A good friend of mine comes from here. Her mom (92 years old) was luckily evacuated to the hospital, where she is fine, but I haven't spoken with Lolly in a couple of days as to what the status of the family home is. Apparently the train was parked on a downward incline, which seems like not the bes...

As much, and as many styles of, alcohol I've drank in my life it's hard to believe there's something out there I have still never tried. So what is the best one to start with? You know, the Glenlivet of grappas? Check with Jimmy on that one, Scott. I'm sure he'll steer you right. Since I've never m...

jazzbluescat wrote:

Mr. Met wrote:
Carla Gugino
Lady GaGa
Lady Madonna

Lady McBeth
Dame Janet Finch
James Bond

Ward Bond
Lorne Greene
Dan Blocker

Ron, hopefully I'll be able to participate on this thread. However, being the hack cook that I am I usually don't go by set recipes. Sure there are basic techniques that one should adhere to but my style is "shoot from the hip". To put my style of cooking in musical terms, I guess you can...

Jimmy Cantiello wrote:I don't know what you two have against each other. It's sad really because there is no doubt in my mind that if you two met in person you would get on famously. You're both good guys but unfortunately neither one of you can see that in the other.

Amen to that.

I'm overpaid in the 'met great jazz musicians' category having interviewed so many, and in the early stages of my radio run taped a couple of hundred of them face-to face, albeit some meetings were relatively brief a number of them were 1-2 hour visits. The single musician I idolized shortly after ...

Alan Dawson and his star pupil Tony Williams. Now, you're tugging on heart strings, as I'm sure you know, Jason. Damn. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DcZ5rOwOU88/T1QrSSl5HvI/AAAAAAAAB5k/coq8UJMs1aE/s400/1.jpg http://s3.amazonaws.com/drumlessonscom/00-drummers/tony-williams-thumb.jpg I was lucky to know ...

Gotta go with dogs and burgers on the Fourth of July, unless you're a fucking communist or something. that's what I thought. but decades ago when I first moved to Boston, I was told the "traditional" 4th of July meal there was salmon, boiled potatoes and peas. That supposedly came from th...

still haven't found any sour cherries. Hoping there will be some tomorrow at Union Square.

It's too hot right now to bake anything, anyway.

This is probably a non-story to many, but to Butler fans it is a shock. It's great young (and even younger looking) head coach Brad Stevens has turned down offers from MAJOR college programs to stay at Butler over the last couple of years, following their amazing success (2 straight years in the NC...

Scott Dolan wrote:Prison Shank
Shake Me
me wag

who is "Shake Me?" These are supposed to be real people this time, Scott... "Prison Shank???"

Haven't eaten anything from McDo in more than 25 years. They have to put something other than beef in those things. the last one I had made me really sick, and real hamburgers have never done that. Had an In & Out burger a couple of years ago, and looking forward to another this summer. Occasion...

Last week Monday got a call from Wine Library telling me the Manciat Macon Morizottes I had ordered back in February had arrived and was being delivered. I had no recollection of ordering it! :o Can I tell you how thoroughly pleased I am with this little white Burg I bought pre-arrival for $11.99 pe...

jazzbluescat wrote:Michael Brecker
Dewey Redman
John Coltrane

Ravi Coltrane
Ravi Shankar
Bud Shank

Dr Dave wrote:How about some Pie Franco?

I'll drink to that, too! But not sure how well it goes with cherry pie.

Then: Jack Benny, hands down.
Not so back then: Bill Cosby. (He doesn't seem to do much funny stuff any more.)
Now: haven't seen anyone in a long time that really got to me other than Colbert and Stewart, and I'm not so sure they qualify by the standards of the previously mentioned two.

It's summer again and fresh fruit is sparkling all over the place. Why can't I find sour cherries? It's cherry season... I want to make a pie for July 4th. Anyone in New York seen any sour cherries around in the markets? Whole Foods at Union Square You saw them there? I was at the Tribeca WF and th...

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we've got plenty of strawberries. and dark cherries from Washington. and plums and other stuff.

Ah well, there's always pecan....

It's summer again and fresh fruit is sparkling all over the place. Why can't I find sour cherries? It's cherry season... I want to make a pie for July 4th.

Anyone in New York seen any sour cherries around in the markets?

I grew up on big band music. Probably listened to it in utero, bc my folks were huge fans. They went dancing to whoever was playing in Chicago at least once a month all through my early childhood. We had recordings of everyone... Ellington, Basie, Goodman, Glenn Miller, the Dorseys, Tex Beneke, Flet...

Ron Thorne wrote:

Mike Schwartz wrote:
Wilson Pickett
Otis Redding
Same Cooke

Dave Samuels
Sam Snead
Dominique Eade

Dominique Piron
Georges Duboeuf
Jean Paul Lacombe

looks very good, guys. thanks!

Just signed on for the first time here at the sdj, and saved the new bbs!

I'm here! Still hornplayer... real name June Jacobs, in case you didn't know that.

I like Facebook, but its not a place for real conversations.

Thanks, Scott.