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I've put up my own jazz review website recently, and it's got plenty of Coltrane reviews: www.jazzshelf.org My favorite title of his is the Africa/Brass sessions, followed by Coltrane's Sound and probably Sun Ship.

Trump should never have bounced that ball into Randall's court. But bottom line, Randall was right, and he DID get the big picture. You don't want to soften the competition element of the show, such as it is. You don't want the next two finalists thinking, "Gosh, he might hire both of us!" Trump...

Funny how these "best guitar solo" lists wind up with athletics trumping music. (Otherwise, where the heck are Jim Hall and Pat Metheny? Ralph Towner, anyone?) But from the rock world, here are my picks: "Baby's On Fire" - Robert Fripp w/Eno "The Great Curve" - Ade Belew w/ Talking Heads...

Ernest - Thanks for your response, none of which changes any of my impressions of Spielberg’s methods, but viva le difference. I do not think Saving Private Ryan is a very unified presentation, noble message aside, and the cartoonish melodrama was something I disliked in the abstract. I...

Visually, Spielberg is a master craftsman - there's no denying that. And if you want someone to shoot a beach invasion, he's the guy. But to tell a war story - I dunno. In an article in Premiere magazine back in the film's day, William Goldman took Saving Private Ryan to task for a few narrative...

I've always found Spielberg's films far too manipulative, no matter what sort of story he's doing. As a child, this didn't really bother me (Close Encounters), but the more I became a film buff when I was older, the less and less I could stand Spielberg movies. After Saving Private Ryan, I...

I don't think Clive Davis is interested in music per se; he's interested in business and manufacturing a saleable product, and anything he said on TV last night was in the interest of that business. What else would he say? "Sorry, you young cats are all mediocre. I'd have to load up half the...

OK, thanks for clearing that up, guys. Guess I came aboard (and learned the rules) after the offsides rule had been changed to its most recent state. Funny thing is, when I got into hockey a while back, I was pretty intense about it and watched every televised game I could. And then, whenever...

Re: Tag-up. So if the puck is poke-checked out of the attacking zone, the offensive player can slap it back INTO the zone without a whistle, provided everyone clears the zone before touching the puck again. Does every player have to clear the zone before anyone else on their team touches it? In...

What's the "tag-up offisdes"?

Considering the ongoing delays with the LAMB redux, and the delays with the Platinum Collection thingy in the US, Genesis is now in the "believe it when I see it" category for me. They could announce the whole catalog being remastered, and I won't even say "wow." Steve Hackett had already...

I became a huge hockey fan about three years ago and watched a lot of Nashville Predators games on the local FSN. This past season, in the absence of rink action, I followed the NFL more closely than I had in recent years, and this has been the closest I've ever followed April baseball. :) I...

As an addendum to my previous post: there is of course the possibility that the whole thing is rigged. :) It might just be the world's most expensive and interactive joint advertisement for Coke and Ford.

It's an imperfect voting system. For one thing, you can't have the judges making the "go home" decision because it's ostensibly "America's" choice; all the judges can do, after weeding out the initial hordes, is offer an insightful critique of the finalists each week. Only Simon discharges this...

"Pam 6.0" and the coke reference were the laughers for me this week. Poor Pam was really put upon by at least three of her male co-workers, including the fiancee. For some reason, the Filet-o-Fish observance really cracked me up, too. I haven't watched a sitcom regularly since Seinfeld, but...

Another question is: how will the XFL fit into all of this when it comes back from hiatus? :)

I think Scott's performance last night was exactly befitting a karaoke performance at someone's birthday party. As weak as Anthony might be at times, and as same-y as Anwar is, Scott is by far the blandest of the males, and has been for a while. The fact that he has all the personal charm of a...

Interventions are such a buzz-kill. (Feel free to quote me on that.) Let's not keep Paula from her medications, because it's the only entertaining thing about her presence. Her comments, of course, are just ludicrously supportive, even when the contestant has obvious deficiencies. Simon tells...

"We're gonna need another Wild Turkey 'n Coke at the judges table!" I suppose most viewers caught Paula making Drunk Move #47 during her comments on the Bohemian Rhapsody fellow. This is the real amusement of the show, for me at least. I offer no moral judgement, though, as I'd certainly have...

Graffiti is the culmination of the band's fecundity at the time, and like any unnecessary, excessive double rock album, it's got some sleeper classics - The Rover, Wanton Song, Night Flight - which happen to be my picks. Since I'm bound by birthright to enjoy any track with a clavinet, Trampled...

I agree that the Police had the perfect rock/pop career: five unique albums, surrounded by worldwide touring, then saying goodnight. Leave 'em wanting more. They were three of a perfect pair. But I don't know how this affects HOF votes. If Rush had given up in '82, the hip rock critics would...

I cannot imagine Robert Fripp standing at the podium, backed by a dozen ex-Crimson members, putting up with the glitzy gladhanding, throwing a wink at Catherine Zeta Jones, reading a half-hour speech about the vampiric nature of rock audiences, etc. But progressive rock has been taboo for almost...

Only 10? Yikes. Chick Corea - Now He Sings, Now He Sobs Miles Davis - Nefertiti Keith Jarrett - Live at the Blue Note Bela Bartok - Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta Thelonious Monk - Monk's Dream Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway King Crimson - Absent Lovers Joe...

I don't want to take away anyone's enjoyment of the show, but it seems like the same episode every time to me. And the characters are all one-track robots: same stuff, different episode. If you knew people that squabbled like that in real life, over such trivial nonsense every day, you'd be...

Give Alex and Paige their own new show - Hot Tub Chat.

Oh yeah - automobile ads! I forgot those ominous words: Dodge - Hemi - Ram Those ads with the two redneck Hemi groupies following around this other guy with The Truck...ugh. Or the couple seeing the marriage counselor (?) and the man says, "we're crusing along...the hemi's kicking some...

-Anything with the annoying beeps of a Nextel walkie talkie. When I get to Hell, it's going to be full of random Nextel beeps. -Any fast food commercial. -America Online. Once again, people inventing things to complain about. Your digital pictures disappeared? Take real ones, woman...

I hope the boos rung in her ears, and I hope it made her think twice about her forced "career." Someone a few posts ago wondered how she got famous when she's just a mediocre singer at very best, and it's because the powers that be have forced her upon us. Yet another manufactured entertainer...

Makes no difference who's singing - Mike's still playing straight-eight root notes. :)