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Why didn't you all ignore him? This should have been a one post thread. He's achieved his desired effect.

So do you!

Yep - I have 4.

tpbm thinks that's too many?

You two rock!

Dentist's

kobe, ghettochyk - Have you two met before? When did it start to go wrong?

(ptery) Gott im Himmel

"God in Heaven" (German)

ptery gott issues!

Indeed I do.

I'm not sure whether tbpm agrees?

Not quite.

But the person below me

Doesn't even know me.

Na we b software

Then stick your software on my lap, top

Bad boy image is one thing, maximum security jail is quite another.

Excuse the typos - blame it on the Muscadet.

The most interesting cities tend to be overpopulated and infrastructurally-challenged as a result - London, New York, Paris. These cities happen to be the most multicultural - almost every nationality is representes in these 3 cities and nowhere else. Cities like Auckalnd, Vancouver, Geneva, etc, are pleasant places to dwell, but are more like overgrown suburbs than true cities.

Sade stammered "B-b-but Mum, I d-don't understand. Why now!"

Her Mum replied, "Ever since watching The L Word, I realised I'm a carpet-muncher at heart. Your Dad doesn't know the first thing about MouthAction. He thinks a clitoris is the neme of a Greek island".

Her mother greeted her at the door saying, "Guess what honey - I'm leaving your Dad. I'm a lesbian - it's official."

nana - you still peeping?

She might turn into a beautiful princess, and you'll probably turn into a frog. Too risky. Then she'll be posting this same topic on nairaland about you.

@miller: "mixing up stuff"? Tell that to Quincy Jones who put Big Daddy Kane, George Benson, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, and Kool Moe D, on one track in the "Back on the Block" album. The danger in all music criticism is the unncessary compartmentalization of different musical forms, and the further compartmentalization of forms within a particular genre such as "Jazz" which no two people can agree upon. I know people who regard anything after dixieland jazz as non-jazz. It doesn't matter. What matters is you, the musician, you the listener. Do you dig it? That is the question.

Even Louis Armstrong called Bebop "Chinese music".

But that's human nature - to differentiate, compartmentalize in all aspects of life - art in general, and of course, race (which has been a huge factor in the development of African-American music).

Peace.

Hmm - desodji, I can't allow you to monopolise her. I have to join in.

Nda - kedu. True Blue.

@Miller - In an earlier post I mentioned the influence of Charlie Parker (Christian's contemporary) and Armstrong (even earlier) which resonates to the present day. Don't pick and choose your quotes to try to prove an argument ("this guy doesn't know his eras") that cannot stand.

See you at Ronnie Scott's.

A shame that Miller thought I was comparing Christian to Montgomery. That would be as ridiculous as comparing Fred Perry to Roger Federer. (Fred who? I hear you say - an Englishman who won Wimbledon in the 30's). I actually wanted to know whether the great Charlie Christian or Reinhardt did play in the way I specified. Wasn't denigrating Christian or Django at all.

I know all about eras, Miller. Come back - there are so few real jazz enthusiasts around but what we lack in numbers, we make up in passion!

Only if you're another man.