayne
8:40 pm PT
Goodbye Porkpie Hat	Faces Of The Bass	Valk, Lex
Swingin' The Blues	America'S #1 Band	Basie, Count
This Way Out	Live At The Blue Note	Camilo, Michel

Lots of great new stuff and some other things in between there. Maybe some audio samples to come...
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"The son of a respected double-reed player, the 58-year-old Christlieb was born into the music business. Though often featured in drummer Louie Bellson's big band and small combos, Christlieb has spent much of his career in the L.A. studios, including a 25-year stint in the old "Tonight Show" orchestra. He was also a featured soloist in Bill Holman's big band and Frank Capp's Juggernaut. He even had a moment of crossover notoriety in the late '70s when Steely Dan's Walter Becker and Donald Fagen produced a thrilling Warner Bros. album, "Apogee," featuring Christlieb and a similarly brilliant but little-appreciated tenor player Warne Marsh."

So after some feeble attempts to contact Pete directly, I sent email to Bud, who answered this afternoon with the downer news that Pete would not be coming into SD for the gig due to family matters. TNJT sure hopes things are Ok with Pete and family. I will most definitely be contacting Pete and getting his views on his days with the Dan and that most memorable of solos...I'm sure there are others in there also.
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I have been thrilled by Halley's stories of new sight, since I recently posted a sighted story myself, and wanted to see if there were more...

Then I noticed her post on the suicide of Mike Lea and was touched by her reaction, "Mike, you taught my new eye how to cry." The fact that this unknown Mike was associated with Joi Ito, whose moblogging leadership I've admired before, prompted me to see what Joi had to say...

Joi's post included a touching quote from Mike's sister ("He has been very depressed for such a long time. I went down there and stayed with him last weekend and he was just miserable. He did it this past Friday night. He was ready to go.") and included a link's to Mike's site which, for some reason, I followed...

Mike's home page, in light of this news, has a pretty shocking and telling graphic on it, depicting the grim reaper riding over animals and into the setting sun. Woa is all I could say. Then I noticed a link at the top of his home page...

Hate. From what looks like his 'About Me' page, this telling quote,

"i have a horribly confused and rather shitty personal life"

And I noticed the link...SAIC.

While unknown to me and a continent away, Mike was a fellow employee. A quick check of our directory finds he's no longer there, which I guess is to be expected. Although I would have liked to find out what group he worked with (we're a large body) and see if they knew of his web presence.

Anyway, with the circular way I found my fellow employee today, I just flashed on how the web(logs) works in strange ways.

RIP Mike.
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"And then the story unfolded, layer by layer, to expose the lying coach, the cheating program, drugs, secret tapes, clandestine meetings and an attempted cover-up at Baylor University.

Patrick Dennehy is dead - his life to be celebrated Thursday at a final memorial service on campus. His former teammate Carlton Dotson sits in a Maryland jail cell. On Wednesday, a grand jury here indicted Dotson in Dennehy's murder."

For someone like myself who played and loves college basketball, it's tragic to see greed, selfishness, thuggery, and all the things I now associate with most NBA hoops seeping into what should be a building ground for character, hard work, learning, and accomplishment in both winning and losing. This story sucks.
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