[Later...] What great music I'm so lucky to choose from and play! From locals Holly Hoffman and Mike Woffard kicking it off in the band Fluteology, Stacey Kents shimering vocals on The Trolley Song, great new music from legend Ron Carter, and that killer rockin' blistering speed penultimate (been wanting to use that word) set of Jaco B.B. / James Muller's Thrum (which I'm totally impressed with...gotta talk to him on air) / our upcoming The Jazz In Steely Dan guest Walt Weiskopf. And top that off with discovering the music and thoughts of Alex Skolnick in tunes and interview and being able to share that with all the folks who dug it (and there were lots of calls afterward). It was a great night. Here are the tunes...

6:00 pm PT
Be Bop	First Date	Flutology
Softly In A Morning Sunrise	Better Days	Francis, Karen
6:20 pm PT
Dream On	Goodbye To Romance	Skolnick, Alex
Jeni's Low Life	Vol.2[sigma]Don'T Knock The Swing	Jones, Willie Iii
Cannonball	Julian "Cannonball" Adderley	Adderley, Cannonball
6:40 pm PT
Slow Rising	Sandcastles	Soulservice
Chelsea Bridge	Urban Still Life	Caputo, Lou
Defiance	Mosaic	Jordan, Clifford
7:00 pm PT
Jitterbug Waltz	In A Mellow Tone	Alden, Howard/Pizzarelli, Bucky
The Trolley Song	The Boy Next Door	Kent, Stacey
Skol Blues	Goodbye To Romance	Skolnick, Alex
7:20 pm PT
Alex Skolnick Interview - Part 1
Detroit Rock City	Goodbye To Romance	Skolnick, Alex
7:40 pm PT
Alex Skolnick Interview - Part 2
War Pigs	Goodbye To Romance	Skolnick, Alex
8:00 pm PT
N.Y. Slick	Parade	Carter, Ron
Jordu	Hold It Right There	Cortez, Chris
West	Cardinal Points	Pilc, Jean-Michel
8:20 pm PT
Wiggle Waggle	Word Of Mouth Revisited	Pastorius, Jaco Big Band
Paul Bley	Thrum	Muller, James
Turncoat	Song For My Mohter	Weiskopf, Walt
8:40 pm PT
Crepuscule With Nellie	Slow	Leonhart, Michael
Viva Turado	New York, New Sounds	Wilson, Gerald

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Alex played South by Southwest this year and looks like he pleased lots of different folks,

"Alex Skolnick was once the fire-and-brimstone guitarist with Testament, yet here he was, neat and trim, before a packed house of jazzbos and hangbangers alike, leading a straight-up trio in Austin's premier jazz cellar.

The trio closed with Black Sabbath's "War Pigs," the audience having chosen it over a Deep Purple tune. Skolnick pulled out the stops, fidgeting with his gadgets and pedals, and to the howling delight of the adoring crowd, shredded the room with loud waves of feedback wrenched from his instrument. Afterward, Skolnick was gracious in thanking his fans, lauding Austin, and promising to return in the fall. Quite gracious, indeed, for a former and unapologetic metalhead."

We're gonna be rockin' tonight on TNJT!
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"Consumers can resell CDs purchased in a record shop, but what about digital music files downloaded from an online store?"

This will totally be a story to follow-up on and see where it goes. And the tune which was probably bought for 99 cents is up to $15,099...ain't that strange!
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BFD, says I. Music fans have already bought their old favorites on CD, so there's not going to be a lot of recycling of old catalog. And the younger folks aren't really going to change their habits much, maybe some will by the latest Mega-Star hit or another wannabe Mega-Star disc because of the lower price, but that's going to be pretty limited.

Here's the real angle on this story...

"Some of the research on older consumers shows that "not finding what they want is more of a reason for not buying than pricing," said Russ Crupnick, vice president of the NPD Group, a market research firm. "They still need to put out content that's appealing to people," he said, referring to the record companies."

Yep. By relying and nurturing the Mega-Star, there are just not enough folks given the chance to get their music out and on CD. That's a-changin' now that musicians will soon be able to roll their own distribution networks (website) and sell digital versions of their songs cheaply.

Witness the death-gasp of the old music business. Long live the New music biz!!
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Walt Weiskop

We've got lots to learn about Walt and we'll start tonight on the Live show with a least a tune or two from the discs we have in the Jazz 88 library, a quick Google search, and this quote from an AllAboutJazz.com article on Walt,

"Walt Weiskopf is easily one of the most mature and fully individualistic saxophonists and composers to come along in the last 10 years. Possibly because of the fact that he chooses to work within the mainstream tradition (read: not outlandish enough to appeal to the avant hipsters) and record for the small Dutch-based Criss Cross Jazz label, Weiskopf is not widely known among everyday jazz circles, but it seems that those who have sampled his brilliance are uniformly enthralled with his vociferous approach."

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Garage A Trois

If you've tuned into the show the last month, I've been playing the playing quite a bit from their killer rockin' neuvo-fusionistic New disc, Emphasizer, which is getting quite a bit of web coveragethis one from AllAboutJazz.com,

"When was the last time you had fun listening to a jazz record?

I mean the type of music you would make if you were a musician yourself. Music that draws from all your collective listening habits and years of first AM, then FM, radio dialing.

Garage a Trois is just such a band.

Their concept of mish-mashing musics is not new. Charlie Hunter formed T.J. Kirk to blend the unique music of Thelonious Monk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, and James Brown. Skerik played in the short-lived freedom jazz/funk band Ponga, responsible for perhaps the best collision of jazz and technology to date. Their self-titled Ponga (Loose Groove 1999) is well worth the search."

I'm going to have to hit up Mr. Skerik for a taste of that one. More hits to come as the interview approacheth.

Side Note: Why do websites like the Garage A Trois one linked to above continue to use frames? If I want to link to something on the site, like the Emphasizer page above, they make me link to page that doesn't offer you reader's any of the rest of the site's navigation. You see what I want you to, but the site doesn't really get a chance to speak and show you anything else. Not my fault. They aren't the only one and I try to bring it up anytime I see...as a public service clue!
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