Keyboard you guys need to get KaZaa and search for Dexter Gordon, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Johnny Griffin to hear what my definition of what a great sax sound is.

For my taste in true Jazz these are the greatest jazz tenor sax players to ever have lived barring none. Sonny Rollins is still alive. I like Getz and many others, but these 4 to me are the ultimate tenor sax players. Each one sounds different and unique but are the best.

Alto sax and Soprano are different animals. They both get old to me quickly other than the old ballads David Sanborn did. He did a great job on them. I don't like Alto or Soprano as much as tenor. KennyG plays beautiful soprano sax, but he's not a jazz saxophonist. He's said so himself.

I can listen to tenor all night. All of the players of any type sax today listen to these guys. Maybe not the jazz-fusion guys. In 1957, when we played what they call “jazz-fusion” today, we called it funk.

It's only jazz to modernists. It's not the same as traditional jazz. You don't have to like traditional jazz, just listen to some of the tunes these four guys did, and if you're a real musician you'll ask yourself, "how in the hell did they do that?"

Just think a minute, these guys recorded much of their stuff “live” with “junk equipment” by today's standards. They play in “tempos as faster than you can tap your foot” and you'll have to listen many many times to hear maybe one or two mistakes, if any.

It sounds impossible, unreal (sorry, again my vocabulary fails me). No you won't make a lot of money playing like that, but if you're bored with what you do today, listen to these guys and it will present a lifetime of challenges for any musician. Even David Sanborn, KennyG and all the modern guys. Any saxophonists you can name playing right now has nothing on these guys. There maybe one or two or three that are close but I don’t think anybody as good.

The part I don't like is that it takes 8 hours a day and 4 hours of live playing at night plus more pot or Budweiser than I can afford to get this good. If you try to do it sober you'll lose your mind.

What can I say! I bet if you count their practice time these guys didn't make a nickle an hour. You guys know anybody that practices 8 hours every day, even for 2 days. Charlie Parker did it for years.

Dave got me all squared away with the laptop this pasted week. I'm setting up a few things for gigging and the laptop will definitely make a difference.

When you put a folder from your Desktop computer on to a CD with EZ Creator and then put the CD into your laptop and drag the folder onto the start screen (Desktop screen on the laptop) the songs are copied as "Read Only" files it seems.

I couldn't re-save with the save icon in BIAB. When I would edit a volume or anything in BIAB, it would give the message that it was a read only file. You guys probably know all of this already.

OK OK I'll shut up now,
Boo